Radeon RX 6900 XTX vs GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB

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Primary details

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

Place in the ranking36not rated
Place by popularity96not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation63.72no data
Power efficiency25.90no data
ArchitectureAda Lovelace (2022−2024)RDNA 2.0 (2020−2024)
GPU code nameAD106Navi 21
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date18 May 2023 (1 year ago)28 October 2020 (4 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$499 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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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 cores43525120
Core clock speed2310 MHz2075 MHz
Boost clock speed2535 MHz2435 MHz
Number of transistors22,900 million26,800 million
Manufacturing process technology5 nm7 nm
Power consumption (TDP)165 Watt330 Watt
Texture fill rate344.8779.2
Floating-point processing power22.06 TFLOPS24.93 TFLOPS
ROPs48128
TMUs136320
Tensor Cores136no data
Ray Tracing Cores3480

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 x8PCIe 4.0 x16
Length240 mm267 mm
Width2-slot2-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 16-pin2x 8-pin

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 width128 Bit256 Bit
Memory clock speed2250 MHz2250 MHz
Memory bandwidth288.0 GB/s576.0 GB/s
Shared memory--

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 2.1, 3x DisplayPort 1.4a1x HDMI 2.1, 2x DisplayPort 1.4a, 1x USB Type-C
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API compatibility

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

DirectX12 Ultimate (12_2)12 Ultimate (12_2)
Shader Model6.76.7
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.02.1
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA8.9-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 18 May 2023 28 October 2020
Chip lithography 5 nm 7 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 165 Watt 330 Watt

RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB has an age advantage of 2 years, a 40% more advanced lithography process, and 100% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB and Radeon RX 6900 XTX. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 16 GB
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AMD Radeon RX 6900 XTX
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