Radeon RX 7600 vs GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

Compare the Radeon RX 7600 and GeForce RTX 3050 8GB on real gaming benchmarks, full specifications, live retailer prices and performance-per-dollar, then jump straight to the cheapest in-stock version of either card.

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The short answer

The Radeon RX 7600 is the better buy here: it's both faster at 1080p and gives more performance per dollar.

  • Radeon RX 7600 is about 59% faster at 1080p (gaming index 41 vs 26).
  • GeForce RTX 3050 8GB is the cheaper card right now, by roughly 19%.
  • Radeon RX 7600 delivers about 33% more frames per dollar at 1080p.
  • GeForce RTX 3050 8GB draws less power (130W vs 165W), so it runs cooler and asks less of your PSU.

Gaming performance

Gaming score: geometric mean of in-game FPS, normalized so the RTX 5090 = 100. Switch resolution with the toggle above.

1080p gaming
Radeon RX 760041
GeForce RTX 3050 8GB26

Radeon RX 7600 is about 59% faster at 1080p.

Performance per dollar

1080p gaming score for every $100 of the card’s current cheapest price. Higher is better value.

Radeon RX 7600

13.1

per $100 spent

Better value

GeForce RTX 3050 8GB

9.8

per $100 spent

Specs head-to-head

Radeon RX 7600
GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
Price (from)
$309.99
$259.99
1080p gaming index
41
26
VRAM
8GB GDDR6
8GB GDDR6
Memory bandwidth
288 GB/s
224 GB/s
Boost clock
2655 MHz
1777 MHz
Shader cores
2,048
2,560
Ray tracing cores
32
20
Tensor / AI cores
64
80
TDP
165W
130W
Recommended PSU
550W
550W
Upscaling
FSR 4.1 (ML upscaling), FSR 3 Frame Generation
DLSS Super Resolution, Ray Reconstruction
Architecture
RDNA 3 Navi 33
Ampere GA106
Process node
TSMC N6
Samsung 8N
MSRP
$269.00
$249.00

Productivity & compute

Radeon RX 7600
GeForce RTX 3050 8GB
3DMark Steel Nomad (points)
2,312
1,337
Geekbench 7 OpenCL (points)
87,232
53,261
PassMark G3D (G3D Mark)
16,455
12,480
Render-Blender (samples/min)
1,265
1,468

Where to buy

Radeon RX 7600from $309.99
From$309.99
5 versions in stock
GeForce RTX 3050 8GBfrom $259.99
From$259.99
3 versions in stock

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