AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs 7600 XT

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 with 56 pipelines and 3584 shaders against the 1 year older 7600 XT 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
16 GB GDDR6
VS
16 GB GDDR6
94.9
(Very good)
Value Index
38.5
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 7600 XT over RX 9070
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 139 vs 68 FPS
  • 60% higher maximum theoretical performance (36.1 vs 22.6 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Has 2.2x higher memory bandwidth: 644.6 vs 288 GB/s
  • Achieves 73% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (149K vs 86K)
  • Has 75% more shading units (3584 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
229
156
137
102
141
81
67
46
The Witcher 3
240
216
159
84
131
109
78
42
Counter-Strike 2
307
215
158
84
206
140
103
52
Far Cry 6
192
163
148
95
111
97
73
43
Hogwarts Legacy
146
119
97
52
77
67
45
23
CoD: Modern Warfare III
219
212
157
107
107
98
68
41
Ghost of Tsushima
146
122
105
65
82
69
47
29
Cyberpunk 2077
174
149
102
47
83
70
45
19
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
262
248
188
99
140
120
84
42
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 213 120
1080p Ultra 178 95
1440p Ultra 139 68
4K Ultra 82 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 9070 +123%
22841
10250
Time Spy 26693 11136
Solar Bay 106118 44475
Port Royal 15939 5890
Fire Strike 60053 31732
Wild Life Extreme 48323 20437
Night Raid 177554 122566
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9070 +73%
149949
86899
Background Blur 377.5 img/sec 199.6 img/sec
Face Detection 221.3 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.4 Gpixels/sec 3.23 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.99 Gpixels/sec 4.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8.52 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.36 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 606 Gpixels/sec 292.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8521.2 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
n/a
5589

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9070 +46%
25366
17344
G2D Mark 1262 1026
DirectX 11 280 FPS 167 FPS
DirectX 12 73 FPS 67 FPS
GPU Compute 14799 Ops/s 8965 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 3038 & 2277 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9070 +119%
2776.63
1270.34
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 218 & 160 samples

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 9070 +84%
37056
20184
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 +108%
54866
26434
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 +83%
29946
16381
Image Classification (SP) 15375 9915
Image Segmentation (HP) 37834 10595
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43910 25345
Face Detection (HP) 67858 33847
Pose Estimation (Q) 172939 92252
Text Classification (SP) 4469 3842
Machine Translation (HP) 8499 4096
Object Detection (SP) 15393 7170
Depth Estimation (Q) 66890 43860
Style Transfer (SP) 365633 185627
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 and 7600 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 January 24, 2024
Launch price (MSRP) $549 $329
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 4.0 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Navi 48 Navi 33
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5070 - GeForce RTX 4060
Successor - - Radeon RX 9060 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i5 13600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (16th and 53rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1330 MHz 1980 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2755 MHz
Shading Units 3584 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 224 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 56 -
Tensor Cores 112 -
Ray-tracing Cores 56 32
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 8MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 4 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 323 GPixel/s 176 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 564 GTexel/s 353 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 +60%
36.1 TFLOPS
22.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 220 W 190 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 6 nm
Die Size 357 mm² 204 mm²
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 13 billion
Transistor Density 150.98 MTr/mm² 63.73 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9070 +124%
644.6 GB/s
288 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.2
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1

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