AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT revealed, but we’ve seen this GPU before

We thought AMD had wrapped up the entire RDNA 3 lineup on the finish of final 12 months, however the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT has simply been revealed at CES, supplying you with 16GB of VRAM. What’s extra, the Radeon RX 7600 XT worth is simply $329. On the face of it, this makes the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB appear to be it gives even worse worth than earlier than, however there’s additionally a purpose why this new 16GB graphics card has such a low worth.

The $269 worth of final 12 months’s AMD Radeon RX 7600 supplied some welcome aid from the wave of extraordinarily costly GPU launches from each Nvidia and AMD, incomes it a spot on our information to the best graphics card. Nevertheless, there’s an enormous hole between this low-cost GPU and the $449 worth of the Radeon RX 7700 XT, giving AMD a window for a brand new graphics card.

Sadly, nevertheless, there’s not a lot new in regards to the Radeon RX 7600 XT, and that’s why the worth is so aggressive – it’s mainly only a Radeon RX 7600 with a bump in clock velocity and extra reminiscence. Each the Radeon RX 7600 and 7600 XT are primarily based on the identical Navi 33 chip, with the identical 32 compute items. This implies you’ve got 2,048 stream processors on each GPUs, together with 32MB of Infinity Cache, and a 128-bit reminiscence interface.

You do get an enormous enhance in clock velocity, although. The Radeon RX 7600 XT has a quoted recreation clock of two.47GHz, with a most enhance clock of two.76GHz. The previous specifically offers you a lift of 220MHz over a Radeon RX 7600 working at inventory velocity, and there’s a 100MHz between the 2 GPUs’ most enhance clocks as effectively. This in flip has an influence on the entire board energy, with AMD quoting 190W for the Radeon RX 7600 XT, in contrast with 165W for the Radeon RX 7600.

In the meantime, the 16GB of reminiscence is identical GDDR6 selection because the 8GB discovered within the Radeon RX 7600, and it runs at precisely the identical 2,250MHz (18Gbps efficient) clock velocity as effectively. This implies each the Radeon RX 7600 and XT have the identical reminiscence bandwidth of 288GB/s.

AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT specs

Nonetheless, it’s good to see choices with greater than 8GB of VRAM on the cheaper finish of the GPU scale. Even at 1080p, we’ve seen some video games stutter and stall on 8GB playing cards with the settings maxed out, and having 16GB of VRAM at your disposal offers your graphics card some headroom to breathe, even whether it is overkill for this GPU spec.

Additionally, let’s face it, paying a $60 premium for an additional 8GB of VRAM and an overclock is unquestionably higher than paying $100 for simply 8GB of extra VRAM, as with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 Ti.

The Radeon RX 7600 XT launch date is Wednesday, January 24, 2024, with playing cards coming from a variety of board companions, together with Acer, ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, and XFX. Look out for a full evaluation on PCGamesN with benchmarks on launch day.

For extra data, try our Radeon RX 7600 XT guide, and be sure you additionally learn the remainder of our CES 2024 protection, together with hands-on experiences reside from the present in Las Vegas.