AMD’s head honcho Lisa Su has confirmed what we actually already knew. There is a new mainstream Radeon RX 7000 GPU coming and it will likely be right here by the top of June.
“We’re on observe to broaden our RDNA 3 GPU portfolio with the launch of recent mainstream Radeon 7000 collection GPUs this quarter,” Su mentioned.
Sadly, Su did not go into any additional particulars in her feedback, which got here in AMD’s quarterly earnings name (opens in new tab) with the same old roll name of bankers and monetary analysts. Nonetheless, “mainstream” on this context usually implies pretty low-end {hardware}. Put one other manner, we would not count on Su to confer with one thing like a Radeon RX 7800 XT or 7700 XT as “mainstream”.
On the similar time, there have been quite a few rumours of a Might 25 launch date for the RX 7600 XT, which definitely aligns with each Su’s dedication to launch the brand new GPU throughout the present quarter, which works to the top of June, and the “mainstream” characterisation.
As for what you possibly can count on from the 7600 XT when it comes to {hardware} and efficiency, effectively, it is anticipated to be based mostly on the upcoming Navi 33 GPU, which is a small monolithic GPU reasonably than a chiplet design.
We really already know from AMD itself exactly what Navi 33 seems to be like, as a result of it kinds the idea of the RX 7600M XT cellular GPU (opens in new tab), which AMD has already introduced. So, we all know it has 32 compute items, 2,048 stream processors and hits 21.4 TFLOPS operating at 2.3GHz.
It is secure to imagine that the desktop 7600 XT will clock no less than a bit larger, so the outright graphics processing energy ought to be within the area of 25 TFLOPS, give or take.
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On paper, that may make the 7600 XT roughly twice as highly effective because the outdated 6600 XT (opens in new tab). That present GPU additionally has 32 compute items, however AMD has double pumped its stream processors within the RDNA 3 structure that kinds the idea of RX 7000 GPUs.
So, the uncooked theoretical TFLOPS efficiency doubles per compute unit. As we have seen from the prevailing RX 7900 XT and XTX GPUs (opens in new tab), nevertheless, that does not translate into something like double the precise gaming efficiency.
It is notable that Navi 33 will not be constructed on TSMC’s 5nm node, just like the 7900 GPUs. It makes use of the outdated 6nm node, which is intently associated to the 7nm expertise used for the 6600 XT.
That is essential as a result of it implies clock speeds will not take an enormous leap ahead over the 6600 XT’s 2.6GHz enhance clock. The truth is, we would count on the 7600 XT to run at round that type of velocity.
So, how rather more gaming efficiency are you able to really count on from the 7600 XT? Based mostly on every part we all know up to now, very possible not more than 30%.
On the reminiscence aspect of issues, the 7600 XT is anticipated to have the identical 8GB body buffer because the 6600 XT. That is as a result of Navi 33 has a 128-bit reminiscence bus, which limits AMD’s choices in relation to reminiscence allocation. 12GB of VRAM, as an illustration, is not an possibility.
That undoubtedly will not be nice with some video games like The Final of Us: Half 1, which might exceed 8GB operating at 1080p. Whether or not 8GB will show a limitation for sufficient video games to be a significant headache is but to be seen. However it should make judging the worth proposition tough.
At the moment, a 6700 XT (opens in new tab) with 12GB might be had for about $350 (opens in new tab) whereas the 6600 XT goes for round $250 (opens in new tab). In our view, subsequently, an 8GB 7600 XT should be not more than the 6600 XT presently sells for. Even at $250, the VRAM limitation is a little bit of a flip off.
However in fact, the 6600 XT launched at $379. So, a $250 launch worth does not appear very possible, does it? As a substitute, it might effectively be over $300. And that will not be very interesting in any respect. Usual, for the present GPU market, then.
