Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 PULSE GPUs Photographed Ahead of Late May Launch

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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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[Icantthinkofanametbh]

The price may be low, but let's be real: Anyone buying a budget gpu is probably going to want to keep it for a few years before pulling the trigger on a new gpu (like what happened with gtx 1060's). And seeing as games get more and more intensive (and more and more unoptimized) that 8gb of vram ain't gonna cut it pretty soon. I wish AMD put 10gb of vram into the 7600. That would have also been a great middle finger to Nvidia for when the 4060 ti/4060 would come out. I am aware that the 4060 ti will have a 16gb variant, fingers crossed, but the price will be a pretty big issue for many people as opposed to AMD.

 

[Blitzkuchen]

249$ for maybe the same performance as Arc 750 but 3 months later (Arc 750 pricedrop), GREAT AMD

No needs for this garbage

 

[SkySong]

What happened to 7800XT?

 

[Roph]

What happened to 7800XT?

Greed.

To elaborate, they don't want to compete with themselves; due to falling 7900XT (which essentially is the 7800XT) prices, it doesn't leave much room for the 7700XT 7800XT.

This whole generation has OEMs trying to continue charging scalper prices while also being up against prices of their own past generation products finally coming down near sensible levels.

This 7600 is a hard sell before it's even released, that 8GB will only hurt more and more. All this card does is make the 6700 10GB / 6700 XT 12GB look much more attractive.

 

[wNotyarD]

249$ for maybe the same performance as Arc 750 but 3 months later (Arc 750 pricedrop), GREAT AMD

No needs for this garbage

You know that the RX 6600 is on par with the A750 (sans RT, of course) while being cheaper, right?

No way the RX 7600 will be slower than the RX 6600.

 

[Paranoir andando]

10% more performance than before 6600 series.

In 30 fps, 3 fps more, 2 year later. The new Moore law.

 

[Gmr_Chick]

If this is going to be $250 and the reviews are good, I may have just found the successor to my 1660 Super.

 

[playerlorenzo]

Sad it’s 8GB, it would have been better off with 10-12GB of vram

 

[ymdhis]

$249, really? That means it'll be $349 in the US and €499 in the EU.
But at least it doesn't outright start at $399. Prices are getting better, I guess!

What happened to 7800XT?

Right now it would be competing with two generations of Nvidia cards and one generation of AMD cards, while the 7600 is in a segment where they have much less competition. I think this was the official reasoning. It's also possible that they have complications with it since it is supposed to use chiplets like the 7900xt too. Take whichever you like better.

No way the RX 7600 will be slower than the RX 6600.

Don't hold your breath. The RX6500XT was about on par with the best Polaris chips, but it had no hardware video encoding, and cost more than what the rx580 did at launch. I wouldn't be surprised if the RX 7600 was gimped in some way.

 

[wNotyarD]

$249, really? That means it'll be $349 in the US and €499 in the EU.
But at least it doesn't outright start at $399. Prices are getting better, I guess!


Right now it would be competing with two generations of Nvidia cards and one generation of AMD cards, while the 7600 is in a segment where they have much less competition. I think this was the official reasoning. It's also possible that they have complications with it since it is supposed to use chiplets like the 7900xt too. Take whichever you like better.


Don't hold your breath. The RX6500XT was about on par with the best Polaris chips, but it had no hardware video encoding, and cost more than what the rx580 did at launch. I wouldn't be surprised if the RX 7600 was gimped in some way.

RX 6400 and 6500 were repurposed mobile parts, brought to discrete low-end only because everyone was lazy and there was no competition (and for their price tags, arguably still ain't). If RX 7600 is proper, and it should be, there should be no issues of the sort.

 

[Chrispy_]

8GB might be acceptable for $249, especially as 1440p AAA-gaming is likely to be beyond the performance level of these cards. There's a lot of evidence that a premium GPU needs 12GB minimum now but this is a GPU to replace the budget 4GB cards out there. Adjusting for inflation and economic changes, this is about 30% cheaper than the ever-so-popular GTX 1060 6GB, so it's effectively the replacement for a 1050Ti or 1650 Super-tier product, making 8GB a reasonable amount of VRAM. Don't get me wrong, it's still disappointing, but it's definitely not unreasonable for $249.

I'm just hoping that the 7600XT isn't also 8GB. If a card is capable of 1440p then 8GB won't cut it.

 

[Kapone33]

Right now on Canada Computers the 6600 is $279 and the cheapest 6700XT is $439 I can only hope that the price comes down lower.

