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Sapphire PULSE Radeon RX 6700 10GB GDDR6 Graphics Card $436 + Delivery ($0 C&C) @ Umart & MSY

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Last chance to grab the budget beater 6700 non XT 10GB at a decent price
Sapphire have moved all production to the inferior RX 7600 8GB and Umart/MSY have the last cards in the country
With the $499 RX 6700 XT deal from Centre Com out of stock and PC Byte not far behind, value sub $500 cards will dry up again

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Boost: 2581MHz, 10GB GDDR6 (16000MHz), PCI-E 4.0, 1x HDMI 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4, Dual-X Cooling
3 Year/s Warranty

Umart: https://www.umart.com.au/product/sapphire-radeon-rx-6700-pul…
MSY: https://www.msy.com.au/product/sapphire-radeon-rx-6700-pulse…

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  • +1
  • +14

    Got one of these, awesome card that beats the 3060 and probably not that far off the new 4060 Ti

    • Good power usage too. Currently getting away with a 400W Seasonic platinum. Not playing the latest games though.

      • +3

        I undervolted mine and it uses 135W without losing any performance (2500-2600MHz).

        • Yep, I’ve done this too but the setting seems to revert and I haven’t bothered sorting it out :P

          • +3

            @WhyAmICommenting: There's a bug in AMD drivers where it resets sometimes if you restart your PC. I have mine set to a profile that is loaded when a game is started. You could try using MSI Afterburner.

            • @Yuri Lowell: Thanks, was using this. I’ll try harder sometime haha

            • @Yuri Lowell: I've had a similar issue to you and the other person in this thread, turning off fastboot fixed the issue, settings have only reset when updating drivers now, not on reset or reboot.

    • +3

      it very much beats 3060, but loses slightly to 3060 Ti

      it's not a match to 4060 Ti as it's more of 3070 level performance, and 3070 beats 6700, XT and 6750

      • +1

        I would argue the 3060ti is slightly better, I don't want to talk about the 4060ti though or I might cry

        • yeah I am talking raster only. check TechPowerUp they are pretty accurate in their charts. 3060 Ti beats 6700, but within like 5% difference

          4060 Ti is an oddball, I refuse to buy one, because of narrow bus. don't care even if it grows another 8gb of VRAM. says it's the same as 3070 but not at 4k..

    • 4060 Ti $800 lol

      • +1

        Nvidia trying it's best to rip-off gamers lol.

      • +2

        4060 Ti was $599 last time I checked

        $584 @ JW

        not that I am going to buy one anytime soon

        128 bit bus
        8 lane PCIe

        heavily gimped trash

  • +14

    Also the 6700 is a budget card that doesn't have gimped PCI-e bandwidth. If you have an older system that does not support PCI-e 4.0 do not buy the 7600, 6500 XT, 6600, 6600 XT, 6650 XT, 4060 Ti because they only support 8x bandwidth. At 4.0 you get equivalent PCI-e 3.0 16x bandwidth but if you slot it into a PCI-e 3.0 motherboard it will be halved to 8x which can cripple performance in many games. 6700 is the cheapest GPU you can get that has the full 16x bandwidth in both PCI-e 3.0 and 4.0.

    • +3

      I second that. if you have PCIe 3 and looking for a new GPU, make sure that your new card is 16 lane, check this on techpowerup

      and 6700 is certainly 16 lane

    • +1

      Also the 6700 is a budget card that doesn't have gimped PCI-e bandwidth

      Thanks didn't know that , lucky I didn't buy the 6600 during last deal, I have old motherboard

      • It's frustrating because you literally have to dig through spec sheets to find out. I didn't even see many reviews mention the 4060 Ti is 8x.

    • After watching this video, it did affect with PCI-e 3 but really not that much.

      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj4NiOdvs7o&ab_channel=Games…

    • Does the same apply to the 6700XT?

