Radeon 6700 video card went on sale without official AMD announcement

Sapphire Radeon 6700 Pulse video card presented earlier this week went on sale.
Photos of its product packaging, as well as the characteristics shared by one of the users of Twitter.Image source: Twitter / @Zed__WangRemind that Sapphire Radeon 6700 Pulse, in fact, is a gaming version of the gas pedal Sapphire BC-2235 GPRO X080 10GB, designed for mining.
Due to the declining demand for graphics gas pedals from cryptocurrency miners, the manufacturer apparently decided to convert it into a gaming gas pedal.AMD has not officially announced the Radeon 6700.
Thus, the initiative comes exclusively from its partner Sapphire.
By the way, the latter also released a model Radeon 6700, not related to any of its gaming series.
It exactly copies the appearance of the above mentioned Sapphire mining video card.
The only difference between the versions is the GPU frequency and the presence of external video connectors.At the heart of the Radeon 6700 uses a graphics processor Navi 22 XL with 36 execution units, which includes 2304 stream processors, 144 texture blocks and 64 rasterization units.
The chip runs at up to 2230 MHz in gaming mode and up to 2495 MHz in Boost mode (the screenshot shows lower frequencies, probably in \"silent\" BIOS mode).
The card offers dual BIOS support.
Sapphire Radeon 6700 Pulse has 10 GB of GDDR6 memory with 160 bit bus and 16 GB/sec per pin.
The declared TDP of new items is 220 watts.
A set of external video interfaces consists of one HDMI and three DisplayPort.
According to GPU-Z program, the card works with an old version of Radeon Software driver 22.3.1.There is no information about Sapphire Radeon 6700 Pulse cost.

Sapphire unveiled the Radeon 6700 gaming graphics card - used to produce these for mining

A few hours after the leak, Sapphire officially unveiled the Radeon 6700 gaming graphics card.
No, there's no mistake.
The novelty has no RX prefix in the name.
Apparently, the card was originally designed for mining, but the decline in demand for mining gas pedals on the wave of unstable cryptocurrency market forced the manufacturer to repurpose the card for gaming.Image source: SapphireThe design of one of the novelties, which is almost exactly copies the model Sapphire BC-2235 GPRO X080 10GB, designed for mining.
Cards differ only in the presence of external video interfaces in a gaming Radeon 6700 and higher frequency graphics processor.Sapphire Radeon 6700Sapphire BC-2235 GPRO X080 10GBThe basis of Radeon 6700 uses Navi 22 XL processor with 36 execution units, which have 2304 stream processors.
Sapphire Radeon 6700 is presented in two versions.
One of them is Pulse.
The second has no additional name (it is similar to the card for mining).Sapphire Radeon 6700 PlusIt appears that both versions of Sapphire Radeon 6700 have the same GPU frequencies.
In gaming mode, the chip runs at 2230 MHz, and in Boost mode at 2495 MHz.
By comparison, the Sapphire BC-2235 GPRO X080 10GB Mining Sapphire operates in a frequency range of 2,000 to 2,132 MHz.
Each Sapphire Radeon 6700 got 10 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 160-bit bus and 16 Gbit/s per pin.
Declared TDP value of the new products is 220 watts.
Each card has one additional 8-pin power connector.
A set of external video interfaces consists of one HDMI and three DisplayPort.Sapphire Radeon 6700Information on the recommended cost of the gas pedal Radeon 6700 Sapphire company did not report.
Moreover, the manufacturer has not even showed any product packs on their official website.
This may hint at the fact that the video card will be distributed through PC OEM-builders.