AMD Radeon RX 7600 vs GeForce RTX 3070

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7600 with 2048 shaders against the 2 years and 7 months older GeForce RTX 3070 that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 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
8 GB GDDR6
68.3
(Good)
Value Index
96.5
(Very good)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3070 over RX 7600
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7600
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3070
  • Performs significantly better (up to 41%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 31% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 88 vs 67 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Has 56% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 288 GB/s
  • Achieves 53% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (126K vs 82K)
  • Has 2.9x more shading units (5888 vs 2048)
  • Features 184 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
147
99
86
61
The Witcher 3
126
110
75
40
168
143
100
54
Counter-Strike 2
200
144
98
52
244
194
137
77
Far Cry 6
110
98
74
41
132
121
96
54
Hogwarts Legacy
76
63
45
24
97
80
62
35
CoD: Modern Warfare III
101
99
67
40
121
113
85
52
Ghost of Tsushima
82
68
49
26
89
74
56
31
Cyberpunk 2077
78
68
43
19
106
94
59
28
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
133
120
82
39
165
153
113
60
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 141
1080p Ultra 94 119
1440p Ultra 67 88
4K Ultra 36 50
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
10064
RTX 3070 +41%
14152
Time Spy 10931 13644
Solar Bay 44276 64452
Port Royal 5670 8312
Fire Strike 31177 34056
Wild Life Extreme 19837 28488
Night Raid 120061 122159
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
82731
RTX 3070 +53%
126195
Background Blur 201.7 img/sec 161.6 img/sec
Face Detection 110.3 img/sec 117.2 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.05 Gpixels/sec 5.89 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.12 Gpixels/sec 8.05 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.72 Gpixels/sec 6.65 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.91 Gpixels/sec 1.25 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 266.1 Gpixels/sec 550.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9727.4 FPS 17613.1 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 3070 +103%
9652

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
16447
RTX 3070 +34%
22079
G2D Mark 985 1005
DirectX 11 172 FPS 183 FPS
DirectX 12 56 FPS 84 FPS
GPU Compute 8738 Ops/s 11007 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 6686 & 38662 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1262.1
RTX 3070 +166%
3356.03
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 448 & 4796 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7600
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-11-15 (mit)Cinebench 20249652

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 +4%
20579
19789
GB6 ML Half Precision
26805
RTX 3070 +23%
33013
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7600 +35%
16792
12443
Image Classification (SP) 10305 7624
Image Segmentation (HP) 11405 23420
Image Super Resolution (Q) 25104 17898
Face Detection (HP) 34286 40535
Pose Estimation (Q) 91413 83624
Text Classification (SP) 3906 2724
Machine Translation (HP) 5084 4481
Object Detection (SP) 7217 10304
Depth Estimation (Q) 42955 30418
Style Transfer (SP) 178703 180089
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600 and GeForce RTX 3070

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released May 24, 2023 October 22, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $269 $499
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Navi 33 GA104
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 - Radeon RX 7800 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13500 or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (56th and 44th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1720 MHz 1500 MHz
Boost Clock 2655 MHz 1725 MHz
Shading Units 2048 5888
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 46
Tensor Cores No 184
Ray-tracing Cores 32 46
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 170 GPixel/s 166 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 340 GTexel/s 317 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7600 +7%
21.7 TFLOPS
20.3 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 220 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 6 nm 8 nm
Die Size 204 mm² 392 mm²
Transistor Count 13 billion 17 billion
Transistor Density 63.73 MTr/mm² 43.37 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 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
288 GB/s
RTX 3070 +56%
448 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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