  • +4

    not meant to rain on anyone's parade, but I sold mine on because of ridiculously loud pulsating coil whine that punches through the headphones

    otherwise it's a very solid card. I noticed that tye noise is stronger in game menus and whenever any sort of upscaling is active (ASR or FSR), but not completely quiet when scaling is turned off

    I have a 4k monitor and scaling was required to reach good framerates in several games

    • that coil whine issue is probs the case. did u plug ur headphones into the front io?

      • +2

        no, I mean it was so loud that I could hear it through the headphones.. it's not interfering with audio output in any way

        for reference, 2 Asus RTX cards didn't have any such effect (2060 Dual and now 3070 KO). just soft humming of fans all there is

    • Did you test different fan profiles?

      • +1

        definitely wasn't fan noise. the coil whine starts as soon as carr is loaded, before the fans ramp up, and finish as soon as I exit the game

        6800 I had afterwards had the same issue

        while both ASUS RTX cards (2060 and now 3070) didn't have any coil whine, just soft fan noise when temps start rising

        • +2

          Just luck. I’ve had an ASUS with coil whine I eventually RMA’d. I have this exact card and it’s fine.

          • +1

            @WhyAmICommenting: that's good to hear! I was happy overall with both 6700 and 6800, if not for the annoying coil whine

          • @WhyAmICommenting: actually to be absolutely precise, out of the box this Pulse 6700 was even louder, it was making ridiculous kind of noise when games were starting. electrical noise we're talking here, and this wasn't fans as I could clearly see the fans spinning through the case

            however a few weeks on, it sort of like "broke in" a bit, if a term applicable to headphones fits the description here, and noise became much more moderate. but still annoying enough to consider getting rid of it.

            I have one of those Razer Tomahawk desktops and the whole case is basically mesh on three sides of it, so noise goes long way here, maybe someone with glass panels on the sides will have better luck handling this

            once again, 3070 KO in this setup is smooth and quiet, not to mention that all that awesome RGB goodness shines through like crazy 🤣

        • if the next gpu you had straight afterwards had the same issue, it wasn't the graphics card.

          • @Budju: logically yes. however cards before and after 6700 and 6800 didn't have this issue, wo it was the GPUs..

            • @shabaka: dunno brus, what about your motherboard or some other random component.

              • @Budju: everything is working fine with 3070 installed right now. zero complaints. ram is fine, the whole setup is stress tested.

                • -1

                  @shabaka: Maybe you're just an unlucky dude. Trying to make out like this is a systemic problem for radeon is just disinformation.

                  • @Budju: try taking off those Ruby red tinted glasses before you read his posts, all he said was his card had the whine.

                    • @cheng2008: Well that isn't quite true. I don't have green or ruby tinted glasses on. It has nothing to do with the brand.

                      • @Budju: yes, he said "i am suspecting." that is very far from your claim of disinformation.

                        • -1

                          @cheng2008: He's suspecting its a issue with the chip design, but he isn't say there is a problem with the chip design that results in coil whine. OK!

                          • @Budju: He didn’t say it because he’s obviously not an expert, he’s only suspecting it. You’re the only one reading way too much into a random comment.

                            • @cheng2008: I suspect you're being quite foolish.

                              • @Budju: Fools and disinformation go hand in hand it seems

                                • @cheng2008: I suspect there are people in this thread spreading disinformation about Radeon products, but I'm not an expert.

                  • @Budju: trying to make it out like I said that it's a systemic problem for radeon is just disinformation

                    this is not what I said at all.

      • +1

        whats your reason for down voting the post?

    • +1

      Good decision sell your 6700, as it isn’t a 4K gaming GPU even with upscale.

    • isn't coil whine pretty common for the Radeon 6xxx series cards due to how the chips are designed? (And even more common in the 6x50 ones due since they're being pushed even harder?)

      • that's what I am suspecting

  • Running a 10 year old i7 6700k with a 1070gtx. Upgrading to a 4k monitor. Would this card add any substantial benefit for 4k gaming or should I wait to do a full system rebuild?

    • +1

      Probably a rebuild. This GPU would outweigh the rest of your system by too much I'd suspect and potentially cause a bottleneck somewhere.

      • That's what i figured

      • +1

        potentially cause a bottleneck somewhere.

