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I want to help you AMD free of charge

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just drop by the lab and I'm gonna have the team show you how to Benchmark a GPU

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so then you can choose a price that reflects its performance because

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frankly you guys are all over the road here the RX 7600 the card you're

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launching today manages to get handily out class by your own products is what I

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was going to say then on Monday

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afternoon just 39 hours from launch AMD

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dropped the price let's go Gamers we're gonna have a rough cut of our original

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review on Floatplane.com LTT if you're curious by the way but the gist of it is

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this we liked the card but didn't like the price well now it is sixty dollars

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less than the launch price of its predecessor and it's within ten dollars

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of our suggestion that we thought would make it competitive which is nice

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but then they also dropped the price on some of their last gen products making

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those even more attractiveer there is a

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lot to unpack here but one thing we know for sure is that thanks to AMD there are

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finally some not one some decent mainstream cards that Gamers

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can actually afford let's start with the new kid on the

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Block the all-new Navi 33 GPU at the

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heart of the 7600 is built on AMD's latest rdna3 architecture which comes

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with some key benefits like the addition of AI course that well don't seem to do

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much right now but uh in the future we're expecting that to change you know

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fine wine driver development and all of that and right out of the gate our dna3

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also comes with substantially improved Ray tracing performance

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but then so does the competition and AMD has only made things more difficult for

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themselves just last month they were over there throwing rocks at NVIDIA over

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the lack of memory on their more Affordable Cards I guess they forgot

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about their own glass house here but this card is for 1080p where 8 gigs is

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enough says AMD unfortunately that's not entirely true

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have a look in f-122 AMD pulls off both a big win

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and an own goal their last gen 6700 XT

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leads the entire field beating even the 40 70 that costs almost twice as much

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but then their shiny new 7600 Falls squarely in the middle of the pack and

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behind their own 6650xt a last gen card

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that at press time costs anywhere from 10 to 30 dollars less

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rough start and definitive proof that

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you should completely ignore performance rumors for upcoming products

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in Far Cry 6 AMD manages to avoid beating themselves at their own game by

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keeping ahead of their own lower priced cards albeit barely and the same goes

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for Hitman 3 where the most interesting result is actually the arc a770 Intel's

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software team has clearly been working their butts off to the point where they

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now kind of sort of have a card that manages to keep up with the competition

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you really don't need to spend more than a few hundred bucks on a replacement for

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your aging mid-tier GPU even in returnal and cyberpunk we saw average frame rates

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above 60 FPS across our entire stable of

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modern cards even if the one percent lows are a bit lower with that said

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there is a big asterisk here look at the results for the Last of Us Part One the

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3060 has been quietly getting its butt handed to it the whole time and then

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boom it's out in front of the 7600

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interesting we're going to talk about that in a moment first if you're a 1080p

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gamer AMD's new card seems to slot into their lineup very nicely falling behind

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its bigger older brother the 6700 XT by about 20 in both price and performance

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while it's little though still older brother the 6650 XT gives up just five

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percent performance on average and doesn't net you much in the way of

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savings given that this is a newer GPU that will likely receive driver support

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for longer the 7600 is getting very close to a recommendation here kind of

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like how we'd recommend an insulated water bottle from ltdstore.com but first

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we need to talk about vram both Team Green and team red are adamant that 8

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gigs of gddr6 is enough for 1080p

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and yet we found real world examples of games that did struggle especially those

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pesky PlayStation ports this was very apparent when we saw the 30 60 12 gig

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suddenly outperforming the supposedly faster RX 7600 and whether you like it

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or not this is going to be a trend Gamers for over a decade now consoles

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have been what dictates the rate of growth for Hardware requirements it's no

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coincidence that the PS5 and the Xbox series X both feature a shared memory

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architecture of 16 gigs and 10 gigs respectively and now all of a sudden

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we're seeing games developed for these consoles that can demand significantly

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more vram than an 8 gig GPU can provide and with the potential for a

