AMD's growing Radeon RX 6000 family is reportedly getting bigger. The giant GPU maker has just recently announced that the company will be adding a brand new GPU utilizing the new underlying RDNA 2 microarchitecture at a recent event that was scheduled for 11AM ET this coming March 3. Folks over on the West Coast will reportedly have to tune in at around 8AM PT for the announcement by AMD.
AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPU family
AMD recently announced in a Tweet that on March 3, the company will continue its journey for the new RDNA2. The tweet then invited consumers to join the company at around 11AM US Eastern as they will reportedly reveal the latest addition to the now popular AMD Radeon RX 6000 GPU family.
AMD also put the announcement on its official website saying the presentation will be on March 3. The company, however, provides no clues as to what consumers of the new GPU are to expect. Up to this date, the AMD Radeon 6900 XT, the Radeon 6800 and even the Radeon RX 6800 XT are the only cards available within the Radeon RX 6000 family group.
AMD Radeon RX 6700 rumor
Before today's announcement, there were reportedly rumors regarding AMD's release of an upcoming more affordable Radeon RX 6700 XT GPU that runs on 12GB video memory in order for the company to compete against the popular Nvidia midrange as well as entry-level GeForce RTX GPUs.
According to the story by Digital Trends, whatever the company decides to announce at the said event, the brand new GPU will reportedly be powered along by the exact same RDNA 2 microarchitecture that also powers the company's known high-end PC GPUs. This is also used for other graphics experience on even the latest consoles. Examples of these are Sony's PS5 and the Microsoft Xbox Series X.
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Pre-order the new AMD Radeon RX 6000 chip
While Team Red gamers could be quite excited for the latest AMD wares, there might be a need to pre-order early. This is especially needed if those gamers would want to be part of the first batch getting the upcoming GPU. While the entire GPU industry has reportedly been affected by the big shortage within the semiconductor industry, Nvidia's GPU and AMD's GPU have reportedly been hit quite hard.
GPU cards have reportedly been selling even as soon as the popular retailers usually replenish their given stock with whatever small volume of inventory they are able to get. This usually leaves gamers very frustrated by the main fact that they actually now have to fight both cryptocurrency miners as well as scalpers in order for them to grab a GPU for themselves.
Nvidia also predicted some time late last year that there will be a shortage in its own GPU cards and this would most likely persist through the very first quarter of this current year. This is while AMD also predicts that the whole situation might actually last about at least throughout the first half of the year.
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Written by Urian Buenconsejo
