GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop VS Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)

We are comparing the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop (NVIDIA) with the Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB) (AMD). Scroll down to the pros and cons of each graphics card, in-depth specs, and gaming benchmarks.

Last Updated: September 14, 2026

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Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)

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KEY DIFFERENCES OF GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop AND Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)

Here’s how GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop and Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB) stack up against each other in their most impactful areas.

GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop: 3 advantages Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB): 5 advantages

Reasons to consider the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

3
  • 124% higher Blender score (3539 vs 1578)
  • 19% more memory bandwidth (384 GB/s vs 322.3 GB/s)
  • Faster memory type (GDDR7)

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)

5
  • 23% higher 4K Ultra FPS (54 vs 44)
  • 22% higher 1440p Ultra FPS (94 vs 77)
  • 22% higher 1080p Ultra FPS (128 vs 105)
  • 58% higher Boost Clock (3130 MHz vs 1976 MHz)
  • 37% higher 3DMark Time Spy score (16412 vs 12014)

SPECIFICATION TABLE COMPARISON OF GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop AND Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)

Below is the detailed specification table comparing GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop and Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB).

Note: Highlighted specs mean that GPU wins that spec row.

If neither side is highlighted, it is a tie or there is not enough data for both specs.

Specification GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
General Info
GPU Name: GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
GPU Type: Laptop GPU Discrete
Codename: GB206 Navi 44
Vendor: NVIDIA AMD
Foundry: TSMC TSMC
Architecture: Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 4.0
Generation: GeForce 50 Mobile Navi IV
Release Date: April 14, 2025 June 4, 2025
Board Design
Bus Interface: PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe Version: 5.0 5.0
PCIe Lanes: 16 x16
Process Size: 5 nm 4 nm
Transistors: 21.9 billion 29.7 billion
Density: 120.99 MTr/mm² 149.2 MTr/mm²
Die Size: 181 mm² 199 mm²
Total Graphics Power (TGP): 45-115 W 160 W
Graphics Processor
Compute Units: 26 32
Shading Units: 3328 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs): 104 128
Render Output Units (ROPs): 48 64
Tensor Cores: 104 64
Ray Tracing Cores: 26 32
Base Clock: 952-1455 MHz 1700 MHz
Boost Clock: 1455-2497 MHz 3130 MHz
L1 Cache: 128 KB per cluster
L2 Cache: 32 MB 4 MB
L3 Cache: 32 MB
Raw Performance
Pixel Fill Rate: 69.84 GPixel/s 200.3 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate: 151.3 GTexel/s 400.6 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance: 9.684 TFLOPs 25.64 TFLOPs
Memory
Memory Type: GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Size: 8 GB 16 GB
Memory Bus Width: 128-bit 128-bit
Memory Clock: 1750 MHz 2518 MHz
Effective Memory Speed: 24000 Mbps 20100 Mbps
Bandwidth: 384 GB/s 322.3 GB/s
APIs
DirectX: 12 Ultimate (12_2) 12.2
Vulkan: 1.4 1.3
OpenGL: 4.6 4.6
OpenCL: 3.0 2.2
CUDA: 12.0 No
Ray Tracing: 1 Yes
DLSS: DLSS 4 No
DisplayPort: 2.1b 2.1a
HDMI: 2.1b
Gaming FPS
1080p Ultra (FPS): 105 128
1440p Ultra (FPS): 77 94
4K Ultra (FPS): 44 54
Benchmarks
3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite 11870 13913
Time Spy 12014 16412
Solar Bay 52601 65209
Port Royal 7421 9749
Fire Strike 31698 38956
Wild Life Extreme 21586 27723
Night Raid 115861 149101
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Compute Score 108121 107640
Background Blur 171 img/sec 269.5
Face Detection 112.1 img/sec 151
Horizon Detection 3.82 Gpixels/sec 3.6
Edge Detection 5.06 Gpixels/sec 4.67
Gaussian Blur 5.45 Gpixels/sec 5.27
Feature Matching 1.24 Gpixels/sec 1.08
Stereo Matching 515.3 Gpixels/sec 395.3
Particle Physics 16147.9 13165.7
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark 16882 20049
G2D Mark 853 1177
DirectX 11 163 185
DirectX 12 79 57
GPU Compute 6265 11171
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins High (4K) 141.10
Aztec Ruins Normal 950.10
Car Chase 773.30
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p) 636.10
T-Rex 2727.40
Tessellation 4164.10
ALU 2 5094.70
Driver Overhead 2 335.10
API OpenGL
OS Windows
Blender (Rendering)
Blender Score 3539 1578
GeekBench 6 ML
Single Precision 18679 25924
Half Precision 35323 40429
Quantized 14707 22275
Image Classification 7525 12380
Image Segmentation 23623 15402
Image Super Resolution 19973 32024
Face Detection 41164 50457
Pose Estimation 77589 113796
Text Classification 2880 4460
Machine Translation 5811 7481
Object Detection 9966 11256
Depth Estimation 37206 53978
Style Transfer 136961 235750
Framework ONNX ONNX
Backend DirectML DirectML
FurMark
1080p Vulkan 9722 10902
1440p Vulkan 4221 7889
2160p Vulkan 3392
1080p OpenGL 8574 11275
1440p OpenGL 5951 7905
2160p OpenGL 3925

Tip: indicates a higher-is-better spec advantage, while indicates a lower-is-better advantage.

PERFORMANCE CHART COMPARISON OF GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop AND Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)

The charts below visualize how GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop and Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB) stack up in key performance metrics.

Radar Chart Comparison

Category scores overview (0 to 100)
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
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Bullet Chart Comparison

Market Top is the best score found. Colored bars are % of market top (0 to 100).
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GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
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Release Timeline of GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop and Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)

GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
51 days
Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)

GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop was released 1 month, 21 days earlier than Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB).

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Domain Score Summary

Scores are generated by Comparigon's scoring algorithm and are intended as a high-level guide. They may not map 1-to-1 with the individual spec-by-spec comparisons shown in the table.

GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
ALL
Overall
Difference: 4
Leads
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
71
Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
75
Gaming Performance
Difference: 6
Leads
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
55
Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
61
AI & Machine Learning
Difference: 10
Leads
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
54
Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
64
Hardware Architecture
Difference: 1
Leads
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
82
Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
83
Workstation
Difference: 3
Leads
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
56
Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
59
Energy Efficiency
Difference: 0
Tie
GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop
100
Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB)
100

Our Verdict

In conclusion, the Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB) is slightly better overall compared to the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop. Its strongest advantages are in Gaming Performance, AI & Machine Learning, Hardware Architecture and Workstation. They are still fairly close in Energy Efficiency.

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