ASRock & ASUS Radeon RX 7600 Custom Cards Leak Out

T0@st · May 21, 2023

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:

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P4-630 · May 21, 2023

Sure, as cheap as possible...

3x0 · May 21, 2023

Excellent, now the monetary savings of not having to design new coolers will be passed down to the customer, right?

Arkz · May 21, 2023

The centre LED fan looks like what came bundled with a cheap case in 2007.

zo0lykas · May 21, 2023

P4-630 said:
Sure, as cheap as possible...

The price tag £339 plus/minus, dependence on the brand and cooler.

AnarchoPrimitiv · May 21, 2023

3x0 said:
Excellent, now the monetary savings of not having to design new coolers will be passed down to the customer, right?

If by "customer" you mean "shareholders", then yes, 100% correct.

ZoneDymo · May 21, 2023

sigh....such a lame product

3x0 · May 21, 2023

zo0lykas said:
The price tag £339 plus/minus, dependence on the brand and cooler.

Source?

ExcuseMeWtf · May 21, 2023

Do we REALLY need 3 fans on that card?

ToTTenTranz · May 21, 2023

zo0lykas said:
The price tag £339 plus/minus, dependence on the brand and cooler.

I don't know where this is coming from, but if true then the cards are dead on arrival.

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.

Chaitanya · May 21, 2023

ExcuseMeWtf said:
Do we REALLY need 3 fans on that card?

With lazy bums in charge of design thats to be expected, even the Asus cooler is rehash from previous gen 6600 series coolers(which in this case is a good thing as those are 2fan but 2.5 slot coolers).

ToTTenTranz · May 21, 2023

ExcuseMeWtf said:
Do we REALLY need 3 fans on that card?

Only when Gigabyte is trying to increase the perception of higher value in order to increase the cost.

But it's not even just 3rd parties doing that anymore. Even the reference RTX4060 has that dual-direction cooler of theirs.

Kapone33 · May 21, 2023

ExcuseMeWtf said:
Do we REALLY need 3 fans on that card?

I bought a 6500XT from Gigabyte and it came with 3 fans. If you look at the last 3 generations all GPU makers have been using the same shroud. The difference is the size of the fin stack to create those. With Asus that Dual design has been around since the 5600XT and is used for both AMD and Nvidia.

ToTTenTranz said:
I don't know where this is coming from, but if true then the cards are dead on arrival.

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.

You can get 6600Xts for $279 Canadian today. I expect these to be in the $349-399 Canadian range.

ToTTenTranz · May 21, 2023

kapone32 said:
You can get 6600Xts for $279 Canadian today. I expect these to be in the $349-399 Canadian range

There's zero reason to expect the RX 7600 to be more expensive than the 6600XT.

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.

Vayra86 · May 21, 2023

Asus WTF are you doing, this didn't work out well for Gigabyte a few generations back...

Don't make a blower oriented heatsink for an open air GPU, you dumb f...

Or you, ASrock. Just, why

Gmr_Chick · May 21, 2023

Whatever this card ends up launching at - for the MBA card - one thing is for certain: the Strix will be the most expensive AIB card. They always are. Gimme Sapphire any day of the week.

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ASRock & ASUS Radeon RX 7600 Custom Cards Leak Out

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