AMD Radeon RX 7600 vs AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

AMD Radeon RX 7600

The AMD Radeon RX 7600 is a mid-range desktop GPU and is manufactured using the 6 nm process at TSMC. The graphics processor has 2,048 shader units and 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM with a 128-bit interface (18 Gbps, 288 GB/s).

Features

As a smaller model based on the RDNA3 architecture, AMD is launching its first mid-range model, the Radeon RX 7600. The AMD Radeon RX 7600 replaces the AMD Radeon RX 6600 and offers slightly improved performance. In terms of features, the Navi 33 chip can fall back on the established features of the top models. For ray tracing, the Navi 33 chip now offers 32 RT cores and therefore slightly more performance than the AMD Radeon RX 6600, which is only equipped with 28 RT cores.

Performance

The performance of the AMD Radeon RX 7600 is comparable with an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 comparable. In the internal duel, the RX 7600 surpasses the performance of an AMD Radeon RX 6600 noticeably. In fact, the AMD Radeon RX 7600 duels with an AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT. This makes the AMD Radeon RX 7600 ideally suited for 1,080p gaming in 2023.

Power consumption

The power consumption of the AMD Radeon RX 7600 is specified by the manufacturer at 165 watts (TGP). This is slightly less than an AMD Radeon RX 6650 XT, but significantly more than an Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060.

AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

The AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT is a high end desktop graphics card based on the RDNA 3 architecture. It uses the Navi 31 Chip with consists out of a Graphics Compute Die (GCD) manufactured in 5nm and five (out of six) Memory Cache Dies (MCD chiplets) in 6nm. The 7900 XT offers 5.376 cores clocked at up to 2.4 GHz (max, 2 GHz game average), 80 MB Infinity Cache (L3 cache) and 20 GB GDDR6 graphics memory with a 320 Bit memory bus and 20 Gbps effective speed.

The average gaming performance is slightly below the GeForce RTX 4080 in games (without raytracing). Therefore, the RX 7900 XT is best suited for QHD (for higher frame rates) up to 4K resolution and maximum detail settings of 2022 games. Raytracing performance is still a bit lower than with Nvidia cards, but a big step up from the previous generation.

The integrated video en- and decoders support AV1, H.264, and HEVC videos wit up to 8K resolution. The display ports are a big advantage of the new chip supporting DisplayPort 2.1 with UHBR13.5 for up to 54 Gbps bandwidth (up to 8K 165 Hz with DSC possible).

The power consumption is rated 315 Watt and in our tests similar to the RTX 4080.