Packaging
The Card
The unique selling point of the ASRock Steel Legend is its white color theme. ASRock added some gray highlights on the back, which look good. The cooler shroud is made of plastic, but the backplate is metal.
Dimensions of the card are 30.0 x 13.0 cm, and it weighs 889 g.
Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 51 mm.
Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1 ports (RDNA 2 had 1.4a) and one HDMI 2.1a (same as RDNA 2).
AMD has upgraded their encode/decode setup. It now comes with two independent hardware units that can encode and decode two streams of video in parallel, or one stream at double the FPS rate. There's support for VP9, H.264, H.265 and AV1 decode, and encoding is supported for H.264, H.265 and AV1.
All Radeon RX 7600 XT cards use two 8-pin power connectors.
Teardown
The thermal solution on the card has three heatpipes. The main heatsink also provides cooling for the memory chips and VRM circuitry.
The backplate is made of metal and protects the card against damage during installation and handling.