It is no secret that AMD is planning a graphics card (or two) around the Navi 23 GPU. At this time, the Radeon RX 6600 XT and RX 6600 are the most likely candidates, and the card pictured below may actually be an early version of one of them.

The true source of this image has been lost, but Broly_X1 on Twitter caught wind of it and saved this rare image (via Videocardz). The photo appears to be a reference design for an AMD Radeon GPU, but is not in line with the existing RDNA 2 reference cooler.

This would be less usual for the more budget and mid-range cards in the stack, which forgo fancy shrouds and coolers for affordability.

The card is labeled about PC Partner Ltd. a mega-scale graphics card OEM. The company handles both Nvidia and AMD GPUs and is probably best known for producing Sapphire and Zotac branded GPUs. Dave also visited PC Partner in the past.

The label also lists the exact GPU used, the Navi 23 chip, which is a cutback version of the RDNA 2 chip already on the market; the RX 6600 XT is expected to have 2,048 cores and the RX 6600 1,792.

Its appearance on the label, however, is a bit odd. Normally, a specific graphics card model would be listed here, meaning that this is probably a pre-production sample, or something else entirely. Also, the possibility of fabrication cannot be dismissed.

However, at least it looks like it, and it appears to have 8GB of GDDR6 memory, as per recent rumors.

In other words. Rumors have been swirling around the RX 6600 and RX 6600 XT lately, and the sudden influx of leaks and rumors usually suggests that a release date is imminent; AMD has no shortage of opportunities to announce new products in the near future: AMD will be giving a keynote at Computex in early June, followed immediately by E 3 will be held.