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mid-generation refresh to these consoles it's not entirely unrealistic to expect

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that vram requirements could increase further in the coming years take it with

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a grain of salt rumors and all of that the issue on top of that though is all

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of this is just for 1080p if you own a 1440p display you you might desire that

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extra vram today right now across our

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suite of games in 1440p our rankings remain largely similar to the 1080p

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results but it should be noted that the cards with the extra vram tend to hold

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their positions better Intel in particular starts to pull ahead and even

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manage some small victories where it lost before and the 30 60 12 gig holds

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its position despite its much weaker GPU of course we were a lot more upset about

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all of this before the 7600 got a new price point and NVIDIA is clearly still

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the worst offender moving on we know these are obviously

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not 4K cards at least not without the help of their respective super sampling

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Solutions but our pattern continues with the 30 60 12 gig closing its performance

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Gap versus the 7600 while Intel extends

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its own to be clear we wouldn't recommend any of these cards for 4K

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Ultra gaming safe for the 4070 but what's cool is that we no longer have to

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say the same thing about Ray tracing 7600 isn't exactly a ray tracing monster

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but it did better than we expected at 1080p native and looking at our results

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with Fidelity effects super resolution which has massively improved even if it

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does still lag behind NVIDIA's dlss you can get a decent 1440p gaming experience

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although that is still a little like saying my Civic can do 130 miles an hour

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as long as it's on a steep hill so then performance pretty solid for the price

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and going with next-gen comes with other upsides too right like a big leap

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inefficiency no actually 20 more

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performance over last gen is going to cost you a 20 increase in total board

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power I mean at least it doesn't overheat though

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yes it doesn't and while it isn't the

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quietest card it's not offensively loud despite its small size we also do get

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DisplayPort 2.1 so that's cool but AMD

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removed the one cable USBC output that is so awesome on the 7900 series

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so oh but what about productivity

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well NVIDIA dominates blender thanks to its excellent Cuda integration and while

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the av1 encoding times are competitive with the more expensive 4060 TI that's a

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nice Plus for YouTube streamers the RX 7600s h.264 and h.265 encoding are

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nothing to write home about sorry twitch streamers and in specview perf it sits

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right in the middle of the pack though I doubt that dazzling productivity

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performance would have persuaded the 7600s target audience anyway

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not that it really needs it assuming you can actually find one at MSRP

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7600 is and I can't believe I get to say this for the first time in years an

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attractive mainstream gaming card however I'm sure we weren't the only

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ones who were surprised by the price change and AMD's partners may have been

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caught with board designs that make this new price point impractical so it could

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be some time before the market is flush with sub 300 gpus at least from this gen

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the good news is AMD has lots of other options with fresh price Cuts as well

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for as low as 320 bucks for the 6700 XT

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you'll get a roughly 20 to 25 performance uplift for an equal bump in

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price albeit with a higher cost of ownership from its increased power draw

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the 6650xt meanwhile is looking like a

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pretty okay similarly priced alternative and the 6600 it's kind of The Quiet star

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of the show if you can get it for the price we're seeing now just 200 dollar

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reduce and then there's NVIDIA who has transitioned from making gpus for gamers

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to making gpus for fans of NVIDIA and

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now it's time to see our original outro for this video where I low-key

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absolutely nailed it it's not a budget

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productivity Workhorse nor is it a mainstream level gaming godsend just

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kind of sits there with its main differentiators being shiny and new

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is that the play then try and get people who want the new shiny and aren't doing

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much research incoming transmission from the future

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six months and in the wake of recent catastrophic events AMD has decided to

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slash prices on their 7600. now that it's available for 259.99 it's gone from

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no buy to no brainer and it's an especially good value compared to the

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4060 which is still 300 because NVIDIA

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Don't Do No Price drops anyway AMD's AI course uh they they do

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something now so that's cool and if any of this is wrong just be sure to tune in

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