AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Launches In January In Custom Flavors Only, Might Be The Last RDNA 3 GPU Before RDNA 4

AMD's Radeon RX 7600 XT GPU is reportedly going to launch in late January and will target the budget segment in the $300 US segment.

Rumors surrounding the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT GPU are nothing new since the card has been talked about since September when it first appeared in online listings. The card was also recently spotted in new listings by relatively new AIB who are mostly limited to Asian regions. These AIBs usually list cards that are simply placeholders in case AMD might launch these graphics cards in the future.

Following up on the listing, Benchlife has now reported that the only card that AMD currently plans to launch is the Radeon RX 7600 XT. None of the other cards, such as the RX 7800 and RX 7700, are planned by AMD. The Radeon RX 7600 XT will be the first new RDNA 3 GPU launch for 2024 and will also most likely be the last before AMD switches gears and focuses on its RDNA 4 GPU lineup. The graphics card will launch between 22nd-28th January which is around the same time NVIDIA will be launching its RTX 4070 Ti SUPER graphics card.

In other words, AMD expects to have only one new product in the first half of 2024, the Radeon RX 7600 XT.

We also confirm that AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT will not have an MBA (Made by AMD) card for media testing.

AMD still maintains plans for 6 graphics cards (excluding GRE). In the second half of 2024, maybe we can see the launch of RDNA 4 that supports PCIe 5.0. If something unexpected happens, RDNA 4 will be postponed to 2025.

via Benchlife

Based on previous reports from the same source, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT GPU was expected to feature 16 GB of GDDR6 VRAM which will be twice as much as the RX 7600 Non-XT. There is no information on which GPU will be adopted by the RX 7600 XT since the RX 7600 already offers the full Navi 33 GPU so the two options would be to either offer a higher clock and higher VRAM config of the same RX 7600 GPU as the "XT" variant or move up a stack and offer more cores by using a cut-down Navi 32 silicon.

The graphics card is also said to only have custom variants at launch as there would be no "MBA" reference model released by AMD itself.

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 launched at $269 US but can be found close to $249 US. Based on this, we can expect the XT model to launch at around $299 US. Having double the VRAM on a budget-level graphics card may have certain applications but you would still be bound at 1080p gaming mostly as we have seen with the RTX 4060 Ti and its 16 GB variant which is severely bottlenecked by its 128-bit bus interface. How the RX 7600 XT turns out remains to be seen but it will definitely be a rather interesting entry given that NVIDIA will also be introducing a new budget-tier option in the form of the 6 GB RTX 3050 the same month for a sub-$200 US price point.