The AMD RX 7600 XT feels like one of the strangest graphics card's AMD has released in recent times. Apparently inspired by the equally questionable Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti 16GB, the RX 7600 XT features 16GB of video memory but does little else to add performance compared to the vanilla AMD RX 7600 — not that we loved the RX 7600 either, as it was more of a sideways step from the previous generation RX 6650 XT. For those looking at the latest generation budget AMD GPUs, let's compare the RX 7600 and RX 7600 XT in a head to head to see which GPU comes out on top.
The RX 7600 XT debuted in January 2024, eight months after the RX 7600 first launched. The main attraction of the card is its relatively large 16GB of memory capacity, double what you find in most other budget offerings. It's easily the cheapest GPU right now to offer 16GB of VRAM, if that's all you're after. But it uses the same Navi 33 die as the RX 7600, which already utilized a fully enabled chip. That left AMD virtually no room to improve the GPU's specs anywhere else, making the XT effectively an RX 7600 clone with twice the memory capacity.
The RX 7600 ranks as AMD's least powerful and least expensive RDNA 3 GPU, aimed at the budget end of the graphics card market. Granted, it used to be that "budget" GPUs would cost well under $200, but the only recent offerings to break that price barrier are the lackluster RX 6500 XT and RX 6400. Nvidia for its part hasn't made a new budget GPU since the GTX 16-series launched in 2019. The 7600 comes with 8GB of VRAM, 32 compute units (CUs), 2,048 shader cores, and a 165W TDP. It has half the video memory of the 7600 XT, but all the other specs remain unchanged — other than the 190W TDP of the XT card.
Let's look at how the RX 7600 XT and RX 7600 stack up, checking performance, pricing, features, technology, software, and power efficiency — and those are listed in order of generally decreasing importance. We'll potentially award more points for certain categories, like performance, depending on how wide the gap ends up being.
