AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE vs GeForce RTX 5060

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 GRE 12 GB with 48 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 5 months older GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB that utilizes 30 pipelines and 3840 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
Scores marked with a red asterisk (**) represent initial estimates from early testing.

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
12 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR7
80.7
(Good)
Value Index
64.9
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 5060 over RX 9070 GRE
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 GRE
  • 79% higher maximum theoretical performance (34.3 vs 19.2 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5060
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
  • Has 25% more shading units (3840 vs 3072)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
142
94
84
58
The Witcher 3 -
166
137
100
53
Counter-Strike 2 -
238
188
131
74
Far Cry 6 -
125
116
93
53
Hogwarts Legacy -
94
79
59
30
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
117
108
80
51
Ghost of Tsushima -
85
71
55
30
Cyberpunk 2077 -
99
89
56
27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
156
141
106
57
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 136
1080p Ultra - 114
1440p Ultra - 85
4K Ultra - 48
Margin of Error High 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
13989
Time Spy - 13751
Solar Bay - 64641
Port Royal - 8694
Fire Strike - 37594
Wild Life Extreme - 26198
Night Raid - 133318
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
127848
Background Blur - 209.1 img/sec
Face Detection - 134.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection - 4.67 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection - 6.13 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur - 6.39 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching - 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching - 607.8 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics - 18827.5 FPS
API - OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
23533
20623
G2D Mark 1261 1145
DirectX 11 254 FPS 200 FPS
DirectX 12 56 FPS 77 FPS
GPU Compute 14796 Ops/s 10396 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 171 & 16484 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2351.88
RTX 5060 +57%
3690.41
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 12 & 721 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9070 GRE
No benchmark results yet
GeForce RTX 5060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-08-20 -> bangGeekbench 6 OpenCL143443

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
20375
GB6 ML Half Precision
37358
GB6 ML Quantized
15190
Image Classification (SP) - 8362
Image Segmentation (HP) - 22831
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 22375
Face Detection (HP) - 41955
Pose Estimation (Q) - 84685
Text Classification (SP) - 3296
Machine Translation (HP) - 5083
Object Detection (SP) - 11023
Depth Estimation (Q) - 38817
Style Transfer (SP) - 155103
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 GRE and GeForce RTX 5060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released August 27, 2025 April 15, 2025
Launch price (MSRP) $549 $299
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 48 GB206-250
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) - Radeon RX 9060 XT
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above
Desktop GPU rating (25th and 42nd place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1420 MHz 2280 MHz
Boost Clock 2790 MHz 2500 MHz
Shading Units 3072 3840
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192 120
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 30
Tensor Cores 96 120
Ray-tracing Cores 48 30
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 8MB shared 32MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 268 GPixel/s 120 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 536 GTexel/s 300 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
34.3 TFLOPS
19.2 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x8
TGP 220 W 145 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 357 mm² 181 mm²
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 21.9 billion
Transistor Density 150.98 MTr/mm² 120.99 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 89°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7
Memory Size 12 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
432 GB/s
RTX 5060 +4%
448 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.4
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA No 12.0
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 4
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1b

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