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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/45095948

https://archive.ph/lzF1G

This community seems to be abandoned by the moderator. I created an alternative community on lemmy.zip instance.

This review and testing compares the new AMD RX 7600 XT graphics card vs. the RX 7600, especially looking at the impact of video card VRAM on our gaming test suite. Benchmarks include our new GPU power efficiency testing, which shows where most of the 7600 XT's performance uplift came from (in scenarios where VRAM didn't matter) as well as a refreshed look at Baldur's Gate 3. We're still adding cards for BG3, so we also compared some old and new data between the patches. The RX 7600 XT's closest competition comes largely from the RX 6700 XT, the RX 6650 XT, the RTX 4060, and the RTX 4060 Ti. Intel's Arc A750 also manages some relevance, although still has some of the same caveats as we've previously talked about (despite significant improvements). We'll talk about whether the RX 7600 XT is worth it in this review.

New Feature Highlights

I never really cared much about Threadripper, since I don't really have a use case for them, but I would like to know what's the general opinion about this release.

AMD security bulletin: https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7005.html

AMD has begun to enable its next-generation Family 1Ah, or Family 26 processors, presumably based on the Zen 5 microarchitecture, in Linux. The patch submissions come in preparation for a commercial launch in the coming quarters, reports Phoronix. The initial patches reveal some of the first details about AMD's server CPUs based on the next-generation microarchitecture.

Good thing I checked the dimension of this card on techpowerup before I bought it 😅.