AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB VS MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB features a GPU clock speed of 1700 MHz, with a turbo boost reaching up to 3130 MHz. In comparison, the MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming has a higher base GPU clock speed of 2280 MHz but a lower turbo frequency of 2497 MHz. For pixel rate, the RX 9060 XT achieves 200.3 GPixel/s, significantly outperforming the RTX 5060's 119.9 GPixel/s.

In terms of floating-point performance, the Radeon RX 9060 XT delivers 25.6 TFLOPS, which surpasses the RTX 5060's 19.18 TFLOPS. The RX 9060 XT also leads in texture rate, providing 400.6 GTexels/s compared to the RTX 5060's 299.6 GTexels/s. The RX 9060 XT has a memory speed of 2518 MHz, much faster than the RTX 5060's 1750 MHz.

When it comes to core architecture, the RX 9060 XT has 2048 shading units, 128 texture mapping units (TMUs), and 64 render output units (ROPs). The RTX 5060 has a higher number of shading units at 3840, but fewer TMUs (120) and ROPs (48). Both cards support Double Precision Floating Point (DPFP), so they are on par in that aspect.

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB comes with an effective memory speed of 20000 MHz and a maximum memory bandwidth of 320 GB/s. In contrast, the MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming offers a higher effective memory speed of 28000 MHz and a greater maximum memory bandwidth of 448 GB/s.

Regarding VRAM, the Radeon RX 9060 XT is equipped with 16GB, double the 8GB found in the RTX 5060. Both cards use a 128-bit memory bus width, so they are equal in that aspect.

Both cards also support ECC memory, ensuring error correction capabilities for both models.

Both the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB and the MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming support DirectX 12 Ultimate and OpenGL 4.6, ensuring compatibility with the latest graphical standards. However, the Radeon RX 9060 XT features OpenCL version 2.2, while the RTX 5060 uses OpenCL version 3, offering a newer version of the standard.

Both cards support multi-display technology, ray tracing, and 3D. A key difference is that the RTX 5060 supports DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), while the RX 9060 XT does not. Additionally, the RTX 5060 also has RGB lighting, a feature absent on the RX 9060 XT.

The Radeon RX 9060 XT uses AMD SAM (Smart Access Memory) for performance enhancement, while the RTX 5060 utilizes Intel Resizable BAR. Both cards do not feature LHR (Lite Hash Rate) restrictions and do not support XeSS (XMX). Lastly, the RX 9060 XT supports up to 3 displays, whereas the RTX 5060 supports up to 4 displays.

Both the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB and the MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming feature 1 HDMI output with HDMI 2.1b support, ensuring compatibility with modern displays. However, when it comes to DisplayPort outputs, the RX 9060 XT has 2, while the RTX 5060 offers 3, providing one extra option for connecting displays.

Neither card includes USB-C ports, DVI outputs, or mini DisplayPort outputs, so both are similar in these areas.

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is built on the RDNA 4.0 GPU architecture, while the MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming uses the Blackwell architecture. The RX 9060 XT has a Thermal Design Power (TDP) of 160W, slightly higher than the RTX 5060's 145W. Both cards support PCIe version 5, ensuring high-speed data transfer capabilities.

The Radeon RX 9060 XT uses a 4 nm semiconductor size, smaller than the 5 nm semiconductor used in the RTX 5060, indicating a more advanced manufacturing process in the RX 9060 XT. The RX 9060 XT also has 29700 million transistors, which is more than the 21900 million transistors found in the RTX 5060.

Neither card includes air-water cooling, and the RX 9060 XT is larger with a width of 267 mm and a height of 111 mm, compared to the RTX 5060, which is 248 mm wide and 135 mm tall.