Friday, May 26th 2023
ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7600 Custom Card Already Discounted in Spain
AMD and its board partners have finally debuted Radeon RX 7600 graphics cards this week, and hardware enthusiasts were somewhat pleased about Team Red's last minute adjustment to the lineup's MSRP - rumors had to pointed to an expected $299 base price, but the monolithic RDNA 3 Navi 33 XL GPU (6 nm) card hit the market with a starting SEP of $269/€299.99. Buyer perception is difficult to gauge, but recent GPU product launches have indicated that folks are simply not rushing to the store to pick up the latest and greatest from AMD and NVIDIA alike.
A major Spanish e-tailer, CoolMod, is reported to be the first European store to offer a custom Radeon RX 7600 card at a discounted price of €259.94 ($279) which includes VAT - having adjusted the figure a mere day after the official launch - resulting in a saving of €40 (13% reduction). The ASRock Challenger OC 8 GB model was announced yesterday, alongside its Steel Legend and Phantom Gaming siblings - the latter has been reviewed by TPU's W1zzard. His assessment concludes: "At its price point, the RX 7600 offers virtually the same price/performance as the RX 6600 XT ($250), which makes it a tough sale, especially when you factor in price increases for custom designs. While AMD does have some technological improvements like HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1 and AV1 video encode/decode, I think none of these are relevant in this segment, at least not to the majority of potential customers; NVIDIA has the DLSS 3 carrot to dangle in front of gamers. The RX 7600 should really be $199 or $229 to make it an interesting option."
Sources:
VideoCardz, Cool Mod ES
A major Spanish e-tailer, CoolMod, is reported to be the first European store to offer a custom Radeon RX 7600 card at a discounted price of €259.94 ($279) which includes VAT - having adjusted the figure a mere day after the official launch - resulting in a saving of €40 (13% reduction). The ASRock Challenger OC 8 GB model was announced yesterday, alongside its Steel Legend and Phantom Gaming siblings - the latter has been reviewed by TPU's W1zzard. His assessment concludes: "At its price point, the RX 7600 offers virtually the same price/performance as the RX 6600 XT ($250), which makes it a tough sale, especially when you factor in price increases for custom designs. While AMD does have some technological improvements like HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 2.1 and AV1 video encode/decode, I think none of these are relevant in this segment, at least not to the majority of potential customers; NVIDIA has the DLSS 3 carrot to dangle in front of gamers. The RX 7600 should really be $199 or $229 to make it an interesting option."
20 Comments on ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7600 Custom Card Already Discounted in Spain
And the cost has been going down. TSMC has reduced the price of their 7nm and 6nm wafers, the price of VRAM ad electronic components has been trending downward, and the pressure on shipping has been greatly reduced.
This is COVID greed, pure and simple. The 7600 GPU is 34mm2 smaller then the 6600 non XT, a GPU that regularly retails for only $199.Agreed. Any card with 8GB of VRAM should be a sub $200 product today
WTF did AMD expect?! Who, of sound mind, would buy the worse-value product in a "value" segment of the market?
please stop with the picture quality argument.
No one has done a real picture quality comparison it's all been opinions & pushed out as review. True picture quality comparision involes using a workstation computer with ECC RAm & ECC gpu. Not just sitting there claiming one picture is better than the other with ZERO physical proof of rendering errors.
Raytracing performance at this price tier is a meme and adds 0 value.
When Nvidia introduced the 1650/1660 instead of a 2050 this made a lot of sense as RTX is pointless on GPU's that can barely push enough frames as is.
You didn't mention framegen, but that has the same problem as many reviewers have noted that the experience is degraded if the source fps is too low.
But, because Nvidia is selling RTX and all that jazz really hard they can't just release a lower tier card without it.
A 4060 without RTX (1760 or something) for 250$ is more interesting than a 4060 for 300$.
But why put an interesting card on the market if there's people like you who'll just eat whatever Jensen bakes in his oven?
DLSS3 seems like a moot point until the 4060 vanilla cards launch. I doubt many people want to spend that much more for their fake frames. I sure as heck don't, then again I play at 1080p and love it. Maybe if I wanted to play on my big TV I would care, but at 27" and under it's 1080p or bust!
Each implementation seems different, but as a rule of thumb, FSR is sharper than DLSS and seems to shimmer more in motion: It's more subjective than anything else as I can pick flaws in both technologies. Sometimes I want a sharper image than DLSS gives me, sometimes I want to blur the shimmering. It depends on the person and the game.
Is DLSS better than FSR? I think yes. I'll give the latest DLSS an A- grade, and I'll give the latest FSR a B+ grade. If you have a GeForce you're going to enable DLSS and if you don't have a GeForce you're going to enable FSR, but the reality is that if you need to enable either option you are probably pushing your resolution too far in the first place. Upscaling only makes sense to me on a 4K TV because 4K is (IMO) beyond the point of diminishing returns for current game assets.
That said, with the way things are on the internet, today's children may very well end up perceiving things differently.