AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060
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AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT
Navi 33
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB with 2048 shaders against the 3 years and 1 month 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
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 XT
- Performs slightly better (up to 14%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 78% higher maximum theoretical performance (22.6 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
- Shows 13% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 68 vs 60 FPS
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Has 25% higher memory bandwidth: 360 vs 288 GB/s
- Has 75% more shading units (3584 vs 2048)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 141 81 67 46 |
112 68 60 39 |
| The Witcher 3 | 131 109 78 42 |
122 100 74 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 206 140 103 52 |
181 137 99 48 |
| Far Cry 6 | 111 97 73 43 |
95 85 67 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 77 67 45 23 |
65 57 40 18 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 107 98 68 41 |
80 74 53 31 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 82 69 47 29 |
62 50 37 20 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 83 70 45 19 |
68 64 38 16 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 140 120 84 42 |
109 98 70 36 |
| 1080p High | 120 | 99 |
| 1080p Ultra | 95 | 81 |
| 1440p Ultra | 68 | 60 |
| 4K Ultra | 37 | 32 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 11136 | 8754 |
| Solar Bay | 44475 | 41158 |
| Port Royal | 5890 | 5145 |
| Fire Strike | 31732 | 22304 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 20437 | 17728 |
| Night Raid | 122566 | 97159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 199.6 img/sec | 149.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 106.8 img/sec | 91 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.23 Gpixels/sec | 4.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.3 Gpixels/sec | 5.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.92 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1 Gpixels/sec | 1.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 292.4 Gpixels/sec | 372.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 10709.1 FPS | 12226.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1026 | 965 |
| DirectX 11 | 167 FPS | 127 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 67 FPS | 68 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 8965 Ops/s | 8231 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7600 XT
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3060
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-07 (tach) | Cinebench 2024 | 7952 |
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) | 9915 | 6645 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 10595 | 15338 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 25345 | 14283 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 33847 | 28862 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 92252 | 61313 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3842 | 2463 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4096 | 3793 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 7170 | 7712 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 43860 | 25461 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 185627 | 123233 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600 XT and GeForce RTX 3060General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 24, 2024 | January 12, 2021 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $329 | $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 | - Radeon RX 9060 XT | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 13600K or above | - Intel Core i5 12600K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (53rd and 58th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1980 MHz | 1320 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2755 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 | - | 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 | 176 GPixel/s | 85 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 353 GTexel/s | 199 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 x16 |
| TGP | 190 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 | 16 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
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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