AMD Radeon RX 7600S vs AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The recorded data shows a decisive two-test comparison, with the AMD Radeon RX 7600S winning both head-to-head benchmarks against the AMD Radeon RX Vega 11. The Geekbench OpenCL test places the RX 7600S at 68,012 points versus 12,525 for the Vega 11, a delta of 443%. That is not a marginal gap; it is a generational chasm. In raw compute terms, the RX 7600S delivers roughly five and a half times the OpenCL performance of the Vega 11, which aligns with the massive differences in shading units, clock speeds, and memory architecture between the two parts.

The Vulkan result is even more lopsided. The RX 7600S scores 73,868, while the Vega 11 manages 13,543, producing a delta of 445.4%. Here the RX 7600S is nearly 5.5 times faster. Vulkan tends to scale well with both shader count and memory bandwidth, and the RX 7600S has both in overwhelming abundance. The Vega 11, as an integrated graphics solution sharing system memory, simply cannot keep pace in a modern low-level API workload.

What is worth noting is the context of these scores within each GPU's broader benchmark profile. The RX 7600S has an average benchmark score of 16,696 across all recorded tests, while the Vega 11 averages 14,385. That average gap of roughly 16% is far smaller than the head-to-head deltas would suggest, because the two GPUs are measured across very different test suites. The RX 7600S runs a full set of DirectX and PassMark tests, while the Vega 11 only has three Geekbench entries in the database. The head-to-head comparison therefore isolates the one common workload domain, and there the RX 7600S dominates without exception.

The wins tally is clean: 2 wins for the RX 7600S, 0 for the Vega 11. No test in the shared set goes the other way. The closest the Vega 11 comes to competitiveness is in relative terms, but even its better result, the Vulkan score, still trails by over four hundred percentage points. The data does not support any interpretation where the Vega 11 is competitive in these workloads.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU wins the head-to-head benchmarks?

A: The AMD Radeon RX 7600S wins both recorded head-to-head tests. It scores 68,012 in Geekbench OpenCL versus 12,525 for the AMD Radeon RX Vega 11 (443% higher), and 73,868 in Geekbench Vulkan versus 13,543 (445.4% higher).

Q: How much faster is the RX 7600S in Vulkan?

A: The RX 7600S achieves a 445.4% higher score in Geekbench Vulkan, going from 13,543 on the Vega 11 to 73,868. This is the larger of the two deltas in the head-to-head set.

Q: Does the Vega 11 win any benchmark in the comparison?

A: No. The head-to-head data records 2 wins for the RX 7600S and 0 wins for the Vega 11 across the two shared tests (Geekbench OpenCL and Geekbench Vulkan).

Q: What is the average benchmark score for each GPU?

A: The RX 7600S has an average benchmark score of 16,696, while the Vega 11 averages 14,385. The RX 7600S is higher, but the gap in averages is much smaller than the head-to-head deltas because the test suites differ.

Q: How do the two GPUs rank against all other GPUs?

A: The RX 7600S sits at the 60th percentile of all GPUs, while the Vega 11 sits at the 56th percentile. Both are mid-pack, but the RX 7600S is four percentile points higher.

Q: What are the nearest rivals for each GPU in the database?

A: For the RX 7600S, the nearest rivals are the NVIDIA T400 4 GB (average score 16,792, delta -0.6%), NVIDIA T400 (16,508, delta 1.1%), NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 (16,504, delta 1.2%), and NVIDIA Tesla M4 (16,932, delta -1.4%). For the Vega 11, the nearest rivals are the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN (14,373, delta 0.1%), NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M (14,404, delta -0.1%), AMD Radeon Vega 11 (14,352, delta 0.2%), and Intel Iris Xe MAX Graphics (14,315, delta 0.5%).

The Verdict

The data points to a single conclusion: the AMD Radeon RX 7600S is the substantially stronger GPU in every measured dimension where the two overlap. Its head-to-head wins are not close, with deltas of 443% and 445.4% in OpenCL and Vulkan respectively. Anyone needing compute performance, modern API support, or high-end mobile graphics should choose the RX 7600S without hesitation, based strictly on these recorded numbers.

The Vega 11, however, is not without a role. Its average benchmark score of 14,385 places it within a tight cluster of older discrete GPUs like the NVIDIA GeForce GTX TITAN (14,373) and the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 965M (14,404), with deltas of 0.1% and -0.1% respectively. That means the Vega 11 is statistically indistinguishable from those parts in the database's average scoring. For a system that already has a Picasso-based APU, the Vega 11 provides a baseline level of graphics capability that matches early-to-mid-2010s discrete cards, without requiring a separate graphics card.

