AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs 7600 XT

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9060 XT with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 5 months older 7600 XT that utilizes 2048 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

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
16 GB GDDR6
96.6
(Very good)
Value Index
38.5
(Mediocre)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 7600 XT over RX 9060 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT
  • Performs better (up to 36%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 40% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 95 vs 68 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Achieves 24% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (107K vs 86K)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
178
111
95
67
141
81
67
46
The Witcher 3
166
148
106
57
131
109
78
42
Counter-Strike 2
266
189
133
71
206
140
103
52
Far Cry 6
144
123
106
63
111
97
73
43
Hogwarts Legacy
105
87
65
33
77
67
45
23
CoD: Modern Warfare III
143
135
96
62
107
98
68
41
Ghost of Tsushima
107
87
70
41
82
69
47
29
Cyberpunk 2077
111
94
62
27
83
70
45
19
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
185
163
120
61
140
120
84
42
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 156 120
1080p Ultra 126 95
1440p Ultra 95 68
4K Ultra 54 37
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 +36%
13955
10250
Time Spy 16348 11136
Solar Bay 65705 44475
Port Royal 9693 5890
Fire Strike 38876 31732
Wild Life Extreme 27791 20437
Night Raid 147165 122566
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 +24%
107640
86899
Background Blur 269.5 img/sec 199.6 img/sec
Face Detection 151 img/sec 106.8 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.6 Gpixels/sec 3.23 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.67 Gpixels/sec 4.3 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.27 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 1 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 395.3 Gpixels/sec 292.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13165.7 FPS 10709.1 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 +16%
20124
17344
G2D Mark 1166 1026
DirectX 11 185 FPS 167 FPS
DirectX 12 58 FPS 67 FPS
GPU Compute 11246 Ops/s 8965 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 9042 & 2277 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9060 XT +28%
1628.45
1270.34
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 394 & 160 samples

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
Radeon RX 7600 XT
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
RX 9060 XT +28%
25924
20184
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9060 XT +53%
40429
26434
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9060 XT +36%
22275
16381
Image Classification (SP) 12380 9915
Image Segmentation (HP) 15402 10595
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32024 25345
Face Detection (HP) 50457 33847
Pose Estimation (Q) 113796 92252
Text Classification (SP) 4460 3842
Machine Translation (HP) 7481 4096
Object Detection (SP) 11256 7170
Depth Estimation (Q) 53978 43860
Style Transfer (SP) 235750 185627
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9060 XT and 7600 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 4, 2025 January 24, 2024
Launch price (MSRP) $349 $329
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 4.0 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Navi 44 Navi 33
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) - GeForce RTX 4060
Successor - - Radeon RX 9060 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i5 13600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (38th and 53rd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1700 MHz 1980 MHz
Boost Clock 3130 MHz 2755 MHz
Shading Units 2048 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 -
Tensor Cores 64 -
Ray-tracing Cores 32 32
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 2MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 4 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 200 GPixel/s 176 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 401 GTexel/s 353 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9060 XT +13%
25.6 TFLOPS
22.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 160 W 190 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 6 nm
Die Size 199 mm² 204 mm²
Transistor Count 29.7 billion 13 billion
Transistor Density 149.25 MTr/mm² 63.73 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 110°C -

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9060 XT +11%
320 GB/s
288 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.2
CUDA No -
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1

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