AMD GPUOpen Is Prepped For Upcoming Radeon RX 7700 & 7600 Graphics Cards

AMD has added support for its upcoming Radeon RX 7700 & RX 7600 RDNA 3 graphics cards featuring the Navi 33 GPUs within GPUOpen.

AMD GPUOpen toolkit has seen numerous updates today, especially in three main areas — GPU Analyzer, GPU Profiler, and the GPU Performance API (GPUPerfAPI or GPA). The updates are focused on the upcoming AMD Radeon RX 7600 and 7700 series graphics cards to prepare for the new RDNA 3 architecture. These GPUs are part of the "GFX1102" family which means they utilize the Navi 33 graphics core.

In terms of specifications, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT graphics card is expected to feature the Navi 33 GPU with RDNA 3 graphics architecture that should be able to deliver close to 10-15% graphics performance uplift over the Radeon RX 6650 XT. It is said to consume around 175W of power and while this is early silicon, it looks like the card won't be a match to NVIDIA's Ada Lovelace graphics architecture since it produces far better results. For example, the RTX 4070 sips close to 180W and runs about the same as an RX 6800 XT and RTX 3080 in rasterization.

The card is also said to feature 8 GB of VRAM across a 128-bit wide bus interface which should be the same as its predecessor though given the recent topics surrounding how 8 GB of VRAM is not enough for most games these days, it may not look that enticing for gamers. NVIDIA has got heat too with its RTX 4060 series expected to feature 8 GB of VRAM. The clocks for this card are said to be above 2.6 GHz which is very nice and overclocked models should close in on the 3 GHz mark.

First introduced on laptops as the Radeon RX 7700 & RX 7600 series, the Navi 33 GPUs will be aiming at the budget segment with prices between the $250-$350 US range. The graphics cards launch is expected next month close to Computex 2023.

The first update is the Radeon GPU Analyzer, released with support for Linux and Windows. This update includes a new Vulkan offline compiler based on the previous LLVM pipeline version. Additionally, there is an update for the LLVM disassembler along with minor updates, which we have placed below:

Highlights:

Notes:

Secondly, AMD's Radeon GPU Profiler (version 1.15) has been released today, improving performance and better identifying the Vulkan mesh shader extension functions. Below you can see the current updates for the Radeon GPU Profiler:

V1.15 Changes

Radeon GPU Profiler

The last  GPUOpen update is part of the GPUPerfAPI, version 3.13. The update log is below for easy access:

Version 3.13 (04/27/2023)

It is unknown if there will be future updates before the release of the new RDNA 3 GPUs, but it would appear that AMD is continuing its open-source path with Linux operating systems.

News Sources: Phoronix, GPU Analyzer, Radeon GPU Profiler, GPU Performance API