AMD Radeon RX 7600 Review: Affordable RDNA3 For 1080p Gamers

We tested all of the graphics cards represented in this article on an ASUS ROG CROSSHAIR X670E HERO motherboard, equipped with a Ryzen 7 7800X3D CPU and 32GB of G.SKILL DDR5 RAM clocked at 6,000MHz. The first thing we did when configuring the test system was enter the UEFI and set all values to their "high performance" defaults, then we disabled any integrated peripherals that wouldn't be put to use and enabled Resizable BAR support. We dialed in memory clock to its optimal performance settings using its EXPO profile, then formatted the solid state drive and installed Windows 11 Professional before performing all updates. When the Windows installation was complete, we installed all of the drivers, applications and benchmark tools necessary to complete our tests.

Our Test System Configuration:

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Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D (4.2GHz - 5GHz, 8-Core) ASUS X670E Hero  32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 Samsung SSD 990 Integrated Audio / Network Intel Arc A770 LE Radeon RX 6600 XT Radeon RX 7600 Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 7600 Radeon RX 6700 XT MSI RTX 4060 Ti Gaming Trio X GeForce RTX 4060 Ti GeForce RTX 3060 Ti Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 22H2 AMD Radeon v23.10.01 NVIDIA Drivers v531.93 Intel Arc Driver v101.4369

Benchmarks Used: LuxMark v4 Blender v3.5.0 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v3 IndigoBench v4.4.15 UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition Company Of Heroes 3 Returnal Cyberpunk 2077 Far Cry 6 GOTY Edition F1 2022 Guardians Of The Galaxy

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LuxMark v4.0 Benchmarks

IndigoBench Rendering Benchmarks

The IndigoBench rendering benchmark has the AMD and Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 duking it out with Intel's Arc A770 LE, but clearly outgunning the Radeon RX 6600. The GeForce RTX 3060, however, was a notch ahead.

Blender v3.5.0 GPU Rendering Benchmarks

Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, even video editing and game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmarking tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests...

NVIDIA's cards have a clear and stark advantage in Blender, due to the application leveraging thier RT cores for a massive speed-up. That said, the AMD and Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 cards end up finishing right in between the Radeon RX 6600 and higher-end Radeon RX 6700 XT.

Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results

The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that tests the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW frames. The tool can be used to evaluate the performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL or CUDA on a GPU. We're reporting two results here, both at an 8K resolution, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.


We see more of the same in the BlackMagic Speed Test. Here, the AMD and Sapphire Radeon RX 7600 edge out the Radeon RX 6600 XT, but trail the RX 6700 XT and higher-end cards.