Radeon RX 7600S vs GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated119
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data35.16
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2024)RDNA 3.0 (2022−2024)
GPU code nameGA104Navi 33
Market segmentLaptopLaptop
Release date12 January 2021 (3 years ago)4 January 2023 (1 year ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores51201792
Core clock speed780 MHz1500 MHz
Boost clock speed1290 MHz2200 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 million13,300 million
Manufacturing process technology8 nm6 nm
Power consumption (TDP)80 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate206.4246.4
Floating-point processing power13.21 TFLOPS15.77 TFLOPS
ROPs8064
TMUs160112
Tensor Cores160no data
Ray Tracing Cores4028

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Laptop sizelargelarge
InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16PCIe 4.0 x16
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount8 GB8 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz2000 MHz
Memory bandwidth384.0 GB/s256.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display ConnectorsNo outputsPortable Device Dependent

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.56.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.02.2
Vulkan1.21.3
CUDA8.6-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 12 January 2021 4 January 2023
Chip lithography 8 nm 6 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 80 Watt 75 Watt

RX 7600S has an age advantage of 1 year, a 33.3% more advanced lithography process, and 6.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q and Radeon RX 7600S. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Max-Q
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