        I think depends on which game

    • +1

      6th gen was 10 years ago? Way to make me feel like an old fart

      • +3

        Nah, 6th Gen came out at the end of 2015. Still just under 8 years though. How the time flies!

    • +4

      I don't think any of the cards in this price range are particularly suited to 4K in new releases.
      That said, you'll see benefits given the age of your components. I'd recommend looking at CPU reviews to, though, and considering upgrading that part in conjunction.

    • 4k is very, very demanding. I had a 3070 and even older games would push it to 100%.

    • +1

      I would suggest at least 6800, 3070 ti (may have VRAM issues for some games), 4070 for 4K gaming.

      • there's very minor difference between 3070 and 3070 Ti. gddr6x memory on Ti causes higher power consumption, but advantage over non-Ti is minimal. 3070 non-Ti is a good grab, Asus Dual was $560 last eBay sale, and KO version was $600, better choice than 4060 Ti replacing it (wider bus, 16 lane PCIe vs 8 on 4060 Ti)

  • +22

    This is not a significant deal. Saving maybe $2-12 off regular RRP this card has been sat at for the past ~6 months. I don't know why you keep posting this kind of marginal, cyclical, at best 2.9% off deal..

    It's a good card with good value at this price, but this platform is for posting good deals/bargains isn't it? Does good value = bargain?

    • Is it less of a bargain because other shops are clearing stock too?

      • +4

        Just because they are still selling this card, but aren't getting more stock in doesn't really mean they're 'clearing stock' IMO.
        They're just selling what they have, at basically the same price as they have been for the past ~6+ months…. sure buy it if you're after the value it gives, but it's not a bargain. It's a value proposition and others are just price matching, or similar, again as they have been for a while.

        Regularly seen it for 439 or around that at various retailers (sometimes including postage), or when it's not on 'sale' it's more like 449. FYI

          • @Abang Tukang Bakso: Thanks, I did. I actually didn't realise that there were so few reasons you are allowed to cast a negative vote. Sorry about that. That said, I can't remove it. You're welcome to report my comment/neg vote if you like, and a mod can do what they deem correct in this instance.

            On the other hand, the amount of votes my comment has got seems to mean fair community consensus around my comment (and reason of my neg, albeit not within the rules).

            If you are the Ozbargain police, I recommend you also read the rules on commenting

            • +2

              @Jayblesz: dw about it, it's been a long time since mods have strictly enforced those rules. downvotes are now regularly used more like reddit (i.e. disagree, although technically it was supposed to mean something else on reddit too)

    • -1

      explain what considers good deals/bargain? 70% off, 50% off ?

    • -5

      Dell G2722HS 27" 1080p 165hz IPS Gaming Monitor $298.30 Delivered @ Dell

      It was $219 back in July, but this seems to be a decent price for this monitor otherwise…

      Ahahaha ahahaha ahahaha

      Spoken by someone who considers a "good deal" to be when the price is 36% higher than the last deal price

      • +9

        Your counter-criticism has a measure of merit, but the parent comment is valid as well and your attitude here sucks. There's no need to make it a personal fight when the criticism is regarding the deal, not the person. We're all supposed to be on the same side here: the side of getting a good deal.

        If we're doing this thing where we quote the person we're replying to: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/13819931/redir

        Your contributions to OzBargain are most valuable when you stick to the technical facts so refcous [sic] on that and lay off the puffery

        • -5

          regardless, down voting a post cause you dont think its a good deal is also breaking down voting rules. its ozbargain not oz 50% off bargain, good deals is up to the individual and if you have different opinion maybe just scroll on, again the numbers speak for itself 43 upvotes vs 2 idiot who doesnt know how to use downvote

          • +2

            @Abang Tukang Bakso: That's exactly what downvotes should be for.

          • @Abang Tukang Bakso: You're right about it not following the voting guidelines (linked for others' convenience).

            By those guidelines the original comment would have been made without voting on the deal.

            I would also point out that they are merely guidelines rather than hard and fast rules, and there are perhaps times when skirting around them may still be a net-positive for the community. Whether that's the case here or not is up for the community to decide, but going by votes both the deal and the comment have a modest number of votes on them.

