AMD Radeon RX 7600 vs GeForce RTX 3060

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7600 8 GB with 2048 shaders against the 2 years and 5 months older GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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)

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Currency
8 GB GDDR6
VS
12 GB GDDR6
68.3
(Good)
Value Index
49.1
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3060 over RX 7600
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7600
  • Performs slightly better (up to 12%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 71% higher maximum theoretical performance (21.7 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Shows 12% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 67 vs 60 FPS
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Has 25% higher memory bandwidth: 360 vs 288 GB/s
  • Has 75% more shading units (3584 vs 2048)
  • Features 112 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
vs

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
139
80
68
45
112
68
60
39
The Witcher 3
126
110
75
40
122
100
74
39
Counter-Strike 2
200
144
98
52
181
137
99
48
Far Cry 6
110
98
74
41
95
85
67
37
Hogwarts Legacy
76
63
45
24
65
57
40
18
CoD: Modern Warfare III
101
99
67
40
80
74
53
31
Ghost of Tsushima
82
68
49
26
62
50
37
20
Cyberpunk 2077
78
68
43
19
68
64
38
16
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
133
120
82
39
109
98
70
36
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 99
1080p Ultra 94 81
1440p Ultra 67 60
4K Ultra 36 32
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 7600 +12%
10064
9001
Time Spy 10931 8754
Solar Bay 44276 41158
Port Royal 5670 5145
Fire Strike 31177 22304
Wild Life Extreme 19837 17728
Night Raid 120061 97159
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
82731
RTX 3060 +11%
91603
Background Blur 201.7 img/sec 149.6 img/sec
Face Detection 110.3 img/sec 91 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.05 Gpixels/sec 4.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.12 Gpixels/sec 5.58 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.72 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.91 Gpixels/sec 1.01 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 266.1 Gpixels/sec 372.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9727.4 FPS 12226.3 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
4764
RTX 3060 +67%
7952

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
16447
RTX 3060 +2%
16710
G2D Mark 985 965
DirectX 11 172 FPS 127 FPS
DirectX 12 56 FPS 68 FPS
GPU Compute 8738 Ops/s 8231 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 6686 & 46248 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1262.1
RTX 3060 +81%
2288.28
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 448 & 6537 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7600
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-07 (tach)Cinebench 20247952

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
RX 7600 +36%
20579
15123
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7600 +3%
26805
25942
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7600 +62%
16792
10356
Image Classification (SP) 10305 6645
Image Segmentation (HP) 11405 15338
Image Super Resolution (Q) 25104 14283
Face Detection (HP) 34286 28862
Pose Estimation (Q) 91413 61313
Text Classification (SP) 3906 2463
Machine Translation (HP) 5084 3793
Object Detection (SP) 7217 7712
Depth Estimation (Q) 42955 25461
Style Transfer (SP) 178703 123233
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600 and GeForce RTX 3060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released May 24, 2023 January 12, 2021
Launch price (MSRP) $269 $329
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Navi 33 GA106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 - Radeon RX 6700 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13500 or above - Intel Core i5 12600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (56th and 58th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1720 MHz 1320 MHz
Boost Clock 2655 MHz 1777 MHz
Shading Units 2048 3584
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 112
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 28
Tensor Cores No 112
Ray-tracing Cores 32 28
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 3MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 170 GPixel/s 85 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 340 GTexel/s 199 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7600 +71%
21.7 TFLOPS
12.7 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 165 W 170 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 12 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1875 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 15000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
288 GB/s
RTX 3060 +25%
360 GB/s

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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