The RX 7600S, by contrast, competes with the NVIDIA T400 family and even the RTX 5090 D V2 in average score, sitting within 1.2% of those parts. Its 60th percentile rank versus the Vega 11's 56th percentile further confirms its higher standing. The verdict is therefore straightforward: the RX 7600S for anyone who needs real GPU throughput, the Vega 11 only for legacy integrated systems where the performance bar is already low.

Specification Differences

The two GPUs differ across nearly every fundamental specification. The RX 7600S uses a 6 nm process node from TSMC, while the Vega 11 uses a 12 nm node from GlobalFoundries. Transistor counts diverge sharply: 13,300 million for the RX 7600S versus 4,940 million for the Vega 11. Die size is similar in absolute terms, 204 mm² versus 210 mm², but transistor density tells the story: 65.2M per mm² for the RX 7600S versus 23.5M per mm² for the Vega 11.

Clock speeds are incomparable. The RX 7600S has a base clock of 1500 MHz, a boost clock of 2200 MHz, and a game clock of 1865 MHz. The Vega 11 has a base clock of 300 MHz and a boost clock of 1400 MHz, with no game clock listed. Memory is another major split: the RX 7600S has 8 GB of GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus with 256.0 GB/s bandwidth and a memory clock of 2000 MHz (16 Gbps effective), while the Vega 11 uses system shared memory with system dependent bandwidth and no dedicated memory clock.

Compute resources differ by multiples. The RX 7600S has 1792 shading units, 112 texture mapping units, and 64 raster output units. The Vega 11 has 704 shading units, 44 TMUs, and 8 ROPs. The RX 7600S also includes 28 ray tracing cores, while the Vega 11 has none. Pixel rate is 140.8 GPixel/s for the RX 7600S versus 11.20 GPixel/s for the Vega 11. Texture rate is 246.4 GTexel/s versus 61.60 GTexel/s. FP32 throughput is 15.77 TFLOPS versus 1.971 TFLOPS, and FP16 is 31.54 TFLOPS (2:1) versus 3.942 TFLOPS (2:1).

Power consumption is also very different: 75 W for the RX 7600S versus 15 W for the Vega 11. Both are listed as IGP slot width with no power connectors. The bus interface differs, with PCIe 4.0 x16 for the RX 7600S and IGP for the Vega 11. Display outputs are portable device dependent for the RX 7600S and motherboard dependent for the Vega 11.

Architecture Differences

The architectural gap is generational. The RX 7600S is built on RDNA 3.0, part of the Radeon RX 7000 series, using the Navi 33 chip with the codename "Hotpink Bonefish" and the Navi Mobile (RX 7000M) generation. The Vega 11 uses GCN 5.0, based on the Picasso chip, in the Vega IGP (Picasso) generation. The RX 7600S is an active production part released in early 2023, while the Vega 11 is end-of-life, released in mid-2019.

API support reflects the newer architecture. The RX 7600S supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4. The Vega 11 supports DirectX 12 (12_1), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.3. The DirectX feature level difference, 12_2 versus 12_1, is significant because it governs access to modern rendering features like mesh shaders and variable rate shading, which the RX 7600S can handle and the Vega 11 cannot.

Ray tracing is a hard architectural divide. The RX 7600S has 28 dedicated ray tracing cores, which are absent entirely from the Vega 11. This is not a performance delta but a feature presence difference: the RX 7600S can accelerate ray-traced workloads in hardware, while the Vega 11 has no such capability. Similarly, the RX 7600S's FP16 performance at 31.54 TFLOPS (2:1) is double its FP32 rate, a characteristic of RDNA 3.0's shader design, whereas the Vega 11's FP16 at 3.942 TFLOPS (2:1) is also double its FP32 but from a much lower base.

The predecessor and successor lineage also differs. The RX 7600S succeeds Polaris Mobile and has no successor listed. The Vega 11 succeeds GCN 3.0 IGP and has a successor in Vega II IGP. This places the RX 7600S at the leading edge of its mobile lineup, while the Vega 11 sits as an older integrated solution that has already been replaced. The process node advantage, 6 nm versus 12 nm, combined with the newer architecture, explains why the RX 7600S achieves over eight times the FP32 throughput despite only a 5x difference in transistor count. The Vega 11's larger die per transistor ratio is a direct consequence of the older, less dense manufacturing process.