AMD Radeon RX 9070 vs GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 16 GB with 56 pipelines and 3584 shaders against the 4 months newer GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) 8 GB that utilizes 36 pipelines and 4608 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

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR7
94.9
(Very good)
Value Index
100.6
(Excellent)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 5060 Ti (8GB) over RX 9070
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070
  • Performs significantly better (up to 41%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 40% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 139 vs 99 FPS
  • 52% higher maximum theoretical performance (36.1 vs 23.7 TFLOPS)
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Has 44% higher memory bandwidth: 644.6 vs 448 GB/s
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 4 technology
  • Has 29% more shading units (4608 vs 3584)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
229
156
137
102
163
105
94
71
The Witcher 3
240
216
159
84
184
151
109
57
Counter-Strike 2
307
215
158
84
259
200
144
84
Far Cry 6
192
163
148
95
140
131
105
63
Hogwarts Legacy
146
119
97
52
111
88
72
39
CoD: Modern Warfare III
219
212
157
107
136
132
95
62
Ghost of Tsushima
146
122
105
65
97
83
64
38
Cyberpunk 2077
174
149
102
47
119
105
71
33
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
262
248
188
99
187
173
134
71
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 213 155
1080p Ultra 178 130
1440p Ultra 139 99
4K Ultra 82 58
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 9070 +41%
22841
Time Spy 26693 15948
Solar Bay 106118 76018
Port Royal 15939 10024
Fire Strike 60053 42232
Wild Life Extreme 48323 30380
Night Raid 177554 138214
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9070 +6%
149949
Background Blur 377.5 img/sec 197.7 img/sec
Face Detection 221.3 img/sec 131.5 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.4 Gpixels/sec 5.28 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.99 Gpixels/sec 6.79 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 8.52 Gpixels/sec 7.74 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.36 Gpixels/sec 1.53 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 606 Gpixels/sec 726.7 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 8521.2 FPS 21833.6 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9070 +12%
25364
G2D Mark 1263 1206
DirectX 11 280 FPS 218 FPS
DirectX 12 73 FPS 89 FPS
GPU Compute 14791 Ops/s 11212 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6]2835 & 11172 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
2767.65
4313.42
Sources: Blender [9]208 samples

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 9070 +56%
37056
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 +27%
54866
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 +65%
29946
Image Classification (SP) 15375 9511
Image Segmentation (HP) 37834 29012
Image Super Resolution (Q) 43910 25621
Face Detection (HP) 67858 52204
Pose Estimation (Q) 172939 122234
Text Classification (SP) 4469 3209
Machine Translation (HP) 8499 6074
Object Detection (SP) 15393 12095
Depth Estimation (Q) 66890 45666
Style Transfer (SP) 365633 182591
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (8GB)

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 April 15, 2025
Launch price (MSRP) $549 $379
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Blackwell 2.0
GPU Codename Navi 48 GB206-300
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5070 -
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above
Desktop GPU rating (16th and 34th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1330 MHz 2407 MHz
Boost Clock 2520 MHz 2572 MHz
Shading Units 3584 4608
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 224 144
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 56 36
Tensor Cores 112 144
Ray-tracing Cores 56 36
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 323 GPixel/s 123 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 564 GTexel/s 370 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 +52%
36.1 TFLOPS
23.7 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 180 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 - 87°C

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR7
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 1750 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 28000 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9070 +44%
644.6 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 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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