AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE vs 9060 XT

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 GRE 12 GB with 48 pipelines and 3072 shaders against the 3 months older 9060 XT 16 GB that utilizes 32 pipelines and 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
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
16 GB GDDR6
80.7
(Good)
Value Index
96.6
(Very good)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 9060 XT over RX 9070 GRE
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 GRE
  • 34% higher maximum theoretical performance (34.3 vs 25.6 TFLOPS)
  • Features 32 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 35% higher memory bandwidth: 432 vs 320 GB/s
  • Has 50% more shading units (3072 vs 2048)
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5 -
178
111
95
67
The Witcher 3 -
166
148
106
57
Counter-Strike 2 -
266
189
133
71
Far Cry 6 -
144
123
106
63
Hogwarts Legacy -
105
87
65
33
CoD: Modern Warfare III -
143
135
96
62
Ghost of Tsushima -
107
87
70
41
Cyberpunk 2077 -
111
94
62
27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider -
185
163
120
61
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High - 156
1080p Ultra - 126
1440p Ultra - 95
4K Ultra - 54
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
Time Spy - 16348
Solar Bay - 65705
Port Royal - 9693
Fire Strike - 38876
Wild Life Extreme - 27791
Night Raid - 147165
Sources: 3DMark [1]

GeekBench 6 GPU Compute

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
107640
Background Blur - 269.5 img/sec
Face Detection - 151 img/sec
Horizon Detection - 3.6 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection - 4.67 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur - 5.27 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching - 1.08 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching - 395.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics - 13165.7 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
20124
G2D Mark 1261 1166
DirectX 11 254 FPS 185 FPS
DirectX 12 56 FPS 58 FPS
GPU Compute 14796 Ops/s 11246 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 171 & 9042 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2351.88
1628.45
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 12 & 394 samples

Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9070 GRE
No benchmark results yet
Radeon RX 9060 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-23 -> AquiyoshiGeekbench 6 OpenCL102797
📘 2026-07-23 -> AquiyoshiSteel Nomad Light14313

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
GB6 ML Half Precision
GB6 ML Quantized
Image Classification (SP) - 12380
Image Segmentation (HP) - 15402
Image Super Resolution (Q) - 32024
Face Detection (HP) - 50457
Pose Estimation (Q) - 113796
Text Classification (SP) - 4460
Machine Translation (HP) - 7481
Object Detection (SP) - 11256
Depth Estimation (Q) - 53978
Style Transfer (SP) - 235750
Framework - ONNX
Backend - DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 GRE and 9060 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released August 27, 2025 June 4, 2025
Launch price (MSRP) $549 $349
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 4.0 RDNA 4.0
GPU Codename Navi 48 Navi 44
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above
Desktop GPU rating (25th and 38th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1420 MHz 1700 MHz
Boost Clock 2790 MHz 3130 MHz
Shading Units 3072 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 192 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 48 32
Tensor Cores 96 64
Ray-tracing Cores 48 32
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 8MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 4 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 268 GPixel/s 200 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 536 GTexel/s 401 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
34.3 TFLOPS
25.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 220 W 160 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 357 mm² 199 mm²
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 29.7 billion
Transistor Density 150.98 MTr/mm² 149.25 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature - 110°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 12 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2250 MHz 2518 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 18000 Mbps 20100 Mbps
Bus 192-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
432 GB/s
320 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12.2
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 2.2
CUDA No No
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No No
DisplayPort 2.1a 2.1a

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