AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7800 XT with 3840 shaders against the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB that utilizes 34 pipelines and 4352 shaders. Here you will find complete details about specs, efficiency, performance tests, and more.

Review

General comparison of performance in games, applications, power efficiency, and other metrics
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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
16 GB GDDR6
66.2
(Good)
Value Index
30.4
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4060 Ti 16GB over RX 7800 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7800 XT
  • Performs better (up to 34%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 69% higher maximum theoretical performance (37.3 vs 22.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 34% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 115 vs 86 FPS
  • Has 2.2x higher memory bandwidth: 624.1 vs 288 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
197
135
111
86
144
94
83
62
The Witcher 3
205
174
132
66
172
141
99
53
Counter-Strike 2
297
206
147
80
245
190
132
76
Far Cry 6
166
145
124
77
129
117
92
56
Hogwarts Legacy
122
101
79
45
95
81
62
32
CoD: Modern Warfare III
169
168
122
80
118
112
81
52
Ghost of Tsushima
124
105
85
54
88
75
57
31
Cyberpunk 2077
132
121
80
39
105
92
56
26
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
212
199
151
77
161
147
111
59
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 180 140
1080p Ultra 150 117
1440p Ultra 115 86
4K Ultra 67 50
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps

3D Mark

Multiplatform graphics benchmark suite that directly correlates with performance in modern games
Steel Nomad Lite Score
RX 7800 XT +34%
18111
Time Spy 20095 13456
Solar Bay 80667 62446
Port Royal 10917 8119
Fire Strike 50073 34258
Wild Life Extreme 37173 25587
Night Raid 160762 135657
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
148335
Background Blur 300.7 img/sec 232.6 img/sec
Face Detection 200.5 img/sec 138.4 img/sec
Horizon Detection 5.77 Gpixels/sec 4.68 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.05 Gpixels/sec 6.06 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.44 Gpixels/sec 6.99 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.25 Gpixels/sec 1.6 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 566.4 Gpixels/sec 652.6 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 20533.6 FPS 19534.7 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
10740
15700

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
24471
G2D Mark 1195 1078
DirectX 11 250 FPS 199 FPS
DirectX 12 96 FPS 89 FPS
GPU Compute 13617 Ops/s 11953 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 11293 & 2402 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2422.93
3832.52
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 865 & 2727 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7800 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV)Geekbench 6 OpenCL156177
📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV)Steel Nomad Light19225
📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV)Geekbench 6 OpenCL152506
📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV)Steel Nomad Light18724
GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB
No benchmark results yet

Artificial Intelligence Tests

Performance in machine learning and artificial intelligence tasks

GeekBench 6 ML

Tests throughput of AI operations in single, half, and quantized precision
GB6 ML Single Precision
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) 13913 -
Image Segmentation (HP) 18416 -
Image Super Resolution (Q) 31387 -
Face Detection (HP) 51780 -
Pose Estimation (Q) 177217 -
Text Classification (SP) 3655 -
Machine Translation (HP) 6216 -
Object Detection (SP) 15073 -
Depth Estimation (Q) 57318 -
Style Transfer (SP) 347420 -
Framework ONNX -
Backend DirectML -
Sources: Geekbench [9]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7800 XT and GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16GB

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released September 6, 2023 July 18, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $499
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 32 AD106
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4070 -
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 XT - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13600K or above - Intel Core i5 14600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (26th and 40th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 2310 MHz
Boost Clock 2430 MHz 2535 MHz
Shading Units 3840 4352
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 136
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 34
Tensor Cores - 136
Ray-tracing Cores 60 34
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 233 GPixel/s 122 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 583 GTexel/s 345 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7800 XT +69%
37.3 TFLOPS
22.1 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 263 W 165 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 346 mm² 188 mm²
Transistor Count 28 billion 22 billion
Transistor Density 80.92 MTr/mm² 117.02 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2438 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 19500 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7800 XT +117%
624.1 GB/s
288 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA - 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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Ehsoo January 15, 2025 at 09:14 AM
Heck, the 7800xt literally stomps on the 4060 ti
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