NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 vs. AMD Radeon RX 7600 Linux Gaming Performance

For those wondering about the thermals for this MSI Ventus RTX 4060, across the wide range of benchmarks conducted the GeForce RTX 4060 on average was running at around 62 degrees under load with a peak of 69 degrees. The Radeon RX 7600 reference card was running with a 71 degree average and 77 peak temperature.

Across the wide range of benchmarks conducted, the Radeon RX 7600 did a better job at hitting lower power draw during the brief moments of idle between benchmark runs. But on average the GeForce RTX 4060 was consuming less power than the Radeon RX 7600. The GeForce RTX 4060 across the span of games had an average power consumption of 98 Watts and a peak of 118 Watts compared to the Radeon RX 7600 at around a 111 Watt average and 134 peak.

The advantage for the Radeon RX 7600 meanwhile is having the fully open-source Linux graphics driver stack and costing significantly less than the RTX 4060. The Radeon RX 7600 is priced starting at $249, which was a drop in the lead-up to the RTX 4060 launch, while the GeForce RTX 4060 starts out at $299.

That's the short introduction into the GeForce RTX 4060 versus Radeon RX 7600 performance under Linux. Stay tuned to Phoronix for more Linux benchmarks -- both for more gaming tests and GPU compute with more graphics cards -- on Phoronix over the days/weeks ahead and apologies for the delay due to NVIDIA's lack of cooperation.