Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 vs AMD Radeon RX 9070

Compared 2 processors: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, vs AMD Radeon RX 9070. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 and AMD Radeon RX 9070
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
235
158
133
102
The Witcher 3
166
137
100
53
237
213
157
82
Counter-Strike 2
238
188
131
74
315
214
160
80
Far Cry 6
125
116
93
53
191
168
147
94
Hogwarts Legacy
94
79
59
30
143
121
95
55
COD Modern Warfare 3
117
108
80
51
222
211
156
105
Ghost of Tsushima
85
71
55
30
146
125
109
66
Cyberpunk 2077
99
89
56
27
171
154
107
47
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
156
141
106
57
266
242
186
98
Avg FPS
1080p High136214
1080p Ultra114178
1440p Ultra85139
4K Ultra4881
DeviationLowLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
14096
AMD Radeon RX 9070
22542
Time Spy1370127004
Solar Bay63214105078
Port Royal859516158
Fire Strike3761260559
Night Raid111626170494
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
127848
AMD Radeon RX 9070
149949
Background Blur209.1 frames/s377.5 frames/s
Face Detection134.3 frames/s221.3 frames/s
Horizon Detection4.67 Gpix/sec6.4 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection6.13 Gpix/sec8.99 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur6.39 Gpix/sec8.52 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching1.36 Gpix/sec1.36 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching607.8 Gpix/sec606 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics18827.5 fps8521.2 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
20940
AMD Radeon RX 9070
24877
G2D Mark11521274
DirectX 11199 fps281 fps
DirectX 1277 fps72 fps
GPU Compute10977 Ops/s14704 Ops/s
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
20375
AMD Radeon RX 9070
37056
GB6 ML Half Precision
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
37358
AMD Radeon RX 9070
54866
GB6 ML Quantized
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
15190
AMD Radeon RX 9070
29946
Image Classification (SP)836215375
Image Segmentation (HP)2283137834
Horizon Detection2237543910
Face Detection (HP)4195567858
Pose Estimation (Q)84685172939
Text Classification (SP)32964469
Machine Translation (HP)50838499
Object Detection (SP)1102315393
Depth Estimation (Q)3881766890
Style Transfer (SP)155103365633
FrameworkONNXONNX
BackendDirectMLDirectML

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
3702.71
AMD Radeon RX 9070
2688.73

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer Nvidia AMD
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced April, 15, 2025 January, 7, 2025
Form Factor PC use PC use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range High-end
Architecture Blackwell 2.0 RDNA 4.0
Codename GB206-250 Navi 48 XL

GPU

GPU Frequency 2280 MHz 1330 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 2497 MHz 2520 MHz
Shader Units 3840 3584
TMUs 120 224
ROPs 48 128
Execution Units 30 56
Ray Tracing Cores 30 56
Tensor Cores 120 112
L1 cache 128 KB/core 128 KB/core
L2 cache 32000 KB/core 4000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 4 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 120 Gpix/sec 323 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 300 GTex/s 564 GTex/s
FLOPS 19.2 TFLOPS 36.1 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 5.0 x8 PCIe 5.0 x16
TGP 145 W 220 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 5 nm 4 nm
Transistor Size 181 mm² 356.5 mm²
Transistor count 21.9 billion 53.9 billion
Transistor density 120.99 MTr/mm² 151.19 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR7 GDDR6
Memory Frequency 1750 MHz 2518 MHz
Bus 128 bit 256 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 28000 MB/s 20100 MB/s
Memory Size 8 GB 16 GB
Max Throughput
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060
448 GB/s
AMD Radeon RX 9070
640 GB/s

API

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

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider AMD Radeon RX 9070 the clear winner in this comparison.

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