        • -6

          …your attitude here sucks.

          Appreciate the judgement from the self-appointed judge

          There's no need to make it a personal fight when the criticism is regarding the deal, not the person.

          Anyone who measures deals on a standard that they themselves do not uphold has limited credibility

          That is not a personal fight, that is common sense

          If we're doing this thing where we quote the person we're replying to…

          Different context - Jayblesz is stating their opinion, netsurfer made factually incorrect statements on both the DRAM size and packaging

          netsurfer was big enough to take the comments from Sleepycat3 and this account, recognise their comment was factually wrong and then deleted the comment so others would not be mislead about the DRAM size

          • +6

            @Look Up: I personally think you're missing a bit of perspective here. The regular street price for the Dell monitor is $500, not $300 (though I will note it's currently on an EOFY sale for just under $250 which looks good lol). That's a much more significant saving compared to this deal vs the normal street price of an RX 6700 (granted the price of a 6700 fluctuates a lot more given there are far more suppliers).

            Everyone on OzBargain is a judge: we literally vote on things based on our judgement.

            These types of inane fights where we expend time fighting each other instead of constructively engaging on valid concerns push people away from engaging, leaving us with less deals posted and less people adding helpful comments. You could have constructively engaged with the original comment such as by pointing out the voting guidelines but instead you reached into their posting history to mock them*.

            (* and yes I did then go and quote you to yourself to try to point out how unfair you were being)

    • +1

      Agreed, considering the age of the card this should be going for a decent chunk lower. Of course, considering the poor competition offered by new releases, they don't have to offer it at a significant discount for it to sell. This deal seems more of an attempt to instil FOMO in customers, lest they get stuck with buying a more expensive product when stock dries up.

  • i thought the 6700 xt was a 12gb graphics card. is it worth selling my 6600 xt for it ? hmmm lol :D

    • +5

      this is non-xt version. 10gb vram

    • +3

      No, this 6700 not 6700xt. 6700 is faster than 6600xt but not much, the performance difference only worth less than $80-$100 extra at most.

  • Does anyone know why I can never find this card on benchmarks and no one major ever seemed to review it?

    • +2

      rare find (used to be)

    • -1

      there are a few on youtube

    • +6

      Supposedly the RX 6700 non XT was a mining only SKU that they eventually brought out for everyone else as a cut down RX 6700 XT to slot in between it and the 6650 XT.

      That's why the few people who do own it comment about the good power efficiency, because it's been deliberately clocked more conservatively for miners.

      There are very few reviews on this because they never had a big announcement/launch like they did for the 6600, 6600 XT, 6650 XT, 6700 XT, 6750 XT, etc.

      That and also search engines with fuzzy logic like Google keep assuming you mean RX 6700 XT when you type just RX 6700, since the former is a much more popular search.

      • one can google "rx 6700 -xt" and this will exclude xt

      • I was aware the 5700 was good for mining but not the 6700

    • +1

      You can compare all the GPU here, all sort of charts, 1080, 1440, 4K, RT on/off, power consumption ect. https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html

    • https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/radeon-rx-6700.c3716

      sits roughly between 2080 and 2080 Super in pure raster

  • +1

    They are trying one last push to get rid of these ahead of the 7700 & 7800 cards. Performance is probably the main issue, these cards will be struggling with AAA games within a year or two, so factor in the replacement timecycle.

    • +5

      Not really it's just another ozmsrp deal lol. This isn't a clearance sale

    • +1

      Unless the game have huge graphical update, otherwise if a game runs fine now, it should still run fine several years later.

      You can't predict newer games however

      • Games devs are giving up on fitting things into 8GB - with a trend towards 16GB (if you look at the current games texture loads). At the same time 4K is becoming more of the standard to aim at, rather than the exception. And the twitch gamers are claiming that 120Hz is the base required for gaming.

        We have to assume that over the next few years we are going to see an increase in the expectation to run the AAA titles at the ultra/high settings with all the pretty pretty stuff. I'm kind of assuming a 20% per year increase in demands (or alternatively a 20% decrease in frame rate for your card in the newest games).

