Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB vs RX 7900 GRE

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking	29	not rated
Place by popularity	not in top-100	not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	63.16	no data
Power efficiency	18.61	no data
Architecture	RDNA 3.0 (2022−2025)	RDNA 4 (2025)
GPU code name	Navi 31	no data
Market segment	Desktop	Desktop
Release date	27 July 2023 (1 year ago)	2 January 2025 (less than a year ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	$549	no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

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

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 cores	5120	2048
Core clock speed	1287 MHz	no data
Boost clock speed	2245 MHz	2530 MHz
Number of transistors	57,700 million	no data
Manufacturing process technology	5 nm	4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	260 Watt	no data
Texture fill rate	718.4	no data
Floating-point processing power	45.98 TFLOPS	no data
ROPs	160	no data
TMUs	320	no data
Ray Tracing Cores	80	no 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).

Interface	PCIe 4.0 x16	no data
Length	276 mm	no data
Width	2-slot	no data
Supplementary power connectors	2x 8-pin	no 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 type	GDDR6	GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount	16 GB	16 GB
Memory bus width	256 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2250 MHz	no data
Memory bandwidth	576.0 GB/s	no 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 Connectors	1x HDMI 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-C	no data
HDMI	+	-

API and SDK compatibility

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

DirectX	12 Ultimate (12_2)	no data
Shader Model	6.8	no data
OpenGL	4.6	no data
OpenCL	2.2	no data
Vulkan	1.3	-

Pros & cons summary

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Recency	27 July 2023	2 January 2025
Chip lithography	5 nm	4 nm

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