AMD and Nvidia go Mid-range

Radeon RX 7600 and GeForce RTX 4060 fight for 1080p

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AFTER WHAT feels like an interminable wait for new affordable graphics cards, AMD has released the Radeon RX 7600, while Nvidia has unveiled the RTX 4060 series. The Radeon RX 7600 is aimed at 1080p gaming, and brings us an RDNA 3 GPU at $269 for the reference card. It had been expected to launch at $299, but then Nvidia announced its RTX 4060 would be $299. This was lower than rumored, so AMD shaved $30 off the price.

At its heart, the 7600 runs a Navi 33 GPU with 32 compute units, 2,048 shaders, 32 ray tracing units, and 64 AI cores. It has a game frequency of 2,250MHz, a maximum boost of 2,625MHz, 8GB of GDDR6 memory, and 32MB of Infinity Cache. There’s a 128-bit data bus, giving a memory bandwidth of ‘up to’ 288GB/s. This is directly comparable with the last generation RX 6650 XT, as it has the same core count. However, the 7600 is better at math, managing nearly twice the number of 32 and 64-bit operations. It has a power consumption of 180 Watts, drawing 165W, supplied by one 8-pin power connector.