AMD Radeon RX 7600S vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Comparison

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 and AMD Radeon RX 7600S occupy different corners of the GPU landscape: one is a desktop card built for maximum throughput, the other a mobile part designed for efficiency. Benchmark data shows the RTX 3070 winning 9 of 10 head-to-head tests, with an average benchmark score of 17,208 against the RX 7600S’s 16,696. The RTX 3070 sits at the 61st percentile of all GPUs, while the RX 7600S is close behind at the 60th percentile. The RTX 3070’s nearest rival in the database is the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT, which scores 17,083, a mere 0.7% behind. The RX 7600S’s closest competitor is the NVIDIA T400 4 GB, which scores 16,792, putting the 7600S 0.6% behind that card. These are two very different products that happen to deliver similar overall performance rankings.

FAQ

Q: Which GPU has a higher average benchmark score?

A: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 has an average benchmark score of 17,208, while the AMD Radeon RX 7600S averages 16,696. That difference of roughly 512 points places the RTX 3070 ahead, though both cards land within the same performance percentile band (61st vs 60th).

Q: How does the RTX 3070 perform in DirectX 12 workloads compared to the RX 7600S?

A: In the 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 test, the RTX 3070 scores 3,162 versus the RX 7600S’s 1,888, a 67.5% advantage. In the Passmark DirectX 12 test, the RTX 3070 leads 85 to 65, a 30.8% margin.

Q: Are there any tests where the RX 7600S wins?

A: Yes. The RX 7600S wins the Geekbench Vulkan test decisively, scoring 73,868 against the RTX 3070’s 21,022. That represents a 71.5% swing in favor of the AMD card, making it the single biggest win for either GPU in the head-to-head results.

Q: What is the transistor density difference between the two chips?

A: The RTX 3070 uses Samsung’s 8 nm process with a transistor density of 44.4 million transistors per square millimeter. The RX 7600S uses TSMC’s 6 nm process, achieving a density of 65.2 million transistors per square millimeter. The RX 7600S packs more transistors into a smaller area despite having fewer total transistors (13,300 million vs 17,400 million).

Q: How do the shading unit counts compare?

A: The RTX 3070 has 5,888 shading units, while the RX 7600S has 1,792. The RTX 3070 also has more texture mapping units (184 vs 112) and render output units (96 vs 64).

Q: What is the power draw difference?

A: The RTX 3070 has a TDP of 220 W, while the RX 7600S is rated at 75 W. The RTX 3070 requires a 550 W suggested power supply and a 1x 12-pin power connector, whereas the RX 7600S is an IGP (integrated graphics processor) with no power connectors listed.

Where Each One Wins

The RTX 3070 is the clear winner in traditional rasterization and compute workloads. Its Passmark G3D score of 22,214 is 44.2% higher than the RX 7600S’s 15,408. In compute-heavy tasks, the gap widens further: the RTX 3070 scores 11,195 in Passmark GPU Compute, a 71.7% lead over the RX 7600S’s 6,520. Legacy DirectX APIs also favor NVIDIA heavily. The RTX 3070 beats the RX 7600S by 102.7% in DirectX 10 (150 vs 74), by 30% in DirectX 11 (182 vs 140), and by 17.1% in DirectX 9 (247 vs 211). Even in 2D tests, the RTX 3070 leads with a Passmark G2D score of 1,001 versus 776, a 29% difference.

The RX 7600S has exactly one win, but it is a substantial one. In Geekbench Vulkan, the AMD card posts 73,868 points against the RTX 3070’s 21,022. That 71.5% advantage suggests the RX 7600S has a significantly more efficient Vulkan implementation or that the mobile chip’s architecture is better optimized for that specific API workload. For users targeting Vulkan-based games or applications, the RX 7600S is the better choice despite losing nearly every other benchmark.

The RTX 3070 also dominates in OpenCL, scoring 112,821 versus 68,012, a 65.9% lead. This reinforces the pattern: NVIDIA wins compute and legacy graphics, AMD wins Vulkan. The data shows a clear split between the two cards’ strengths, with the RTX 3070 being the more versatile performer overall.

Architecture Differences

The RTX 3070 is built on NVIDIA’s Ampere architecture, using the GA104 chip manufactured by Samsung on an 8 nm process. The die measures 392 mm² and contains 17,400 million transistors, resulting in a density of 44.4 million transistors per square millimeter. Ampere introduces dedicated RT cores (46 on this chip) and tensor cores (184), enabling hardware-accelerated ray tracing and AI workloads. The FP32 performance is rated at 20.31 TFLOPS, with FP16 also at 20.31 TFLOPS, indicating a 1:1 ratio between the two precision formats.

