Packaging

The Card

The Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 Pulse comes with a fresh 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 25.0 x 13.0 cm, and it weighs 792 g.


Installation requires two slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 44 mm.


Display connectivity includes two standard DisplayPort 2.1 ports (RDNA 2 had 1.4a) and two 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

Sapphire's card lets you remove and replace the fan assembly without touching the thermal paste. This makes it easy to fix the fans after a few years when their bearings are worn out.


The thermal solution on the card has four 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.