Kicking things off for the GPU space at this year’s CES, AMD is at the show to announce that they’re bringing an additional Radeon RX 7000 series card to their lineup: the Radeon RX 7600XT. Intended as a premium version of their existing 1080p-focused RX 7600, the RX 7600 XT bumps things up with roughly 10% higher clockspeeds, as well as a doubling the total amount of VRAM to 16GB of GDDR6. The upgraded Radeon card will hit retail shelves on January 24th for a similarly premium price of $329.
The start of 2024 finds AMD doing some minor shuffling of their product stack both to cover the latest trends in gaming and AI, as well as to cover perceived gaps in the company’s product lineup. While AMD is just in the middle of their product cycle with their actual GPUs – the mid-tier Navi 32 GPU only launched back in August – the company currently has a decently large gap between the $270 Radeon RX 7600 and $450 RX 7700 XT, which they are opting to fill now with the RX 7600 XT. At the same time, video cards with 8GB of VRAM are becoming increasingly unappealing to buyers, especially the VRAM-hungry AI crowd, so this gives AMD the chance to offer a 16GB version of their basic gaming video card.
