Thank you very much I will consider it then, but I do not think I will be upgrading this month or next maybe march so would you say the RX 7600 XT would still be fine if it fits my budget, I saw it has a min of 600W requirement?
I'm not sure that the RX 7600 XT will be a good buy because I have a feeling that it will be more expensive than necessary. ATi is going to put 16GB of VRAM on that card, an amount that is WAY overkill for it. It should, at most, have 12GB because it will never be able to use 16GB. Hell, even the RX 7700 XT only has 12GB!
If you game at 1080p, I would just ignore the RX 7600 XT as it won't offer you anything worthwhile for what could be a much higher price. The biggest reason that I recommended the RX 6700 XT was because it not only had 12GB of VRAM but was significantly (12%) faster than the RTX 4060. The
RX 7600 XT is less than 5% faster than the RX 7600 (functionally tied) so the only advantage is the extra VRAM, an advantage that might be nullified by the extra power draw. We won't know until the 23rd or 24th of January, depending on when the embargo lifts.
It has a launch price of $300 in the USA but I don't know what country that you're in. I can say that, at $320, you're paying 19% above the US launch price for the RX 7600 ($270). Since the RX 7600 XT's launch price is $300, you can expect to pay at least $360 for the RX 7600 XT. It's projected to be less than 5% faster than the RX 7600 so if I were you, I'd stick to the RX 7600 because it's $40 less expensive, the performance is the same and it uses less power. Of course, if it turns out that the RX 7600 XT's power draw isn't all that bad and it is much closer in price to the RX 7600 than $40 (like $25 extra at most), then it would be worth looking at. What is 100% true though is that the RTX 4060 is NOT worth looking at for the price you've shown us.
As for PSU recommendations, whenever video card vendors recommend a PSU, they always over-estimate by at least 100W because they know that not all PSUs are created equal. PSU calculators also over-estimate because they want you to buy the more expensive units.
TechPowerUp is usually good but looking at the recommendations for the RTX 4060 and RX 7600 actually makes no sense because they recommend a 300W PSU for the RTX 4060 and a
450W PSU for the RX 7600 despite the fact that
their own testing shows an even narrow power consumption difference than Tom's at 24W instead of 27W.
To recommend a PSU that's 150W more potent for a card that only draws an average of less than 30W is just plain dumb.
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