AMD Radeon RX 7600S vs GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

We compared two discrete laptop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7600S 8 GB with 28 pipelines and 1792 shaders against the GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile 6 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

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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

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4050 Mobile over RX 7600S
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7600S
  • Includes 2 GB more video memory
  • Has 33% higher memory bandwidth: 256 vs 192 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Has 43% more shading units (2560 vs 1792)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
129
68
54
36
107
66
56
35
The Witcher 3
110
89
59
30
117
91
67
34
Counter-Strike 2
179
124
86
46
167
126
88
43
Far Cry 6
99
86
60
34
87
79
59
32
Hogwarts Legacy
63
52
39
21
62
52
34
20
CoD: Modern Warfare III
86
79
55
32
75
68
44
30
Ghost of Tsushima
69
54
37
21
57
45
33
17
Cyberpunk 2077
64
57
32
14
61
57
34
13
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
115
102
69
34
98
90
62
32
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 102 92
1080p Ultra 79 75
1440p Ultra 55 53
4K Ultra 30 28
Margin of Error Medium 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
Time Spy 9180 8212
Solar Bay 35056 35375
Port Royal 4690 4624
Fire Strike 25573 21909
Wild Life Extreme 16053 15492
Night Raid 93680 84848
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
70637
81436
Background Blur 171.3 img/sec 141.4 img/sec
Face Detection 88.4 img/sec 84.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 2.56 Gpixels/sec 3.07 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 3.44 Gpixels/sec 3.91 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.12 Gpixels/sec 3.85 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 0.85 Gpixels/sec 1.1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 225.1 Gpixels/sec 325.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8759.4 FPS 11008.8 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 7600S +10%
15611
G2D Mark 772 622
DirectX 11 141 FPS 129 FPS
DirectX 12 66 FPS 60 FPS
GPU Compute 6612 Ops/s 5847 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 232 & 14311 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
983.07
2567.25
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 65 & 2120 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7600S
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-17 (kam)Geekbench 6 OpenCL93074
📘 2026-07-15 (Mr._.Flexo)Cinebench 20248096
📘 2026-07-02 (SuperDuck)Geekbench 6 OpenCL90032
📘 2026-05-18 (TheMan)Cinebench 20248523
📘 2026-05-15 -> ZayGeekbench 6 OpenCL89343

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 7600S +2%
15936
GB6 ML Half Precision
19176
27160
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7600S +8%
13239
Image Classification (SP) 7912 6233
Image Segmentation (HP) 8340 16395
Image Super Resolution (Q) 19913 18240
Face Detection (HP) 25456 30758
Pose Estimation (Q) 77820 61300
Text Classification (SP) 3009 3124
Machine Translation (HP) 2738 4357
Object Detection (SP) 6115 7812
Depth Estimation (Q) 34757 29192
Style Transfer (SP) 148255 117759
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600S and GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 4, 2023 February 22, 2023
Case Laptop Laptop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 33 AD107 (GN21-X2)
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4050 Laptop - Radeon RX 7700S
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop
Recommended CPU - AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS or above - Intel Core Ultra 7 155H or above
Laptop GPU ranking (55th and 67th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1500 MHz 1140-2070 MHz (configurable)
Boost Clock 1560-1865 MHz (configurable) 1605-2370 MHz (configurable)
Shading Units 1792 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 112 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) 28 20
Tensor Cores - 80
Ray-tracing Cores 28 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 12MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 100-119 GPixel/s 51-76 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 175-209 GTexel/s 128-190 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7600S +11%
11.2-13.4 TFLOPS
8.2-12.1 TFLOPS
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) 35-140 W (configurable)
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 6 nm 5 nm
Die Size 204 mm² 156 mm²
Transistor Count 13.3 billion 18.9 billion
Transistor Density 65.2 MTr/mm² 121.15 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 8 GB 6 GB
Memory Clock 2000 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 16000 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 96-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7600S +33%
256 GB/s
192 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA - 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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