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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT vs GeForce RTX 4070

Radeon RX 9060 XT
VS
GeForce RTX 4070
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
Navi 44
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4070
AD104

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB with 32 pipelines and 2048 shaders against the 2 years and 2 months older GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB that utilizes 46 pipelines and 5888 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
12 GB GDDR6X
96.6
(Very good)
Value Index
40.8
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4070 over RX 9060 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
  • Includes 4 GB more video memory
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4070
  • Performs better (up to 30%) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • Shows 12% higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 106 vs 95 FPS
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology
  • Features 120 more tensor cores for effective ML and AI workloads
  • Has 57% higher memory bandwidth: 504 vs 320 GB/s
  • Achieves 56% more points in the GeekBench 6 Compute test (167K vs 107K)
  • Has 2.9x more shading units (5888 vs 2048)

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions
GPU
RX 9060 XT
vs
RTX 4070

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
178
111
95
67
172
115
102
79
The Witcher 3
166
148
106
57
194
159
114
61
Counter-Strike 2
266
189
133
71
272
205
149
81
Far Cry 6
144
123
106
63
149
133
115
68
Hogwarts Legacy
105
87
65
33
117
97
77
39
CoD: Modern Warfare III
143
135
96
62
149
145
107
69
Ghost of Tsushima
107
87
70
41
106
88
72
43
Cyberpunk 2077
111
94
62
27
129
119
75
37
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
185
163
120
61
211
190
145
80
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 156 167
1080p Ultra 126 139
1440p Ultra 95 106
4K Ultra 54 62
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 9060 XT
13955
RTX 4070 +30%
18089
Time Spy 16348 17799
Solar Bay 65705 82861
Port Royal 9693 11156
Fire Strike 38876 44067
Wild Life Extreme 27791 35472
Night Raid 147165 153385
Sources: 3DMark [1], [2]

GeekBench 6 OpenCL

GPU test for computational tasks (image processing, photography, computer vision, and ML)
GB6 Compute Score
RX 9060 XT
107640
RTX 4070 +56%
167522
Background Blur 269.5 img/sec 233 img/sec
Face Detection 151 img/sec 141.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.6 Gpixels/sec 6.62 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.67 Gpixels/sec 9.19 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.27 Gpixels/sec 9.2 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 1.78 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 395.3 Gpixels/sec 845.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13165.7 FPS 25043.9 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
Sources: Geekbench [3], [4]

Cinebench 2024 GPU

Hardware benchmark using Maxon's Cinema 4D rendering engine
Cinebench 2024 GPU
RX 9060 XT
n/a
RTX 4070
18051

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9060 XT
20124
RTX 4070 +33%
26856
G2D Mark 1166 1165
DirectX 11 185 FPS 243 FPS
DirectX 12 58 FPS 103 FPS
GPU Compute 11246 Ops/s 14561 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 9042 & 20710 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
RX 9060 XT
1628.45
RTX 4070 +231%
5387.27
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 394 & 3020 samples
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Recent User Tests

The latest benchmark tests that have been submitted by users
Radeon RX 9060 XT
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-07-23 -> AquiyoshiGeekbench 6 OpenCL102797
📘 2026-07-23 -> AquiyoshiSteel Nomad Light14313
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GeForce RTX 4070
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2025-12-14 (kashitsu)Cinebench 202418051
Add View all (1)

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 9060 XT
25924
RTX 4070 +5%
27166
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9060 XT
40429
RTX 4070 +1%
40963
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9060 XT +10%
22275
RTX 4070
20332
Image Classification (SP) 12380 10246
Image Segmentation (HP) 15402 26153
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32024 32054
Face Detection (HP) 50457 51337
Pose Estimation (Q) 113796 124617
Text Classification (SP) 4460 3703
Machine Translation (HP) 7481 5484
Object Detection (SP) 11256 13134
Depth Estimation (Q) 53978 50548
Style Transfer (SP) 235750 263477
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9060 XT and GeForce RTX 4070

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released June 4, 2025 April 13, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $349 $599
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 44 AD104
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) - Radeon RX 7900 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5070
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i7 14700K or above
Desktop GPU rating (38th and 30th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1700 MHz 1920 MHz
Boost Clock 3130 MHz 2475 MHz
Shading Units 2048 5888
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 184
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 64
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 46
Tensor Cores 64 184
Ray-tracing Cores 32 46
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 36MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 200 GPixel/s 158 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 401 GTexel/s 455 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9060 XT
25.6 TFLOPS
RTX 4070 +14%
29.1 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
TGP 160 W 200 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 199 mm² 294 mm²
Transistor Count 29.7 billion 35 billion
Transistor Density 149.25 MTr/mm² 119.05 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature 110°C -

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6X
Memory Size 16 GB 12 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz 1313 MHz
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps 21000 Mbps
Bus 128-bit 192-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9060 XT
320 GB/s
RTX 4070 +57%
504 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 2.2 3.0
CUDA No 8.9
Ray Tracing Yes Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3
DisplayPort 2.1a 1.4a

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Total votes: 48

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