AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs 7600 XT

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 XT with 64 pipelines and 4096 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
98.8
(Very good)
Value Index
38.5
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 7600 XT over RX 9070 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.6x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 2.2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 152 vs 68 FPS
  • 2.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (48.7 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 2.1x more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (182K vs 86K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (4096 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
242
169
149
109
141
81
67
46
The Witcher 3
267
237
167
89
131
109
78
42
Counter-Strike 2
325
224
163
82
206
140
103
52
Far Cry 6
198
176
163
104
111
97
73
43
Hogwarts Legacy
162
133
107
58
77
67
45
23
CoD: Modern Warfare III
240
232
174
118
107
98
68
41
Ghost of Tsushima
158
137
116
73
82
69
47
29
Cyberpunk 2077
190
171
119
53
83
70
45
19
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
280
265
207
107
140
120
84
42
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 229 120
1080p Ultra 194 95
1440p Ultra 152 68
4K Ultra 88 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 XT +156%
26251
10250
Time Spy 29556 11136
Solar Bay 122220 44475
Port Royal 18363 5890
Fire Strike 66319 31732
Wild Life Extreme 54672 20437
Night Raid 194947 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 XT +110%
182816
86899
Background Blur 427.4 img/sec 199.6 img/sec
Face Detection 251 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.77 Gpixels/sec 3.23 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 9.42 Gpixels/sec 4.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.35 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.42 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 651.4 Gpixels/sec 292.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 23630 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 9070 XT +797%
50113
5589

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9070 XT +55%
26913
17344
G2D Mark 1310 1026
DirectX 11 295 FPS 167 FPS
DirectX 12 77 FPS 67 FPS
GPU Compute 16100 Ops/s 8965 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 17863 & 2277 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9070 XT +159%
3287.07
1270.34
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1724 & 160 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9070 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-12 (luizmdd)Cinebench 202450113
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSGeekbench 6 OpenCL179283
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSSteel Nomad Light27505
📘 2025-10-15 (adv)Geekbench 6 OpenCL175418
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 9070 XT +94%
39190
20184
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 XT +111%
55727
26434
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 XT +105%
33599
16381
Image Classification (SP) 18001 9915
Image Segmentation (HP) 25174 10595
Image Super Resolution (Q) 45714 25345
Face Detection (HP) 74776 33847
Pose Estimation (Q) 196137 92252
Text Classification (SP) 5163 3842
Machine Translation (HP) 8677 4096
Object Detection (SP) 19602 7170
Depth Estimation (Q) 74879 43860
Style Transfer (SP) 411302 185627
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 XT and 7600 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 January 24, 2024
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $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 Ti - 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 (12th and 53rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1660 MHz 1980 MHz
Boost Clock 2970 MHz 2755 MHz
Shading Units 4096 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 256 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 64 -
Tensor Cores 128 -
Ray-tracing Cores 64 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 380 GPixel/s 176 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 760 GTexel/s 353 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 XT +115%
48.7 TFLOPS
22.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 304 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 XT +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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