AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060

Compared 2 processors: AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT, vs Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060. Below are specs, tests, pros and cons for each device

Review

Key Specs AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT and Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
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
112
59
47
28
127
81
70
49
The Witcher 3
94
75
49
29
142
114
82
46
Counter-Strike 2
158
108
73
35
204
154
114
57
Far Cry 6
90
73
55
26
107
96
75
42
Hogwarts Legacy
53
43
31
17
80
66
50
26
COD Modern Warfare 3
76
67
45
29
96
89
64
41
Ghost of Tsushima
61
44
34
15
74
61
45
25
Cyberpunk 2077
55
51
28
13
83
74
44
22
Shadow of the Tomb Raider
103
88
57
29
130
119
87
43
Avg FPS
1080p High89116
1080p Ultra6895
1440p Ultra4770
4K Ultra2539
DeviationLowLow

Benchmarks

CPU performance comparison across tasks
3DMark
Steel Nomad Lite Score
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
7012
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
10688
Time Spy763310620
Solar Bayn/a49040
Port Royaln/a6050
Fire Strike2231028559
Night Raid86630121867
GeekBench v6
GB6 Compute Score
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
66629
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
106633
Background Blur123.2 frames/s186.9 frames/s
Face Detection71.4 frames/s112.7 frames/s
Horizon Detection2.85 Gpix/sec3.92 Gpix/sec
Edge Detection4.1 Gpix/sec5.16 Gpix/sec
Gaussian Blur3.48 Gpix/sec4.94 Gpix/sec
Feature Matching0.62 Gpix/sec1.34 Gpix/sec
Stereo Matching253.9 Gpix/sec446.2 Gpix/sec
Particle Physics7670.6 fps14935.1 fps
APIOpenCLOpenCL
PassMark
PassMark Graphics
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
13492
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
19712
G2D Mark8701080
DirectX 1196 fps174 fps
DirectX 1252 fps77 fps
GPU Compute6338 Ops/s9311 Ops/s
GFXBench 5
Aztec Ruins (High 4K)
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
92.1 fps
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
118.3 fps
Aztec Ruins (Normal)533 fps709 fps
Car Chase465.4 fps615.4 fps
Manhattan 3.1.1 (1440p)387.4 fps496.1 fps
T-Rex1882.8 fps2635.8 fps
ALU 22438.2 fps3284 fps
Driver Overhead 2198.3 fps280.8 fps
APIOpenGLOpenGL
OSWindowsWindows
Tessellation2278.93372.6
Geekbench 6 ML
GB6 ML Single Precision
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
17857
GB6 ML Half Precision
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
29214
GB6 ML Quantized
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
14234
Image Classification (SP)n/a7696
Image Segmentation (HP)n/a13706
Horizon Detectionn/a23289
Face Detection (HP)n/a31126
Pose Estimation (Q)n/a78361
Text Classification (SP)n/a3315
Machine Translation (HP)n/a3491
Object Detection (SP)n/a9386
Depth Estimation (Q)n/a36778
Style Transfer (SP)n/a148120
Frameworkn/aONNX
Backendn/aDirectML

Blender

Real-world 3D modeling test
Blender GPU
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
n/a
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
3174.4

Tech Specs

Specs & test comparison

General Info

Manufacturer AMD Nvidia
Build Discrete Discrete
Announced January, 21, 2020 May, 18, 2023
Form Factor PC use PC use
Use case Gaming Gaming
Segment Mid-range Mid-range
Architecture RDNA 1.0 Ada Lovelace
Codename Navi 10 AD107
Price 279 n/a

GPU

GPU Frequency 1130 MHz 1830 MHz
Boost GPU Frequency 1560 MHz 2460 MHz
Shader Units 2304 3072
TMUs 144 96
ROPs 64 48
Execution Units n/a 24
Ray Tracing Cores No 24
Tensor Cores No 96
L1 cache n/a 128 KB/core
L2 cache 3000 KB/core 24000 KB/core
Instructions per Clock 2 IPC 2 IPC

Performance

Pixel Fill Rate 100 Gpix/sec 118 Gpix/sec
Texture Fill Rate 225 GTex/s 236 GTex/s
FLOPS 7.2 TFLOPS 15.1 TFLOPS

Process

Interface PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x8
TGP 150 W 115 W
Process TSMC TSMC
Process tech. 7 nm 5 nm
Transistor Size 251 mm² 159 mm²
Transistor count 10 billion 18 billion
Transistor density 39.84 MTr/mm² 113.21 MTr/mm²

Memory

Interface GDDR6 GDDR6
Memory Frequency 1500 MHz n/a
Bus 192 bit 128 bit
ECC support No No
Effective Memory Speed 12000 MB/s n/a
Memory Size 6 GB 8 GB
Max Throughput
AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
288 GB/s
Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060
272 GB/s

API

DirectX 12 12
Vulkan 1.3 1.3
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
CUDA n/a 8.9
DisplayPort 1.4a 1.4a
Ray Tracing No Yes
DLSS No DLSS 3

Results

After analyzing the data, we consider Nvidia GeForce RTX 4060 the clear winner in this comparison.

Survey

Which GPU would you pick?
1 (33.33%)
2 (66.67%)
Total Votes: 3

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