AMD Radeon RX 7600 Linux Performance

Unfortunately the NVIDIA Linux driver has been hanging when Cyberpunk 2077 finishes the benchmarking run with the GameThread process left running, so for this Steam Play testing are just the results of Cyberpunk on the Radeon GPUs with RADV.

The Radeon RX 7600 can comfortably run Cyberpunk 2077 on Linux at 1080p with ultra quality settings.

The Radeon RX 7600 was pulling 109 Watts on average while running Cyberpunk 2077 with a peak of 175 Watts.

In Cyberpunk 2077 on Linux the Radeon RX 7600 was delivering leading value of the tested AMD GPUs.

When taking the geometric mean of all the benchmarks that successfully ran on each of the GPUs tested, here is how the performance looks. The Radeon RX 7600 overall came out to being 19% faster than the Radeon RX 6600. However, this geo mean also puts the Radeon RX 7600 at effectively the same speed as the Radeon RX 6600 XT. This also is similar to the performance of the aging Radeon VII and RX 5700 XT graphics cards for reference. Or around twice the performance of the Radeon RX 590 Polaris graphics card.

The performance of the Radeon RX 7600 alone isn't particularly exciting but at least it's launching at the competitive price point of $269 USD. For Linux gamers/enthusiasts the Radeon RX 7600 is made more exciting by having good out-of-the-box Linux support at launch -- you can run it even out-of-the-box on Ubuntu 23.04! So now that the open-source RDNA3 driver support has matured and is all upstream for a while, it's a much smoother Linux experience than when the Radeon RX 7900 series first shipped. Another great aspect of the Radeon RX 7600 is being a $269 graphics card that supports accelerated AV1 video encoding.

So while this may not be the most compelling AMD Radeon graphics card in recent times, it does have its advantages especially for Linux/open-source users. We'll see beginning tomorrow how many Radeon RX 7600 graphics cards become available around the $269 price point.