AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT vs AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)

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Radeon RX 5700 XT compared with Radeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)

	AMDRadeon RX 5700 XT	AMDRadeon RX 9060 XT (8GB)
Overview
Released
Released	July 2019	June 2025
Performance
Chip maker
Chip maker	AMD	AMD
Architecture
Architecture	RDNA	RDNA 4
Shader cores
Shader cores	2,560	2,048
Boost clock
Boost clock	1,905 MHz or 1,980 MHz	3,130 MHz
Architecture
Architecture	40 compute units; 160 texture units and 64 ROPs; 10.3 billion transistors. Main figures and photo describe the standard reference card, pictured as MSI's RX 5700 XT 8G.	32 compute units, 64 ROPs; game clock 2530 MHz; 29.7 billion transistors
Manufacturing process
Manufacturing process	7 nm	–
Ray tracing
Ray tracing	No dedicated ray accelerators	32 third-generation Ray Accelerators
AI cores
AI cores	–	64 AI Accelerators; up to 410 TOPS INT8 or 821 TOPS INT4 with structured sparsity
Upscaling and frame generation
Upscaling and frame generation	–	AMD FSR "Redstone" (including FSR 4 upscaling), AMD Fluid Motion Frames, Radeon Super Resolution
Cache
Cache	–	32 MB AMD Infinity Cache
Base clock
Base clock	Standard edition 1605 MHz base and 1755 MHz game clock; 50th Anniversary edition 1680 MHz base, 1830 MHz game clock and 1980 MHz boost.	–
Memory
Video memory
Video memory	8 GB GDDR6	8 GB GDDR6
Memory bus
Memory bus	256-bit or –	128-bit
Memory bandwidth
Memory bandwidth	448 GB/s or –	320 GB/s
Memory detail
Memory detail	Standard edition 14 Gbps GDDR6. AMD's launch table confirms the Anniversary edition's 8 GB GDDR6 but does not publish its bus, bandwidth or board power; those configuration fields are omitted independently.	GDDR6 at up to 20 Gbps
Connections and power
Board power
Board power	225 W or –	150 W
Interface
Interface	PCIe 4.0	PCIe 5.0 x16
Display outputs
Display outputs	3 × DisplayPort 1.4 and 1 × HDMI 2.0b; up to 4 displays (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G). AMD lists DisplayPort 1.4a support.	DisplayPort 2.1a, HDMI 2.1b (number of ports depends on the card)
Maximum resolution
Maximum resolution	7680 × 4320 (MSI standard RX 5700 XT 8G)	–
Power connector
Power connector	1 × 8-pin and 1 × 6-pin (standard)	1 × 8-pin
Recommended power supply
Recommended power supply	600 W (standard)	450 W
Size (reference card)
Size (reference card)	270 × 110 × 40 mm and 1110 g (MSI standard reference-design RX 5700 XT 8G)	–
Video encode and decode
Video encode and decode	H.264 and H.265/HEVC encode and decode	H.264, HEVC and AV1 encode and decode