AMD Radeon RX 7600

Shakes up the entry-level gaming GPU market

- CHRIS SZEWCZYK

FOLLOWING THE RELEASE of AMD’s Radeon RX 7900 XT and RX 7900 XTX, you might have expected AMD to follow a traditional release cadence and produce an RX 7800 or RX 7700-series card. Not this time. Surprisingly, the second desktop RDNA 3 GPU is the Radeon RX 7600.

After years of massively inflated GPU pricing, is the RX 7600 the card the market has been crying out for? At $269, the RX 7600 is easily the cheapest of the current generation of GPUs from either AMD or Nvidia, though it’s important not to overlook Intel’s Arc cards either, at least from a value perspective. Nvidia is set to respond with the pricier $299 RTX 4060 in July, so for now, the RX 7600 is touted as being a solid option if you’re after a card on a tight budget.

I was surprised at how small the Radeon RX 7600 reference card is. In fact, it’s pretty much tiny compared to some of the triple-slot behemoths we’ve seen. That alone will impress some buyers with compact cases looking to make use of its impressive display capabilities and media engine.