NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 12 GB vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT

Price

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$ 541.95

$ 269.99

$ 271.96 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

12174 points

10% slightly better overall score

10978 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

289 FPS

63 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

226 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

141 FPS

162 FPS

20 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

206 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

205 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

114 FPS

24 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

90 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3862 points

3% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

3719 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

5402.96 points

241% significantly higher Blender score

1584.42 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

168368 points

86% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

90142 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

158623 points

37% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

115648 points

Specifications

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2430 MHz

3130 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory

Onboard memory size for textures and vertices

12 GiB

16 GiB

33% slightly more memory

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

160 Bit

25% slightly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

360 GB/s

12% slightly higher memory bandwidth

320 GB/s

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

194.4 Gigapixels/s

200.3 Gigapixels/s

3% slightly higher pixel rate

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

34.84 TFLOPS

36% slightly better floating point performance

25.6 TFLOPS

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

224

75% significantly more texture mapping units

128

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

25% slightly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

31st of 597

36th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 9000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2023 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce RTX 4070 vs Radeon RX 9060 XT specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 4070 graphics card is better than the Radeon RX 9060 XT in our tests.

As stated by the manufacturer, the Radeon RX 9060 XT has slightly more memory with 16 GiB of memory compared to 12 GiB. Memory size doesn't directly affect performance, but too little memory will certainly degrade gaming performance.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce RTX 4070 is faster than the Radeon RX 9060 XT.

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