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The AMD RX 6700 XT reference card ships in the same style of box as the RX 6800. It's compact and almost entirely black, with a semi-obscured image of the graphics card's shroud visible on the front. The back is left mostly bare, apart from a few paragraphs of text in the upper left corner.
The reference card itself has very similar design language to the other RX 6000 series cards we have already reviewed. This means a premium metal shroud, using a combination of silver and black sections for a fairly striking overall appearance. The obvious difference with the RX 6700 XT is that it utilises a dual-fan cooler, compared to the triple-fan models seen with the RX 6800. The fans used here are slightly larger however, measuring 85mm compared to the 80mm fans as found on the RX 6800.
Dimensions of the card are more or less identical to the RX 6800. It's 266.7mm long – 10.5inches – and is a standard dual-slot thickness. The height of the card however has been slightly reduced compared to the RX 6800, but we're only talking a difference of a few milimetres.
One very noticeable area of difference between the 6700 XT and 6800 is weight. The 6700 XT weighs 891g on our scales, compared to 1390g for the 6800, indicating a pretty sizeable reduction in heatsink mass.
On the front side of the card, we can see the same red trim going around the edge of the shroud as found on the RX 6800. The backplate, too, is the same silver and black metal, though there isn't a cut-out behind the GPU die now – it's a full piece of metal, with just four small holes for the GPU mounting screws.
For power inputs, AMD has gone for 1x 8-pin and 1x 6-pin, the same configuration as the RX 5700 XT, comfortably enough for the 230W TBP. As for display outputs, there's 3x DisplayPort and 1x HDMI.
