– Harnes­sing breakth­rough AMD RDNA™ 2 gam­ing archi­tec­tu­re, high-per­for­mance AMD Infi­ni­ty Cache and 12GB of high-speed GDDR6 memo­ry, new AMD Rade­on™ RX 6700 XT gra­phics cards pro­vi­de up to 2X hig­her per­for­mance in sel­ect titles than cur­rent instal­led base of older-gene­ra­ti­on gra­phics cards¹–

– Powerful blend of ray­tra­cing with AMD Fide­li­ty­FX²com­pu­te and ras­te­ri­zed effects ele­va­tes visu­als to new levels of fide­li­ty, deli­ve­ring ama­zing life­li­ke, cine­ma­tic gam­ing experiences –

SANTA CLARA, Calif. 

03/03/2021

AMD (NASDAQ: AMD) today intro­du­ced the AMD Rade­on RX 6700 XT gra­phics card, pro­vi­ding excep­tio­nal per­for­mance, stun­nin­gly vivid visu­als and advan­ced soft­ware fea­tures to rede­fi­ne 1440p reso­lu­ti­on gaming.

Repre­sen­ting the cut­ting edge of engi­nee­ring and design, AMD Rade­on RX 6700 XT gra­phics cards harness breakth­rough AMD RDNA 2 gam­ing archi­tec­tu­re, 96MB of high-per­for­mance AMD Infi­ni­ty Cache, 12GB of high-speed GDDR6 memo­ry, AMD Smart Access Memo­ry¹ and other advan­ced tech­no­lo­gies to meet the ever-incre­asing demands of modern games. Deli­ve­ring up to 2X hig­her gam­ing per­for­mance in sel­ect titles¹ with ama­zing new fea­tures com­pared to the cur­rent instal­led base of older-gene­ra­ti­on gra­phics cards and pro­vi­ding more than 165 FPS in sel­ect esports titles², the AMD Rade­on RX 6700 XT gra­phics card pushes the limits of gam­ing by enab­ling incre­di­ble, high-refresh 1440p per­for­mance and breath­ta­king visu­al fidelity.

“Modern games are more deman­ding than ever, requi­ring incre­asing levels of com­pu­ting hor­se­power to deli­ver the breath­ta­king, immersi­ve expe­ri­en­ces gamers expect,” said Scott Her­kel­man, cor­po­ra­te vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger, Gra­phics Busi­ness Unit at AMD. “The AMD Rade­on RX 6700 XT gra­phics card hits the sweet spot for 1440p gam­ing. For most gamers still play­ing on three-to-four-year-old gra­phics cards, it is the per­fect upgrade solu­ti­on desi­gned to deli­ver incre­di­ble visu­als and no-com­pro­mi­ses, high-refresh 1440p gam­ing per­for­mance at maxi­mum settings.”

Taking advan­ta­ge of this incre­di­ble per­for­mance, more than 40 sys­tem buil­ders and OEMs are expec­ted to launch high-per­for­mance desk­top PCs powered by the new gra­phics card. HP is expec­ted to refresh two desk­top gam­ing sys­tems this Spring – the HP OMEN 25L and 30L – fea­turing AMD Rade­on RX 6700 XT gra­phics cards and AMD Ryzen™ 5000 Series Desk­top Processors.

“Gamers are rou­ti­ne­ly on the loo­kout for the latest cut­ting-edge tech­no­lo­gies to excel and immer­se them­sel­ves in their favo­ri­te games,” said Judy John­son, gam­ing plat­form head, HP Inc. “We’re thril­led to add the new AMD Rade­on RX 6700 XT gra­phics cards in our OMEN 25 and 30L Desk­tops to help power epic adven­tures across the globe.”

Exceptional 1440p Performance, Stunning Visuals and Unmatched Gaming Experiences

The AMD Rade­on RX 6700 XT gra­phics card is built on 7nm pro­cess tech­no­lo­gy and AMD RDNA 2 gam­ing archi­tec­tu­re, desi­gned to deli­ver the opti­mal com­bi­na­ti­on of per­for­mance and power effi­ci­en­cy. Addi­tio­nal fea­tures and capa­bi­li­ties include:

