AMD announced a new hardware event for next month, where the company plans to launch the next GPU in its line of Radeon RX 6000 boards. The presentation will air on March 3 at 8 am PT / 11 am ET.
Like other RX 6000 series GPUs, this new model will use RDNA 2 architecture, including real-time hardware accelerated lightning tracking and variable rate shading. AMD’s announcement of a new GPU presentation comes just a day before sales of the Nvidia RTX 3060 GPU accessible from select retailers begin.
AMD launched the Radeon RX 6000 line of graphics cards in late October, with GPUs acting as direct competitors to Nvidia’s RTX 30 cards. Currently, the RX 6000 consists of three GPUs: the flagship RX 6900 XT, the $ 649 RX 6800 XT and the RX 6800, which is the most affordable of the $ 579 trio.
With the announcement of a new RX 6000 card coming, we anticipate that, like other GPUs in this series, it will run out quickly. In January, AMD said The Verge that in the first quarter of 2021, it expects to sell more of its own RX 6000 cards through its website, which is bittersweet news, considering that the RX 6000 has been difficult to buy.