AMD Radeon RX 7600 vs GeForce RTX 3050
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AMD Radeon RX 7600
Navi 33
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050
GA106
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7600 with 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 4 months older GeForce RTX 3050 that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7600
- Performs significantly better (up to 59%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2.4x higher maximum theoretical performance (21.7 vs 9.1 TFLOPS)
- Shows 60% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 42 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
- Has 29% higher memory bandwidth: 288 vs 224 GB/s
- Achieves 23% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (82K vs 67K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 25% more shading units (2560 vs 2048)
- Features 80 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 139 80 68 45 |
92 53 43 26 |
| The Witcher 3 | 126 110 75 40 |
90 70 49 24 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 200 144 98 52 |
139 101 72 31 |
| Far Cry 6 | 110 98 74 41 |
76 66 49 25 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 76 63 45 24 |
49 38 30 13 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 101 99 67 40 |
59 49 35 22 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 82 68 49 26 |
46 35 28 15 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 78 68 43 19 |
48 45 26 11 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 133 120 82 39 |
80 73 49 25 |
| 1080p High | 116 | 75 |
| 1080p Ultra | 94 | 59 |
| 1440p Ultra | 67 | 42 |
| 4K Ultra | 36 | 21 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 10931 | 6235 |
| Solar Bay | 44276 | 30191 |
| Port Royal | 5670 | 3546 |
| Fire Strike | 31177 | 15967 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 19837 | 12795 |
| Night Raid | 120061 | 74854 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 201.7 img/sec | 110.4 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 110.3 img/sec | 64.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.05 Gpixels/sec | 2.87 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.12 Gpixels/sec | 3.76 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.72 Gpixels/sec | 2.89 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.91 Gpixels/sec | 0.81 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 266.1 Gpixels/sec | 270.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 9727.4 FPS | 9339.7 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 985 | 916 |
| DirectX 11 | 172 FPS | 90 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 56 FPS | 59 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 8738 Ops/s | 6415 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7600
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3050
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitry | Cinebench 2024 | 4722 |
| 📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitry | Steel Nomad Light | 6237 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 10305 | 4958 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 11405 | 12747 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 25104 | 9816 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 34286 | 22467 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 91413 | 41362 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3906 | 2563 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 5084 | 3721 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7217 | 5929 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 42955 | 18361 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 178703 | 84665 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600 and GeForce RTX 3050General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | May 24, 2023 | January 27, 2022 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $269 | $249 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Entry-level |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 33 | GA106 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 | - |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 13500 or above | - Intel Core i5 12400 or above |
Desktop GPU rating (56th and 71st place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1720 MHz | 1552 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2655 MHz | 1777 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 2560 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 128 | 80 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 32 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 20 |
| Tensor Cores | No | 80 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 32 | 20 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 2MB shared | 2MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 170 GPixel/s | 57 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 340 GTexel/s | 142 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x8 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 165 W | 130 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 204 mm² | 276 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 13 billion | 12 billion |
| Transistor Density | 63.73 MTr/mm² | 43.48 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2250 MHz | 1750 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 18000 Mbps | 14000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1 | 1.4a |
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