Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB vs GeForce RTX 3070 16 GB

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot rated40
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureAmpere (2020−2025)RDNA 4 (2025)
GPU code nameGA104no data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data2 January 2025 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$599 no data

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores58882048
Boost clock speed1725 MHz2530 MHz
Number of transistors17,400 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology8 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)250 Wattno data
Texture fill rate317.4no data
Floating-point processing power20.31 TFLOPSno data
ROPs96no data
TMUs184no data

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 4.0 x16no data
Length242 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 12-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed14 GB/sno data
Memory bandwidth448.0 GB/sno data
Shared memory--
Resizable BAR++

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPortno data
HDMI+-

API and SDK compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)no data
Shader Model6.5no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.0no data
Vulkan1.2-
CUDA8.5-

Pros & cons summary


Chip lithography 8 nm 4 nm

RX 9060 XT 16GB has a 100% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 3070 16 GB and Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB. We've got no test results to judge.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 16 GB
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AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
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