AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs 5600 XT
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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
Navi 10
We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 5 years and 5 months older 5600 XT 6 GB that utilizes 2304 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 2x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
- 3.6x higher maximum theoretical performance (25.6 vs 7.2 TFLOPS)
- Shows 2.1x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 95 vs 46 FPS
- Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
- Ray-tracing support with 32 dedicated RT cores
- Includes 10 GB more video memory
- Achieves 62% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (107K vs 66K)
- Features 64 tensor cores for effective deep learning and AI workloads
Gaming Performance
Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutionsGames
| Forza Horizon 5 | 178 110 93 67 |
110 61 48 28 |
| The Witcher 3 | 171 150 108 56 |
94 75 48 28 |
| Counter-Strike 2 | 264 187 131 72 |
154 108 75 36 |
| Far Cry 6 | 144 126 105 64 |
89 76 54 29 |
| Hogwarts Legacy | 104 86 66 36 |
56 44 34 15 |
| CoD: Modern Warfare III | 142 135 95 61 |
72 67 43 28 |
| Ghost of Tsushima | 108 88 71 41 |
60 48 32 15 |
| Cyberpunk 2077 | 109 98 64 28 |
57 49 25 12 |
| Shadow of the Tomb Raider | 177 164 120 60 |
101 88 56 31 |
| 1080p High | 155 | 88 |
| 1080p Ultra | 127 | 68 |
| 1440p Ultra | 95 | 46 |
| 4K Ultra | 54 | 25 |
| Margin of Error | Low | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | 16392 | 7631 |
| Solar Bay | 65550 | - |
| Port Royal | 9774 | - |
| Fire Strike | 38943 | 22323 |
| Wild Life Extreme | 27792 | 14672 |
| Night Raid | 147692 | 86634 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| Background Blur | 269.5 img/sec | 123.2 img/sec |
| Face Detection | 151 img/sec | 71.4 img/sec |
| Horizon Detection | 3.6 Gpixels/sec | 2.85 Gpixels/sec |
| Edge Detection | 4.67 Gpixels/sec | 4.1 Gpixels/sec |
| Gaussian Blur | 5.27 Gpixels/sec | 3.48 Gpixels/sec |
| Feature Matching | 1.08 Gpixels/sec | 0.62 Gpixels/sec |
| Stereo Matching | 395.3 Gpixels/sec | 253.9 Gpixels/sec |
| Particle Physics | 13165.7 FPS | 7670.6 FPS |
| API | OpenCL | OpenCL |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1168 | 871 |
| DirectX 11 | 185 FPS | 95 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 58 FPS | 52 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 11238 Ops/s | 6187 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 9060 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-07-23 -> Aquiyoshi | GeekBench | 102797 |
| 📘 2026-07-23 -> Aquiyoshi | Steel Nomad Light | 14313 |
Radeon RX 5600 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus) | GeekBench | 70675 |
| 📘 2026-04-11 (Flixsus) | Steel Nomad Light | 7074 |
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 | 5459 |
| Image Segmentation (HP) | 15402 | 6448 |
| Image Super Resolution (Q) | 32024 | 15013 |
| Face Detection (HP) | 50457 | 17318 |
| Pose Estimation (Q) | 113796 | 62592 |
| Text Classification (SP) | 4460 | 1533 |
| Machine Translation (HP) | 7481 | 3771 |
| Object Detection (SP) | 11256 | 5601 |
| Depth Estimation (Q) | 53978 | 22988 |
| Style Transfer (SP) | 235750 | 120386 |
| Framework | ONNX | ONNX |
| Backend | DirectML | DirectML |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9060 XT and 5600 XTGeneral
| Vendor | Amd | Amd |
| Build | Discrete | Discrete |
| Released | June 4, 2025 | January 21, 2020 |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $349 | $279 |
| Case | Desktop | Desktop |
| Purpose | Gaming | Gaming |
| Segment | Mid-range | Mid-range |
| Architecture | RDNA 4.0 | RDNA 1.0 |
| GPU Codename | Navi 44 | Navi 10 |
| Rival Equivalent | - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) | - GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER |
| Successor | - | - Radeon RX 9060 XT |
| Recommended CPU | - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above | - Intel Core i5 9500 or above |
Desktop GPU rating (37th and 69th place)
Graphics Processing Unit
| Base Clock | 1700 MHz | 1130 MHz |
| Boost Clock | 3130 MHz | 1560 MHz |
| Shading Units | 2048 | 2304 |
| Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) | 128 | 144 |
| Render Output Units (ROPs) | 64 | 64 |
| Compute Units (Pipelines) | 32 | - |
| Tensor Cores | 64 | No |
| Ray-tracing Cores | 32 | No |
| L1 Cache | 128KB per cluster | - |
| L2 Cache | 4MB shared | 3MB shared |
| Instructions Per Cycle | 4 IPC | 2 IPC |
Raw Performance
| Pixel Fill Rate | 200 GPixel/s | 100 GPixel/s |
| Texture Fill Rate | 401 GTexel/s | 225 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 | 150 W |
| Manufacturing | TSMC | TSMC |
| Fabrication Process | 4 nm | 7 nm |
| Die Size | 199 mm² | 251 mm² |
| Transistor Count | 29.7 billion | 10 billion |
| Transistor Density | 149.25 MTr/mm² | 39.84 MTr/mm² |
| Max. Temperature | 110°C | - |
Memory
| Memory Type | GDDR6 | GDDR6 |
| Memory Size | 16 GB | 6 GB |
| Memory Clock | 2518 MHz | 1500 MHz |
| Effective Memory Speed | 20100 Mbps | 12000 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 | 2.1 |
| CUDA | No | - |
| Ray Tracing | Yes | No |
| DLSS | No | No |
| DisplayPort | 2.1a | 1.4a |
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