AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Compare AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT 20 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon RX 7900 XT

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

19220 points

204% significantly better overall score

6305 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

394 FPS

258 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

136 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

273 FPS

193 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

81 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

362 FPS

248 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

114 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

159 FPS

97 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

62 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3540.90 points

0.51% slightly higher Blender score

3522.98 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

187759 points

79% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

104383 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

213258 points

116% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

98514 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1800 MHz

89% significantly higher core clock speed

952 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2400 MHz

64% significantly higher boost clock speed

1455 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

384 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

800 GB/s

108% significantly higher memory bandwidth

384 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

315 W

45 W

599% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

460 Gigapixels/s

558% significantly higher pixel rate

69.84 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

810 Gigatexels/s

435% significantly higher texture rate

151.3 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

12288

269% significantly more shading units

3328

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

768

638% significantly more texture mapping units

104

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

192

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

10th of 597

77th of 597

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 7000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2022 December

2025 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 7900 XT vs GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop comparison

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 7900 XT beats the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 7900 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 7900 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop has a significantly lower TDP at 45 W when compared to the Radeon RX 7900 XT at 315 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 7900 XT is better than the GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop.