Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB vs RX 6700 XT

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking78not rated
Place by popularity80not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation51.43no data
Power efficiency15.43no data
ArchitectureRDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)RDNA 4 (2025)
GPU code nameNavi 22no data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date3 March 2021 (4 years ago)2 January 2025 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.

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Performance to price scatter graph

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 cores25602048
Core clock speed2321 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2581 MHz2530 MHz
Number of transistors17,200 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology7 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)230 Wattno data
Texture fill rate413.0no data
Floating-point processing power13.21 TFLOPSno data
ROPs64no data
TMUs160no data
Ray Tracing Cores40no 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
Length267 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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 amount12 GB16 GB
Memory bus width192 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth384.0 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
OpenCL2.1no data
Vulkan1.2-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 3 March 2021 2 January 2025
Maximum RAM amount 12 GB 16 GB
Chip lithography 7 nm 4 nm

RX 9060 XT 16GB has an age advantage of 3 years, a 33.3% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 75% more advanced lithography process.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 6700 XT and Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB. We've got no test results to judge.

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