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 RDNA3 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 RDNA3 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.