AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT vs GeForce RTX 3050

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB with 2048 shaders against the 2 years older GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB that utilizes 20 pipelines and 2560 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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
38.5
(Mediocre)
Value Index
47.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 3050 over RX 7600 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7600 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 61%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (22.6 vs 9.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 62% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 68 vs 42 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 6 nm process technology
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Has 29% higher memory bandwidth: 288 vs 224 GB/s
  • Achieves 30% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (86K vs 67K)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3050
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
  • Has 25% more shading units (2560 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
141
81
67
46
92
53
43
26
The Witcher 3
131
109
78
42
90
70
49
24
Counter-Strike 2
206
140
103
52
139
101
72
31
Far Cry 6
111
97
73
43
76
66
49
25
Hogwarts Legacy
77
67
45
23
49
38
30
13
CoD: Modern Warfare III
107
98
68
41
59
49
35
22
Ghost of Tsushima
82
69
47
29
46
35
28
15
Cyberpunk 2077
83
70
45
19
48
45
26
11
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
140
120
84
42
80
73
49
25
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 120 75
1080p Ultra 95 59
1440p Ultra 68 42
4K Ultra 37 21
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 7600 XT +61%
10250
6348
Time Spy 11136 6235
Solar Bay 44475 30191
Port Royal 5890 3546
Fire Strike 31732 15967
Wild Life Extreme 20437 12795
Night Raid 122566 74854
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 7600 XT +30%
86899
67028
Background Blur 199.6 img/sec 110.4 img/sec
Face Detection 106.8 img/sec 64.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.23 Gpixels/sec 2.87 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.3 Gpixels/sec 3.76 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 3.92 Gpixels/sec 2.89 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1 Gpixels/sec 0.81 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 292.4 Gpixels/sec 270.9 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 10709.1 FPS 9339.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 7600 XT +18%
5589
4722

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 7600 XT +39%
17344
12471
G2D Mark 1026 916
DirectX 11 167 FPS 90 FPS
DirectX 12 67 FPS 59 FPS
GPU Compute 8965 Ops/s 6415 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 2277 & 9379 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
1270.34
RTX 3050 +15%
1462.18
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 160 & 1092 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7600 XT
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 3050
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitryCinebench 20244722
📘 2026-04-21 -> DmitryDmitrySteel Nomad Light6237

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 7600 XT +70%
20184
11848
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7600 XT +24%
26434
21368
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7600 XT +107%
16381
7905
Image Classification (SP) 9915 4958
Image Segmentation (HP) 10595 12747
Image Super Resolution (Q) 25345 9816
Face Detection (HP) 33847 22467
Pose Estimation (Q) 92252 41362
Text Classification (SP) 3842 2563
Machine Translation (HP) 4096 3721
Object Detection (SP) 7170 5929
Depth Estimation (Q) 43860 18361
Style Transfer (SP) 185627 84665
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7600 XT and GeForce RTX 3050

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 24, 2024 January 27, 2022
Launch price (MSRP) $329 $249
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Entry-level
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ampere
GPU Codename Navi 33 GA106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4060 -
Successor - Radeon RX 9060 XT -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13600K or above - Intel Core i5 12400 or above
Desktop GPU rating (53rd and 71st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1980 MHz 1552 MHz
Boost Clock 2755 MHz 1777 MHz
Shading Units 2048 2560
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 80
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 32
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 20
Tensor Cores - 80
Ray-tracing Cores 32 20
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 2MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 176 GPixel/s 57 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 353 GTexel/s 142 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7600 XT +148%
22.6 TFLOPS
9.1 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x8 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 190 W 130 W
Manufacturing TSMC Samsung
Fabrication Process 6 nm 8 nm
Die Size 204 mm² 276 mm²
Transistor Count 13 billion 12 billion
Transistor Density 63.73 MTr/mm² 43.48 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 14000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7600 XT +29%
288 GB/s
224 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA - 8.6
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 2
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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