AMD RX 7600 MBA available at MSRP
One should not be surprised to see Radeon RX 7600 now appearing in AMD’s own reference design.
Upon the release of AMD’s slowest RDNA3 desktop GPU, the company reaffirmed its focus on custom variants by board partners. The card actually did have a reference design, referred to as MBA (Made by AMD), which was included in review coverage. Here, one should note that reviewers identified an issue with these cards, specifically with the insertion of some 8-pin power cables. AMD acknowledged the problem and pledged to rectify it.
The launch plan for the RX 7600 involved offering semi-custom variants through AMD’s board partners and selling MBA models directly through their webstore. However, there has been a notable scarcity of available models for sale up until this point.
AMD has a reference-design “Made by AMD” (MBA) graphics card design for the Radeon RX 7600, which it intends to sell directly on the AMD website, as well as through its board partners, with minimal re-branding.
Despite the initial promise of offering the RX 7600 directly to gamers through their webstore, AMD has struggled to generate significant interest in the card nearly a year after its launch. Furthermore, there hasn’t been a substantial change in pricing, with the card still retailing at $269.
Turns out, the RX 7600 MBA is now available in Germany through an official store:
Radeon RX 7600 MBA on sale, Source: AMD
In an effort to boost performance and appeal, AMD later introduced an XT variant of the card, which effectively doubled the memory capacity and received a slight power increase. However, both models feature the same Navi 33 GPU with 2048 cores.
The card is sold at €295-€300 depending on the EU storefront, which is more or less the official MSRP for Euro countries. It is hard to say if the AMD MBA design is any better than already established custom variants, but it is a fact that the AMD model has been tested more thoroughly than any of the custom models.
| AMD Radeon RX 7000 Specifications | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | RX 7800 XT | RX 7700 XT | RX 7600 XT | RX 7600 |
| Picture |  | |  |  |
| Architecture | RDNA3 | RDNA3 | RDNA3 | RDNA3 |
| GPU | Navi 32 XT | Navi 32 XL | Navi 33 XT | Navi 33 XL |
| GPU Clusters | 60 CUs | 54 CUs | 32 CUs | 32 CUs |
| Stream Processors | 3840 | 3456 | 2048 | 2048 |
| Boost Clock | 2.4 GHz | 2.5 GHz | 2.76 GHz | 2.62 GHz |
| Memory | 16GB G6 | 12GB G6 | 16GB G6 | 8GB G6 |
| Memory Bus | 256-bit | 192-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Memory Speed | 19.5 Gbps | 18 Gbps | 18 Gbps | 18 Gbps |
| Bandwidth | 624 GB/s | 432 GB/s | 288 GB/s | 288 GB/s |
| Board Power | 263W | 245W | 190W | 165W |
| Power Connectors | 2x 8-pin | 2x 8-pin | 2x 8-pin | 1x 8-pin |
| PCIe Interface | Gen4 x16 | Gen4 x16 | Gen4 x8 | Gen4 x8 |
| MSRP | $499 | $449 | $329 | $269 |
| Launch Date | September 6, 2023 | September 6, 2023 | January 24, 2024 | May 25, 2023 |
Source: AMD Germany via RawMango