AMD Radeon RX 7600 vs GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7600 with 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 11 months newer GeForce RTX 5060 that utilizes 30 pipelines and 3840 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 GDDR7
63.9
(Average)
Value Index
64.9
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 5060 over RX 7600
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5060
  • Performs better (up to 39%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 27% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 85 vs 67 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
  • Has 56% higher memory bandwidth: 448 vs 288 GB/s
  • Achieves 55% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (127K vs 82K)
  • Has 88% more shading units (3840 vs 2048)
  • Features 120 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
142
94
84
58
The Witcher 3
126
110
75
40
166
137
100
53
Counter-Strike 2
200
144
98
52
238
188
131
74
Far Cry 6
110
98
74
41
125
116
93
53
Hogwarts Legacy
76
63
45
24
94
79
59
30
CoD: Modern Warfare III
101
99
67
40
117
108
80
51
Ghost of Tsushima
82
68
49
26
85
71
55
30
Cyberpunk 2077
78
68
43
19
99
89
56
27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
133
120
82
39
156
141
106
57
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 116 136
1080p Ultra 94 114
1440p Ultra 67 85
4K Ultra 36 48
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 5060 +39%
13989
Time Spy 10931 13751
Solar Bay 44276 64641
Port Royal 5670 8694
Fire Strike 31177 37594
Wild Life Extreme 19837 26198
Night Raid 120061 133318
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
82731
RTX 5060 +55%
127848
Background Blur 201.7 img/sec 209.1 img/sec
Face Detection 110.3 img/sec 134.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.05 Gpixels/sec 4.67 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.12 Gpixels/sec 6.13 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.72 Gpixels/sec 6.39 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.91 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 266.1 Gpixels/sec 607.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 9727.4 FPS 18827.5 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
4764
n/a

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
16447
RTX 5060 +25%
20623
G2D Mark 985 1145
DirectX 11 172 FPS 200 FPS
DirectX 12 56 FPS 77 FPS
GPU Compute 8738 Ops/s 10396 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 6686 & 16484 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1262.1
RTX 5060 +192%
3690.41
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 448 & 721 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7600
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 5060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-11-06 (AR7845)Geekbench 6 OpenCL157868
📘 2026-10-14 (klausi)Geekbench 7 OpenCL129861
📘 2026-10-14 (klausi)Geekbench 6 OpenCL141982
📘 2026-10-14 (klausi)Steel Nomad Light3243
📘 2026-08-20 -> bangGeekbench 6 OpenCL143443

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 +1%
20579
20375
GB6 ML Half Precision
26805
RTX 5060 +39%
37358
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7600 +11%
16792
15190
Image Classification (SP) 10305 8362
Image Segmentation (HP) 11405 22831
Image Super Resolution (Q) 25104 22375
Face Detection (HP) 34286 41955
Pose Estimation (Q) 91413 84685
Text Classification (SP) 3906 3296
Machine Translation (HP) 5084 5083
Object Detection (SP) 7217 11023
Depth Estimation (Q) 42955 38817
Style Transfer (SP) 178703 155103
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600 and GeForce RTX 5060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released May 24, 2023 April 15, 2025
Launch price (MSRP) $269 $299
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 33 GB206-250
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 - Radeon RX 9060 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13500 or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above
Desktop GPU rating (56th and 42nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1720 MHz 2280 MHz
Boost Clock 2655 MHz 2500 MHz
Shading Units 2048 3840
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 30
Tensor Cores No 120
Ray-tracing Cores 32 30
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 170 GPixel/s 120 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 340 GTexel/s 300 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7600 +13%
21.7 TFLOPS
19.2 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x8
TGP 165 W 145 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 5 nm
Die Size 204 mm² 181 mm²
Transistor Count 13 billion 21.9 billion
Transistor Density 63.73 MTr/mm² 120.99 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 89°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7
Memory Size 8 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
288 GB/s
RTX 5060 +56%
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.3 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA - 12.0
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 4
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1b

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