ASRock AMD Radeon RX 7600 Custom Card Already Discounted in Spain

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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."



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[RDNAuser]

Well it is a 160 buck card.

 

[Chaitanya]

Well it is a 160 buck card.

yep, even with inflation should have been well below $230.

 

[fancucker]

Regardless of price how can anyone in good conscience buy an RDNA2/3 GPU in this price range? The Nvidia premium at least provides superior upscaling technology (FSR remains an abysmal mess), equal or superior rasterization, and miles better raytracing performance. RDNAX GPUs are by definiton obselete, even Linux gaming faithfuls are waking up.

 

[Durvelle27]

Regardless of price how can anyone in good conscience buy an RDNA2/3 GPU in this price range? The Nvidia premium at least provides superior upscaling technology (FSR remains an abysmal mess), equal or superior rasterization, and miles better raytracing performance. RDNAX GPUs are by definiton obselete, even Linux gaming faithfuls are waking up.

Where is FSR a mess. So far it functions and it being implemented in major games with great support. Many reviews show little difference. Between it and DLS. XeS though not as great

 

[dj-electric]

Well it is a 160 buck card.

I was hoping these will come free in cereal boxes

 

[HairyLobsters]

yep, even with inflation should have been well below $230.

Manufacturing hasn't gotten any cheaper.

 

[MarsM4N]

I was hoping these will come free in cereal boxes

Or bundled with a whole STEAM library. Over here prices are still stuck at ~299€, news yesterday for the first time reported we are officially in a recession (◔◡◔) and they think they can still roll through town with their milk train. They need to throw in a lot of goodies to make people spend their scarce money on such a low tier card. Pretty sure most of them will end up in pre-builds.

 

[john_]

RX 6600 starts at 210 euros in Greece , 6650 XT at 230 and 7600 at......... 320

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

Manufacturing hasn't gotten any cheaper.

These GPUs are TINY. These ar enot monster cards, yes costs have gone up, they have not doubled.

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.

yep, even with inflation should have been well below $230.

Agreed. Any card with 8GB of VRAM should be a sub $200 product today

 

[Chrispy_]

The 6650XT isn't selling well and the 7600 is offering worse performance/€

WTF did AMD expect?! Who, of sound mind, would buy the worse-value product in a "value" segment of the market?

 

[DemonicRyzen666]

Regardless of price how can anyone in good conscience buy an RDNA2/3 GPU in this price range? The Nvidia premium at least provides superior upscaling technology (FSR remains an abysmal mess), equal or superior rasterization, and miles better raytracing performance. RDNAX GPUs are by definiton obselete, even Linux gaming faithfuls are waking up.

All cards are garbage if the needs a crutch to play anything past 60fps with RT in 2160p/4K. Every Nvidia GPu is obsolete as soon the next generation comes out, because they don't have the same hardware support for newer software that supports it.

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.

 

[Nostras]

Regardless of price how can anyone in good conscience buy an RDNA2/3 GPU in this price range? The Nvidia premium at least provides superior upscaling technology (FSR remains an abysmal mess), equal or superior rasterization, and miles better raytracing performance. RDNAX GPUs are by definiton obselete, even Linux gaming faithfuls are waking up.

FSR isn't that bad good lord. DLSS is clearly superior but calling it an "abysmal mess" is way too much.
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?

 

[RDNAuser]

Went from a 3070 to using a 6900 XT and now a 7900 XT, Don't even need upscaling if you bought a fast enough GPU and use it on a reasonable resolution like 1440p.

 

[eidairaman1]

All cards are garbage if the needs a crutch to play anything past 60fps with RT in 2160p/4K. Every Nvidia GPu is obsolete as soon the next generation comes out, because they don't have the same hardware support for newer software that supports it.

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.

misinformation troll fancucker is

 

[Zareek]

misinformation troll fancucker is

I blocked that TROLL ages ago.

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!

 

[Chrispy_]

FSR isn't that bad good lord. DLSS is clearly superior but calling it an "abysmal mess" is way too much.
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?

FSR seems okay to me.

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.

 

[RegaeRevaeb]

Did anybody else read the headline as 'discontinued' instead of discounted? ;-)

 

[Wirko]

Did anybody else read the headline as 'discontinued' instead of discounted? ;-)

I do, each time I look at the headlines. Damn title font, everything that's just discounted looks discontinued.

 

[Minus Infinity]

Well it is a 160 buck card.

Indeed, it's actually a 7500XT IMO. Just like 4060 Ti is a 4050 Ti.

 

[RegaeRevaeb]

I do, each time I look at the headlines. Damn title font, everything that's just discounted looks discontinued.

Yeah, there's actually a visual trick that comes into play because TPU capitalizes every word in its heads (newspapers almost universally never did this for a reason). Our brains assign a level of importance to capitalized words with how we develop our written communication (for English as a first language).

That said, with the way things are on the internet, today's children may very well end up perceiving things differently.