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After more than two years of soaring GPU prices – fueled by demand from cryptominers and then made worse by the semiconductor shortage – things are finally heading in the other direction on price. AMD has released its mid-tier RX 7600 GPU at a recommended retail price of $269. That's $50 less than its predecessor, and $30 …

  1. quartzie

    Product Crippled at birth

    I have always found these artificially crippled GPUs with cut-down memory bus insulting to both customer and the chip itself.

    The performance is going to suffer a lot - a 7900XT has max 800GB/s bandwidth (2900 GB/s effective), the 7600 only sports up to 288GB/s (effective 476,9 GB/s).

    8GB of VRAM is going to be the least of the GPU's problems.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: Product Crippled at birth

      For my time in CAD, I only care about the RAM as the GPU speed is almost irrelevant. In 2023, I'm not buying a card with a flimsy 8GB of RAM, I simply won't support such a cash grab product. 8GB has been in play for a decade, it's time to move the bar up for "budget" to 16GB.

      (Note: the first graphics accelerator I bought had 2MB, so I guess 8GB is comparably better).

  2. Zenubi

    Reviews

    Gamers Nexus

    Do Not Buy: NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB GPU Review & Benchmarks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2b0MWGwK_U&t=1s

    AMD is a Mess: Radeon RX 7600 GPU Review & Benchmarks

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCxYfXe1DAA

    1. Humpty McNumpty

      Re: Reviews

      It's an OK card for the price, but only because Nvidia is really taking the piss. It would clearly be a very strong card with a tiny bit more VRAM &/or a wider memory bus either one of which would often solve the anomalous benchmarks where previous gen cards beat it in certain workloads. How you then interpret that as a marketing whoopsie on AMDs part is entirely up to you or the reviewer, it certainly appeared to be a stinker @ $299 and OEMs may now be somewhat pissed, but they had sight of the performance numbers already so they must have had some idea this was needed, or even requested it.

  3. werdsmith Silver badge

    NVidia can claim USP because CUDA is quite sought at the moment. It’s not all about game frame rates.

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      If you’re into CUDA you’re probably not in the market for a 7600 or 4060. Not enough RAM for starters.

      1. Phones Sheridan Silver badge
        Coat

        At first I was attracted to the AMD card, but in the end I picked the Nvidia because it was CUDA.

        1. mecmec

          Yeah, Nvidia got me well and truly locked in with CUDA. I'm not touching the RTX 4XXX range though.

          1. mecmec

            Just spotted this comment in my history. Had to laugh considering I bought a RTX 4070 TI two months ago.

      2. werdsmith Silver badge

        If you’re into CUDA you’re probably not in the market for a 7600 or 4060. Not enough RAM for starters

        I use CUDA on a Jetson Nano and it has 4GB shared between CPU and GPU.

  4. mark l 2 Silver badge

    Sticking to 1080p for games rather than going to 4K is probably an acceptable choice for a lot of PC gamers, as the increased fidelity of 4K is less noticeable on the average size PC monitor, with the downside being of a drop in FPS.

    4K makes more sense for content in the living room where you are probably going to be viewing on a much larger TV screen where you can see an improvement in picture quality going to 4K. But even then it depend how far away you are sitting from the screen. From 3 meters away in my house i have a hard time seeing much of a difference in picture quality on my TV.

  5. Karlis 1

    mid-tier?

    We are calling a card that is kinda adequate at 1080p in 2023 - mid-tier?

    @Tobias - I think you might want to correct the article.

  6. Phil Dalbeck

    Shame they crippled it with that 128-bit bus. All the tech reviews are panning it :(

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    These go to 7600

    You know why the AMD is better?

    All those people with the NVidia card, they're at 4060 all the way up on their settings. Where can they go from there? Where?

    Nowhere.

    Now, an AMD owner, if they need that extra push off the cliff, you know what they do? They put it up to 7600.

    3540 faster.

  8. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Tiers

    If this is mid tier, why compare it to the 4060 which is the bottom end of the Nvidia bunch?

    1. Humpty McNumpty

      Re: Tiers

      because both of them will (probably) launch card in that series, below these card xx50s and xx30's if not in all markets.

    2. GraXXoR Bronze badge

      Re: Tiers

      Because Nvidia and AMD are launching their range of prestigious 720p cards next.

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