AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT review: double the memory and higher clocks, still Navi 33

RX 6700 XT still provides stiff competition at the same price.

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Technically, the RX 7600 XT can still handle quite a lot of games at 4K. That's not nearly as true with the eighteen games that we've tested, where only a third even managed to break 30 fps, but again you could try AFMF to see if that helps. That's assuming you have a 4K monitor in the first place, naturally.

These results are mostly pointless, though. As such, we're not going to provide a bunch of additional commentary. The RX 7600 XT does increase its lead over the RX 7600 slightly at 4K, but we didn't even try the DXR games on the 7600, and only ran them on the 7600 XT for giggles. Check out the Alan Wake 2 full path tracing results at the bottom if you're feeling bored.

AMD RX 7600 XT 4K Overall Performance

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AMD RX 7600 XT 4K Rasterization Performance

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AMD RX 7600 XT 4K Ray Tracing Performance

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AMD RX 7600 XT 4K Bonus Games

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Jarred Walton
Jarred Walton

Jarred Walton is a senior editor at Tom's Hardware focusing on everything GPU. He has been working as a tech journalist since 2004, writing for AnandTech, Maximum PC, and PC Gamer. From the first S3 Virge '3D decelerators' to today's GPUs, Jarred keeps up with all the latest graphics trends and is the one to ask about game performance.

36 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Amdlova
    Just buy a rx 6700xt same price way better...
    With some undervolt will have same TBP.
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  • Roland Of Gilead
    AMD's version of the 4060ti! :rolleyes: Disappointing it comes behind even the Arc770.
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  • evdjj3j
    I'm not sure why anyone would chose this over a 4060.
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  • Gururu
    Thank you been waiting on this review. Certainly helps with the decision paralysis.
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  • btmedic04
    This would have been a much more compelling product had it used a further cut down Navi 32 with 3x mcds, 12gb of vram and a $350ish price point. Disappointing
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  • King_V
    Roland Of Gilead said:
    AMD's version of the 4060ti! :rolleyes: Disappointing it comes behind even the Arc770.
    Well, AMD's version of the 4060ti 16GB, I would say... although, to be fair, it does give SOME performance benefit over the 7600 non-XT. The 4060 Ti 16GB gave just about nothing over the 4060 Ti 8GB (for gaming purposes, an edge case or two notwithstanding)
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  • JarredWaltonGPU
    btmedic04 said:
    This would have been a much more compelling product had it used a further cut down Navi 32 with 3x mcds, 12gb of vram and a $350ish price point. Disappointing
    I do wonder if AMD may eventually try doing an RX 7700 non-XT with those specs, but realistically I think the total cost of 3xMCD plus the Navi 32 GCD means making such a card and selling it at $350 is a losing proposition.
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  • btmedic04
    JarredWaltonGPU said:
    I do wonder if AMD may eventually try doing an RX 7700 non-XT with those specs, but realistically I think the total cost of 3xMCD plus the Navi 32 GCD means making such a card and selling it at $350 is a losing proposition.
    Yeah, it's more than likely too expensive to hit a $350 price point and still have any kind of profit margin. One can still dream at least lol.
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  • Roland Of Gilead
    King_V said:
    Well, AMD's version of the 4060ti 16GB, I would say... although, to be fair, it does give SOME performance benefit over the 7600 non-XT. The 4060 Ti 16GB gave just about nothing over the 4060 Ti 8GB (for gaming purposes, an edge case or two notwithstanding)
    True
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  • usertests
    +$60 is not a huge premium over the 7600 for the extra memory, but the 7600 is overpriced in the first place.

    It's not much slower than the 6700 XT, but the 6700 XT is clearly better and 12 GB VRAM is fine. If you want the 7600 XT to play with AI, good luck.

    Get it down to $270-280, what the 6700 10 GB used to cost, and it looks more interesting. Although 6700 XT was as low as $295-300 (new) in Nov-Dec. Something tells me they will run out before they return to that price point.
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