Review: Radeon 7600 XT offers peace of mind via lots of RAM, remains a mid-range GPU

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  XFX's take on AMD's Radeon RX 7600 XT. [credit: Andrew Cunningham ]

We don't need a long intro for this one: AMD's new Radeon RX 7600 XT is almost exactly the same as last year's RX 7600, but with a mild bump to the GPU's clock speed and 16GB of memory instead of 8GB. It also costs $329 instead of $269, the current MSRP (and current street price) for the regular RX 7600.

It's a card with a pretty narrow target audience: people who are worried about buying a GPU with 8GB of memory, but who aren't worried enough about future-proofing or RAM requirements to buy a more powerful GPU. It's priced reasonably well, at least—$60 is a lot to pay for extra memory, but $329 was the MSRP for the Radeon RX 6600 back in 2021. If you want more memory in a current-generation card, you generally need to jump into the $450 range (for the 12GB RX 7700 XT or the 16GB RTX 4060 Ti) or beyond.

	RX 7700 XT	RX 7600	RX 7600 XT	RX 6600	RX 6600 XT	RX 6650 XT	RX 6750 XT
Compute units (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 size	12GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	16GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	12GB GDDR6
Total board power (TBP)	245 W	165 W	190 W	132 W	160 W	180 W	250 W

The fact of the matter is that this is the same silicon we've already seen. The clock speed bumps provide a small across-the-board performance uplift, and the impact of the extra RAM becomes apparent in a few of our tests. But the card doesn't fundamentally alter the AMD-vs.-Nvidia-vs.-Intel dynamic in the $300-ish graphics card market, though it addresses a couple of the regular RX 7600's most glaring weaknesses.

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