Introduction

PowerColor Radeon RX 7600 Hellhound is the company’s premium custom-design imagining of AMD’s latest mid-range graphics card. The Hellhound series from PowerColor represent a balance of aesthetics and factory-overclock, while being typically positioned a notch below its Red Devil series, while above its Fighter and AMD Reference lines. The new AMD Radeon RX 7600 marks an unexpected dive from the enthusiast-segment RX 7900 series down to the mid-range, which will see AMD square off against NVIDIA’s RTX 4060 series. The RX 7600 series is based on the very latest RDNA3 graphics architecture, and gives you all of the latest features from the 7000-series, but to our surprise, is built on the slightly older 6 nm process.

The new Radeon RX 7600 is designed for 1080p AAA gaming with high or max settings. The company continues to recommend previous generation graphics card models for 1440p gaming use-cases, while 4K gaming is squarely in the hands of the RX 7900 series. The RX 7600 is being marketed as a successor to the previous-generation RX 6600, rather than the RX 6600 XT or RX 6650 XT, despite the fact that it maxes out the Navi 33 silicon that it is based on. So there is a generational increase in shaders. AMD’s decision to stick with 6 nm has to do with its calculation that it can leverage the technological advancements of RDNA3 on the older node, and still end up with a generational performance/Watt improvement that’s in the same league as NVIDIA’s RTX 4060 series.

The Radeon RX 7600 maxes out the Navi 33 silicon, enabling all 32 RDNA3 compute units, which work out to 2,048 stream processors, 32 Ray Accelerators, 64 AI Accelerators, 128 TMUs, and 64 ROPs. With the RX 7600 8 GB remains the VRAM amount, as does the memory bus width of 128-bit, but AMD is using faster 18 Gbps memory speeds, and its 32 MB on-die Infinity Cache memory is claimed to be faster than the previous-generation RX 6600, so the memory sub-system sees improvements. With a total board power of 169 W, the RX 7600 can make do with a single 8-pin PCIe power connector, which is what AMD partners are using across the board.

The PowerColor RX 7600 Hellhound uses a dual-slot cooling solution that’s designed to be compact. Its pair of fans are illuminated in blue out of the box. You get a handful of overclocker-friendly features such as dual-BIOS, and a factory-overclock that sees the Game clock set at 2283 MHz compared to 2250 MHz reference. PowerColor is pricing the RX 7600 Hellhound at $290, a small premium over the $270 AMD MSRP.