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AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT vs GeForce RTX 4060

Radeon RX 7800 XT
VS
GeForce RTX 4060
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT
Navi 32
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
AD107

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 7800 XT 16 GB with 3840 shaders against the 4 months older GeForce RTX 4060 8 GB that utilizes 24 pipelines and 3072 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
DeviceFacts Final Score
Overall video card score

Value for money (Beta)

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Currency
16 GB GDDR6
VS
8 GB GDDR6
66.2
(Good)
Value Index
41.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4060 over RX 7800 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 7800 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 70%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 2.5x higher maximum theoretical performance (37.3 vs 15.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 67% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 115 vs 69 FPS
  • Includes 8 GB more video memory
  • Has 2.3x higher memory bandwidth: 624.1 vs 272 GB/s
  • Achieves 39% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (148K vs 106K)
  • Has 25% more shading units (3840 vs 3072)
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 7800 XT
vs
RTX 4060

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
197
135
111
86
128
78
66
47
The Witcher 3
205
174
132
66
143
117
82
44
Counter-Strike 2
297
206
147
80
208
157
111
58
Far Cry 6
166
145
124
77
105
98
76
45
Hogwarts Legacy
122
101
79
45
78
65
47
26
CoD: Modern Warfare III
169
168
122
80
98
90
64
43
Ghost of Tsushima
124
105
85
54
73
61
45
27
Cyberpunk 2077
132
121
80
39
82
75
43
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
212
199
151
77
128
119
85
46
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 180 116
1080p Ultra 150 96
1440p Ultra 115 69
4K Ultra 67 40
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 7800 XT +70%
18111
RTX 4060
10683
Time Spy 20095 10615
Solar Bay 80667 49340
Port Royal 10917 6054
Fire Strike 50073 28540
Wild Life Extreme 37173 20610
Night Raid 160762 121368
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 7800 XT +39%
148335
RTX 4060
106633
Background Blur 300.7 img/sec 186.9 img/sec
Face Detection 200.5 img/sec 112.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 5.77 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 8.05 Gpixels/sec 5.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 6.44 Gpixels/sec 4.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.25 Gpixels/sec 1.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 566.4 Gpixels/sec 446.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 20533.6 FPS 14935.1 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 7800 XT +1%
10740
RTX 4060
10606

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 7800 XT +26%
24471
RTX 4060
19485
G2D Mark 1195 1036
DirectX 11 250 FPS 174 FPS
DirectX 12 96 FPS 76 FPS
GPU Compute 13617 Ops/s 9150 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 11293 & 28684 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 7800 XT
2422.93
RTX 4060 +29%
3132.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 865 & 2092 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 7800 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV)Geekbench 6 OpenCL156177
📘 2026-06-03 (RekrutV)Steel Nomad Light19225
📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV)Geekbench 6 OpenCL152506
📘 2026-05-14 (RekrutV)Steel Nomad Light18724
Add View all (4)
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606
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 7800 XT +75%
31216
RTX 4060
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 7800 XT +28%
37266
RTX 4060
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 7800 XT +73%
24564
RTX 4060
14234
Image Classification (SP) 13913 7696
Image Segmentation (HP) 18416 13706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 31387 23289
Face Detection (HP) 51780 31126
Pose Estimation (Q) 177217 78361
Text Classification (SP) 3655 3315
Machine Translation (HP) 6216 3491
Object Detection (SP) 15073 9386
Depth Estimation (Q) 57318 36778
Style Transfer (SP) 347420 148120
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 7800 XT and GeForce RTX 4060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released September 6, 2023 May 18, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $499 $299
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 3.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 32 AD107
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 4070 - Radeon RX 7700 XT
Successor - Radeon RX 9070 XT - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core i5 13600K or above - Intel Core i5 14600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (26th and 54th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1295 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost Clock 2430 MHz 2460 MHz
Shading Units 3840 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 240 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 96 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) - 24
Tensor Cores - 96
Ray-tracing Cores 60 24
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 24MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 233 GPixel/s 118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 583 GTexel/s 236 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 7800 XT +147%
37.3 TFLOPS
RTX 4060
15.1 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 263 W 115 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 5 nm 5 nm
Die Size 346 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 28 billion 18 billion
Transistor Density 80.92 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2438 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 19500 Mbps -
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 7800 XT +129%
624.1 GB/s
RTX 4060
272 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA - 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1 1.4a

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Total votes: 26

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