AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT vs GeForce RTX 4060

We compared two discrete desktop gaming GPUs: the Radeon RX 9070 XT 16 GB with 64 pipelines and 4096 shaders against the 1 year and 8 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.

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
98.8
(Very good)
Value Index
41.6
(Average)

Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages of RTX 4060 over RX 9070 XT
Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 XT
  • Performs significantly better (up to 2.5x) in 3DMark Steel Nomad Lite
  • 3.2x higher maximum theoretical performance (48.7 vs 15.1 TFLOPS)
  • Shows 2.2x higher average frame rate in modern games at QHD resolution – 152 vs 69 FPS
  • Manufactured using a more efficient 4 nm process technology
Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 4060
  • Supports Nvidia DLSS 3 technology

Gaming Performance

Frame rate comparison across popular AAA titles at different resolutions

Games

FPS Table
Forza Horizon 5
242
169
149
109
128
78
66
47
The Witcher 3
267
237
167
89
143
117
82
44
Counter-Strike 2
325
224
163
82
208
157
111
58
Far Cry 6
198
176
163
104
105
98
76
45
Hogwarts Legacy
162
133
107
58
78
65
47
26
CoD: Modern Warfare III
240
232
174
118
98
90
64
43
Ghost of Tsushima
158
137
116
73
73
61
45
27
Cyberpunk 2077
190
171
119
53
82
75
43
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
280
265
207
107
128
119
85
46
Average FPS by Resolution
1080p High 229 116
1080p Ultra 194 96
1440p Ultra 152 69
4K Ultra 88 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 9070 XT +146%
26251
10683
Time Spy 29556 10615
Solar Bay 122220 49340
Port Royal 18363 6054
Fire Strike 66319 28540
Wild Life Extreme 54672 20610
Night Raid 194947 121368
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 +71%
182816
106633
Background Blur 427.4 img/sec 186.9 img/sec
Face Detection 251 img/sec 112.7 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.77 Gpixels/sec 3.92 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 9.42 Gpixels/sec 5.16 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.35 Gpixels/sec 4.94 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.42 Gpixels/sec 1.34 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 651.4 Gpixels/sec 446.2 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 23630 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 9070 XT +372%
50113
10606

Passmark Graphics

Videocard test that focuses on compute shaders, multi-texturing, tessellation, and other features
G3D Mark Score
RX 9070 XT +38%
26913
19485
G2D Mark 1310 1036
DirectX 11 295 FPS 174 FPS
DirectX 12 77 FPS 76 FPS
GPU Compute 16100 Ops/s 9150 Ops/s
Sources: PassMark [5], [6] – 17863 & 28684 samples

Blender

Rendering performance test for 3D modeling
Blender GPU
3287.07
3132.26
Sources: Blender [9], [10] – 1724 & 2092 samples

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
GeForce RTX 4060
DateBenchmarkResult
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Geekbench 6 OpenCL105636
📘 2026-03-21 (John Fernand)Cinebench 202410606

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 +119%
39190
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
RX 9070 XT +91%
55727
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
RX 9070 XT +136%
33599
14234
Image Classification (SP) 18001 7696
Image Segmentation (HP) 25174 13706
Image Super Resolution (Q) 45714 23289
Face Detection (HP) 74776 31126
Pose Estimation (Q) 196137 78361
Text Classification (SP) 5163 3315
Machine Translation (HP) 8677 3491
Object Detection (SP) 19602 9386
Depth Estimation (Q) 74879 36778
Style Transfer (SP) 411302 148120
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
Sources: Geekbench [9], [10]

Specifications

Technical specifications of Radeon RX 9070 XT and GeForce RTX 4060

General

Vendor Amd Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Released January 7, 2025 May 18, 2023
Launch price (MSRP) $599 $299
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment High-end Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 4.0 Ada Lovelace
GPU Codename Navi 48 AD107
Rival Equivalent - GeForce RTX 5070 Ti - Radeon RX 7700 XT
Successor - - GeForce RTX 5060
Recommended CPU - Intel Core Ultra 5 245K or above - Intel Core i5 14600K or above
Desktop GPU rating (12th and 54th place)

Graphics Processing Unit

Base Clock 1660 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost Clock 2970 MHz 2460 MHz
Shading Units 4096 3072
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 256 96
Render Output Units (ROPs) 128 48
Compute Units (Pipelines) 64 24
Tensor Cores 128 96
Ray-tracing Cores 64 24
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 8MB shared 24MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 2 IPC

Raw Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 380 GPixel/s 118 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 760 GTexel/s 236 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32)
RX 9070 XT +223%
48.7 TFLOPS
15.1 TFLOPS
Differences in GPUs' instructions per clock make TFLOPS values not directly comparable.

Physical

Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 304 W 115 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 5 nm
Die Size 357 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor Count 53.9 billion 18 billion
Transistor Density 150.98 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Memory

Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Clock 2518 MHz -
Effective Memory Speed 20100 Mbps -
Bus 256-bit 128-bit
ECC No No
Memory Bandwidth
RX 9070 XT +137%
644.6 GB/s
272 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 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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