AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT vs GeForce RTX 4060
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AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT
Navi 22
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
AD107
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 6700 XT 12 GB with 2560 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months newer GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.
Review
Gaming
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, and Vulkan games
Workstation
Perf. in 3D modeling, video editing and rendering apps
AI/ML
Capabilities for machine learning and AI-related tasks
Energy Efficiency
Power consumption efficiency in different scenarios
NanoReview Final Score
Overall video card score
Value for money (Beta)
Key differences
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6700 XT
- Shows 10% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 76 vs 69 FPS
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
- Has 41% higher memory bandwidth: 384 vs 272 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
- Manufactured using a more efficient 5 nm process technology
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 158 93 74 53 |
128 78 66 47 |
| The Witcher 3 | 145 122 88 45 |
143 117 82 44 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 229 156 111 61 |
208 157 111 58 |
| Far Cry 6 | 121 106 82 50 |
105 98 76 45 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 85 74 53 27 |
78 65 47 26 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 118 113 75 50 |
98 90 64 43 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 91 73 56 30 |
73 61 45 27 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 91 80 47 21 |
82 75 43 22 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 153 139 95 48 |
128 119 85 46 |
| 1080p High | 132 | 116 |
| 1080p Ultra | 106 | 96 |
| 1440p Ultra | 76 | 69 |
| 4K Ultra | 43 | 40 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 12818 | 10615 |
| Solar Bay | 50228 | 49340 |
| Port Royal | 6206 | 6054 |
| Fire Strike | 35843 | 28540 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 22931 | 20610 |
| Night Raid | 130269 | 121368 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 245.8 img/sec | 186.9 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 153.3 img/sec | 112.7 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.99 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 5.82 Gpixels/sec | 5.16 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 4.37 Gpixels/sec | 4.94 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.01 Gpixels/sec | 1.34 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 474.4 Gpixels/sec | 446.2 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13872.6 FPS | 14935.1 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 954 | 1036 |
| DirectX 11 | 173 FPS | 174 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 77 FPS | 76 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 9235 Ops/s | 9156 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 6700 XT
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 4060
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand) | GeekBench | 105636 |
| 📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand) | Cinebench 2024 | 10606 |
Artificial Intelligence Tests
Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasksGeekBench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
| Image Classification (SP) | 9076 | 7696 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 10972 | 13706 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 24228 | 23289 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 32365 | 31126 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 100249 | 78361 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 2204 | 3315 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 4803 | 3491 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 9882 | 9386 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 37762 | 36778 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 210688 | 148120 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 6700 XT and GeForce RTX 4060General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | March 3, 2021 | May 18, 2023 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $479 | $299 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | High-end | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 2.0 | Ada Lovelace |
| GPU Codename | Navi 22 | AD107 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 4060 | - Radeon RX 7700 XT |
| Successor | - Radeon RX 9070 | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core i5 12600K or above | - Intel Core i5 14600K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (46th and 53rd place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 2321 MHz | 1830 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 2581 MHz | 2460 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2560 | 3072 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 160 | 96 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | - | 24 |
| Tensor Cores | - | 96 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 40 | 24 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 3MB shared | 24MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 2 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 165 GPixel/s | 118 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 413 GTexel/s | 236 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 4.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x8 |
| TGP | 230 W | 115 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 7 nm | 5 nm |
| Die Size | 335 mm² | 159 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 17 billion | 18 billion |
| Transistor Density | 50.75 MTr/mm² | 113.21 MTr/mm² |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 12 GB | 8 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2000 MHz | - |
| Effective Memory Speed | 16000 Mbps | - |
| Bus | 192-bit | 128-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.1 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | - | 8.9 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 3 |
| DisplayPort | 1.4a | 1.4a |
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