AMD Radeon RX 7600S vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti Comparison

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The recorded data shows a clear overall victory for the AMD Radeon RX 7600S, which takes 7 of the 10 head-to-head benchmark comparisons. The most dramatic margin comes in Geekbench OpenCL, where the AMD card scores 68,012 against the GTX 1070 Ti's 49,219, a 38.2% advantage. This is not a marginal lead; it is a substantial gap that suggests the RDNA 3.0 architecture has a significant compute throughput advantage over the older Pascal design. The 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test tells a similar story, with the RX 7600S scoring 1,888 versus 1,471, a 28.3% win. DirectX 11 performance follows the same pattern, with the AMD card ahead by 30.8% (140 versus 107). DirectX 12 also favors the RX 7600S by 27.5% (65 versus 51), reinforcing the idea that modern API workloads play directly to the strengths of the newer architecture.

The Vulkan results are slightly closer but still firmly in AMD's favor: 73,868 versus 61,006, a 21.1% delta. Even the legacy DirectX 9 test shows a narrow AMD win at 1.9% (211 versus 207), which is nearly a tie but still a win. The PassMark G3D score, which aggregates general 3D rendering performance, gives the RX 7600S a 5% edge (15,408 versus 14,674). That is a modest but consistent lead across the board.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti does have its own victories, and they are worth examining. The most notable is PassMark GPU Compute, where NVIDIA wins 7,165 versus 6,520, a 9% advantage. This is curious because the OpenCL result strongly favors AMD, yet the PassMark compute test flips the outcome. The GTX 1070 Ti also wins PassMark DirectX 10 by 17.8% (90 versus 74), which may reflect driver optimization or architectural efficiency in that specific legacy API path. Finally, the GTX 1070 Ti takes PassMark G2D by 11.4% (876 versus 776), indicating better 2D or desktop composition performance in that particular test environment. These wins are real but concentrated in fewer workloads, and they do not offset the broader pattern of AMD dominance in modern APIs and compute benchmarks.

The average benchmark score reinforces the overall picture: the RX 7600S sits at 16,696 while the GTX 1070 Ti trails at 14,277. The AMD card also ranks at the 60th percentile among all GPUs in the database, compared to the 56th percentile for the NVIDIA card. That percentile difference is modest, but it aligns with the head-to-head deltas. In terms of nearest rivals, the RX 7600S is bracketed by the NVIDIA T400 4 GB (0.6% behind) and the GeForce RTX 5090 D V2 (1.2% ahead), while the GTX 1070 Ti sits near the Intel Iris Xe MAX (0.3% behind) and the AMD Radeon Vega 11 (0.5% behind). The database places these two cards in different performance neighborhoods, with the RX 7600S occupying a slightly higher tier.

FAQ

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

A: The AMD Radeon RX 7600S wins 7 out of 10 head-to-head tests, while the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti wins 3.

Q: What is the largest performance gap between the two cards?

A: The largest gap is in Geekbench OpenCL, where the RX 7600S scores 68,012 versus 49,219 for the GTX 1070 Ti, a 38.2% difference.

Q: In which tests does the GTX 1070 Ti outperform the RX 7600S?

A: The GTX 1070 Ti wins PassMark GPU Compute (7,165 versus 6,520, a 9% lead), PassMark DirectX 10 (90 versus 74, a 17.8% lead), and PassMark G2D (876 versus 776, an 11.4% lead).

Q: How do the two cards compare in Vulkan performance?

A: The RX 7600S leads in Geekbench Vulkan with a score of 73,868 versus 61,006, a 21.1% advantage.

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

A: The RX 7600S has an average benchmark score of 16,696, while the GTX 1070 Ti averages 14,277.

Q: Are the two cards close in overall database percentile ranking?

A: They are relatively close: the RX 7600S sits at the 60th percentile of all GPUs, and the GTX 1070 Ti sits at the 56th percentile.

Architecture Differences

The two GPUs come from different architectural eras and radically different design philosophies. The AMD Radeon RX 7600S is built on RDNA 3.0 and uses the Navi 33 chip, codenamed Hotpink Bonefish. It belongs to the Navi Mobile generation of the RX 7000M series. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti uses the Pascal architecture with the GP104 chip and belongs to the GeForce 10 series. The process node difference is significant: the RX 7600S uses a 6 nm process from TSMC, while the GTX 1070 Ti uses a 16 nm process, also from TSMC. This node advantage allows the AMD chip to pack 13,300 million transistors into a 204 mm² die, yielding a transistor density of 65.2 million transistors per square millimeter. The NVIDIA chip has 7,200 million transistors on a larger 314 mm² die, resulting in a much lower density of 22.9 million per square millimeter. The density ratio tells a story of modern manufacturing efficiency versus an older, bulkier design.

The memory subsystems differ as well. The RX 7600S uses 8 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 128-bit bus and 256.0 GB/s of bandwidth. The GTX 1070 Ti also has 8 GB, but it uses GDDR5 with a wider 256-bit bus and essentially identical bandwidth at 256.3 GB/s. Both cards deliver nearly the same bandwidth, but through very different implementations. The RX 7600S achieves this with a narrower bus and faster memory clocks, while the GTX 1070 Ti relies on a wider bus with slower memory.

