AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs 7600 XT
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44
AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT
Navi 33
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
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 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 resolutionsGames
| 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 |
| 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 apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| 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 |
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
GB6 Compute Score
| 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 |
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Cinebench 2024 GPU
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1166 | 1026 |
| DirectX 11 | 185 FPS | 167 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 58 FPS | 67 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 11246 Ops/s | 8965 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 |
Radeon RX 7600 XT
No benchmark results yet
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 | 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 |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9060 XT and 7600 XTGeneral
| 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)
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
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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