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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs 6800 XT

Radeon RX 9060 XT
VS
Radeon RX 6800 XT
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44
AMD Radeon RX 6800 XT
Navi 21

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9060 XT with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 4 years and 7 months older 6800 XT that utilizes 4608 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

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
16 GB GDDR6
96.6
(Very good)
Value Index
48.8
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 6800 XT over RX 9060 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • 24% higher maximum theoretical performance (25.6 vs 20.7 TFLOPS)
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 6800 XT
  • Performs better (up to 26%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 17% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 111 vs 95 FPS
  • Has 60% higher memory bandwidth: 512 vs 320 GB/s
  • Achieves 29% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (138K vs 107K)
  • Has 2.3x more shading units (4608 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 9060 XT
vs
RX 6800 XT

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
178
111
95
67
198
131
109
83
The Witcher 3
166
148
106
57
192
173
127
68
Counter-Strike 2
266
189
133
71
285
203
145
80
Far Cry 6
144
123
106
63
164
144
120
75
Hogwarts Legacy
105
87
65
33
120
96
76
42
CoD: Modern Warfare III
143
135
96
62
168
160
116
76
Ghost of Tsushima
107
87
70
41
125
104
84
53
Cyberpunk 2077
111
94
62
27
129
116
79
36
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
185
163
120
61
209
191
142
74
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 156 177
1080p Ultra 126 146
1440p Ultra 95 111
4K Ultra 54 65
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
13955
RX 6800 XT +26%
17589
Time Spy 16348 19379
Solar Bay 65705 78685
Port Royal 9693 9715
Fire Strike 38876 53014
Wild Life Extreme 27791 35635
Night Raid 147165 155323
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
107640
RX 6800 XT +29%
138858
Background Blur 269.5 img/sec 335.7 img/sec
Face Detection 151 img/sec 221.1 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.6 Gpixels/sec 6.16 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.67 Gpixels/sec 8.96 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.27 Gpixels/sec 7.44 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 1.31 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 395.3 Gpixels/sec 263 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13165.7 FPS 14755 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

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

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9060 XT
20124
RX 6800 XT +25%
25100
G2D Mark 1166 1046
DirectX 11 185 FPS 265 FPS
DirectX 12 58 FPS 100 FPS
GPU Compute 11246 Ops/s 13077 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 9042 & 8012 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9060 XT
1628.45
RX 6800 XT +49%
2421.91
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 394 & 1120 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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Radeon RX 6800 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-10 (XYQUE)Cinebench 202441600
Add View all (1)

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
25924
RX 6800 XT +17%
30220
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9060 XT +33%
40429
RX 6800 XT
30423
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9060 XT
22275
RX 6800 XT +1%
22583
Image Classification (SP) 12380 11942
Image Segmentation (HP) 15402 7603
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32024 30511
Face Detection (HP) 50457 42862
Pose Estimation (Q) 113796 160019
Text Classification (SP) 4460 4247
Machine Translation (HP) 7481 6279
Object Detection (SP) 11256 13910
Depth Estimation (Q) 53978 51794
Style Transfer (SP) 235750 324124
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9060 XT and 6800 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 4, 2025 November 18, 2020
Launch price (MSRP) $349 $649
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 4.0 RDNA 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 44 Navi 21
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) - GeForce RTX 4070
Successor - - Radeon RX 9070 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i7 12700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (38th and 31st place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1700 MHz 1825 MHz
Boost Clock 3130 MHz 2250 MHz
Shading Units 2048 4608
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 288
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 128
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 -
Tensor Cores 64 -
Ray-tracing Cores 32 72
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 200 GPixel/s 288 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 401 GTexel/s 648 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9060 XT +24%
25.6 TFLOPS
RX 6800 XT
20.7 TFLOPS
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 300 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 7 nm
Die Size 199 mm² 520 mm²
Transistor Count 29.7 billion 26 billion
Transistor Density 149.25 MTr/mm² 50 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 110°C -

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 2000 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 16000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 256-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9060 XT
320 GB/s
RX 6800 XT +60%
512 GB/s

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 Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a

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