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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs 7700 XT

Radeon RX 9060 XT
VS
Radeon RX 7700 XT
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44
AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT
Navi 32

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 1 year and 9 months older 7700 XT 12 GB that utilizes 3456 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 (4)

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
12 GB GDDR6
96.6
(Very good)
Value Index
59.4
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 7700 XT over RX 9060 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7700 XT
  • 38% higher maximum theoretical performance (35.2 vs 25.6 TFLOPS)
  • Has 35% higher memory bandwidth: 432 vs 320 GB/s
  • Achieves 23% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (132K vs 107K)
  • Has 69% more shading units (3456 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 9060 XT
vs
RX 7700 XT

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
178
111
95
67
186
117
96
70
The Witcher 3
166
148
106
57
179
152
113
61
Counter-Strike 2
266
189
133
71
268
195
134
74
Far Cry 6
144
123
106
63
145
131
110
63
Hogwarts Legacy
105
87
65
33
106
89
69
39
CoD: Modern Warfare III
143
135
96
62
148
143
102
64
Ghost of Tsushima
107
87
70
41
111
90
73
44
Cyberpunk 2077
111
94
62
27
115
103
65
31
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
185
163
120
61
192
176
130
67
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 156 161
1080p Ultra 126 133
1440p Ultra 95 99
4K Ultra 54 57
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 7700 XT +7%
14970
Time Spy 16348 17109
Solar Bay 65705 65104
Port Royal 9693 9114
Fire Strike 38876 42722
Wild Life Extreme 27791 30428
Night Raid 147165 147320
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 7700 XT +23%
132843
Background Blur 269.5 img/sec 285.8 img/sec
Face Detection 151 img/sec 181.6 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.6 Gpixels/sec 4.9 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.67 Gpixels/sec 6.66 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.27 Gpixels/sec 5.68 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 1.18 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 395.3 Gpixels/sec 493 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13165.7 FPS 19410.5 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 7700 XT +13%
22743
G2D Mark 1166 1157
DirectX 11 185 FPS 232 FPS
DirectX 12 58 FPS 83 FPS
GPU Compute 11246 Ops/s 12985 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 9042 & 2935 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9060 XT
1628.45
RX 7700 XT +30%
2108.86
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 394 & 268 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 7700 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-05-17 (MadDog9912)Geekbench 6 OpenCL135040
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 +1%
25924
RX 7700 XT
25719
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9060 XT +34%
40429
RX 7700 XT
30075
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9060 XT +13%
22275
RX 7700 XT
19789
Image Classification (SP) 12380 11284
Image Segmentation (HP) 15402 14150
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32024 27972
Face Detection (HP) 50457 35311
Pose Estimation (Q) 113796 142235
Text Classification (SP) 4460 3836
Machine Translation (HP) 7481 4471
Object Detection (SP) 11256 12084
Depth Estimation (Q) 53978 49197
Style Transfer (SP) 235750 301429
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9060 XT and 7700 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 4, 2025 September 6, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $349 $449
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 4.0 RDNA 3.0
GPU Codename Navi 44 Navi 32
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) - GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB
Successor - - Radeon RX 9070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i7 13700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (38th and 34th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1700 MHz 1435 MHz
Boost Clock 3130 MHz 2544 MHz
Shading Units 2048 3456
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 216
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 96
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 -
Tensor Cores 64 -
Ray-tracing Cores 32 54
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 244 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 401 GTexel/s 550 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9060 XT
25.6 TFLOPS
RX 7700 XT +38%
35.2 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 160 W 245 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 199 mm² 346 mm²
Transistor Count 29.7 billion 28 billion
Transistor Density 149.25 MTr/mm² 80.92 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 110°C -

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 2250 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 18000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9060 XT
320 GB/s
RX 7700 XT +35%
432 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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ComputerNerd July 1, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Some of the testing data is off. Every other credible YouTube tester has the Radeon 7700 XT outperforming the Radeon 9060 XT by 5 to 10 FPS consistently.
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root July 7, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Yup, some benchmark data is updating every Monday. Thank you!
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fuuk1 July 13, 2025 at 06:25 AM
root, Hello, in GeekBench 6 GPU Compute, can you make both comparisons in Vulkan or OpenCL APIs? Not one with Vulkan and other with OpenCL.
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root July 13, 2025 at 09:04 AM
fuuk1, Hi, thanks for noticing it. Done :)
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