Sapphire RX 7600 XT Pulse or the cheapest 16 GB graphics card

The cheaper of the pair of Radeons with the Navi 32 GPU is priced closest to the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti. Although you’ll pay a bit more for the RX 7700 XT, these graphics cards often have a significant performance edge, even attacking the RTX 4070. In this comparison, the RX 7700 XT with ray-tracing is already noticeably behind, and the Radeon’s efficiency is a notch weaker, but the price-performance ratio is often still better. And this is also true for the Sapphire Pure version in white.

Test setup

AMD Ryzen 9 5900X CPU
Noctua NH-U14S cooler
MSI MEG X570 Ace motherboard
Patriot Blackout memory (4× 8 GB, 3600 MHz/CL18)
2× Patriot Viper VPN100 SSD (512 GB + 2 TB)
BeQuiet! Dark Power Pro 12 PSU w/ 1200 W

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Note: At the time of testing, graphics drivers are AMD Adrenalin 23.40.01.15 and the OS Windows 10 Enterprise build is 19043.


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