AMD will launch a new ‘mainstream’ GPU by the end of June and it’s almost certainly the 7600 XT-
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 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 bo…