Tuesday, May 9th 2023
Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 PULSE GPUs Photographed Ahead of Late May Launch
VideoCardz has today received a tip-off from an anonymous source about a batch of Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 PULSE graphics cards - boxed products have been photographed sitting in a hardware store located "somewhere" in Asia. It is not immediately clear whether the Sapphire cards were pictured in a store-front setting, or an employee has taken a snap of stock stored in a backroom and shared it with their internet buddies. Previous leaks relating to AMD Radeon RX 7600 and 7600 XT cards have pointed to a May 25 launch day - so today's tip indicates that products have been readied well in advance of the anticipated release window.
The insider source claims that the Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 PULSE graphics card will be sold for about $249 in that particular territory. Specifications on the outer packaging can be read (if you zoom in enough) - the Pulse custom variant is labeled as being overclocked out-of-the-box, so it is highly likely that it will be fitted with a custom cooling solution. The packaging's blurb lists the presence of 32 RDNA3 CUs - indicating a full configuration of AMD's Navi 33 GPU die, consisting of 2048 stream processors. The Pulse card gets an Infinity Cache allocation of 32 MB, and a specification of (now typical) 8 GB GDDR6 video memory is confirmed.
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The insider source claims that the Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 PULSE graphics card will be sold for about $249 in that particular territory. Specifications on the outer packaging can be read (if you zoom in enough) - the Pulse custom variant is labeled as being overclocked out-of-the-box, so it is highly likely that it will be fitted with a custom cooling solution. The packaging's blurb lists the presence of 32 RDNA3 CUs - indicating a full configuration of AMD's Navi 33 GPU die, consisting of 2048 stream processors. The Pulse card gets an Infinity Cache allocation of 32 MB, and a specification of (now typical) 8 GB GDDR6 video memory is confirmed.
38 Comments on Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 PULSE GPUs Photographed Ahead of Late May Launch
One of the reasons I'm inclined to believe the vanilla RX 7600 is only $249 is that it should be a cheap PCB that doesn't need heavy duty cooling or power delivery. Honestly, that's what 90% of the market has been desperate for since about 2019. It's not uniquely a mobile part, Navi 33 was always going to be monolithic so that it could be used as a mobile part as well as a desktop part - and we've already seen the mobile part out in the wild:
So the 7600 will be a 7600M XT with possibly some slightly higher clocks at about 2.8GHz and probably up to a 150W power draw (my guess).
I suspect in the summer we'll see desktop RX 7500/7400 variants from Navi 33 later, effective mirroring the 7600M and 7600S to offer the cheapest RDNA3 cards we'll see as dGPUs. I think AMD know that there's still a small but profitable market of 75W cards without a PCIe power connector and since they have a product ready for it, they'd be crazy not to launch it once 6500XT and 6400 stocks are gone. As for lower parts than that, AMD will be pushing APUs with IGPs instead of dGPUs for sure.
Navi32 was always going to be the last of the three dies to launch and IIRC there are additional delays not just because of the existing 6800/6900-series inventory surplus, but also because AMD's engineers wanted to fix/tweak the MCD arrangement for stability. MLID talked about his interview with AMD about how Navi31 wasn't stable at the >3GHz clocks AMD had initially hoped for last year. Navi31 was effectively the "paying beta testers" for MCDs, and the lessons they learned on those lower volume parts are being (or have already been applied) to Navi32's tape-out. If they're expecting an autumn/fall launch of Navi32, it presumably went for tape-out in Q1.
The RX 7600 XT being a 250$ full N33 die and performing as a 6700 XT would be a bit more acceptable.
I don't have a problem with 8GB VRAM on a 250$ parts, you don't have to run 1080p Ultra settings.
With a small amount of RT, A750 and 3060 get kickin AMD.
Edit:
With a small amount of RT theres an RTX 3050 which is on pair of RX 6800 on many Games.
Your AMD Fans dont need to compare RX 6xxx against RT Entry Cards, u can compare ure RX 6xxx till GTX 1660 :slap:
If im reading your Posts in History and looking for ure Sys Specs, im on the point u`ll dont know whats real work.
Being upset at someone having a decent enough job to buy nice hardware is kinda comical to me though. Sorry I'm not working the fields to afford my 4090 a real mans work.
If you are happy with your ARC 750 cool no need to try and start a fanboy war over how much you love the Blue Kool-Aid. I'm glad there are people who love the blue Kool-aid enough to beta test intel drivers for them.
(Oh and if you're not a kid, sorry for calling you one, I'm not good at dealing with adults of the special kind)