Sapphire has revealed the first custom model of AMD’s Radeon RX 7600 8 GB graphics card aimed for the mass market. The AMD Radeon RX 7600 graphics card is positioned as a mid-tier option in the RDNA 3 family. The graphics card was scheduled to be released by the end of this month, but according to a recent leak by Videocardz, Asian merchants already have the first batch of these special versions, confirming that the release is imminent.
The model shown is the Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 Pulse, which should have non-reference cooling and a PCB design with dual-fan cooling. The card is labelled “Overclocked” and has been confirmed to have 8 GB of GDDR6 memory. The packaging mentions 32 Compute Units or 2048 cores, 32 MB of AMD Infinity Cache, and RT+AI accelerators. So it’s roughly based on the entire Navi 33 die.
This leak also indicates that the recent Github listing was incorrect, since the AMD Radeon RX 7600 already uses the whole Navi 33 die.
This means that if AMD were to release the 7600 XT as a Navi 33 chip, they could just boost the clocks and VRAM, which doesn’t seem like much of an improvement. It is more likely that the 7600 XT and 7700 XT will use reduced Navi 32 dies, with the 7600 XT getting a 128-bit bus interface and the 7700 XT getting a 192-bit bus interface.
The graphics card, which is expected to cost $249 US, will compete directly with Intel’s Arc A750, which costs the same. The two GPUs will undoubtedly compete, with Intel fine-tuning the performance of its Alchemist design and AMD providing a new RDNA 3 architecture.
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