Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB vs RX 7900 GRE

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Aggregate performance score

We've compared Radeon RX 7900 GRE and Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB, covering specs and all relevant benchmarks.

RX 7900 GRE
2023
16 GB GDDR6, 260 Watt
62.71
+10.4%

RX 7900 GRE outperforms RX 9060 XT 16GB by a moderate 10% based on our aggregate benchmark results.

Primary details

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

Place in the ranking2840
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation67.89no data
Power efficiency18.86no data
ArchitectureRDNA 3.0 (2022−2025)RDNA 4 (2025)
GPU code nameNavi 31no data
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date27 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.

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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 cores51202048
Core clock speed1287 MHzno data
Boost clock speed2245 MHz2530 MHz
Number of transistors57,700 millionno data
Manufacturing process technology5 nm4 nm
Power consumption (TDP)260 Wattno data
Texture fill rate718.4no data
Floating-point processing power45.98 TFLOPSno data
ROPs160no data
TMUs320no data
Ray Tracing Cores80no 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
Length276 mmno data
Width2-slotno data
Supplementary power connectors2x 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 amount16 GB16 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHzno data
Memory bandwidth576.0 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 2.1a, 2x DisplayPort 2.1, 1x USB Type-Cno 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 Model6.8no data
OpenGL4.6no data
OpenCL2.2no data
Vulkan1.3-

Synthetic benchmark performance

Non-gaming benchmark results comparison. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RX 7900 GRE 62.71
+10.4%
RX 9060 XT 16GB 56.79

3DMark 11 Performance GPU

3DMark 11 is an obsolete DirectX 11 benchmark by Futuremark. It used four tests based on two scenes, one being few submarines exploring the submerged wreck of a sunken ship, the other is an abandoned temple deep in the jungle. All the tests are heavy with volumetric lighting and tessellation, and despite being done in 1280x720 resolution, are relatively taxing. Discontinued in January 2020, 3DMark 11 is now superseded by Time Spy.

RX 7900 GRE 67134
+11.1%
RX 9060 XT 16GB 60419

3DMark Vantage Performance

3DMark Vantage is an outdated DirectX 10 benchmark using 1280x1024 screen resolution. It taxes the graphics card with two scenes, one depicting a girl escaping some militarized base located within a sea cave, the other displaying a space fleet attack on a defenseless planet. It was discontinued in April 2017, and Time Spy benchmark is now recommended to be used instead.

RX 7900 GRE 122732
RX 9060 XT 16GB 125707
+2.4%

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

RX 7900 GRE 54610
+42.5%
RX 9060 XT 16GB 38316

3DMark Cloud Gate GPU

Cloud Gate is an outdated DirectX 11 feature level 10 benchmark that was used for home PCs and basic notebooks. It displays a few scenes of some weird space teleportation device launching spaceships into unknown, using fixed resolution of 1280x720. Just like Ice Storm benchmark, it has been discontinued in January 2020 and replaced by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 7900 GRE 247366
+18.9%
RX 9060 XT 16GB 208101

3DMark Ice Storm GPU

Ice Storm Graphics is an obsolete benchmark, part of 3DMark suite. Ice Storm was used to measure entry level laptops and Windows-based tablets performance. It utilizes DirectX 11 feature level 9 to display a battle between two space fleets near a frozen planet in 1280x720 resolution. Discontinued in January 2020, it is now superseded by 3DMark Night Raid.

RX 7900 GRE 637522
RX 9060 XT 16GB 693716
+8.8%

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD206
+20.5%
171
−20.5%
1440p129
+65.4%
78
−65.4%
4K77
+60.4%
48
−60.4%

Cost per frame, $

1080p2.67no data
1440p4.26no data
4K7.13no data

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2 300−350
+5.5%
290−300
−5.5%
Cyberpunk 2077 208
+42.5%
140−150
−42.5%
Sons of the Forest 117
+1.7%
110−120
−1.7%

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5 170−180
+5.4%
160−170
−5.4%
Counter-Strike 2 300−350
+5.5%
290−300
−5.5%
Cyberpunk 2077 184
+26%
140−150
−26%
Far Cry 5 174
−55.2%
270
+55.2%
Fortnite 300−350
+9.4%
270−280
−9.4%
Forza Horizon 4 250−260
+12.2%
230−240
−12.2%
Forza Horizon 5 190−200
+9%
170−180
−9%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
+0%
170−180
+0%
Sons of the Forest 113
−1.8%
110−120
+1.8%
Valorant 350−400
+13.2%
300−350
−13.2%

