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I intitally started by writing CPU comparisons and since then have written articles of all kinds, from Wikis and How-Tos to dedicated CPU reviews. Currently, I test and review CPUs, motherboards, and sometimes, RAM.

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Pros And Cons

Comparison Table

Architectural Differences

1. Process Nodes: Both the ARC B580 and the RX 7600 use 5nm processing nodes.
2. Clock Speeds: The RX 7600 clocks between 1720MHz and 2655MHz, whereas the ARC B580 has a fixed clock speed of 2670MHz.
3. VRAM: The ARC B580 has 12GB of GDDR6 memory connected through a 192-bit bus, which is wider than the 128-bit bus of the RX 7600.
4. TDP: The TDP of the Battlemage graphics card is around 190 watts, much higher than the 165 watts of the RX 7600.
5. Supported Technologies: Upscaling, frame generation, and low latency solutions are present on both graphics cards, with the added benefit of those from AMD being open-source.

AMD used to be the king of the budget tier, partly because of how bad Nvidia had become with making cheap graphics cards. With the entry of Intel’s second-gen cards into the market, the position of AMD has been challenged. Let us see how they compare in the ARC B580 vs RX 7600 comparison!

Gaming Benchmarks – 1440p

The best way to represent how the cards compare is to see how they perform in modern games. To measure this, we have used a standard test bench, the specs of which you can take a look at below:

Test Bench

• Operating System – Windows 11
• CPU – AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D
• Mobo – MSI MPG X670E CARBON
• RAM – G. Skill Trident Z5 Neo RGB DDR5-6400 CL30
• CPU Cooler – Arctic Freezer 34 Esports Duo
• Storage – XPG GAMMIX S70 BLADE 2TB NVMe SSD
• Power Supply – Corsair RM850e Gold 850W (Fully Modular, 80+ Gold)

Star Wars Jedi: Survivor

• The first game that we tested ran about 18.6% better on the Intel card. It had a performance of around 51 FPS on average, which was much improved from the 43 FPS of the RX 7600.
• The minimums were about 11% better on the ARC B580, with the card going down to around 39 FPS in our testing, while the RX 7600 held at around 35 FPS.

A Plague Tale: Requiem

• The difference jumped to around 24.5% in our test of A Plague Tale, where the RX 7600 got an average of 45 FPS, while the ARC B580 held closer to around 56 FPS.
• The 1% lows were held at around 38 FPS with the RX 7600, while the ARC B580 ran this game with a minimum of about 45 FPS.

Cyberpunk 2077

• The B580 was close to 19% faster in this game, with a framerate of 63 FPS on average, while the RX 7600 got an average closer to about 53 FPS.
• The dips in performance were closer, with the B580 getting 1% lows of around 51 FPS, while the RX 7600 got a framerate of around 47 FPS, accounting for a difference of 8.5%.

Dying Light 2

• Our test of Dying Light 2 had an average framerate of 55 FPS with the B580, which was about 35% higher than the 41 FPS of the RX 7600.
• The 1% lows were around 31 FPS on the Radeon card, which was about 45% lower than the much smoother 45 FPS lows of the B580.

Dragon Age: The Veilguard

• This Dragon Age game ran with a framerate of around 24 FPS on the RX 7600, while the ARX B580 ran it 120% better with an average framerate closer to around 53 FPS.
• The minimums were an embarrassing 13 FPS on the AMD, while the ARC B580 was a whopping 231% faster with a framerate of around 43 FPS.

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered

• The performance in Spider-Man came close between these two cards, with the RX 7600 getting an average framerate of around 102 FPS, only 4% behind the ARC’s 106 FPS.
• Minimum framerates were also relatively close, with a framerate of 73 FPS on the RX 7600, whereas the B580 had a performance of 79 FPS, which is about 8% better.

