Radeon RX 9070 XT VS Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)

We are comparing the Radeon RX 9070 XT (AMD) with the Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB) (AMD). Scroll down to the pros and cons of each graphics card, in-depth specs, and gaming benchmarks.

Last Updated: September 20, 2026

Radeon RX 9070 XT

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Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)

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KEY DIFFERENCES OF Radeon RX 9070 XT AND Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)

Here’s how Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB) stack up against each other in their most impactful areas.

Radeon RX 9070 XT: 5 advantages Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB): 1 advantage

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9070 XT

5
  • 36% higher PassMark G3D Mark score (26866 vs 19820)
  • 48% higher PassMark GPU Compute score (15958 vs 10769)
  • 90% higher FP32 Compute (48.66 TFLOPS vs 25.64 TFLOPS)
  • 99% more memory bandwidth (640 GB/s vs 322.3 GB/s)
  • 100% more VRAM (16GB vs 8GB)

Reasons to consider the Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)

1
  • 5% higher Boost Clock (3130 MHz vs 2970 MHz)

SPECIFICATION TABLE COMPARISON OF Radeon RX 9070 XT AND Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)

Below is the detailed specification table comparing Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB).

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 Radeon RX 9070 XT Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)
General Info
GPU Name: Radeon RX 9070 XT Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)
GPU Type: Discrete Discrete
Codename: Navi 44
Vendor: AMD AMD
Foundry: TSMC TSMC
Architecture: RDNA 4.0 RDNA 4.0
Generation: Navi IV (RX 9000) Navi IV
Release Date: March 6, 2025 June 4, 2025
Board Design
Bus Interface: PCIe 5.0 x16 PCIe 5.0 x16
PCIe Version: 5.0 5.0
PCIe Lanes: x16 x16
Process Size: 4 nm 4 nm
Transistors: 53.9 billion 29.7 billion
Density: 151.19 MTr/mm² 149.2 MTr/mm²
Die Size: 356.5 199 mm²
Total Graphics Power (TGP): 304 W 150 W
Graphics Processor
Compute Units: 64 32
Shading Units: 4096 2048
Texture Mapping Units (TMUs): 256 128
Render Output Units (ROPs): 128 64
Tensor Cores: 128 64
Ray Tracing Cores: 64 32
Base Clock: 1660 1700 MHz
Boost Clock: 2970 3130 MHz
L1 Cache: 128KB per cluster
L2 Cache: 4MB shared 4 MB
L3 Cache: 32 MB
Raw Performance
Pixel Fill Rate: 380.2 GPixel/s 200.3 GPixel/s
Texture Fill Rate: 760.3 GTexel/s 400.6 GTexel/s
FP32 Performance: 48.66 TFLOPs 25.64 TFLOPs
Memory
Memory Type: GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Size: 16 GB 8 GB
Memory Bus Width: 256-bit 128-bit
Memory Clock: 2518 2518 MHz
Effective Memory Speed: 20100 20100 Mbps
Bandwidth: 640 322.3 GB/s
APIs
DirectX: 12.2 12.2
Vulkan: 1.3 1.4
OpenGL: 4.6 4.6
OpenCL: 2.2 2.2
CUDA: No No
Ray Tracing: Yes Yes
DLSS: No No
FSR: FSR 3
DisplayPort: 2.1a 2.1a
HDMI: 2.1b
Gaming FPS
1080p Ultra (FPS): 193
1440p Ultra (FPS): 151
4K Ultra (FPS): 89
Benchmarks
3D Mark
Steel Nomad Lite 26116
Time Spy 29803
Solar Bay 120093
Port Royal 18556
Fire Strike 66408
Wild Life Extreme 54361
Night Raid 196877
GeekBench 6 OpenCL
Compute Score 182816
Background Blur 427.4 img/sec
Face Detection 251 img/sec
Horizon Detection 6.77 Gpixels/sec
Edge Detection 9.42 Gpixels/sec
Gaussian Blur 9.35 Gpixels/sec
Feature Matching 1.42 Gpixels/sec
Stereo Matching 651.4 Gpixels/sec
Particle Physics 23630 FPS
Passmark Graphics
G3D Mark 26866 19820
G2D Mark 1320 1132
DirectX 11 294 187
DirectX 12 77 56
GPU Compute 15958 Ops/s 10769
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins High (4K) 313.30
Aztec Ruins Normal 1794.90
Car Chase 1498.00
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p) 1199.30
T-Rex 5080.10
Tessellation 6928.50
ALU 2 9196.70
Driver Overhead 2 339.10
API OpenGL
OS Windows
Blender (Rendering)
Blender Score 3116
GeekBench 6 ML
Single Precision 39190
Half Precision 55727
Quantized 33599
Image Classification 18001
Image Segmentation 25174
Image Super Resolution 45714
Face Detection 74776
Pose Estimation 196137
Text Classification 5163
Machine Translation 8677
Object Detection 19602
Depth Estimation 74879
Style Transfer 411302
Framework ONNX
Backend DirectML
FurMark
1080p Vulkan 19161 10902
1440p Vulkan 14200 7889
2160p Vulkan 7713 3392
1080p OpenGL 20135 11275
1440p OpenGL 14412 7905
2160p OpenGL 7754 3925

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

PERFORMANCE CHART COMPARISON OF Radeon RX 9070 XT AND Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)

The charts below visualize how Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB) stack up in key performance metrics.

Radar Chart Comparison

Category scores overview (0 to 100)
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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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Release Timeline of Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)

Radeon RX 9070 XT
90 days
Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)

Radeon RX 9070 XT was released 2 months, 29 days earlier than Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB).

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Domain Score Summary

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Radeon RX 9070 XT Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)
ALL
Overall
Difference: 9
Leads
Radeon RX 9070 XT
83
Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)
74
Gaming Performance
Difference: 13
Leads
Radeon RX 9070 XT
77
Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)
64
AI & Machine Learning
Difference: 12
Leads
Radeon RX 9070 XT
74
Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)
62
Hardware Architecture
Difference: 2
Leads
Radeon RX 9070 XT
85
Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)
83
Workstation
Difference: 12
Leads
Radeon RX 9070 XT
74
Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)
62

Our Verdict

In conclusion, the Radeon RX 9070 XT is clearly better overall compared to the Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB). It comes out ahead across every comparable key area.

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