AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs GeForce RTX 3060
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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44
Nvidia GeForce RTX 3060
GA106
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 4 years and 5 months older GeForce RTX 3060 12 GB that utilizes 28 pipelines and 3584 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 9060 XT
- Performs significantly better (up to 55%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 2x higher maximum theoretical performance (25.6 vs 12.7 TFLOPS)
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Shows 58% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 95 vs 60 FPS
- Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 3060
- Supports Nvidia DLSS 2 technology
- Features 48 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
- Has 75% more shading units (3584 vs 2048)
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 178 111 95 67 |
112 68 60 39 |
| The Witcher 3 | 166 148 106 57 |
122 100 74 39 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 266 189 133 71 |
181 137 99 48 |
| Far Cry 6 | 144 123 106 63 |
95 85 67 37 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 105 87 65 33 |
65 57 40 18 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 143 135 96 62 |
80 74 53 31 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 107 87 70 41 |
62 50 37 20 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 111 94 62 27 |
68 64 38 16 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 185 163 120 61 |
109 98 70 36 |
| 1080p High | 156 | 99 |
| 1080p Ultra | 126 | 81 |
| 1440p Ultra | 95 | 60 |
| 4K Ultra | 54 | 32 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 16348 | 8754 |
| Solar Bay | 65705 | 41158 |
| Port Royal | 9693 | 5145 |
| Fire Strike | 38876 | 22304 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 27791 | 17728 |
| Night Raid | 147165 | 97159 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 269.5 img/sec | 149.6 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 151 img/sec | 91 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.6 Gpixels/sec | 4.07 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.67 Gpixels/sec | 5.58 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.27 Gpixels/sec | 3.92 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.08 Gpixels/sec | 1.01 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 395.3 Gpixels/sec | 372.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13165.7 FPS | 12226.3 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1166 | 965 |
| DirectX 11 | 185 FPS | 127 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 58 FPS | 68 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 11246 Ops/s | 8231 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 9060 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-07-23 -> Aquiyoshi | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 102797 |
| 📘 2026-07-23 -> Aquiyoshi | Steel Nomad Light | 14313 |
GeForce RTX 3060
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2025-12-07 (tach) | Cinebench 2024 | 7952 |
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) | 12380 | 6645 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 15402 | 15338 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 32024 | 14283 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 50457 | 28862 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 113796 | 61313 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4460 | 2463 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7481 | 3793 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 11256 | 7712 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 53978 | 25461 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 235750 | 123233 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9060 XT and GeForce RTX 3060General
| Vendor | Amd | Nvidia |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | June 4, 2025 | January 12, 2021 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $349 | $329 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 4.0 | Ampere |
| GPU Codename | Navi 44 | GA106 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) | - Radeon RX 6700 XT |
| Successor | - | - GeForce RTX 5060 |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above | - Intel Core i5 12600K or above |
Desktop GPU rating (38th and 58th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1700 MHz | 1320 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 3130 MHz | 1777 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 3584 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 128 | 112 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 48 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 32 | 28 |
| Tensor Cores | 64 | 112 |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 32 | 28 |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | 128KB per cluster |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 200 GPixel/s | 85 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 401 GTexel/s | 199 GTexel/s |
FLOPS (FP32)
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.
Physical
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | PCIe 4.0 x16 |
| TGP | 160 W | 170 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | Samsung |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 8 nm |
| Die Size | 199 mm² | 276 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 29.7 billion | 12 billion |
| Transistor Density | 149.25 MTr/mm² | 43.48 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 110°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 12 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2518 MHz | 1875 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20100 Mbps | 15000 Mbps |
| Bus | 128-bit | 192-bit |
| ECC | No | No |
Memory Bandwidth
API
| DirectX | 12.2 | 12 |
| Vulkan | 1.3 | 1.3 |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | 4.6 |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | 3.0 |
| CUDA | No | 8.6 |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | Yes |
| DLSS | No | DLSS 2 |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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