Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 7600 OC, 8GB GDDR6, HDMI, 3x DP, lite retail

Intels Grafikkarten der Battlemage-Serie alias Arc B580 und B570 verlieren auf kleineren/älteren CPUs mehr Leistung als die direkten Konkurrenten GeForce RTX 4060 und Radeon RX 7600 XT, das haben „CPU-Overhead-Tests“ auf AMD Ryzen gezeigt. Dieser Test mit Intel-Core-CPUs von 4 bis 24 Kernen bestätigt die Probleme.

Sapphire's Pulse Radeon RX 7600 has been launched, targeting gamers using Full HD monitors. The 8GB model, priced at $269, is tailored for low-resolution gaming environments. The question remains: does it offer good value for money? The primary goal of the Radeon RX 7600 is to provide performance at lower resolutions. With the official launch of the Radeon RX 7600 is slated for May 25th, coinciding with the release date of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4060 (Ti) 8GB. The gaming community eagerly awaited the release of AMD's graphics card, eager to discover its potential and performance capabilities. The AMD Radeon RX 7600 boasts a robust RDNA 3 GPU and is equipped with 8GB of memory. This combination holds the promise of delivering gaming performance within its respective price range.

The very nature of our job means that we've seen the very best hardware that money can buy, and whilst it would be considered easy to become snooty and snobbish like certain sections of the internet, we're also highly aware of the importance of getting value for money. Nobody becomes a freelance writer because the pay is good. Thus it might be considered damning with faint praise to talk about other considerations but know that we mean what we say from the heart, as always, and wouldn't tell you something just because it sounds good, or because we've been sent something. We pride ourselves on our impartiality, and when it comes to products that aren't going to be brought by those with deep pockets without a care for what we believe that impartiality is of the utmost importance. Any new graphics card purchase is a big investment. What strikes us most about the Radeon RX 7600 is how flipping good it is, almost regardless of what we threw at it. You barely have to go back to the 5000 series, and indeed a handful of the 6000 series, to know that unless you brought one of the very top tier Radeon cards you were going to be left, if not disappointed as such, then at least not blown away. The RX 7600 blew us away, with a few tiny caveats. The elephant in the room is, of course, ray tracing. It's still a bit of a weakness of the Radeon cards, but it took Nvidia three generations to get it right and we aren't remotely surprised that AMD used the majority of the R&D time in making their RDNA architecture work well across a broad spectrum of titles, particularly as ray tracing is still, four years later, a bit of a rare find in most AAA titles, let alone the majority of games out there. However, with the RNDA 3 and the new FSR 2.1, AMD are really getting close. Quite how close they've got in a short space of time is worthy of respect, especially when it wasn't that long ago - pre RDNA - that they seemed like a spent force in the graphics card world. Speaking of FSR 2.1, that's absolutely the cornerstone of the development path they're on, and we think they have an ace in the pack that might end up making it the dominant technology when it comes to getting high FPS without compromising image quality too much. Nvidia's DLSS 3 technology does it brilliantly, as we saw on their 4000 series cards, but whilst that is a proprietary technology, FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) is open source. Anyone can use it on their titles, it isn't even card specific. Want to use it on your GeForce? Go ahead. Like any technology tied to a brand - PhysX, Apple's endless charging port changes, Shutter based 3DTVs etc - the winner will always be the technology that works on the largest number of systems, and as you saw from our testing results even the 32 CU RDNA 3 architecture on the Radeon RX 7600 has enough horsepower to get the job done, with massive FPS boosts in compatible titles. With seriously aggressive pricing, and performance that is more than a match for the high-selling RTX 3060 whilst also comfortably besting its forebear the RX 6600, the latest Radeon RX 7600 is the perfect card if you want to be gaming on a budget without having to limit yourself to pixel-art Indies and ancient old 3D games. It is good without FSR, but with it it becomes fantastic value for money.

After already taking a look at the AMR Radeon RX 7600 reference card, I was impressed with the pricing and the overall gaming performance but the reference design left a lot to be desired when it came to the cooling performance. Sapphire’s RX 7600 Pulse is the perfect follow-up to that coverage because it comes in at the same price point but you get a slight overclock and a different cooler design. I will be in the minority in that I do still prefer the all-metal cooler design over the Pulse for styling, but the Pulse isn’t far off. Sapphire blacked the cooler out for the most part except for a few red accents on the front and back of the card. The RX 7600 Pulse skips RGB lighting and keeps the focus on performance, which it has. Like the reference card, the RX 7600 Pulse has great performance, especially at 1080p in gaming. It was surprisingly close to the RTX 3060 Ti in performance at 1080p which came as a surprise. The overclock helped it gain an extra FPS over the reference card but it did cost it more on the power efficiency which the RX 7600 was already struggling with. Sapphire made all of that up with cooling they could keep the RX 7600 running cool. The RX 7600 Pulse has a standard 8-pin PCIe power connection as well which should save you from having to upgrade your power supply to an ATX 3.0 power supply for a while longer. Like with the reference card, the RX 7600 Pulse struggled when it came to the compute tests, this just isn’t the ideal card if you are hoping to game and also render in Blender. Its overall power usage wasn’t high at all, but comparing it to the RTX 4060 Ti it does leave a little to be desired. The 4060 Ti was faster and at 34 watts on average less. Of course, the RTX 4060 Ti is in a completely different price class at $399 whereas the RX 7600 Pulse has the same MSRP as the stock-clocked reference card at $269. At that price, the RX 7600 Pulse is an exciting card for 1080p gamers. It’s okay you can come back out, there are a few options now to put together a solid gaming system without completely breaking the bank.

The Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 Pulse OC is the company's close-to-reference custom design rendition of the newly launched AMD Radeon RX 7600. The Pulse series of graphics cards by Sapphire represent the value end of the company's custom-design series, and is designed for those who just want an RX 7600 graphics card that they can install and forget about. Sapphire still puts in work to make its Pulse series some of the quietest custom-designs out there. The AMD Radeon RX 7600 represents an unexpected jump by AMD from the enthusiast-segment RX 7900 series, down to the mid-range, with no performance-segment RX 7700-series or RX 7800-series launches along the way. The RX 7600 comes with all of the latest technologies the company has introduced with its latest RDNA3 generation.