AMD Radeon RX 7600M vs RX 7600S: Which is best for gaming laptops?

The Radeon RX 7600M and RX 7600S are two offerings from AMD that are designed to compete with Nvidia's RTX 4060 laptop GPU. People might be confused about the two AMD graphics cards since they sport the same model number but with a different M or S suffix at the end.

What do these letters mean, and which Radeon GPU is best for gaming laptops? That's exactly what we plan to find in this article.

Note: Some aspects of this article are subjective and reflect the writer's opinions.

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AMD Radeon RX 7600M vs RX 7600S

The AMD Radeon RX 7600M and RX 7600S graphics chipsets are designed for mid-range gaming laptops that are available around the $1,000 mark. Let's compare the specs of the two GPUs before we check out their performance difference.

Specs comparison

AMD Ryzen CPU with Radeon RX 7600S GPU (Image via AMD)

Here are the specs of the two laptop GPUs:

Specifications	AMD Radeon RX 7600M	AMD Radeon RX 7600S
Architecture	RDNA 3	RDNA 3
Shader cores	1792	1792
RT cores	28	28
TMUs	112	112
ROPs	64	64
Base clock speed	1500 MHz	1500 MHz
Boost clock speed	2410 MHz	2200 MHz
VRAM size	8 GB	8 GB
VRAM bus width	128-bit	128-bit
VRAM bandwidth	256 GB/s	256 GB/s
Thermal design power (TDP)	90W	75W

The reason the model numbers of the two GPUs, 7600, are the same is that these two chipsets are nearly identical. The only differences between them are the boost clock speed and TDP. The AMD Radeon RX 7600M variant has higher clock speeds.

Higher boost clock speeds lead to more power consumption, hence more TDP.

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Performance comparison

ASUS TUF Gaming A16 Advantage Edition (Image via AMD)

There are a couple of laptops available with the Radeon RX 7600S, but none has been released with the AMD RX 7600M. So, we cannot do a game comparison between them.

However, since the two GPUs have almost the same specs with only a 210 MHz boost clock difference between them, their performance will be quite similar.

Let's look at the theoretical performance difference between the two graphics chipsets to determine which is the better.

Theoretical performance of the GPU	AMD Radeon RX 7600M	AMD Radeon RX 7600S
FP16 (Half-precision) workloads	34550 GFLOPS	31540 GFLOPS
FP32 (Single-precision) workloads	17270 GFLOPS	15770 GFLOPS
FP64 (Double-precision) workloads	539.8 GFLOPS	492.8 GFLOPS

Based on the theoretical performance workloads, the AMD RX 7600M is around 9.5% faster than the RX 7600S, which is not a big deal. On top of that, theoretical performance doesn't always translate into gaming performance.

Therefore, the gaming performance of the Radeon RX 7600M could only be around 5% higher than the RX 7600S or even less. This explains why we haven't seen any laptops featuring the former GPU. After all, there's no point in releasing laptops with this graphics chipset if it's only around 5 - 9% faster than the RX 7600S.

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Final verdict

The AMD Radeon RX 7600M is the best GPU for gaming laptops. It is 9.5% faster, but since it's such a small difference, this shouldn't matter. Either one of them should be fine.