AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT vs 7600 XT

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB with 3456 shaders against the 4 months newer 7600 XT 16 GB that utilizes 2048 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
12 GB GDDR6
VS
16 GB GDDR6
59.4
(Average)
Value Index
38.5
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 7600 XT over RX 7700 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7700 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 46%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 46% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 99 vs 68 FPS
  • 56% higher maximum theoretical performance (35.2 vs 22.6 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
  • Has 50% higher memory bandwidth: 432 vs 288 GB/s
  • Achieves 53% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (132K vs 86K)
  • Has 69% more shading units (3456 vs 2048)
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7600 XT
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
186
117
96
70
141
81
67
46
The Witcher 3
179
152
113
61
131
109
78
42
Counter-Strike 2
268
195
134
74
206
140
103
52
Far Cry 6
145
131
110
63
111
97
73
43
Hogwarts Legacy
106
89
69
39
77
67
45
23
CoD: Modern Warfare III
148
143
102
64
107
98
68
41
Ghost of Tsushima
111
90
73
44
82
69
47
29
Cyberpunk 2077
115
103
65
31
83
70
45
19
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
192
176
130
67
140
120
84
42
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 161 120
1080p Ultra 133 95
1440p Ultra 99 68
4K Ultra 57 37
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
RX 7700 XT +46%
14970
10250
Time Spy 17109 11136
Solar Bay 65104 44475
Port Royal 9114 5890
Fire Strike 42722 31732
Wild Life Extreme 30428 20437
Night Raid 147320 122566
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 7700 XT +53%
132843
86899
Background Blur 285.8 img/sec 199.6 img/sec
Face Detection 181.6 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 4.9 Gpixels/sec 3.23 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 6.66 Gpixels/sec 4.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.68 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.18 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 493 Gpixels/sec 292.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 19410.5 FPS 10709.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 7700 XT +60%
8946
5589

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 7700 XT +31%
22743
17344
G2D Mark 1157 1026
DirectX 11 232 FPS 167 FPS
DirectX 12 83 FPS 67 FPS
GPU Compute 12985 Ops/s 8965 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2935 & 2277 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 7700 XT +66%
2108.86
1270.34
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 268 & 160 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7700 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-17 (MadDog9912)Geekbench 6 OpenCL135040
Radeon RX 7600 XT
No benchmark results yet

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 7700 XT +27%
25719
20184
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7700 XT +14%
30075
26434
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7700 XT +21%
19789
16381
Image Classification (SP) 11284 9915
Image Segmentation (HP) 14150 10595
Image Super Resolution (Q) 27972 25345
Face Detection (HP) 35311 33847
Pose Estimation (Q) 142235 92252
Text Classification (SP) 3836 3842
Machine Translation (HP) 4471 4096
Object Detection (SP) 12084 7170
Depth Estimation (Q) 49197 43860
Style Transfer (SP) 301429 185627
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7700 XT and 7600 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released September 6, 2023 January 24, 2024
Launch price (MSRP) $449 $329
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Navi 32 Navi 33
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB - GeForce RTX 4060
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 - Radeon RX 9060 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i7 13700K or above - Intel Core i5 13600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (34th and 53rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1435 MHz 1980 MHz
Boost Clock 2544 MHz 2755 MHz
Shading Units 3456 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 216 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 64
Ray-tracing Cores 54 32
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 4 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 244 GPixel/s 176 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 550 GTexel/s 353 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7700 XT +56%
35.2 TFLOPS
22.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 245 W 190 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 6 nm
Die Size 346 mm² 204 mm²
Transistor Count 28 billion 13 billion
Transistor Density 80.92 MTr/mm² 63.73 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 12 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7700 XT +50%
432 GB/s
288 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.2
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1 2.1

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