Introduction

ASRock Radeon RX 7600 XT Steel Legend is a premium custom-design based on the new mid-range performance graphics card from team red. The new RX 7600 XT is being positioned a notch above the RX 7600 from last year, with the same target audience—1080p maxed out AAA gaming. You may even try your luck with 1440p gameplay, if you can dial down the settings, or use features such as FSR, FSR 3 Fluid Motion Frames, or the all-encompassing HyperRX one-click performance enhancement found in Radeon Software. The Steel Legend brand from ASRock builds on top of an all-white aesthetic, with white dominating the card’s cooler shroud, and backplate. There’s a decent amount of RGB lighting to be had with the illuminated fans.

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT attempts to fill a vast performance gap that exists between the RX 7600 and the RX 7700 XT, although its main rival really is just the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060. The company had maxed out the 6 nm Navi 33 silicon to create the RX 7600, and it’s really not sound to cut down the exotic Navi 32 chiplet GPU for a $300-class graphics card, so AMD decided to find ways to bolster the Navi 33. It’s maxed out, just like the RX 7600, but the memory size has been doubled to 16 GB. This is across the same 128-bit interface, and uses the same 18 Gbps memory speed. Next up, AMD increased the GPU clock speeds by nearly 10%, from 2.25 GHz game clocks on the RX 7600, to 2.47 GHz on the RX 7600 XT. Lastly, to ensure good boost frequency residency, the card’s total board power (TBP) has been increased to 190 W, from 165 W on the RX 7600. A side-effect of this has been that it no longer works with a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, and needs two of them.

The Radeon RX 7600 XT is based on the latest RDNA3 graphics architecture, which despite the older 6 nm process on the Navi 33, introduces several architectural improvements. To begin with, the new RDNA3 Compute Unit supports dual-issue instruction rate, support for new math formats, and a 17% increase in IPC over RDNA2. The new AI accelerators, two per CU, prepare matrix math workloads for crunching by the stream processors, speeding up this process. The second generation AMD Ray accelerator uses several optimizations to increase ray intersection performance by 50% over the previous generation. There are other improvements, such as a decoupled GPU front-end, which runs at a higher clock speed than the Shader Engines.

ASRock RX 7600 XT Steel Legend, as we mentioned, features an all-white board design with a tasteful execution of RGB lighting. The card comes with a factory overclocked speed of 2.53 GHz game clock, compared to 2.47 GHz reference, while leaving the memory speed untouched at 18 Gbps. One of the many advantages of the 16 GB memory, according to AMD, is its superior performance with certain generative AI tools. ASRock has its own turnkey image generative AI tool called the ASRock AI Quickset. You input a text prompt, and it attempts to create an image. ASRock is pricing the RX 7600 XT Steel Legend at $350, a $20 premium over the AMD MSRP.