CES: AMD announces the Radeon RX 7600XT. Double the memory, higher TDP and more clock speed than the RX 7600

The Radeon RX 7600 XT is presented as AMD’s upcoming entry-level GPU, which is likely to be more powerful than originally assumed. The market launch is planned for January 24, 2024. Although there were hints in advance of two variations of the RX 7600 XT, each with 10 or 12 GB of GDDR6 video memory, in the end a doubling to 16 GB turned out to be correct. This is now a clear advantage over the regular RX 7600 with only 8 GB VRAM and the RX 7700 XT with 12 GB VRAM.

Nevertheless, the 16 GB configuration only uses a 128-bit instead of a 256-bit interface, which unfortunately rules out the full utilization of the 16 PCIe lanes. However, this better configuration could then compete with the RX 7700 XT internally, which nobody at AMD wants. Compared to Nvidia’s competition in the entry-level segment, the RX 7600XT would clearly stand out in terms of memory, but would lose out to the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti variant, which also uses 16 GB of VRAM, because the latter at least still offers a 192-bit connection.

In terms of performance and specifications, it is best to compare the RX 7600 XT with the RX 7600. The RX 7600 has 8 GB of VRAM and a TDP of 165 W, while the RX 7600 XT is equipped with 16 GB of VRAM and a TDP of up to 190 watts. The RX 7600 XT is now being released around 8 months after the RX 7600 and has a 4% higher boost clock rate (2.76 GHz compared to 2.66 GHz for the RX 7600).

In benchmark tests, the RX 7600 XT shows a 3% higher FP32 performance (22.57 TFLOPS compared to 21.75 TFLOPS of the RX 7600). Both use the Navi III chip and are designed for the desktop-only market. They have the same number of compute units, shading units, TMUs, ROPs, tensor cores and RT cores. In theoretical performance tests, the RX 7600 XT shows a slightly higher pixel and texture rate as well as higher FP16, FP32 and FP64 performance. Both graphics cards use the Navi 33 chip, have the same number of transistors, the same die size and are manufactured by TSMC using the 6 nm process. The recommended power supply requirement for both cards is 450W

from this perspective, the Radeon RX 7600 XT appears to offer a measurable increase in performance compared to the RX 7600, particularly in terms of VRAM, clock rates and theoretical performance. Independent benchmarks of the cards will have to clarify the rest. Stay tuned. 🙂