AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE vs 9060 XT
AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE
Navi 48
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44
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
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)
Key differences
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 resolutionsGames
| 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 |
| 1080p High | - | 156 |
| 1080p Ultra | - | 126 |
| 1440p Ultra | - | 95 |
| 4K Ultra | - | 54 |
| Margin of Error | High | Low |
Benchmarks
Graphics cards’ performance in recent benchmarking apps3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
| Time Spy | - | 16348 |
| Solar Bay | - | 65705 |
| Port Royal | - | 9693 |
| Fire Strike | - | 38876 |
| Wild Life Extreme | - | 27791 |
| Night Raid | - | 147165 |
GeekBench 6 GPU Compute
GB6 Compute Score
| 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 |
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
| G2D Mark | 1261 | 1166 |
| DirectX 11 | 254 FPS | 185 FPS |
| DirectX 12 | 56 FPS | 58 FPS |
| GPU Compute | 14796 Ops/s | 11246 Ops/s |
Blender
Blender GPU
Recent User Tests
Radeon RX 9070 GRE
No benchmark results yet
Radeon RX 9060 XT
| Date | Benchmark | Result |
|---|---|---|
| 📘 2026-07-23 -> Aquiyoshi | Geekbench 6 OpenCL | 102797 |
| 📘 2026-07-23 -> Aquiyoshi | Steel Nomad Light | 14313 |
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 |
| 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 |
Specifications
Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 GRE and 9060 XTGeneral
| 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)
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
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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