Packaging

The Card

The Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 Pulse OC debuts a new cooling solution design that retains the minimalist red-on-black color scheme of the series. There's no fancy RGB lighting to be had, whatever visual uplift is from the design itself. The cooler shroud is made of plastic, but the backplate is metal.


Dimensions of the card are 24.0 x 12.0 cm, and it weighs 627 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.


The card's sole power connector is an 8-pin PCIe. Together with 75 W PCIe slot power, this configuration is rated for 225 W.

Teardown

Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 Pulse OC exudes simplicity, so taking it apart is pretty straightforward. The cooler shroud comes off more easily than the rest of the heatsink, so you can clean its fans without having to take the whole cooler apart (and disturb the TIM or thermal pads).


The main heatsink uses a single aluminium fin-stack with its fins arranged longitudinally. A copper base-plate makes contact with the GPU and memory, there are additional contact points for the VRM.


The cooler uses two heatpipes that convey heat through the fin-stack in an S-shape.


The backplate is made of metal, and its three-dimensional design counteracts PCB sagging over time.