Packaging

The Card

The PowerColor Radeon RX 7600 Hellhound is designed to be compact in length, yet is as tall as high-end graphics cards making for a chunky cooling solution. It features a metal cooler shroud and backplate, and comes with a pair of fans.


Each of the two fans has a blue LED illumination zone, which is fixed in color.


You may turn off the lighting using this switch, there is no software control mechanism.


Dimensions of the card are 22.0 x 13.0 cm, and it weighs 753 g.


Installation requires two slots in your system.


Display connectivity includes three standard DisplayPort 2.1 ports (RDNA 2 had 1.4a) and one HDMI 2.1a.

AMD has upgraded their encode/decode setup. It now comes with support for VP9, H.264, H.265 and AV1 decode, and encoding is supported for H.264, H.265 and AV1.


A single 8-pin PCIe power connector draws power, together with 75 W PCIe slot power, this configuration is rated for 225 W max.


The dual BIOS feature lets you switch between the default "OC" BIOS and a "Silent" BIOS. The OC BIOS enables the card's factory overclocked speeds, while the Silent BIOS drops to AMD-reference speeds, and an aggressive fan-speed management that favors low noise.

Teardown

The PowerColor RX 7600 Hellhound cooling solution is designed for simplicity, so it's very easy to take it apart. It's just that the shroud comes out along with the rest of the cooling solution. The heatsink uses a dense aluminium fin-stack to which heat is drawn from a copper base-plate, and fed by heatpipes.


The card features three nickel-plated copper heatpipes.


The metal backplate has a three dimensional shape that's designed to counteract PCB sagging over time.