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XFX’s tackle AMD’s Radeon RX 7600 XT.
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AMD mandates DisplayPort 2.1 assist on the 7600 XT, the place it is non-compulsory on the common 7600.
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XFX’s 7600 XT card dwarfs AMD’s reference RX 7600 card, primarily in measurement but additionally type of in energy use.
Andrew Cunningham
We do not want a lengthy intro for this one: AMD’s new Radeon RX 7600 XT is sort of precisely the identical as final 12 months’s RX 7600, however with a delicate bump to the GPU’s clock velocity and 16GB of reminiscence as a substitute of 8GB. It additionally prices $329 as a substitute of $269, the present MSRP (and present road worth) for the common RX 7600.
It’s a card with a fairly slender target market: people who find themselves nervous about shopping for a GPU with 8GB of reminiscence, however who aren’t nervous sufficient about future-proofing or RAM necessities to purchase a extra highly effective GPU. It’s priced fairly properly, no less than—$60 is a lot to pay for further reminiscence, however $329 was the MSRP for the Radeon RX 6600 again in 2021. If you need extra reminiscence in a current-generation card, you in any other case usually want to leap up into the $450 vary (for the 12GB RX 7700 XT or the 16GB RTX 4060 Ti) or past.
| RX 7700 XT | RX 7600 | RX 7600 XT | RX 6600 | RX 6600 XT | RX 6650 XT | RX 6750 XT | |
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| Compute models (Stream processors) | 54 (3,456) | 32 (2,048) | 32 (2,048) | 28 (1,792) | 32 (2,048) | 32 (2,048) | 40 (2,560) |
| Boost Clock | 2,544 MHz | 2,600 MHz | 2,760 MHz | 2,490 MHz | 2,589 MHz | 2,635 MHz | 2,600 MHz |
| Memory Bus Width | 192-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 192-bit |
| Memory Clock | 2,250 MHz | 2,250 MHz | 2,250 MHz | 1,750 MHz | 2,000 MHz | 2,190 MHz | 2,250 MHz |
| Memory measurement | 12GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 16GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 8GB GDDR6 | 12GB GDDR6 |
| Total board energy (TBP) | 245 W | 165 W | 190 W | 132 W | 160 W | 180 W | 250 W |
The truth of the matter is that this is identical silicon we have already seen. The clock velocity bumps do present a small across-the-board efficiency uplift, and the influence of the additional RAM does change into obvious in a few of our checks. But the cardboard does not basically alter the AMD-vs-Nvidia-vs-Intel dynamic within the $300-ish graphics card market, although it addresses a couple of the common RX 7600’s most obtrusive weaknesses.
Performance and energy
AMD’s official spec sheet for the 7600 XT advertises a 9.8 % GPU recreation clock improve in comparison with the common 7600, and a 3.8 % increase clock improve. In most circumstances, with the XFX card we examined, efficiency enhancements in most video games have been firmly in that low-single-digit vary at each 1080p and 1440p.
One broad exception to this, and one particular exception, based mostly on the checks we have run: Generally, video games with heavy ray-tracing results—Cyberpunk and Returnal, specifically—improved greater than the non ray-traced video games we examined; at 1080p, we noticed high-single-digit enhancements, and at 1440p we truly measured double-digit velocity will increase. This is, sadly, not sufficient to make the RX 7600 XT’s ray-tracing efficiency significantly nice, or aggressive with the RTX 4060 working on the similar resolutions and settings.
But there’s just one that reveals a crystal-clear signal of video memory-related issues: Forza Horizon 5, which at 1440p begins throwing low-memory warnings on 8GB Radeon playing cards (it does not appear to have the identical points with 8GB Nvidia playing cards, no less than not as visibly; chalk it as much as video games being better-optimized for the GPU market chief, perhaps). This manifests as scores that look decrease than they “ought to,” and a lack of enchancment (and even some backsliding) while you attempt to use FSR or XeSS upscaling.
The 16GB 7600 XT is a whopping 28 % quicker than the 7600 right here, and practically 62 % quicker when you flip FSR on. That’s a enormous enchancment for the cash! Though it is also not practically consultant of the conduct you may see from most video games.