Feature support is another major divider. The RX 7600S supports DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), which brings hardware ray tracing acceleration via 28 RT cores. The GTX 1070 Ti only supports DirectX 12 (12_1) and has no RT cores at all. The RX 7600S also has a significantly higher FP16 throughput at 31.54 TFLOPS (2:1 ratio), while the GTX 1070 Ti offers only 127.9 GFLOPS at a 1:64 ratio. This makes the AMD card vastly more capable for workloads that use half-precision math. The RX 7600S also records a much higher FP32 throughput at 15.77 TFLOPS versus 8.186 TFLOPS for the GTX 1070 Ti, nearly double the raw floating-point capability. The pixel rate favors AMD as well at 140.8 GPixel/s versus 107.7 GPixel/s, while the texture rates are closer: 246.4 GTexel/s for AMD versus 255.8 GTexel/s for NVIDIA. Neither card has tensor cores, so that field is null for both.

Specification Differences

The two cards diverge on nearly every specification except memory size and ROPS. Memory size is identical at 8 GB, and both have 64 ROPs. Beyond that, the differences are substantial. The RX 7600S has 1,792 shading units, 112 TMUs, and 28 RT cores, while the GTX 1070 Ti has 2,432 shading units and 152 TMUs but no RT cores. The NVIDIA card actually has more shading units and TMUs, yet it still loses in most benchmarks, which points to architectural efficiency and clock speed differences winning out over raw unit counts.

Clock speeds favor the AMD card at the boost level: the RX 7600S has a 1500 MHz base and a 2200 MHz boost, while the GTX 1070 Ti has a 1607 MHz base and a 1683 MHz boost. The AMD card also has a game clock of 1865 MHz, a specification that does not exist for the NVIDIA card. Memory clocks are effectively the same in raw MHz (2000 MHz versus 2002 MHz), but the effective data rates differ: 16 Gbps for AMD versus 8 Gbps for NVIDIA.

Power and physical characteristics are wildly different. The RX 7600S has a TDP of 75 W, is described as an IGP (integrated graphics package) with no power connectors, and is portable-device dependent for display outputs. The GTX 1070 Ti has a TDP of 180 W, is a dual-slot card, requires a single 8-pin power connector, and has a suggested PSU of 450 W. The NVIDIA card also has defined dimensions of 267 mm in length, 112 mm in height, and 40 mm in width, while the AMD card lists no physical dimensions. The bus interface differs too: PCIe 4.0 x16 for AMD versus PCIe 3.0 x16 for NVIDIA. The GTX 1070 Ti has specific display outputs (1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a), while the RX 7600S leaves outputs to the portable device. The production status also differs: the RX 7600S is active, while the GTX 1070 Ti is end-of-life. The release dates are far apart, with the GTX 1070 Ti launching in 2017 and the RX 7600S in 2023.

Where Each One Wins

The AMD Radeon RX 7600S is the clear choice for modern gaming and compute workloads. It dominates in DirectX 12, DirectX 11, Vulkan, and OpenCL, which are the APIs that matter for contemporary games and GPU-accelerated applications. The 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 result shows a 28.3% lead, and the Vulkan lead of 21.1% suggests that the RX 7600S handles low-level APIs with much greater efficiency. For users running current titles or doing OpenCL-based compute tasks, the data strongly favors the AMD card. The FP32 and FP16 throughput figures also make it the better pick for general compute and any workload that can exploit half-precision math.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 Ti wins in a narrower set of scenarios. Its PassMark GPU Compute victory (9% ahead) suggests that some compute workloads still favor the Pascal architecture, possibly due to driver scheduling or specific instruction patterns in that benchmark. The DirectX 10 win (17.8% ahead) makes it the better choice for older games or applications that still rely on that legacy API. The G2D win (11.4% ahead) indicates better 2D performance in the PassMark test, which could matter for desktop use or 2D applications. The GTX 1070 Ti also has the advantage of being a full-size, dual-slot desktop card with defined display outputs and a 450 W suggested PSU, making it a conventional drop-in solution for a desktop tower. The RX 7600S, by contrast, is an IGP-class mobile part with no power connectors and portable-device-dependent outputs, so it belongs in a laptop or a system designed around integrated graphics.

The Verdict

The benchmark data points decisively toward the AMD Radeon RX 7600S for overall performance. It wins 7 of 10 head-to-head tests, including all of the modern API benchmarks, and holds a 16.9% higher average benchmark score (16,696 versus 14,277). Its 60th percentile ranking versus the GTX 1070 Ti's 56th percentile confirms that the database considers it the stronger card. For anyone weighing these two purely on performance, the RX 7600S is the superior choice, especially for DirectX 12, Vulkan, and OpenCL workloads.

However, the GTX 1070 Ti is not without a case. It wins the compute test in PassMark, the DirectX 10 test, and the G2D test, and it has a wider memory bus and more shading units. For users running legacy DirectX 10 applications or specific compute tasks that align with its strengths, it remains competitive. Its end-of-life status and higher power draw (180 W versus 75 W) are drawbacks, but the data shows it can still hold its own in certain niches. The RX 7600S is the pick for modern gaming and future-proof API support, while the GTX 1070 Ti is a reasonable choice for legacy API workloads and specific compute scenarios where its PassMark compute advantage applies.