{"video_id":"4Zsaj_9Zpjc","title":"AMD, you NEED to hire me! - AMD Radeon RX 7600 Review","channel":"Linus Tech Tips","show":"Linus Tech Tips","published_at":"2024-05-04T14:53:45Z","duration_s":716,"segments":[{"start_s":0.0,"end_s":5.94,"text":"I want to help you AMD free of charge","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":3.54,"end_s":10.74,"text":"just drop by the lab and I'm gonna have the team show you how to Benchmark a GPU","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":8.58,"end_s":15.54,"text":"so then you can choose a price that reflects its performance because","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":12.96,"end_s":21.119,"text":"frankly you guys are all over the road here the RX 7600 the card you're","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":18.48,"end_s":27.72,"text":"launching today manages to get handily out class by your own products is what I","speaker":null,"is_sponsor":0},{"start_s":24.359,"end_s":32.34,"text":"was going to say then on 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launching today manages to get handily out class by your own products is what I was going to say then on Monday afternoon just 39 hours from launch AMD dropped the price let's go Gamers we're gonna have a rough cut of our original review on Floatplane.com LTT if you're curious by the way but the gist of it is this we liked the card but didn't like the price well now it is sixty dollars less than the launch price of its predecessor and it's within ten dollars of our suggestion that we thought would make it competitive which is nice but then they also dropped the price on some of their last gen products making those even more attractiveer there is a lot to unpack here but one thing we know for sure is that thanks to AMD there are finally some not one some decent mainstream cards that Gamers can actually afford let's start with the new kid on the Block the all-new Navi 33 GPU at the heart of the 7600 is built on AMD's latest rdna3 architecture which comes with some key benefits like the addition of AI course that well don't seem to do much right now but uh in the future we're expecting that to change you know fine wine driver development and all of that and right out of the gate our dna3 also comes with substantially improved Ray tracing performance but then so does the competition and AMD has only made things more difficult for themselves just last month they were over there throwing rocks at NVIDIA over the lack of memory on their more Affordable Cards I guess they forgot about their own glass house here but this card is for 1080p where 8 gigs is enough says AMD unfortunately that's not entirely true have a look in f-122 AMD pulls off both a big win and an own goal their last gen 6700 XT leads the entire field beating even the 40 70 that costs almost twice as much but then their shiny new 7600 Falls squarely in the middle of the pack and behind their own 6650xt a last gen card that at press time costs anywhere from 10 to 30 dollars less rough start and definitive proof that you should completely ignore performance rumors for upcoming products in Far Cry 6 AMD manages to avoid beating themselves at their own game by keeping ahead of their own lower priced cards albeit barely and the same goes for Hitman 3 where the most interesting result is actually the arc a770 Intel's software team has clearly been working their butts off to the point where they now kind of sort of have a card that manages to keep up with the competition or it did anyway but can you keep up with this message from our sponsor the ridge Father's Day is coming up luckily Ridge is having one of their biggest sales of the Year give the dads in your life a unique and functional Ridge wallet or key case so they can do dad things like brag about their wallet and keys check the ridge out of the link below and make Dad proud as we tested more and more games we realized that the main takeaway is that for 1080p gaming you really don't need to spend more than a few hundred bucks on a replacement for your aging mid-tier GPU even in returnal and cyberpunk we saw average frame rates above 60 FPS across our entire stable of modern cards even if the one percent lows are a bit lower with that said there is a big asterisk here look at the results for the Last of Us Part One the 3060 has been quietly getting its butt handed to it the whole time and then boom it's out in front of the 7600 interesting we're going to talk about that in a moment first if you're a 1080p gamer AMD's new card seems to slot into their lineup very nicely falling behind its bigger older brother the 6700 XT by about 20 in both price and performance while it's little though still older brother the 6650 XT gives up just five percent performance on average and doesn't net you much in the way of savings given that this is a newer GPU that will likely receive driver support for longer the 7600 is getting very close to a recommendation here kind of like how we'd recommend an insulated water bottle from ltdstore.com but first we need to talk about vram both Team Green and team red are adamant that 8 gigs of gddr6 is enough for 1080p and yet we found real world examples of games that did struggle especially those pesky PlayStation ports this was very apparent when we saw the 30 60 12 gig suddenly outperforming the supposedly faster RX 7600 and whether you like it or not this is going to be a trend Gamers for over a decade now consoles have been what dictates the rate of growth for