AMD Radeon RX 7600S vs GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
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AMD Radeon RX 7600S
Navi 33
We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7600S 8 GB with 28 pipelines and 1792 shaders against the 2 years older GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile 4 GB that utilizes 16 pipelines and 2048 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
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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
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7600S
- Performs significantly better (up to 62%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 89% higher maximum theoretical performance (13.4 vs 7.1 TFLOPS)
- Shows 72% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 55 vs 32 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 256 vs 192 GB/s
- Achieves 20% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (70K vs 58K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 129 68 54 36 |
75 44 34 21 |
| The Witcher 3 | 110 89 59 30 |
68 53 38 20 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 179 124 86 46 |
115 80 54 23 |
| Far Cry 6 | 99 86 60 34 |
60 52 40 17 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 63 52 39 21 |
37 28 23 12 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 86 79 55 32 |
48 37 27 16 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 69 54 37 21 |
37 28 18 10 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 64 57 32 14 |
36 35 19 - |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 115 102 69 34 |
66 62 39 18 |
| 1080p High | 102 | 60 |
| 1080p Ultra | 79 | 47 |
| 1440p Ultra | 55 | 32 |
| 4K Ultra | 30 | 16 |
| Margin of Error | Medium | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 9180 | 4884 |
| Solar Bay | 35056 | 21596 |
| Port Royal | 4690 | 552 |
| Fire Strike | 25573 | 12571 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 16053 | 9400 |
| Night Raid | 93680 | 53685 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 171.3 img/sec | 88.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 88.4 img/sec | 57.3 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 2.56 Gpixels/sec | 2.53 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 3.44 Gpixels/sec | 3.33 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 3.12 Gpixels/sec | 2.55 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 0.85 Gpixels/sec | 0.76 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 225.1 Gpixels/sec | 256.5 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 8759.4 FPS | 7465.5 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 772 | 493 |
| DirectX 11 | 141 FPS | 71 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 66 FPS | 46 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 6612 Ops/s | 3868 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 7600S
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-08-31 (bobschieffer) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 61418 |
| 📘 2026-08-29 (bobschieffer) | Cinebench 2024 | 3654 |
| 📘 2026-08-13 -> Kushagra_Aggarwal | Steel Nomad Light | 5735 |
| 📘 2026-01-26 (rar) | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 68364 |
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) | 7912 | 4349 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 8340 | 11416 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 19913 | 8973 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 25456 | 18927 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 77820 | 34631 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 3009 | 2269 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 2738 | 3539 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 6115 | 5046 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 34757 | 15772 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 148255 | 75260 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600S and GeForce RTX 3050 LaptopGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | January 4, 2023 | January 1, 2021 |
| Case | Laptop | Laptop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 3.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 33 | GA107 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop | - |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop |
| Recommended CPU | - AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS or above | - |
Laptop GPU ranking (55th and 93rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1500 MHz | 712-1530 MHz (configurable) |
| Boost Clock | 1560-1865 MHz (configurable) | 1057-1740 MHz (configurable) |
| Shading Units | 1792 | 2048 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 112 | 64 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 40 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 28 | 16 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 64 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 28 | 16 |
| 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 | 100-119 GPixel/s | 42-70 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 175-209 GTexel/s | 68-111 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 | 50-75 W (configurable) | 35-95 W (configurable) |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 6 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 204 mm² | 200 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 13.3 billion | 8.7 billion |
| Transistor Density | 65.2 MTr/mm² | 43.5 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 8 GB | 4 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | 12000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.2 |
| 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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