$329 Radeon 7600 XT brings 16GB of memory to AMD’s latest midrange GPU

Enlarge / The new Radeon RX 7600 XT mostly just adds extra memory, though clock speeds and power requirements have also increased somewhat. (credit: AMD)

Graphics card buyers seem to have a lot of anxiety about buying a GPU with enough memory installed, even in midrange graphics cards that aren't otherwise equipped to play games at super-high resolutions. And while this anxiety tends to be a bit overblown—lots of first- and third-party testing of cards like the GeForce 4060 Ti shows that just a handful of games benefit when all you do is boost GPU memory from 8 to 16GB—there's still a market for less-expensive GPUs with big pools of memory, whether you're playing games that need it or running compute tasks that benefit from it.

That's the apparent impetus behind AMD's sole GPU announcement from its slate of CES news today: the $329 Radeon RX 7600 XT, a version of last year's $269 RX 7600 with twice as much memory, slightly higher clock speeds, and higher power use to go with it.

	RX 7700 XT	RX 7600	RX 7600 XT	RX 6600	RX 6600 XT	RX 6650 XT	RX 6750 XT
Compute units (Stream processors)	54 (3,456)	32 (2,048)	32 (2,048)	28 (1,792)	32 (2,048)	32 (2,048)	40 (2,560)
Boost Clock	2,544 MHz	2,600 MHz	2,760 MHz	2,490 MHz	2,589 MHz	2,635 MHz	2,600 MHz
Memory Bus Width	192-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit	128-bit	192-bit
Memory Clock	2,250 MHz	2,250 MHz	2,250 MHz	1,750 MHz	2,000 MHz	2,190 MHz	2,250 MHz
Memory size	12GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	16GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	8GB GDDR6	12GB GDDR6
Total board power (TBP)	245 W	165 W	190 W	132 W	160 W	180 W	250 W

The core specifications of the 7600 XT remain the same as the regular 7600: 32 of AMD's compute units (CUs) based on the RDNA3 GPU architecture, and the same memory clock speed attached to the same 128-bit memory bus. But RAM has been boosted from 8GB to 16GB, and the GPU's clock speeds have been boosted a little, ensuring that the card runs games a little faster than the regular 7600, even in games that don't care about the extra memory.

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