Hogwarts Legacy

• Both the graphics cards were evenly matched in the average framerate of Hogwarts Legacy with a performance of 59 FPS.
• The 1% lows were also remarkably identical at 42 FPS. This sudden levelling of the playing field is either because the 7600 is very well optimized in this game or the ARC is poorly optimized.

The Last Of Us Part 1

• The average framerate of the ARC B580 was around 54 FPS in our test of this game, which was about 50% faster than the 36 FPS of the RX 7600.
• Minimum framerates were about 44 FPS on the B580, making it 120% better than the 20 FPS of the RX 7600.

Productivity Benchmarks

Recently, we’ve started to consider the productivity tests in our benchmarks to paint the fullest picture of the cards we compare. The tests in this section will be performed using the same testbench mentioned above.

UL Procyon

• UL Procyon, which is a benchmark specifically designed to emulate the performance of cards in real-world scenarios, performed over twice as well on the Intel card.
• The RX 7600 hovered around a performance of 708 points, while the ARC B580 got a performance closer to about 1490 points.

Handbrake

• When we tested AV1 encoding on Handbrake, the RX 7600 had an encoding speed of around 312 FPS, which was about 14% higher than the 273 FPS of the ARC B580.
• The performance of the Intel card was about 3% better when it came to traditional H.264 encoding, with a speed of 322 FPS instead of 312 on the Radeon card.

Blender

• Blender performed noticeably better on the Radeon card. It rendered our scene about 30% faster than the Battlemage GPU.
• The RX 7600 had a render time of about 234 seconds, whereas the B580 took around 305 seconds to complete the same render.

Overall Performance

Average Framerate

Our testing showed that the B580 was consistently more powerful than the RX 7600, at least regarding the average FPS. The B580 was significantly ahead in most games, with only one title being a tie between the two. The overall difference between the two was 23% in favour of the B580.

1% Lows

The RX 7600 seems to be bottlenecked because of its small memory buffer, which causes it to tank very hard in the 1% lows of some titles. This resulted in the ARC B580 being about 30% faster when it comes to the minimum framerates in the average of the games we ran.

Productivity

Though UL Procyon ran better on the Intel card, nothing else did to a significant amount. Yes, both the cards are comparable when it comes it encoding, but the Radeon card won by a very significant margin when it came to Blender. Overall, we think it would be fair to call this category a tie.

Power Consumption

In our testing, we noticed that the Radeon card consumed less power than the Intel one. Our estimates showed that the RX 7600 took around 10% less power than the ARC B580. This isn’t a huge difference, especially considering the difference in performance, but it might matter if you don’t have any power headroom.

Temperature

Price And Value

The launch MSRP and current RX 7600 and ARX B580 prices seem to have flipped, with the 7600 going from being $20 more expensive to about $20 cheaper. Still, depending on the OEM, both these cards are of very comparable price, which makes the performance of the B580 that much more impressive.

What We Recommend

Radeon RX 7600: The RX 7600 did perform adequately for the price before the new Intel cards came out, but a new standard has been set in the market. Currently, the RX 7600 is beaten where it matters by the Intel ARC B580, which makes it very hard to recommend this card.

Intel ARC B580: There is a fair bit of controversy regarding this card, with claims being made that it does not perform well with lower-end processors. However, if you trust Intel to improve the capability of this card with cheaper processors, the ARC B580 is the obvious choice in this comparison.

The extra performance the ARX B580 gives for a similar price is too much to give up, even if the 7600 might take back a little less power. For this reason, it has earned our recommendation in the ARC B580 Vs RX 7600 comparison.

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Ali

[Hardware Reviewer]

Hi! I’m Ali Tauseef, and I have been writing for Tech4Gamers since 2022. I love all things computer hardware but am particularly fond of CPUs and motherboards, and I like to stay up-to-date about the latest advancements in these worlds, and when possible, write about it. When I’m not doing that, I like to get into a little FPS action in CS2 or get lost in the vast world of RDR2.

Get In Touch: ali@tech4gamers.com