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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs GeForce RTX 4060

Radeon RX 9060 XT
VS
GeForce RTX 4060
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
AD107

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 2 years and 1 month older 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.

  1. Review
  2. Differences
  3. Gaming performance
  4. Benchmarks
  5. AI
  6. Specs
  7. Comments (1)

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

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
96.6
(Very good)
Value Index
41.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4060 over RX 9060 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT
  • Performs better (up to 31%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 70% higher maximum theoretical performance (25.6 vs 15.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 38% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 95 vs 69 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Features 32 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 50% more shading units (3072 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 9060 XT
vs
RTX 4060

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
178
111
95
67
128
78
66
47
The Witcher 3
166
148
106
57
143
117
82
44
Counter-Strike 2
266
189
133
71
208
157
111
58
Far Cry 6
144
123
106
63
105
98
76
45
Hogwarts Legacy
105
87
65
33
78
65
47
26
CoD: Modern Warfare III
143
135
96
62
98
90
64
43
Ghost of Tsushima
107
87
70
41
73
61
45
27
Cyberpunk 2077
111
94
62
27
82
75
43
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
185
163
120
61
128
119
85
46
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 156 116
1080p Ultra 126 96
1440p Ultra 95 69
4K Ultra 54 40
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 9060 XT +31%
13955
RTX 4060
10683
Time Spy 16348 10615
Solar Bay 65705 49340
Port Royal 9693 6054
Fire Strike 38876 28540
Wild Life Extreme 27791 20610
Night Raid 147165 121368
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9060 XT +1%
107640
RTX 4060
106633
Background Blur 269.5 img/sec 186.9 img/sec
Face Detection 151 img/sec 112.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.6 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.67 Gpixels/sec 5.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.27 Gpixels/sec 4.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 1.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 395.3 Gpixels/sec 446.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13165.7 FPS 14935.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 9060 XT
n/a
RTX 4060
10606

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9060 XT +3%
20124
RTX 4060
19485
G2D Mark 1166 1036
DirectX 11 185 FPS 174 FPS
DirectX 12 58 FPS 76 FPS
GPU Compute 11246 Ops/s 9150 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 9042 & 28684 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9060 XT
1628.45
RTX 4060 +92%
3132.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 394 & 2092 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9060 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-23 -> AquiyoshiGeekbench 6 OpenCL102797
📘 2026-07-23 -> AquiyoshiSteel Nomad Light14313
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GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606
Add View all (2)

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
RX 9060 XT +45%
25924
RTX 4060
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9060 XT +38%
40429
RTX 4060
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9060 XT +56%
22275
RTX 4060
14234
Image Classification (SP) 12380 7696
Image Segmentation (HP) 15402 13706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32024 23289
Face Detection (HP) 50457 31126
Pose Estimation (Q) 113796 78361
Text Classification (SP) 4460 3315
Machine Translation (HP) 7481 3491
Object Detection (SP) 11256 9386
Depth Estimation (Q) 53978 36778
Style Transfer (SP) 235750 148120
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9060 XT and GeForce RTX 4060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 4, 2025 May 18, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $349 $299
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 44 AD107
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) - Radeon RX 7700 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i5 14600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (38th and 54th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1700 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost Clock 3130 MHz 2460 MHz
Shading Units 2048 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 24
Tensor Cores 64 96
Ray-tracing Cores 32 24
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 24MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 200 GPixel/s 118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 401 GTexel/s 236 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9060 XT +70%
25.6 TFLOPS
RTX 4060
15.1 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 160 W 115 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 199 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 29.7 billion 18 billion
Transistor Density 149.25 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 110°C -

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps -
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9060 XT +18%
320 GB/s
RTX 4060
272 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA No 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a

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Raj October 14, 2026 at 04:24 PM
Price is not correct
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