AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 GB Custom Models From ASUS & ASRock Leak Out

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We are a week away from the launch of the AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 GB GPU and more custom models have been leaked.

Although certain NVIDIA AIBs have also used last-gen coolers for their latest graphics cards such as the RTX 4090 TUF OG and RTX 4090 ROG STRIX LC, these cards are also available in the latest cooler options. Meanwhile, AMD AIBs such as ASRock and ASUS think that they can just slap in their older Radeon RX 6000 coolers on the new Radeon RX 7000 GPUs such as the Radeon RX 7600 8 GB cards.

Today's leak from Videocardz covers at least four custom graphics cards, two from ASRock and two from ASUS. These include the ASRock Radeon RX 7600 Phantom Gaming, RX 7600 Challenger, ASUS RX 7600 ROG STRIX, and the RX 7600 Dual.

Starting with ASRock, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 8 GB custom designs come in the high-end triple-slot Phantom Gaming design which features a 2.5 slot cooler and an extended heatsink design, all for a GPU that should consume around 150W power. That's a very over-engineered cooler for this GPU but this is the latest trend as seen with the NVIDIA RTX 4060 series. AIBs seem to think that consumers are willing to pay extra for triple-fan and bigger cards even though dual-fan or even a single-fan cooling solution should deliver the same amount of performance with a minor change in temperatures.

ASRock Radeon RX 7600 8 GB Custom Graphics Cards (Image Credits: Videocardz):

It might be possible that AIBs, both AMD and NVIDIA, want to normalize bigger coolers within the mainstream segment so that when the next-gen launches, they can simply use their higher-end coolers without putting in extra engineering effort for lower-end cards. This also means that the Mini-ITX variants become far rarer. There are more triple-fan