New graphics cards used to be exciting but now we've got supers and XTs and it's hard to know
if they're any good especially when the stack is now huge and the price to performance is not
always what you want it to be. AMD has come out with their new 7600 XT and we've got power colors
hellhound edition which is actually pretty cool. This is a pretty badass looking box I'm not gonna
lie. It reminds me of the old school days when there used to be like anime girls and weird ass
aliens and stuff on the boxes and on the cards those are great. The RX 7600 XT has some pretty
cool things going for it like 16 gigs of VRAM and 100 more megahertz on the clock and that's it
that's like literally all it's got going for it. We've got 32 compute units 64 AI accelerators
32 ray accelerators offering 22.57 tflops of performance power it's also releasing alongside
AMD's frame generation competitor fluid motion frames which we're gonna try in a little bit here
overall while this is an interesting release it's kind of disappointing because we have been given
something that we've all been clamoring for a year later but nothing else and I just can't help but
wonder if they couldn't have done a better job at the price that they're releasing this at. What's
cool about the hellhound edition is it's got a little OC versus silent BIOS so you can swap that
to whatever you want. I'm gonna switch it back to OC because let's be real this thing isn't gonna
get that loud when playing games and then on top of that it's also got an LED switch I'm gonna make
sure that is set to on when I plug it in later because I want to see how good the RGB is if it's
RGB at all. It's two slot card nice and slim which is great these days considering how chunky
everything's getting we've got what looks like three DisplayPort 2.1s and one HDMI 2.1 this is a
really minor great but I actually hate that they've got like DisplayPort HDMI and then two more
display ports like why can't you just have like three DP and then one HDMI but at least AMD is
giving us DP 2.1 not that this thing is gonna take advantage of you HBR 10 or anything like that
they advertise that it's gonna draw about 190 watts but we did see spikes up to 230 or 240
watts under extreme heavy loads now that's fine they're recommending a 600 watt power supply so even
if you have a generally beefy CPU you should be okay let's take a look at the size for a test
comparisons we went with an ARC a770 because it's a little cheaper and also has 16 gigs of VRAM
and a 4060 Ti from NVIDIA for a mid-range card this is about the size I'd expect I'm actually
still running a 1660 Ti in my stream computer and it's about the same size little dual slot
2 fan card that doesn't take up a lot of space fits in most form factor PCs our ARC card is what
another like 30 millimeters or something it's nothing to scoff at the last thing you want to do
is buy a card take it home and then not be able to fit it in your computer I really do like how
sleek these a770s look and feel though not gonna lie well that's not what we're talking about today
we're talking about the RX 7600 XT and I kind of like this one too the Hellhound Edition is pretty
dope with these cool see-through fans I'm guessing that these are gonna light up I'm really hoping
that they're gonna light up because that would look absolutely sick otherwise it's pretty bog
standard in terms of card height these days as well as all of your other dimensions now the 4060 Ti
16 gig and the RX 7600 XT are both on a 128 bit bus the ARC a770 is on 256 so if you like that a
little bit of extra memory bandwidth then there's kind of a clear winner here all right that was easy
thanks to no 16 pin power connector just an 8 and a 6 pin nice and simple for our three lighting
modes we've got ice blue off if you don't want any colors or purple I really like the purple that's
definitely for me we're gonna stick to that cyberpunk 1080p FSR turned off so it's all native
we're getting 100 frames per second which is actually not too bad but you know what
it could be better FMF is basically just AMD's answer to NVIDIA's frame generation so we're
gonna enable FMF and instantly oh my gosh 180 frames a second it's not quite doubling but
that is an enormous leap it's hard to say if I'm actually seeing any weird artifacting or anything
that isn't just kind of already in cyberpunk but even quickly flicking around like this icon here
isn't doing that same kind of artifacting that early frame generation had let's see what it can do
if we up the resolution we'll for down to like 60 on average 63 61 okay not great it's definitely
still playable let me turn on FSR gets a little better with FSR but it's still not great 88 90
frames a second and now I can really start to see some just kind of grow actually FSR is not
terrible I feel like it's gotten better it's also a little unfair we're using a 4k screen that's
pretty big and scaling it down just isn't quite what we should be doing so it plays games but
how well let's talk performance and 1080p atomic heart obviously loses to our 16 gig 4060ti but
it does slightly better than the arc a770 in the 1% lows and moving up to 1440p we see basically
the same thing in cyberpunk at 1080p our arc a770 loses once more but this time the averages is
quite stark despite our 1% lows being almost the same in cyberpunk at 1440p our rtx 4060ti actually
really starts to lose ground here the 7600xt actually beats it in 1% lows by 1 FPS and loses
in averages by only three moving on to f1 2023 at 1080p our arc card really starts to struggle here
losing 28 performance compared against our 7600xt the race also gets a little tighter between our
4060ti and the 7600xt with only a 10 FPS difference in our 1% lows what it really boils down to is
priced to performance this card costs 330 dollars and the reality is while it has fewer gigs of
VRAM at only 12 gigs instead of 16 a 6700xt can be bought both brand new or used for about the
same price as this card maybe even cheaper than that so unfortunately it's just kind of a failure
and i don't really understand why you'd buy a 7600xt when unlike NVIDIA where they're kind of
gating frame gen and dls s 3.0 behind the 40 series cards AMD is not doing that the 6000 series
can do it too so i don't get it it took them a year to come out with this and it's just kind of a
non-starter i don't see the point in getting one and uh frankly i'm a little disappointed there are
some minor benefits if you're into machine learning or maybe if you just really need that 16 gigs of
VRAM for video editing or something along those lines and you can't afford a 4060ti maybe you
get this guy but even then i'm kind of leaning towards Intel and going with an arc a770 for
also around the same price as this overall it's just kind of a bad time to be a budget gamer the
cards on the low end from everyone just aren't performing the way they used to thanks for watching
ShortCircuit if you want to check out another video card check out the 4070 super that's kind of
doing better but it costs a lot more money