Radeon RX 7600 GPUs Fall Below $250 Ahead of RTX 4060 Launch
MSI's Mech 2x Classic model hits $249.99 on Amazon with a free RE4 game code.
We reviewed our first AMD Radeon RX 7600 graphics card only a month ago. At the time, we noted that AMD and its AIB partners had dropped the official MSRP of 'standard' models from $299 to $269. Today, we can see that these cards have a new starting price of $249 on Amazon. We think a combination of this GPU, having had a month to 'bed in' to the market, and the imminent release of the GeForce RTX 4060 (non-Ti), which will vie for a spot on the list of best graphics cards, will have significantly influenced the price drop.
The best-priced Radeon RX 7600 model we see on Amazon today is from MSI. We haven't had an MSI 'Mech' product in the labs for a while, but it is well known that this is a value line with cheaper / lighter cooling assemblies than other MSI models like the Gaming X and Suprim lines.
The MSI Radeon RX 7600 Mech 2x Classic is a dual-fan card, like the reference model, and leverages the following cooling technologies: Torx Fan 3.0, Zero Frozr, Core Pipe, and Thermal Padding. It is good to see a protective 'brushed' backplate at a price, but it is probably plastic (not metal) if inherited from other Mech models. Amazon's listing says the GPU clock speed is 2,695 GHz, but it will be 2,695 MHz. The AMD reference model we reviewed had a GPU boost clock speed of 2,625 MHz, just 2.6% slower than the MSI.
The RX 7600 Mech 2x has a code for Resident Evil 4, a nice bonus. However, it will take a month until Amazon delivers, which is a long wait time.
Faster delivery of a below MSRP Radeon RX 7600 graphics card can be had for a little bit more cash at the time of writing. We note an XFX Speedster SWFT210 Radeon RX 7600 graphics card is currently listed at $257.99 on Amazon, with a delivery date in the first week of July. RE4 is also free with this model. However, for faster GPU thirst satisfaction, you must pay MSRP (i.e., $269) for a card with rapid delivery.
In the intro, we put these improved prices in the perspective of the impending launch of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4060. We know that the green team's most budget-minded card so far is supposed to debut at $299, but there may already be some pressure on that pricing decision.
Checking the 1080p Rasterization Ultra gaming scores of the RX 7600 from our review, the AMD RDNA 3 card was 14.4% faster than the RTX 3060. According to Nvidia's newest tease of RTX 4060 performance, the new card will be just 20% faster than its predecessor "without frame gen" technologies turned on. This hints at only a slight 1080p Rasterization Ultra performance benefit to the RTX 4060 over the recently launched Radeon RX 7600. However, the RTX 4060 cards will be asking a ~$50 premium at launch for that slight advantage.
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We will, of course, have a better picture of the GeForce RTX 4060 performance and, thus, more precise comparisons with the Radeon RX 7600 later in the week. We will also be updating our extensive GPU Benchmarks and Hierarchy 2023 data, covering 1080p, 1440p, and 4K, so you can see where the cards end up sitting at your regular monitor resolution.
Mark Tyson is a news editor at Tom's Hardware. He enjoys covering the full breadth of PC tech; from business and semiconductor design to products approaching the edge of reason.
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InvalidError RX7600 meets the price almost everyone agreed it should have launched at one month after the fact.Reply
Wonder if AMD sold enough to make the bad publicity for the extra $20 that lasted only a month worth it. -
PlaneInTheSky 3050 has dropped spectacularly too in a few days.Reply
I used to work at one of those retailers, and I know for a fact they never sold products at a loss. The retailers, board partners and AMD/Nvidia have much larger profit margins on these products than people realize. The GPU market is a duopoly without competition. -
3ogdy Say what you will, but x60 cards shall be sold for about $200, not $250 and certainly not $300. $350 was x70 territory. Unless you want me to buy a console and forget about this pricing fiasco entirely.Reply -
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As Nvidia and AMD's profit margins rose from ~15% to their current 40-60%, AIB's profit margins went down from 20-25% to 5% or worse now. It is a miracle that AIBs haven't all gone down the EVGA route.PlaneInTheSky said:I used to work at one of those retailers, and I know for a fact they never sold products at a loss. The retailers, board partners and AMD/Nvidia have much larger profit margins on these products than people realize. The GPU market is a duopoly without competition. -
Rico Ismail
TSMC 7nm wafer cost $10.000Admin said:AMD cut the Radeon RX 7600 price from $299 to $269 ahead of launch, and as the RTX 4060 launch nears, we are now seeing cards from $249.
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TSMC 5nm wafer cost $16.000 but with 1.8x transistor density
so making 6nm GPU OR multi chiplet 6nm MCD + 5nm GCD is pointless, since 60% price up but 80% more transistor density so cheaper price per transistor. Also power reduction and higher clockspeed benefit.
What AMD must Do is Bonding L3 cache with 7nm TSV SRAM on TOP of 5nm analog GCD's area (not HOT LOGIC area) or bigger infinity gen3 cache will boost FPS due to Ray Tracing and FSR2.0 RDNA3 weakness. because cache/SRAM area in 4nm / 5nm will use very LARGE area and makes so damn much COST. I hope next gen RDNA 4 will Boost Ray Tracing and FXR.... -
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They already do that: the cache chip sits on top of the on-die L2/L3. AMD cannot really put the Vcache chip anywhere else since it is a simple extension to the on-die L3 and needs direct access to tie into the L3 bus.Rico Ismail said:What AMD must Do is Bonding L3 cache with 7nm TSV SRAM on TOP of 5nm analog GCD's area (not HOT LOGIC area)