Sapphire Pulse RX 7600 XT OC Graphics Card Review

Hogwarts Legacy

Hogwarts Legacy is an immersive, open-world action RPG. Now you can take control of the action and be at the centre of your own adventure in the wizarding world.

Available now on Steam.

Moving over to Hogwarts Legacy, which is known for its AMD bias, and while it’s enough to give an extra 7% in performance, now matching the 2080 SUPER, that’s not much of a win, even if the 1% lows are dramatically improved. Sure, the RTX 4060 now sits 10% behind, but that’s never been a great value-for-money GPU anyway, so what exactly are AMD winning here?

As we move up to 1440p, the 7600 XT manages to fend off the 2080 SUPER by a single FPS and keep its stronger 1% low figure as seen on the RX 7600. Again, it beats the RTX 4060, but the 7600 was already ahead of that anyway so why anyone would spend extra to get a single FPS more when compared to the 8GB variant is beyond me.

When enabling Ray Tracing, the 4060 manages to fight back, along with the older 2080 SUPER and even with the huge 142% increase in frames over the 7600, at just 29 FPS, Hogwarts is still pretty unplayable, so another win for NVIDIA here.

At 1440p, AMD is just a hot mess across multiple cards including the 7600, 7600 XT and 7700 XT which garnered the same result time and time again. The likes of the 2080 Ti and up, which are cheaper, are where you’d want to be at a minimum but even then, it’s not going to be the greatest experience overall.