Sunday, May 21st 2023
ASRock & ASUS Radeon RX 7600 Custom Cards Leak Out
VideoCardz seems to be getting the scoop on all sorts of custom design Radeon RX 7600 graphics cards - this weekend it revealed factory overclocked models from ASRock and ASUS, only a couple of days prior to the expected product launch. The hardware news site was tipped off to the presence of boxed Sapphire PULSE cards sitting in an unnamed retail store's stockroom almost two weeks ago, and photos of actual hardware emerged two days later.
From the looks of things, Sapphire has chosen to update its dual-fan PULSE card design for the new Radeon GPU generation, but ASRock and ASUS have taken the easier path - the latest photo leaks indicate that both companies have opted to reuse cooling solutions from their older RDNA2 models. ASRock is reintroducing the Phantom Gaming OC and Challenger OC card designs as part of its RX 7600 GPU lineup, and ASUS is recycling its ROG STRIX and Dual cooler designs - these were previously slapped onto their Radeon RX 6650 XT offerings (launched back in 2022).
ASRock Radeon RX 7600 Challenger OC:
ASUS Radeon RX 7600 ROG STRIX OC and Dual OC:
Source:
VideoCardz
From the looks of things, Sapphire has chosen to update its dual-fan PULSE card design for the new Radeon GPU generation, but ASRock and ASUS have taken the easier path - the latest photo leaks indicate that both companies have opted to reuse cooling solutions from their older RDNA2 models. ASRock is reintroducing the Phantom Gaming OC and Challenger OC card designs as part of its RX 7600 GPU lineup, and ASUS is recycling its ROG STRIX and Dual cooler designs - these were previously slapped onto their Radeon RX 6650 XT offerings (launched back in 2022).
15 Comments on ASRock & ASUS Radeon RX 7600 Custom Cards Leak Out
The RX 6600XT that this is replacing came out for $380 / £305 at the height of the pandemic and cryptocraze. This card won't be that much faster and it probably won't be that much faster either.
This RX 7600 shouldn't cost much more than $200 and there's no big reason why it would be otherwise, considering it's a pretty low-end chip.
But it's not even just 3rd parties doing that anymore. Even the reference RTX4060 has that dual-direction cooler of theirs.
Same amount of WGPs enabled, same amount of ROPs and TMUs, same GDDR6 memory bus width with the same amount of VRAM and similar clocks.
The 7600 is using a cheaper process node but its chip is actually smaller in size. So it's using a smaller chip using a cheaper process, meaning it's cheaper to make
The 7600 would be good at $200-250. Any more than that and it's DOA.
Don't make a blower oriented heatsink for an open air GPU, you dumb f...
Or you, ASrock. Just, why