Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon RX 560

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, vs AMD Radeon RX 560. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 and AMD Radeon RX 560
Games
Performance in DirectX, OpenCL, Vulkan
AI/ML
AI workload testing
Professional Apps
3D modeling, video editing, rendering
Energy Efficiency
Power usage in various scenarios
NanoReview Score
Overall score by NanoReview

Tests & specs

Specs & test comparison

Games

FPS Table
Game title
1080p (High)
1080p (Ultra)
1440p (Ultra)
4K (Ultra)
Forza Horizon 5
142
94
84
58
34
17
15
n/a
The Witcher 3
166
137
100
53
15
15
9
n/a
Counter-Strike 2
238
188
131
74
33
19
15
n/a
Far Cry 6
125
116
93
53
28
19
13
n/a
Hogwarts Legacy
94
79
59
30
13
11
n/a
n/a
COD Modern Warfare 3
117
108
80
51
26
22
17
9
Ghost of Tsushima
85
71
55
30
13
9
n/a
n/a
Cyberpunk 2077
99
89
56
27
12
10
n/a
n/a
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
156
141
106
57
23
19
13
n/a
Avg FPS
1080p High13622
1080p Ultra11416
1440p Ultra8511
4K Ultra48-
DeviationLowLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
14096
AMD Radeon RX 560
1769
Time Spy137011857
Solar Bay63214n/a
Port Royal8595n/a
Fire Strike376126495
Night Raid11162625510
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
127848
AMD Radeon RX 560
19139
Background Blur209.1 frames/s34 frames/s
Face Detection134.3 frames/s17.6 frames/s
Horizon Detection4.67 Gpix/sec0.69 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection6.13 Gpix/sec1.43 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur6.39 Gpix/sec1.15 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.36 Gpix/sec0.2 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching607.8 Gpix/sec65.5 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics18827.5 fps2232.5 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
20940
AMD Radeon RX 560
3657
G2D Mark1152487
DirectX 11199 fps24 fps
DirectX 1277 fps20 fps
GPU Compute10977 Ops/s1449 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
n/a
AMD Radeon RX 560
25.5 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)n/a144.3 fps
APIn/aVulkan
OSn/aWindows
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
20375
AMD Radeon RX 560
n/a
GB6 ML Half Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
37358
AMD Radeon RX 560
n/a
GB6 ML Quantized
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
15190
AMD Radeon RX 560
n/a
Image Classification (SP)8362n/a
Image Segmentation (HP)22831n/a
Horizon Detection22375n/a
Face Detection (HP)41955n/a
Pose Estimation (Q)84685n/a
Text Classification (SP)3296n/a
Machine Translation (HP)5083n/a
Object Detection (SP)11023n/a
Depth Estimation (Q)38817n/a
Style Transfer (SP)155103n/a
FrameworkONNXn/a
BackendDirectMLn/a

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
3702.71
AMD Radeon RX 560
n/a

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia AMD
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced April, 15, 2025 April, 18, 2017
Form Factor PC use PC use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 GCN 4.0
Codename GB206-250 Polaris 21
Price n/a 99

GPU

GPU Frequency 2280 MHz 1175 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2497 MHz 1275 MHz
Shader Units 3840 1024
TMUs 120 64
ROPs 48 16
Execution Units 30 n/a
Ray Tracing Cores 30 No
Tensor Cores 120 No
L1 cache 128 KB/core 16 KB/core
L2 cache 32000 KB/core 1024 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 120 Gpix/sec 20 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 300 GTex/s 82 GTex/s
FLOPS 19.2 TFLOPS 2.6 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x8 PCIe 3.0 x8
TGP 145 W 75 W
Process TSMC GlobalFoundries
Process tech. 5 nm 14 nm
Transistor Size 181 mm² 123 mm²
Transistor count 21.9 billion 3 billion
Transistor density 120.99 MTr/mm² 24.39 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR7 GDDR5
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz 1750 MHz
Bus 128 bit 128 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 MB/s 7000 MB/s
Memory Size 8 GB 4 GB
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
448 GB/s
AMD Radeon RX 560
112 GB/s

API

DirectX 12.2 12
Vulkan 1.4 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA 12.0 n/a
DisplayPort 2.1b 1.4a
Ray Tracing Yes No
DLSS DLSS 4 No

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 the clear winner in this comparison.

Survey

Which GPU would you pick?
2 (22.22%)
7 (77.78%)
Total Votes: 9

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