AMD's new Radeon RX 7600 is a new mainstream GPU offering that is not unlike Nvidia's recent RTX 4060 Ti release – there's actually a decent product here, however it's poorly priced.
AMD's new Radeon RX 7600 is a new mainstream GPU offering that is not unlike Nvidia's recent RTX 4060 Ti release – there's actually a decent product here, however it's poorly priced.
If AMD wanted to be in the game they would release the 7600 XT with 12 GB and performance greater than the 6700 XT for $329. However, early rumors are behind the 6700 Xt and only 8GB.I can't think of an easier time for AMD to give Nvidia a few digs, but it seems like they just don't care. I can't believe they're so incompetent, this has to be on purpose.
Well they do have a 6750xt selling for as low as $319 that comes with a free game ($60 value)If AMD wanted to be in the game they would release the 7600 XT with 12 GB and performance greater than the 6700 XT for $329. However, early rumors are behind the 6700 Xt and only 8GB.
Yes, I realize that you can get the 6750 XT from MSI pretty cheap right now, but if you look all the other 6750 XTs are priced a good bit more because stock is getting low. The 6700 XT will be gone soon, MSI must have made a ton of them haha. Also, if the starting price of the 7600 XT is $329, then it would likely be available under $300 by 4th quarter which could really boost Holiday sales and give you a real value option.Oh, man, I was certain they would ask 300+ for this garbage. I think someone with a brain at AMD slapped a 270$ price on it on the last moment, trying really hard to reconcile management's high expectations with reality. This card's value is merely 200$. DOA again. I'm starting to love this phrase, it means you suck, get better and that's what both companies deserve for being lazy, that's what they deserve for being smug and complacent. And I'm also glad the Vram issue is turning into a storm. By now, most if not all gamers are going to avoid 8Gb cards altogether.
The silver lining to this type of pricing though is that AMD cards tend to sell below MSRP fairly quickly. Both the 7900XTX ($940 with discount on Newegg today) and 7900XT($779) can be gotten for under MSRP already. So, AMD bringing down the starting MSRP for these cards is not necessarily a bad thing and could bring some real value toward Q4 2023. But yeah, at launch AMD cards will not bring any additional value than what is currently on the market.This tells me the 7800XT is going to sit at around 6900XT performance and cost $600 (basically little difference from the 6950XT) and the 7700XT will perform at the 6800XT level at $500. So basically no significant uplift for your money based on what is available at the moment.
I'm going to admit I don't know the answer to this. Is that something that could be fixed with driver updates or is that baked in and there is no fixing it without a hardware revision?The small advantage the RX 7600 has over the RX 6650 XT (5% on average, at 1440p) leads me to suspect that there's seriously something wrong with AMD's compiler - the new card has roughly double the peak FP32 throughput, so even though all the other metrics are the same, it should be performing a lot better than it is.