NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 9060 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6 's Advantages
More VRAM (12GB vs 8GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (480.0GB/s vs 322.3GB/s)
3840 additional rendering cores
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 's Advantages
Released 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 31% (3230MHz vs 2475MHz)
Lower TDP (150W vs 200W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce RTX 4070 GDDR6
+10%
29.15 TFLOPS
Radeon RX 9060 XT
26.46 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Aug 2024
Release Date
May 2025
GeForce 40
Generation
Navi IV
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 4.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 5.0 x8
Clock Speeds
1920 MHz
Base Clock
2220 MHz
2475 MHz
Boost Clock
3230 MHz
2500 MHz
Memory Clock
2518 MHz
Memory
12GB
Memory Size
8GB
GDDR6
Memory Type
GDDR6
192bit
Memory Bus
128bit
480.0GB/s
Bandwidth
322.3GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
46
SM Count
48
5888
Shading Units
2048
184
TMUs
128
64
ROPs
64
184
Tensor Cores
192
46
RT Cores
32
128 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
36 MB
L2 Cache
4 MB
-
L3 Cache
32 MB
Theoretical Performance
158.4 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
206.7 GPixel/s
455.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
413.4 GTexel/s
29.15 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
52.92 TFLOPS
29.15 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
26.46 TFLOPS
455.4 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
826.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
200W
TDP
150W
550 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1b
3x DisplayPort 2.1a
1x 16-pin
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
AD104
GPU Name
Navi 44
AD104-2XX-A1
GPU Variant
Navi 44 XT
Ada Lovelace
Architecture
RDNA 4.0
TSMC
Foundry
TSMC
5 nm
Process Size
4 nm
35.8 billion
Transistors
Unknown
294 mm²
Die Size
153 mm²
Graphics Features
12 Ultimate (12_2)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
8.9
CUDA
8.9
6.8
Shader Model
6.8