The RX 7600S uses AMD’s RDNA 3.0 architecture, built on the Navi 33 chip (codename "Hotpink Bonefish") fabricated by TSMC on a 6 nm process. The die is significantly smaller at 204 mm² but packs 13,300 million transistors, yielding a higher density of 65.2 million transistors per square millimeter. RDNA 3.0 introduces 28 RT cores but has no tensor cores listed, meaning AI acceleration is handled differently than on the NVIDIA card. The FP32 performance is 15.77 TFLOPS, while FP16 reaches 31.54 TFLOPS, a 2:1 ratio that doubles the throughput for half-precision workloads.

The architectural philosophies diverge sharply. NVIDIA prioritizes raw FP32 throughput with a massive 5,888 shading units, while AMD uses fewer shading units (1,792) but achieves higher clock speeds — the RX 7600S boosts to 2,200 MHz versus the RTX 3070’s 1,725 MHz. Both cards support DirectX 12 Ultimate (12_2), OpenGL 4.6, and Vulkan 1.4, so API compatibility is identical. The memory subsystem also differs: the RTX 3070 uses a 256-bit bus with 448.0 GB/s bandwidth, while the RX 7600S uses a 128-bit bus with 256.0 GB/s bandwidth. Both have 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, but the NVIDIA card moves data nearly twice as fast.

Specification Differences

The two cards differ on nearly every measurable specification. The RTX 3070 has a base clock of 1,500 MHz and a boost clock of 1,725 MHz, while the RX 7600S matches the base at 1,500 MHz but boosts much higher to 2,200 MHz, with a game clock of 1,865 MHz. Memory clocks also differ: the RTX 3070 runs at 1,750 MHz with 14 Gbps effective, while the RX 7600S runs at 2,000 MHz with 16 Gbps effective.

The RTX 3070 has 5,888 shading units, 184 TMUs, 96 ROPs, 46 RT cores, and 184 tensor cores. The RX 7600S has 1,792 shading units, 112 TMUs, 64 ROPs, 28 RT cores, and no tensor cores. Pixel rates are 165.6 GPixel/s for the RTX 3070 versus 140.8 GPixel/s for the RX 7600S. Texture rates are 317.4 GTexel/s versus 246.4 GTexel/s.

Power and physical specs diverge completely. The RTX 3070 is a dual-slot card rated at 220 W with a 1x 12-pin power connector and a 550 W suggested PSU. The RX 7600S is an IGP rated at 75 W with no power connectors and no suggested PSU. The RTX 3070 measures 242 mm in length and 112 mm in height, while the RX 7600S has no listed dimensions. The RTX 3070 has display outputs of 1x HDMI 2.1 and 3x DisplayPort 1.4a; the RX 7600S’s outputs are listed as "Portable Device Dependent." The RTX 3070 launched on 2020-08-31 and is end-of-life, while the RX 7600S launched on 2023-01-03 and remains active. The RTX 3070 had a launch MSRP of 499 USD; the RX 7600S has no launch MSRP listed.

Head-to-Head Benchmarks

The largest win for the RTX 3070 comes in Passmark DirectX 10, where it scores 150 against the RX 7600S’s 74, a 102.7% advantage. That is the only test where the NVIDIA card more than doubles the AMD card’s score. The second-biggest margin is in Passmark GPU Compute, where the RTX 3070’s 11,195 beats the RX 7600S’s 6,520 by 71.7%. In 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12, the RTX 3070 scores 3,162 versus 1,888, a 67.5% lead. Geekbench OpenCL shows a 65.9% advantage for the RTX 3070, with scores of 112,821 and 68,012 respectively. The Passmark G3D test gives the RTX 3070 a 44.2% win, 22,214 to 15,408. Smaller but still decisive margins appear in Passmark DirectX 12 (85 vs 65, 30.8%), Passmark DirectX 11 (182 vs 140, 30%), and Passmark G2D (1,001 vs 776, 29%). The narrowest NVIDIA win is Passmark DirectX 9, where the RTX 3070 leads 247 to 211, a 17.1% margin.

The RX 7600S’s lone victory is extraordinary in scale. In Geekbench Vulkan, it scores 73,868 versus the RTX 3070’s 21,022. That 71.5% delta is larger than any other head-to-head margin in either direction. The result flips the expected hierarchy, suggesting that AMD’s RDNA 3.0 architecture has a significantly stronger Vulkan driver or hardware implementation. The data shows that while the RTX 3070 wins nine of ten tests, the RX 7600S is not without a compelling case for Vulkan-centric workloads. For everything else, the RTX 3070 remains the higher-performing card by a substantial margin.