• AMD Infi­ni­ty Cache – 96MB of last-level data cache on the GPU die pro­vi­des up to 2.5X hig­her band­width at the same power level as tra­di­tio­nal archi­tec­tures³ to pro­vi­de hig­her gam­ing performance.
• AMD Smart Access Memo­ry – Unlocks hig­her per­for­mance when pai­ring AMD Rade­on RX 6000 Series gra­phics cards with AMD Ryzen 5000 or sel­ect Ryzen 3000 Series Desk­top Pro­ces­sors and AMD 500-series mother­boards. Pro­vi­ding AMD Ryzen pro­ces­sors with access to high-speed GDDR6 gra­phics memo­ry can deli­ver a per­for­mance uplift of up to 16 per­cent⁴.
• 12GB High-Speed GDDR6 VRAM – Desi­gned to hand­le the incre­asing tex­tu­re loads and grea­ter visu­al demands of today’s modern games at hig­her reso­lu­ti­ons and max set­tings, the new gra­phics card with 12GB of GDDR6 of memo­ry allows gamers to easi­ly power through today and tomorrow’s deman­ding AAA titles.
• AMD Fide­li­ty­FX – Inte­gra­ted into more than 40 games and coun­ting, AMD Fide­li­ty­FX is an open-source tool­kit of visu­al enhance­ment effects for game deve­lo­pers available at AMD GPUO­pen. Opti­mi­zed for AMD Rade­on gra­phics, it includes a robust coll­ec­tion of ras­te­ri­zed light­ing, shadow and reflec­tion effects that can be inte­gra­ted into the latest games with mini­mal per­for­mance overhead.
• DirectX® Ray­tra­cing (DXR) – AMD RDNA 2 archi­tec­tu­re-based gra­phics cards are opti­mi­zed to deli­ver real-time light­ing, shadow and reflec­tion rea­lism with DXR, pro­vi­ding a stun­ning gam­ing expe­ri­ence. When pai­red with AMD Fide­li­ty­FX, deve­lo­pers can com­bi­ne ras­te­ri­zed and ray-tra­ced effects to pro­vi­de an ide­al balan­ce of image qua­li­ty and gam­ing performance.
• AMD Rade­on Anti-Lag⁵ – Now with sup­port for the DirectX 12 API, AMD Rade­on Anti-Lag decrea­ses input-to-dis­play respon­se times, making games more respon­si­ve and offe­ring a com­pe­ti­ti­ve edge in gameplay.
• AMD Rade­on Boost⁶ – Now with sup­port for Varia­ble Rate Shad­ing, AMD Rade­on Boost deli­vers up to a 27 per­cent per­for­mance increase⁷ during fast-moti­on gam­ing sce­na­ri­os by dyna­mi­cal­ly redu­cing image reso­lu­ti­on or by vary­ing shad­ing rates for dif­fe­rent regi­ons of a frame, incre­asing frame­ra­tes and flui­di­ty, and bols­te­ring respon­si­ve­ness with vir­tual­ly no per­cep­tu­al impact on image quality.

“We’re exci­ted to part­ner with AMD to bring the latest, much-anti­ci­pa­ted ent­ry in the Resi­dent Evil fran­chise to PC gamers,” said Peter Fabia­no, pro­du­cer at Cap­com®. “With the powerful Rade­on RX 6000 Series gra­phics cou­pled with next-gene­ra­ti­on fea­tures and tech­no­lo­gies, inclu­ding AMD Fide­li­ty­FX, ray­tra­cing and Varia­ble Rate Shad­ing, gamers can expe­ri­ence the ulti­ma­te fight for sur­vi­val with visual­ly stun­ning, ins­a­nely detail­ed cha­rac­ters and envi­ron­ments and high-per­for­mance gameplay.”

Driving High-Octane Performance with Mercedes-AMG Petronas Esports Team

AMD also announ­ced a new col­la­bo­ra­ti­on with the Mer­ce­des-AMG Petro­nas Esports Team, the esports arm of the Mer­ce­des-AMG Petro­nas For­mu­la 1 Team. Mer­ce­des has sel­ec­ted the powerful com­bi­na­ti­on of AMD Rade­on RX 6000 Series gra­phics cards, AMD Ryzen 5000 Series Desk­top Pro­ces­sors and advan­ced AMD Rade­on Soft­ware tech­no­lo­gies to power their Esports gam­ing rigs, deli­ve­ring the hig­hest frame­ra­tes, low-laten­cy game­play and the smoot­hest dri­ving expe­ri­ence, unlo­cking the dri­vers’ full poten­ti­al. AMD deli­vers an unmat­ched com­pe­ti­ti­ve edge in vir­tu­al racing.

Specifications, Pricing and Availability

Model	Com­pu­te Units	GDDR6	Game Clock1 (MHz)	Boost Clock2 (MHZ)	Memo­ry Interface	Infi­ni­ty Cache	TBP	Pri­ce (USD SEP)
AMD Rade­on RX 6700 XT	40	12GB	2424	Up to 2581	192 bit	96MB	230W	$479

AMD Rade­on RX 6700 XT gra­phics cards are expec­ted to be available from AMD.com, from AMD board part­ners inclu­ding ASRock, ASUS, Giga­byte, MSI, Power­Co­lor, SAPPHIRE and XFX, and from etailers/retailers on March 18, 2021, start­ing at $479 USD SEP. The refres­hed HP OMEN 25L and 30L desk­top gam­ing sys­tems are expec­ted to be available this Spring. Addi­tio­nal pre-built sys­tems from OEM and SI part­ners are expec­ted to beco­me available in the coming months.

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CAUTIONARY STATEMENT

This press release con­ta­ins for­ward-loo­king state­ments con­cer­ning Advan­ced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) such as the fea­tures, func­tion­a­li­ty, per­for­mance, avai­la­bi­li­ty, timing and expec­ted bene­fits of AMD pro­ducts inclu­ding the AMD Rade­on^TM RX 6700 XT gra­phics card and the expec­ted launch by sys­tem buil­ders and OEMs, which are made pur­su­ant to the Safe Har­bor pro­vi­si­ons of the Pri­va­te Secu­ri­ties Liti­ga­ti­on Reform Act of 1995. For­ward-loo­king state­ments are com­mon­ly iden­ti­fied by words such as “would,” “may,” “expects,” “belie­ves,” “plans,” “intends,” “pro­jects” and other terms with simi­lar mea­ning. Inves­tors are cau­tio­ned that the for­ward-loo­king state­ments in this press release are based on cur­rent beliefs, assump­ti­ons and expec­ta­ti­ons, speak only as of the date of this press release and invol­ve risks and uncer­tain­ties that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons. Such state­ments are sub­ject to cer­tain known and unknown risks and uncer­tain­ties, many of which are dif­fi­cult to pre­dict and gene­ral­ly bey­ond AMD’s con­trol, that could cau­se actu­al results and other future events to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from tho­se expres­sed in, or impli­ed or pro­jec­ted by, the for­ward-loo­king infor­ma­ti­on and state­ments. Mate­ri­al fac­tors that could cau­se actu­al results to dif­fer mate­ri­al­ly from cur­rent expec­ta­ti­ons include, wit­hout limi­ta­ti­on, the fol­lo­wing: Intel Corporation’s domi­nan­ce of the micro­pro­ces­sor mar­ket and its aggres­si­ve busi­ness prac­ti­ces; glo­bal eco­no­mic uncer­tain­ty; the loss of a signi­fi­cant cus­to­mer; the impact of the COVID-19 pan­de­mic on AMD’s busi­ness, finan­cial con­di­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­ons; the com­pe­ti­ti­ve mar­kets in which AMD’s pro­ducts are sold; quar­ter­ly and sea­so­nal sales pat­terns; mar­ket con­di­ti­ons of the indus­tries in which AMD pro­ducts are sold; the cycli­cal natu­re of the semi­con­duc­tor indus­try; AMD’s abili­ty to ade­qua­te­ly pro­tect its tech­no­lo­gy or other intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty; unfa­vorable cur­ren­cy exch­an­ge rate fluc­tua­tions; the abili­ty of third par­ty manu­fac­tu­r­ers to manu­fac­tu­re AMD’s pro­ducts on a time­ly basis in suf­fi­ci­ent quan­ti­ties and using com­pe­ti­ti­ve tech­no­lo­gies; expec­ted manu­fac­tu­ring yields for AMD’s pro­ducts; the avai­la­bi­li­ty of essen­ti­al equip­ment, mate­ri­als or manu­fac­tu­ring pro­ces­ses; AMD’s abili­ty to intro­du­ce pro­ducts on a time­ly basis with fea­tures and per­for­mance levels that pro­vi­de value to its cus­to­mers; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te reve­nue from its semi-cus­tom SoC pro­ducts; poten­ti­al secu­ri­ty vul­nerabi­li­ties; poten­ti­al IT outa­ges, data loss, data brea­ches and cyber-attacks; uncer­tain­ties invol­ving the orde­ring and ship­ment of AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty intellec­tu­al pro­per­ty to design and intro­du­ce new pro­ducts in a time­ly man­ner; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty com­pa­nies for the design, manu­fac­tu­re and sup­p­ly of mother­boards, soft­ware and other com­pu­ter plat­form com­pon­ents; AMD’s reli­ance on Micro­soft Cor­po­ra­ti­on and other soft­ware ven­dors’ sup­port to design and deve­lop soft­ware to run on AMD’s pro­ducts; AMD’s reli­ance on third-par­ty dis­tri­bu­tors and add-in-board part­ners; the impact of modi­fi­ca­ti­on or inter­rup­ti­on of AMD’s inter­nal busi­ness pro­ces­ses and infor­ma­ti­on sys­tems; com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty of AMD’s pro­ducts with some or all indus­try-stan­dard soft­ware and hard­ware; cos­ts rela­ted to defec­ti­ve pro­ducts; the effi­ci­en­cy of AMD’s sup­p­ly chain; AMD’s abili­ty to rely on third par­ty sup­p­ly-chain logi­stics func­tions; AMD’s abili­ty to effec­tively con­trol the sales of its pro­ducts on the gray mar­ket; the impact of govern­ment actions and regu­la­ti­ons such as export admi­nis­tra­ti­on regu­la­ti­ons, tariffs and trade pro­tec­tion mea­su­res; AMD’s abili­ty to rea­li­ze its defer­red tax assets; poten­ti­al tax lia­bi­li­ties; cur­rent and future claims and liti­ga­ti­on; the impact of envi­ron­men­tal laws, con­flict mine­rals-rela­ted pro­vi­si­ons and other laws or regu­la­ti­ons; the impact of acqui­si­ti­ons, joint ven­tures and/or invest­ments on AMD’s busi­ness, inclu­ding the announ­ced acqui­si­ti­on of Xilinx, and the fail­ure to inte­gra­te acqui­red busi­nesses; AMD’s abili­ty to com­ple­te the Xilinx mer­ger; the impact of the announce­ment and pen­den­cy of the Xilinx mer­ger on AMD’s busi­ness; the impact of any impair­ment of the com­bi­ned company’s assets on the com­bi­ned company’s finan­cial posi­ti­on and results of ope­ra­ti­on; the rest­ric­tions impo­sed by agree­ments gover­ning AMD’s notes and the revol­ving cre­dit faci­li­ty; the poten­ti­al dilu­ti­ve effect if the 2.125% Con­ver­ti­ble Seni­or Notes due 2026 are con­ver­ted; AMD’s indeb­ted­ness; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent cash to ser­vice its debt obli­ga­ti­ons or meet its working capi­tal requi­re­ments; AMD’s abili­ty to repurcha­se its out­stan­ding debt in the event of a chan­ge of con­trol; AMD’s abili­ty to gene­ra­te suf­fi­ci­ent reve­nue and ope­ra­ting cash flow or obtain exter­nal finan­cing for rese­arch and deve­lo­p­ment or other stra­te­gic invest­ments; poli­ti­cal, legal, eco­no­mic risks and natu­ral dis­as­ters; future impairm­ents of good­will and tech­no­lo­gy licen­se purcha­ses; AMD’s abili­ty to attract and retain qua­li­fied per­son­nel; AMD’s stock pri­ce vola­ti­li­ty; and world­wi­de poli­ti­cal con­di­ti­ons. Inves­tors are urged to review in detail the risks and uncer­tain­ties in AMD’s Secu­ri­ties and Exch­an­ge Com­mis­si­on filings, inclu­ding but not limi­t­ed to AMD’s most recent reports on Forms 10‑K and 10‑Q.

About AMD

For 50 years AMD has dri­ven inno­va­ti­on in high-per­for­mance com­pu­ting, gra­phics and visua­liza­ti­on tech­no­lo­gies ― the buil­ding blocks for gam­ing, immersi­ve plat­forms and the dat­a­cen­ter. Hundreds of mil­li­ons of con­su­mers, lea­ding For­tu­ne 500 busi­nesses and cut­ting-edge sci­en­ti­fic rese­arch faci­li­ties around the world rely on AMD tech­no­lo­gy dai­ly to impro­ve how they live, work and play. AMD employees around the world are focu­sed on buil­ding gre­at pro­ducts that push the boun­da­ries of what is pos­si­ble. For more infor­ma­ti­on about how AMD is enab­ling today and inspi­ring tomor­row, visit the AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) web­site, blog, Face­book and Twit­ter pages.