AMD

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.

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New Feature Highlights

New Game Support
    Call of Duty®: Modern Warfare® III
    Like a Dragon Gaiden: The Man Who Erased His Name  
    The Invincible 
    JX3 Ultimate 

New Radeon™ Boost Support 
    Alan Wake 2 
    For more information on Radeon™ Boost click HERE. 

AI and Machine Learning 

    DirectML improvements and optimizations for Stable Diffusion, Adobe Lightroom, DaVinci Resolve, UL Procyon AI workloads on AMD Radeon RX 600M, 700M, 6000, and 7000 series graphics.  

Fixed Issues

Performance Metrics Overlay may report N/A for FPS on various games.
Lower than expected performance in Counter Stike 2 on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 7600.
Intermittent flickering may be observed in Total War: Pharaoh’s menus after changing graphics settings.
Intermittent flicker may be observed on some textures while playing Alan Wake 2.
Rebuilding shader cache may be incorrectly required when relaunching Baldur’s Gate 3 using Vulkan® API.
Rebuilding shader cache may be incorrectly required when relaunching Forza Motorsport.
Intermittent driver crash while viewing the credits screen after finishing a race in Forza Motorsport.
Intermittent black screen or code 31 error in device manager after reboot on some AMD Graphics Products, such as the Radeon™ RX 6700 XT.

Known Issues

Audio may intermittently become out of sync with video when recording from AMD Software: Adrenalin Edition with AV1 codec. 
Intermittent corruption may be observed on the racetrack while playing EA Sports WRC. 
Stars may intermittently fail to appear while playing Crysis Remastered.
Intermittent micro-stuttering may be experienced when running Chromium-based browsers on systems that pair a Radeon™ RX 7000 series GPU with a secondary display connected to an AMD Ryzen™ 7000 series processor.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/7023263

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.