        And that means that a 'just about good enough' card today will have a limited lifespan before it needs replacing, whilst a newer, more effective card will survive longer before its 'too slow'.

        There seems to be two sweet spots, the first is to pay the absolute minimum to be able to play today's games satisfactorily (such as this card) with the expectation that you will be replacing it with the newer 5000/8000 cards when they come out. The other is somewhere near the top of the stack 4080/90 or 7900 and seek to bypass the 5000/8000 cards and keep things running for another generation (at least) - multiple years and therefore the excess cost spread over a longer lifespan. Only if you take the first sweetspot, understand that the APUs might negate the future lower end graphics card market entirely (lets face it 4060/7600 hardly make sense today).

        • That's cool and all, but you're assuming we're playing new games. I play War Thunder, many people on PC have it because it is the best platform for indie games where developers actually care. Many of the most popular franchises have had their game out for years, with it being supported via patches and expansion packs (like Hearts of Iron). Also, the people buying this card will not be playing it at 4k, and will not be bothering with crud like Ray Tracing. They will be fine for years to come. It's like how I was able to run Cyberpunk 2077 just fine on my 2016 1080. Was I able to max out the graphics? Nope. Was it still comfortable to play? Yup. Additionally, games like War Thunder care more about the CPU than GPU. If you jump from whatever cruddy console port AAA has come out all the time, then sure, go get a 4090.

          You know who cares about the latest trash AAA release? Benchmarkers. You know who doesn't? Gamers that actually want to play the games they enjoy. Look at what people are playing on Steam. Look at how many franchises there are. Not a single game in the most played Steam games requires heavy hardware. In a few years? Many of the games in the charts will still be getting played, just like they were getting played years ago. Developers behind games like War Thunder have trouble trying to not cater so much with people with 2010 hardware, let alone push for some mythical 16GB of VRAM.

          But look, we get it. You watch Hardware Unboxed, and Gamers Nexus, and so do I. But don't buy too much into the hype here.

          (I would still go a 6700XT over the 6700, as the prices are as close as can be)

          • +1

            @Shootinputin89: depends on what you go for, the new generation of fighting games is starting to release and they are all aimed at modern systems. the 1060 is about the bottom of what SF6 can run on.
            PC is also the platform where people can get all the games, so some people are aiming to get those ps5 exclusives on it as well.
            There is certainly an argument to scale down games for PC and switch but when switch goes away in a year or 2 will newer games still be scaled down for 6-8gb of vram? sure PC indies will, but anything else is not likely.
            realistically something between 10-16 will be the outcome with devs actually optimising stuff to avoid popular games selling poorly which we have seen with recent larger releases

        • remember there's always a toggle for texture setting to make it medium or low when you are out of VRAM.

          You don't have to run high setting for everything as what reviewer does. They do it for fair comparison purpose, and that's a bit excessive for average gamers.

  • -1

    I bought one of these about 3 months ago because it looked like the best deal in this tier.

    But I want to sell it now because I don't think I'll be using it. It's still sealed/unopened, what do you guys think I could sell it for on eBay? I have the receipt and it still has nearly 3 years warranty.

    I can still redeem the Last of Us code for anyone who buys it because AMD gave me an extension because I couldn't put it in my PC at the time to do the online redemption process.

    But of course I'd have to open it before I posted the card, or maybe people wouldn't really care about that game much anyway?

    • +2

      Comment on private selling is not allowed on OZB. If you can figure out a way for the buyer to get the Last of Us without you opening the box, that will be the best.

  • TIL umart was acquired by MSY

    • +2

      Other way around

      • Whoa

  • Hmmm… Im not sure about a 10GB card - for running lots of current games such at Hogwarts and Jedi Survivor - 10GB seems to be the minimum

  • -2

    The lil Nvidia fanbois are rolling in. They're still sure that the 3050 and 4060Ti are the only budget options to be considered. Don't be posting good value radeon cards, lest you face their wrath.

  • Is this card good for AC Valhala at 1440p?

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