News AMD budget GPU listed with twice the memory of RX 7600 and RTX 4060 — RX 7600 XT with 16GB GDDR6

[Admin]

An EEC listing from Gigabyte indicates that AMD's RX 7600 XT is coming and could have up to 16GB of memory.

AMD budget GPU listed with twice the memory of RX 7600 and RTX 4060 — RX 7600 XT with 16GB GDDR6 : Read more

 

[valthuer]

Good news. With Nvidia overpricing its 12GB mediocrities, AMD has a golden opportunity to grab some market share right now.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

This gives amd a way to get market share but are gpus in this price point able to utilize 16gb? If you are a 7700xt owner do you regret the purchase? 16gb on a 7600 series cards could work out or confuse the market.

 

[Notton]

Isn't the Arc A770 significantly cheaper than a 4060Ti 16GB?

 

[usertests]

This gives amd a way to get market share but are gpus in this price point able to utilize 16gb? If you are a 7700xt owner do you regret the purchase? 16gb on a 7600 series cards could work out or confuse the market.

It's the same confusion as Nvidia at the same time, so it's OK.

Looking at Tom's RX 7600 review, even with the same 128-bit bus, this could probably outperform the RX 6700 (10GB). RX 6700 XT (12 GB) is probably the better buy, but I'd consider this after it went on sale.

Another EEC listing is also pointing at an RX 7700 non-XT and 7800 non-XT. The 7700 could end up having a lot better performance than this, since the 7700 XT is already 20-35% faster than the 6700 XT.

 

[Amdlova]

Nvidia only need droop prices to counter AMD
With super series amd is on tough position

 

[usertests]

Nvidia only need droop prices to counter AMD

Nvidia and dropping prices, name a less iconic duo.

What AMD has going on is fine. It's questionable if a Navi 33-based 7600 XT 16 GB is a good idea, but I'll be taking a look at the reviews.

The 7700 and 7800 (non-XT) could shake things up, if 7700 goes for $300-350, and 7800 at $400-450. I assume 7700 would get 12 GB and not 10 GB like the 6700.

 

[fyiv]

Isn't the Arc A770 significantly cheaper than a 4060Ti 16GB?

I was thinking the same thing, I just got mine (the Predator BiFrost) for $280 and it got as low as $240 for a bit during Black Friday. I don't think it's a waste to have potential future growth for the hardware you're paying for, it's probably pennies for them to get those higher capacity chips, they're just being greedy.

If course, the actual horsepower the card produces is still a huge bottleneck when paired with my 5800X3D, but I knew that, and I was tired of the other two milking these cards' prices, I wanted an upgrade to my GTX1070 that was under $500 (RIP RX7700XT), and something that may have some room to improve (which seems to be the case with improved drivers).

I refuse to overpay for these cards from any company, clearly their margins are not suffering, it's just greed dictating these prices.

 

[mdd1963]

I mean, twice the VRAM worked out oh *so* well for the RTX4060's 16 GB variant, right?

 

[SSGBryan]

I mean, twice the VRAM worked out oh *so* well for the RTX4060's 16 GB variant, right?

Depends on what you are doing with it.

It makes a real difference in Stable Diffusion - gaming, not so much.

 

[Sleepy_Hollowed]

It would make sense them releasing a card with 16 GB minimum, anything less is just not acceptable, regardless of the bus.

If games use the VRAM as high speed cache that is closer than say RAM (be it by design or a driver feature), that's a major win as well, so I'll be inclined to believe it's a smart move.

 

[hotaru251]

but are gpus in this price point able to utilize 16gb?

depends on the use case & memory bus

Like you can use 16gb of ram on a gpu easily but if the bus can't process it then you arent actually getting it (that was main issue with 4060's gimped bus and why 16gb was basically pointless).

Its better to have the vram and not need it often than not have it and need it at some point.

 

[Notton]

I mean, twice the VRAM worked out oh *so* well for the RTX4060's 16 GB variant, right?

I could have sworn it made a massive difference in 1% lows in 2 games.
Those being The Last of Us Part1 and Cyberpunk 2077

 

[Joseph_138]

Putting 16gb of VRAM, on a GPU that can't utilize all of it without slowing to a crawl, is senseless.

 

[Joseph_138]

This gives amd a way to get market share but are gpus in this price point able to utilize 16gb? If you are a 7700xt owner do you regret the purchase? 16gb on a 7600 series cards could work out or confuse the market.

This. There is no way that a 7600 card is not going to slow to a crawl, when you turn everything up to the max to fill up that 16gb of VRAM.