As per rumors, AMD is preparing the Radeon RX 7600 XT graphics card. It will plug the gab between Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7700 XT graphics cards.
More than a year ago, AMD announced the first entry in the RX 7000 series. The Radeon RX 7900 XTX and RX 7900 XT graphics cards.
The $999 AMD RX 7900 XTX couldn’t take on the $1599 Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 in performance, to everyone’s disappointment. However, it competed nicely against the $1199 Nvidia RTX 4080. The $899 AMD RX 7900 XT remains a disappointment.
On the other hand, the $499 RX 7800 XT turned out to be a bestseller, thanks to it’s cheaper price and good performance. RX 7700 XT, however, costing $449, didn’t seem to sell that well.
But, what about the budget range. AMD also released the RX 7600 graphics card for $269. So what has happened is that while AMD has a graphics card in the sub $200 and sub $400 range, it has nothing in between in the sub $300 range to fill in that gap.
Looks like that might change.
RX 7600 XT Rumors Leak
A few days ago, VideoCardz reported that AMD could be preparing RX 7600 XT, RX 7700 (non-XT) and RX 7800 (non-XT) graphics cards. However, as per the latest Benchlife report (translated), via VideoCardz, that’s not entirely correct.
Benchlife reveals that as per its sources, AMD is going to launch RX 7600 XT in the later part of January 2024. About two days before the date on which Nvidia releases the RTX 4070 Ti Super graphics card.
Additionally, VideoCardz had reported in September that RX 7600 XT could come in two variants. A 10GB version and a 12GB version.
It must be mentioned, RX 7600 uses the largest Navi 33 XL GPU. It means there’s no place to increase the shader count on that particular GPU. So AMD is all likely to use a cut-down version of the more powerful Navi 32 XL GPU found in the RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 graphics cards.
However, there seems to be no plans of releasing RX 7700 (non-XT) and RX 7800 (non-XT) graphics cards by AMD.
It is also reported that AMD might release next-gen RDNA 4 based graphics cards in the second half of 2024, with PCIe 5.0 support. However, it could be postponed to 2025 too.
The report concludes by saying that AMD might not release any reference Made By AMD graphics card for the RX 7600 XT and will stick to the aftermarket sellers like ASUS, MSI and others.
Update: New post by @harukaze5719 shows that AMD could be preparing RX 7600 XT with 16GB of VRAM. Nothing can be said to be confirmed, though.
