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We won’t have to wait for leaked images of AMD’s next-gen graphics cards to appear. On Monday, the company unveiled an official design for its RX 6000 series gaming GPUs.
On Twitter, AMD posted an image of a three-fan card, which will use a “new cooling design.” The product also comes with two 8-pin connectors, slightly more than the 8-pin and 6-pin configuration found on last year’s RX 5700 XT, which currently retails for $ 399.
The company didn’t say much else, like where exactly the card fits in the RX 6000 series. But you can get a better look at the graphics card in the hit game Fortnite, where AMD has created a giant virtual model of the GPU.
Fortnite players have already been posting images of the design. And according to the images, the card will feature three HDMI ports and one USB-C port, which was later confirmed by an AMD executive. This may suggest that the card will support a USB-C connection over DisplayPort, or possibly even Thunderbolt 4.
The company plans to reveal more on October 28 during a special event dedicated to RDNA2, the architecture that will power the new GPUs. AMD has been signaling throughout the year that the upcoming graphics cards will tackle high-end PC gaming. But the products will face serious competition from Nvidia, which recently announced its own next-generation graphics cards, the RTX 3000 series.
The first RTX card, the 3080, goes on sale Thursday for $ 699. Then in October, Nvidia plans to sell the RTX 3070 for $ 499. Both cards promise to offer a significant performance boost, so we’ll have to wait and see if AMD can respond in kind.
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