Radeon RX 9060 XT vs Radeon RX 9070

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Review

Radeon RX 9060 XT
Radeon RX 9070
Gaming
45
66
Workstation
43
56
AI/ML
46
63
Energy Efficiency
55
49
Quick Comparison Final Score
44
62
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Key differences

Key distinctions and advantages between Radeon RX 9060 XT and Radeon RX 9070

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT

  • + RDNA 4.0 architecture
  • + Navi 44 codename
  • + 16GB GDDR6 memory
  • + PCIe 5.0 x16 interface

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070

  • + RDNA 4.0 architecture
  • + Navi 48 codename
  • + 16GB GDDR6 memory
  • + PCIe 5.0 x16 interface

Pros & Cons

Radeon RX 9060 XT
  • Large 16GB memory pool
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • No DLSS upscaling support

"A entry-level AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card with modest AI/ML performance (46/100). Suited for casual gaming and basic graphics tasks."

Radeon RX 9070
  • Solid gaming performance
  • Large 16GB memory pool
  • Hardware ray tracing support
  • Dedicated AI tensor cores
  • No DLSS upscaling support

"A mid-range AMD Radeon RX 9070 graphics card with capable gaming performance (66/100). Suited for 1080p gaming and everyday tasks."

Gaming Performance

Forza Horizon 5

1080p High
112
156
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070

The Witcher 3

1080p High
148
217
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070

Counter-Strike 2

1080p High
185
218
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070

Far Cry 6

1080p High
126
164
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070

Hogwarts Legacy

1080p High
88
123
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070

Call of Duty

1080p High
133
206
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070

Ghost of Tsushima

1080p High
90
123
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070

Cyberpunk 2077

1080p High
97
149
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070

Tomb Raider

1080p High
162
240
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070
FPS Table
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070
1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra 1080p High1080p Ultra1440p Ultra4K Ultra
Forza Horizon 5 112 — — — 156 — — —
The Witcher 3 148 — — — 217 — — —
Counter-Strike 2 185 — — — 218 — — —
Far Cry 6 126 — — — 164 — — —
Hogwarts Legacy 88 — — — 123 — — —
Call of Duty 133 — — — 206 — — —
Ghost of Tsushima 90 — — — 123 — — —
Cyberpunk 2077 97 — — — 149 — — —
Tomb Raider 162 — — — 240 — — —
Average FPS 127——— 177———
Average FPS by Resolution
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070
1080p High 155 213
1080p Ultra 127 177
1440p Ultra 94 139
4K Ultra 54 82
Margin of Error Low Low

Benchmarks

3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Radeon RX 9060 XT
13915
Radeon RX 9070 +64%
22783
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070
Time Spy 16405 26826
Solar Bay 65446 105512
Port Royal 9751 16089
Fire Strike 38969 60226
Wild Life Extreme 27779 48184
Night Raid 147967 176216
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark Score
Radeon RX 9060 XT
20129
Radeon RX 9070 +26%
25389
Radeon RX 9060 XT Radeon RX 9070
G2D Mark 1178 1265
DirectX 11 185 FPS 280 FPS
DirectX 12 57 FPS 74 FPS
GPU Compute 11202 Ops/s 14791 Ops/s
Blender
Blender GPU
Radeon RX 9060 XT
1601.83
Radeon RX 9070 +72%
2749.68

Specifications

GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Specification Radeon RX 9060 XT ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
GB6 Compute Score 107640 149949
Background Blur 269.5 img/sec 377.5 img/sec
Face Detection 151 img/sec 221.3 img/sec
Horizon Detection 3.6 Gpixels/sec 6.4 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 4.67 Gpixels/sec 8.99 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 5.27 Gpixels/sec 8.52 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.08 Gpixels/sec 1.36 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 395.3 Gpixels/sec 606 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 13165.7 FPS 8521.2 FPS
API OpenCL OpenCL
GeekBench 6 ML
Specification Radeon RX 9060 XT ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
GB6 ML Single Precision 25924 37056
GB6 ML Half Precision 40429 54866
GB6 ML Quantized 22275 29946
Image Classification (SP) 12380 15375
Image Segmentation (HP) 15402 37834
Image Super Resolution (Q) 32024 43910
Face Detection (HP) 50457 67858
Pose Estimation (Q) 113796 172939
Text Classification (SP) 4460 4469
Machine Translation (HP) 7481 8499
Object Detection (SP) 11256 15393
Depth Estimation (Q) 53978 66890
Style Transfer (SP) 235750 365633
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
General
Specification Radeon RX 9060 XT ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
Vendor Amd Amd
Build Discrete Discrete
Released 4-Jun-25 7-Jan-25
Case Desktop Desktop
Purpose Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture RDNA 4.0 RDNA 4.0
GPU Codename Navi 44 Navi 48
Recommended CPU -Intel Core Ultra 5 245Kor above -Intel Core Ultra 5 245Kor above
Graphics Processing Unit
Specification Radeon RX 9060 XT ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
Base Clock 1700 MHz 1330 MHz
Boost Clock 3130 MHz 2520 MHz
Shading Units 2048 3584
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs) 128 224
Render Output Units (ROPs) 64 128
Compute Units (Pipelines) 32 56
Tensor Cores 64 112
Ray-tracing Cores 32 56
L1 Cache 128KB per cluster 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache 4MB shared 4MB shared
Instructions Per Cycle 4 IPC 4 IPC
Raw Performance
Specification Radeon RX 9060 XT ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
Pixel Fill Rate 200 GPixel/s 323 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate 401 GTexel/s 564 GTexel/s
FLOPS (FP32) 25.6 TFLOPS 36.1 TFLOPS
Physical
Specification Radeon RX 9060 XT ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
Interface PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 160 W 220 W
Manufacturing TSMC TSMC
Fabrication Process 4 nm 4 nm
Die Size 199 mm² 356.5 mm²
Transistor Count 29.7 billion 53.9 billion
Transistor Density 149.25 MTr/mm² 151.19 MTr/mm²
Max. Temperature
Memory
Specification Radeon RX 9060 XT ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
Memory Type GDDR6 GDDR6
API
Specification Radeon RX 9060 XT ↗ Radeon RX 9070 ↗
DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.3 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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