Hardware requirements it's no coincidence that the PS5 and the Xbox series X both feature a shared memory architecture of 16 gigs and 10 gigs respectively and now all of a sudden we're seeing games developed for these consoles that can demand significantly more vram than an 8 gig GPU can provide and with the potential for a mid-generation refresh to these consoles it's not entirely unrealistic to expect that vram requirements could increase further in the coming years take it with a grain of salt rumors and all of that the issue on top of that though is all of this is just for 1080p if you own a 1440p display you you might desire that extra vram today right now across our suite of games in 1440p our rankings remain largely similar to the 1080p results but it should be noted that the cards with the extra vram tend to hold their positions better Intel in particular starts to pull ahead and even manage some small victories where it lost before and the 30 60 12 gig holds its position despite its much weaker GPU of course we were a lot more upset about all of this before the 7600 got a new price point and NVIDIA is clearly still the worst offender moving on we know these are obviously not 4K cards at least not without the help of their respective super sampling Solutions but our pattern continues with the 30 60 12 gig closing its performance Gap versus the 7600 while Intel extends its own to be clear we wouldn't recommend any of these cards for 4K Ultra gaming safe for the 4070 but what's cool is that we no longer have to say the same thing about Ray tracing 7600 isn't exactly a ray tracing monster but it did better than we expected at 1080p native and looking at our results with Fidelity effects super resolution which has massively improved even if it does still lag behind NVIDIA's dlss you can get a decent 1440p gaming experience although that is still a little like saying my Civic can do 130 miles an hour as long as it's on a steep hill so then performance pretty solid for the price and going with next-gen comes with other upsides too right like a big leap inefficiency no actually 20 more performance over last gen is going to cost you a 20 increase in total board power I mean at least it doesn't overheat though yes it doesn't and while it isn't the quietest card it's not offensively loud despite its small size we also do get DisplayPort 2.1 so that's cool but AMD removed the one cable USBC output that is so awesome on the 7900 series so oh but what about productivity well NVIDIA dominates blender thanks to its excellent Cuda integration and while the av1 encoding times are competitive with the more expensive 4060 TI that's a nice Plus for YouTube streamers the RX 7600s h.264 and h.265 encoding are nothing to write home about sorry twitch streamers and in specview perf it sits right in the middle of the pack though I doubt that dazzling productivity performance would have persuaded the 7600s target audience anyway not that it really needs it assuming you can actually find one at MSRP 7600 is and I can't believe I get to say this for the first time in years an attractive mainstream gaming card however I'm sure we weren't the only ones who were surprised by the price change and AMD's partners may have been caught with board designs that make this new price point impractical so it could be some time before the market is flush with sub 300 gpus at least from this gen the good news is AMD has lots of other options with fresh price Cuts as well for as low as 320 bucks for the 6700 XT you'll get a roughly 20 to 25 performance uplift for an equal bump in price albeit with a higher cost of ownership from its increased power draw the 6650xt meanwhile is looking like a pretty okay similarly priced alternative and the 6600 it's kind of The Quiet star of the show if you can get it for the price we're seeing now just 200 dollar reduce and then there's NVIDIA who has transitioned from making gpus for gamers to making gpus for fans of NVIDIA and now it's time to see our original outro for this video where I low-key absolutely nailed it it's not a budget productivity Workhorse nor is it a mainstream level gaming godsend just kind of sits there with its main differentiators being shiny and new is that the play then try and get people who want the new shiny and aren't doing much research incoming transmission from the future six months and in the wake of recent catastrophic events AMD has decided to slash prices on their 7600. now that it's available for 259.99 it's gone from no buy to no brainer and it's an especially good value compared to the 4060 which is still 300 because NVIDIA Don't Do No Price drops anyway AMD's AI course uh they they do something now so that's cool and if any of this is wrong just be sure to tune in to the WAN Show on Friday November 24th 2023 to let future Linus know that he went to the wrong time oh oh God they're coming oh don't forget to tell us about the Segway to our sponsor Messi it's springtime which means rain can still show up and ruin your day like an annoying neighbor but that's fine because hello we have Bessie shoes vessey claims their shoes are 100 waterproof so we can go step into as many puddles as we want their dimetex technology keeps their shoes light and breathable while still being stretchy and comfortable also all of their products are vegan and cruelty free maybe you're planning a trip to get away from some of this miserable weather don't forget to pack a pair of essies their 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