Packaging
The Card
XFX is reusing their design philosophy from the Radeon RX 6000 Series. The main color theme is black with metallic highlights. The metal backplate has cutouts for air to flow through.
Dimensions of the card are 30.0 x 13.0 cm, and it weighs 1025 g.
Installation requires three slots in your system. We measured the card's width to be 52 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. To the left of the power connectors is the dual BIOS switch. Both BIOSes are identical, so the dual BIOS acts as safeguard against a failed BIOS flash.
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.