It has been the subject of rumors for many months: the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT graphics card is finally official with its 16 GB of video memory and its increased performance.
The start of 2024 will be a year of transition for graphics card manufacturers, particularly AMD. While Nvidia is reportedly about to announce the SUPER versions of its RTX 4000 GPUs, its direct competitor is taking the opposite view by unveiling a promising mid-range graphics card, the Radeon RX 7600 XT.
More than seven months after the RX 7600, this new card should correct its flaws by notably increasing the amount of memory.
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT: mid-range with 16 GB of VRAM
While many rumors in recent months have spoken of a memory pool of 10 or 12 GB, this RX 7600 XT version will indeed offer the 16 GB of VRAM so much hoped for in this segment. If AMD was not able to increase the number of cores on this new version, already exploiting the full potential of the Navi 33 GPU, the manufacturer has increased the different clock frequencies: the base frequency increases to 2.47 GHz (+10%), while the boosted version now stands at 2.76 GHz (+4%).
The memory bus and its bandwidth do not change, but consumption is logically up, from 190 W compared to 165 W on the base RX 7600. With these characteristics, AMD is still targeting titles played at 1080p and 1440p, with performance ranging from 50 to 90 FPS. The manufacturer promises gains of 12 to 15% compared to its little sister, allowing it to be even more comfortable at 1440p.
In the always very tendentious marketing exercise of direct comparison with competitors, AMD places itself against the Nvidia RTX 4060 8 GB. Its own image generation technology (Fluid Motion Frames) being compatible with many more games, comparisons on titles that do not offer this same option from Nvidia are necessarily flattering (Baldur’s Gate 3, The Last of Us Part 1, Assassin’s Creed Mirage).
And this is AMD’s strong argument for offering gamers theoretically much better performance in a greater number of games. But here again, the two technologies are not equal, both in terms of latency, frame pacing and image quality. At this budget, however, we would tend to be less careful.
New optimizations for creatives
Beyond video games, the contribution of 16 GB allows this Radeon RX 7600 XT to be more efficient in creative and AI applications: whether it is video editing with DaVinci Resolve or local image generation with Stable Diffusion the gains are between 10 and 30%, helped of course by the boost in clock frequencies.
In January, AMD will also introduce new optimizations for AV1 video encoding, for streamers and videographers, as well as a new video upscaling tool. If we have few details on the latter at the moment, it should offer an alternative to Nvidia’s RTX Video Super Resolution, without the contribution of AI.
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT pricing and availability
AMD will not offer a reference model (Made by AMD) for this graphics card, which will therefore only be sold by partners (Asus, Acer, Gigabyte, Sapphire, etc.).
The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT will be available from January 24 at a recommended price of $329, which may vary depending on the models offered by the partners. The European price should be known shortly before the release.
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