 

[Chrispy_]

10% more performance than before 6600 series.

In 30 fps, 3 fps more, 2 year later. The new Moore law.

RDNA3 only has about a 10-12% IPC advantage over RDNA2, unless you're talking about RT performance.

The theme of the 7000-series will likely be "~20% faster than the equivalent 6000-series part, but at a lower power draw". Maybe I'm wrong, but that's the vibe I'm getting from all the leaks and speculation videos floating around.

What really matters is how much these cost. The RX6600 launched at $329, so if this is genuinely $249 and 10% faster, that's a 20% performance/$ improvement, which is more than Nvidia have given anyone in several years.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

RDNA3 only has about a 10-12% IPC advantage over RDNA2, unless you're talking about RT performance.

The theme of the 7000-series will likely be "~20% faster than the equivalent 6000-series part, but at a lower power draw". Maybe I'm wrong, but that's the vibe I'm getting from all the leaks and speculation videos floating around.

What really matters is how much these cost. The RX6600 launched at $329, so if this is genuinely $249 and 10% faster, that's a 20% performance/$ improvement, which is more than Nvidia have given anyone in several years.

This is on 6nm not the 5nm like the MCM cards I believe so I doubt it even has that much improvement maybe it being monolithic will help though with latency etc.

 

[Kapone33]

This is on 6nm not the 5nm like the MCM cards I believe so I doubt it even has that much improvement maybe it being monolithic will help though with latency etc.

I thought AMD went to chiplets for the 7000 generation. When I took my card apart it looked like 6 or 8 (Can't remember) chiplets around the I/O die.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I thought AMD went to chiplets for the 7000 generation. When I took my card apart it looked like 6 or 8 (Can't remember) chiplets around the I/O die.

Only for 7900 series and possibly 7800 series. The 7700 and 7600 are both monolithic I believe.

 

[Kapone33]

Only for 7900 series and possibly 7800 series. The 7700 and 7600 are both monolithic I believe.

Hopefully we get to see one taken apart. I for one am intrigued. I thought the chiplet principle was so that they could be flexible.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Hopefully we get to see one taken apart. I for one am intrigued. I thought the chiplet principle was so that they could be flexible.

It's not as flexible as zen becuase they can't scale down a 300mm GCD to 2-300 usd is my guess. Monolithic 6nm is likely still cheaper guessing the whole bottom linup is just derivatives of their laptop gpus.

 

[ecomorph]

This might be my stop to replace my ancient HD7850 (2GB!). Don't play a lot, mostly emulator cpu-heavy stuff. It's probably going to be between the 7600/7700/6800. Use case is for 1080p gaming (max 1440p) and I probably won't update for another decade

 

[Denver]

249$ for maybe the same performance as Arc 750 but 3 months later (Arc 750 pricedrop), GREAT AMD

No needs for this garbage

Same performance ? is it a joke? calls the 7600 garbage and a Buggy 750 a great option lol

 

[Nostras]

If the MSRP is truly 250$ that makes the 8GB more than fine. 300$ would be borderline depending on raw compute, but 250$ is good assuming it outperforms the 6700XT.

 

[Chry]

At this market segment the '8gb is too low' arguments are a bit ouf of place. 8Gb is a lot for a card that is NOT supposed to run <4k ultra RT-ON> anyway. This sounds like a very decent card at a reasonable price that would suit 95% of gamers aplenty. I have a better card but I'm sure 7600XT would be 100% sufficient for all my needs.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

At this market segment the '8gb is too low' arguments are a bit ouf of place. 8Gb is a lot for a card that is NOT supposed to run <4k ultra RT-ON> anyway. This sounds like a very decent card at a reasonable price that would suit 95% of gamers aplenty. I have a better card but I'm sure 7600XT would be 100% sufficient for all my needs.

I mean if it's similar performance to the RX 6700 10G with 20% less vram at around the same price that is sorta a fail but at 250 usd it at least won't be laughed out the room.

 

[tussinman]

If the MSRP is truly 250$ that makes the 8GB more than fine. 300$ would be borderline depending on raw compute, but 250$ is good assuming it outperforms the 6700XT.

For $250 and 8GB it definitely won't outperform the 6700XT.

It's probably targeting performance more like the 6600XT and 2070 Super. Basically a solid 1080p card that can do some 1440p especially in lower requirement based games

The XT variant (7600XT) will be interesting to see what VRAM they end up with on that one.