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AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs 9060 XT

Radeon RX 9070 XT
VS
Radeon RX 9060 XT
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT
Navi 48
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 XT with 64 pipelines and 4096 shaders against the 5 months newer 9060 XT that utilizes 32 pipelines and 2048 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

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)

We use average GPU prices from all manufacturers by default. Enter the current price of a specific card for better accuracy.
Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
16 GB GDDR6
98.8
(Very good)
Value Index
96.6
(Very good)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RX 9060 XT over RX 9070 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 88%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 90% higher maximum theoretical performance (48.7 vs 25.6 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 60% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 152 vs 95 FPS
  • Features 64 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 2x higher memory bandwidth: 644.6 vs 320 GB/s
  • Achieves 70% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (182K vs 107K)
  • Has 2x more shading units (4096 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 9070 XT
vs
RX 9060 XT

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
242
169
149
109
178
111
95
67
The Witcher 3
267
237
167
89
166
148
106
57
Counter-Strike 2
325
224
163
82
266
189
133
71
Far Cry 6
198
176
163
104
144
123
106
63
Hogwarts Legacy
162
133
107
58
105
87
65
33
CoD: Modern Warfare III
240
232
174
118
143
135
96
62
Ghost of Tsushima
158
137
116
73
107
87
70
41
Cyberpunk 2077
190
171
119
53
111
94
62
27
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
280
265
207
107
185
163
120
61
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 229 156
1080p Ultra 194 126
1440p Ultra 152 95
4K Ultra 88 54
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 XT +88%
26251
RX 9060 XT
13955
Time Spy 29556 16348
Solar Bay 122220 65705
Port Royal 18363 9693
Fire Strike 66319 38876
Wild Life Extreme 54672 27791
Night Raid 194947 147165
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9070 XT +70%
182816
RX 9060 XT
107640
Background Blur 427.4 img/sec 269.5 img/sec
Face Detection 251 img/sec 151 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.77 Gpixels/sec 3.6 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 9.42 Gpixels/sec 4.67 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.35 Gpixels/sec 5.27 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.42 Gpixels/sec 1.08 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 651.4 Gpixels/sec 395.3 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 23630 FPS 13165.7 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 9070 XT +34%
26913
RX 9060 XT
20124
G2D Mark 1310 1166
DirectX 11 295 FPS 185 FPS
DirectX 12 77 FPS 58 FPS
GPU Compute 16100 Ops/s 11246 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 17863 & 9042 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9070 XT +102%
3287.07
RX 9060 XT
1628.45
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1724 & 394 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9070 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-12 (luizmdd)Cinebench 202450113
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSGeekbench 6 OpenCL179283
📘 2026-07-04 -> StevenSSteel Nomad Light27505
📘 2025-10-15 (adv)Geekbench 6 OpenCL175418
Add View all (4)
Radeon RX 9060 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-23 -> AquiyoshiGeekbench 6 OpenCL102797
📘 2026-07-23 -> AquiyoshiSteel Nomad Light14313
Add View all (2)

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 XT +51%
39190
RX 9060 XT
25924
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 XT +38%
55727
RX 9060 XT
40429
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 XT +51%
33599
RX 9060 XT
22275
Image Classification (SP) 18001 12380
Image Segmentation (HP) 25174 15402
Image Super Resolution (Q) 45714 32024
Face Detection (HP) 74776 50457
Pose Estimation (Q) 196137 113796
Text Classification (SP) 5163 4460
Machine Translation (HP) 8677 7481
Object Detection (SP) 19602 11256
Depth Estimation (Q) 74879 53978
Style Transfer (SP) 411302 235750
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 XT and 9060 XT

General

Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 June 4, 2025
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $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 5070 Ti - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB)
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above
Desktop GPU rating (12th and 38th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1660 MHz 1700 MHz
Boost Clock 2970 MHz 3130 MHz
Shading Units 4096 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 256 128
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 64 32
Tensor Cores 128 64
Ray-tracing Cores 64 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 380 GPixel/s 200 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 760 GTexel/s 401 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 XT +90%
48.7 TFLOPS
RX 9060 XT
25.6 TFLOPS

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 304 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 16 GB 16 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 2518 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 20100 Mbps
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9070 XT +101%
644.6 GB/s
RX 9060 XT
320 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 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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