Introduction

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 7600 OC is the company's most premium custom-design graphics card based on the recently announced mid-range GPU from AMD. This is also the first ROG Strix product based on the RX 7000 series from ASUS, even the enthusiast-segment RX 7900 series top out at TUF Gaming products. The card debuts a new custom cooler design that resembles that of previous-generation ROG Strix coolers (found with RTX 30-series and RX 6000 series graphics cards). Still, this is paired with an all new, feature-rich PCB that's geared for overclocking. The cooler also gets RGB elements, such as an illuminated ROG Strix logo. The card has ASUS's top factory-overclock for the RX 7600.



The AMD Radeon RX 7600 is designed for nearly maxed out gaming at 1080p, you can also game at 1440p with medium-high settings, or take advantage of features such as FSR 2.0 or Radeon Boost. The RX 7600 is very much a new-generation GPU by AMD, and is based on its latest RDNA 3 graphics architecture, which introduces new Dual-Issue Rate Compute Units that offer a 17% IPC improvement over RDNA2, new AI Accelerators that accelerate matrix math, and 2nd generation Ray Accelerators with a 50% increase in ray intersection performance. All this comes in a typical power value of just under 170 W, so AMD decided to stick with the older 6 nm DUV foundry node for the Navi 33 monolithic silicon powering the RX 7600, which should give it some headroom for price-wars against its competitors.

The RX 7600 maxes out the Navi 33 silicon that it is based on, and AMD intends for it to be seen as a successor to the RX 6600 (and not the RX 6600 XT or RX 6650 XT), and so technically, there is a generational increase in shaders, even though the shader-count on the silicon itself hasn't changed. The RX 7600 comes with 32 RDNA 3 compute units, which work out to 2,048 stream processors, 64 AI Accelerators, 32 Ray Accelerators, 128 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. The chip features a 128-bit GDDR6 memory interface, and AMD is using faster 18 Gbps memory chips, combined with a faster 32 MB second generation Infinity Cache.

The ASUS ROG Strix Radeon RX 7600 OC comes with a powerful cooling solution and a dual-BIOS feature, which runs a more relaxed fan curve. The card draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. ASUS is pricing the ROG Strix RX 7600 OC at $340, a steep 26% jump from the $270 AMD MSRP.