The RX 7600 as it appears on the product page. Photo by AMD.
By Josh Levin
Published June 4, 2023 | Updated February 18, 2024 at 10:28 am
AMD announced the Radeon RX 7600 GPU May 24, with prices starting at $270 MSRP.
Like the recently-announced NVIDIA RTX 4060 series, the cards are marketed toward 1080p gamers. “Designed to deliver incredible 1080p gaming experiences, the Radeon RX 7600 graphics card provides an ideal upgrade for legions of gamers,” AMD stated in a press release.
AMD claims that the new card offers 29% better performance than the previous-generation RX 6600 and 34% better performance than the NVIDIA RTX 3060 SUPER. “It also enables 100+ FPS on average in today’s top 10 PC esports titles, while delivering faster AI performance than the previous generation and higher average performance in select content creation applications,” they stated.
The Terabyte Tribune has not independently verified AMD’s performance claims.
The RX 7600 comes with 8 GB of GDDR6, 32 compute units, a base clock of 2.25 Ghz and a boost clock of 2.66 Ghz, according to AMD. It also supports AV1 encode and decode in addition to AMD FidelityFX Super Resolution Technology, which uses machine learning to increase performance by rendering at a lower resolution and upscaling to a higher one.
AMD originally planned to launch the card at $299 – the same price as the RTX 4060 – until they reduced the price to $270 just 36 hours prior to launch, raising concerns from reviewers. “They could’ve cared about consumer value in the first place, and they could’ve [originally] had it at a good price. But they didn’t,” Linus Sebastian, CEO of Linus Media Group, said in a live stream May 26. “It’s extremely disrespectful to everyone else who’s involved in the launch of a product like this, including media partners.”
The new GPU is based on AMD’s RDNA 3 architecture, which AMD debuted in December 2022 with the RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX. According to AMD, the architecture’s updated compute units include unified ray tracing and AI accelerators as well as second-generation “AMD Infinity Cache technology”.
Infinity Cache technology enables greater graphics memory bandwidth by caching data that is likely to be reused, according to AMD. “This approach is much faster than loading onto system memory alone, speeding up predicted and common tasks,” they stated in a document explaining the technology.
Stated Scott Herkelman, senior vice president and general manager of the graphics business unit at AMD, “The Radeon RX 7600 graphics card at US $269 hits the sweet spot for high-performance 1080p gaming.”
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