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5 170−180
+5.4%
160−170
−5.4%
Counter-Strike 2 300−350
+5.5%
290−300
−5.5%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
+0%
270−280
+0%
Cyberpunk 2077 158
+8.2%
140−150
−8.2%
Far Cry 5 168
−47.6%
248
+47.6%
Fortnite 300−350
+9.4%
270−280
−9.4%
Forza Horizon 4 250−260
+12.2%
230−240
−12.2%
Forza Horizon 5 190−200
+9%
170−180
−9%
Grand Theft Auto V 164
+6.5%
154
−6.5%
Metro Exodus 179
+19.3%
150−160
−19.3%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
+0%
170−180
+0%
Sons of the Forest 110
−4.5%
110−120
+4.5%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 382
+39.9%
273
−39.9%
Valorant 350−400
+13.2%
300−350
−13.2%

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 170−180
+5.4%
160−170
−5.4%
Cyberpunk 2077 148
+1.4%
140−150
−1.4%
Far Cry 5 155
−50.3%
233
+50.3%
Forza Horizon 4 250−260
+12.2%
230−240
−12.2%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
+0%
170−180
+0%
Sons of the Forest 108
−6.5%
110−120
+6.5%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 209
+43.2%
146
−43.2%
Valorant 350−400
+23%
300−310
−23%

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite 300−350
+9.4%
270−280
−9.4%

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 190−200
+14.5%
170−180
−14.5%
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 500−550
+15.3%
400−450
−15.3%
Grand Theft Auto V 130
+56.6%
83
−56.6%
Metro Exodus 111
+14.4%
95−100
−14.4%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
+16.7%
150−160
−16.7%
Valorant 450−500
+19%
350−400
−19%

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 160−170
+13%
140−150
−13%
Cyberpunk 2077 98
+21%
80−85
−21%
Far Cry 5 154
−3.9%
160
+3.9%
Forza Horizon 4 220−230
+15%
190−200
−15%
Sons of the Forest 106
+12.8%
90−95
−12.8%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 156
+52.9%
102
−52.9%

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite 150−160
+0%
150−160
+0%

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 85−90
+14.1%
75−80
−14.1%
Grand Theft Auto V 151
+65.9%
91
−65.9%
Metro Exodus 71
+16.4%
60−65
−16.4%
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 125
+48.8%
84
−48.8%
Valorant 300−350
+2.8%
300−350
−2.8%

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 120−130
+16.3%
100−110
−16.3%
Counter-Strike 2 85−90
+11.3%
80−85
−11.3%
Cyberpunk 2077 45
+15.4%
35−40
−15.4%
Far Cry 5 107
+33.8%
80
−33.8%
Forza Horizon 4 170−180
+21.7%
140−150
−21.7%
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 95−100
+0%
95−100
+0%
Sons of the Forest 77
+22.2%
60−65
−22.2%

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite 75−80
+0%
75−80
+0%

This is how RX 7900 GRE and RX 9060 XT 16GB compete in popular games:

  • RX 7900 GRE is 20% faster in 1080p
  • RX 7900 GRE is 65% faster in 1440p
  • RX 7900 GRE is 60% faster in 4K

Here's the range of performance differences observed across popular games:

  • in Grand Theft Auto V, with 4K resolution and the High Preset, the RX 7900 GRE is 66% faster.
  • in Far Cry 5, with 1080p resolution and the Medium Preset, the RX 9060 XT 16GB is 55% faster.

All in all, in popular games:

  • RX 7900 GRE is ahead in 45 tests (76%)
  • RX 9060 XT 16GB is ahead in 7 tests (12%)
  • there's a draw in 7 tests (12%)

Pros & cons summary


Performance score 62.71 56.79
Recency 27 July 2023 2 January 2025
Chip lithography 5 nm 4 nm

RX 7900 GRE has a 10.4% higher aggregate performance score.

RX 9060 XT 16GB, on the other hand, has an age advantage of 1 year, and a 25% more advanced lithography process.

The Radeon RX 7900 GRE is our recommended choice as it beats the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB in performance tests.

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