AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT Review: 1080p PC Gaming With PowerColor And XFX
Forspoken Benchmarks
Forspoken
We got some quizzical results with Forspoken, that we think can explain. As you can see, XFX And PowerColor Radeon RX 7600 XT smoke the the 8GB Radeon RX 7600 here, and just miss catching the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti at both resolutions. We suspect this is due to two things. First, the 7600 XT's 16GB of video memory help smooth out performance and minimize swapping from main memmory, and the XFX And PowerColor Radeon RX 7600 XTs are using newer / different drivers than the other Radeons. The driver AMD provided for the cards would only install on the Radeon RX 7600 XT, so the remaining Radeons were tested with the latest, public driver.
With FSR 3 or DLSS enabled the XFX And PowerColor Radeon RX 7600 XT cards offer significantly better performance, especially with Frame Generation enabled, which pushes them near the top of the charts.
Far Cry 6 Benchmarks Benchmarks
Next up, we’ve got some benchmark scores from Far Cry 6, the latest installment in the storied franchise. Like its predecessors, Far Cry 6 is a fast-action shooter set in an open world environment with lush visuals and high graphics fidelity. The game is set on the fictional Caribbean island of Yara, ruled by dictator "El Presidente" Antón Castillo, famously played by actor Giancarlo Esposito. We tested all of the graphics cards here at multiple resolutions using Ultra Quality settings to see how they handled this AAA title.
Farcry 6
Farcry 6 Radeon RX 7600 XT Details @ 1080P
Farcry 6 Radeon RX 7600 XT Details @ 1080P
Marvel's Guardians Of The Galaxy
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy is an action-adventure game where you play as Star-Lord and lead the rest of the Guardians from mission to mission. The game’s minimum requirements call for a Radeon RX 570 or GeForce GTX 1060-class GPU, but it also supports some of the latest graphics technologies, including DXR and DLSS. With all of the in-game image quality settings maxed out, this game can be pretty puninshing...
Guardians Of The Galaxy Radeon RX 7600 XT Details @ 1080P
With ray traced lighting and shadows enabed, and the other image quality options set to their maximum, the GeForce cards have a clear advantage over the Radeons. As such, the XFX And PowerColor Radeon RX 7600 XT cards drop down a few rungs, but they still managed to clearly outperform the RX 7600 and previous-gen Radeon RX 6600 XT.
Returnal Benchmarks
Returnal is a port of the popular PS5 game, which follows Selene as she searches for a way out of the barren landscape of an ancient civilization. Returnal is a fast-paced, third-person shooter that makes use of many advanced graphics techniques and employs technologies like DLSS, XeSS, and FSR...
Returnal Radeon RX 7600 XT Details @ 1080P
The XFX And PowerColor Radeon RX 7600 XT cards offers only marginally higher average framerates than the base model Radeon RX 7600 in Returnal, but those higher clocks and larger complement of video memory significantly improve minimum framerates here and smooth things out quite a bit.
Enabling DLSS or FSR in Returnal obviously results in higher framerates, and has the XFX And PowerColor Radeon RX 7600 XT finishing right on top of each other, a notch behind the GeForce RTX 4060 and higher-end cards.
F1 23 Benchmarks
F1 23 is Codemaster’s latest Formula One racing simulation, and like previous version of the game, it sports impressive visuals. This latest addition to the franchise supports DirectX 12 with ray tracing, and it incorporates support for a number of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) and NVIDIA technologies (like DLSS). We tested the games with its Ultra High graphics preset, with ray-tracing and TAA enabled at a couple of resolutions to see what the graphics cards could do.
F1 23
With DLSS or FSR 2 enabled in F1 23, framerates improve and we see more of the same; the XFX And PowerColor Radeon RX 7600 XT put up playable framerates at 1440p, and fall victim to the GeForce RTX 4060 by only a single frame per second.
Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmarks
Cyberpunk 2077 is based on the Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game franchise. The tabletop game was published for the first time in 1988, and the intervening 30-some years have not changed the game world all that much. As a result, Cyberpunk 2077 looks somewhat retro-futuristic, as this is how people in the 1980s imagined what the future would look like. The game make use of virtually every advanced DirectX graphics technologies, features like DLSS, FSR and XeSS, and after a somewhat rocky release, it has been significantly updated and optimized for a multitude of hardware configurations...
Cyberpunk 2077
With DLSS of FSR enabled in Cyberpunk, performance increases somewhat with the XFX And PowerColor Radeon RX 7600 XT, but they can only muster 42+ FPS at 1440p in this title.
