AMD will launch a new 'mainstream' GPU by the end of June and it's almost certainly the 7600 XT
AMD's head honcho Lisa Su has confirmed what we really already knew. There's a new mainstream Radeon RX 7000 GPU coming and it will be here by the end of June.
«We're on track to expand our RDNA 3 GPU portfolio with the launch of new mainstream Radeon 7000 series GPUs this quarter,» Su said.
Sadly, Su didn't go into any further details in her comments, which came in AMD's quarterly earnings call(opens in new tab) with the usual roll call of bankers and financial analysts. However, «mainstream» in this context typically implies fairly low-end hardware. Put another way, we wouldn't expect Su to refer to something like a Radeon RX 7800 XT or 7700 XT as «mainstream».
At the same time, there have been numerous rumours of a May 25 launch date for the RX 7600 XT, which certainly aligns with both Su's commitment to launch the new GPU during the current quarter, which goes to the end of June, and the «mainstream» characterisation.
As for what you can expect from the 7600 XT in terms of hardware and performance, well, it's expected to be based on the upcoming Navi 33 GPU, which is a small monolithic GPU rather than a chiplet design.
We actually already know from AMD itself precisely what Navi 33 looks like, because it forms the basis of the RX 7600M XT mobile GPU(opens in new tab), which AMD has already announced. So, we know it has 32 compute units, 2,048 stream processors and hits 21.4 TFLOPS running at 2.3GHz.
It's safe to assume that the desktop 7600 XT will clock at least a bit higher, so the outright graphics processing power should be in the region of 25 TFLOPS, give or take.
On paper, that will make the 7600 XT roughly twice as powerful as the old 6600 XT(opens in new tab). That existing GPU also has 32 compute units, but
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