But will it be priced low enough to actually be worth buying?
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.
