Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC Edition 16GB VS Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB

The Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC Edition 16GB has a GPU clock speed of 2407 MHz, which is higher than the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB's 1900 MHz. However, the Sapphire card has a significantly higher GPU turbo boost at 3320 MHz compared to the Asus card's 2617 MHz. For pixel rate, the Sapphire card outperforms the Asus with a value of 212.5 GPixel/s, whereas the Asus is rated at 125.6 GPixel/s.

In terms of floating-point performance, the Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC Edition offers 24.12 TFLOPS, while the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9060 XT provides a slightly higher 27.2 TFLOPS. The Asus card has a texture rate of 376.8 GTexels/s, while the Sapphire's texture rate is 425 GTexels/s, indicating a stronger texture processing capability for the Sapphire card.

The Asus card operates with a GPU memory speed of 1750 MHz, lower than the Sapphire's faster 2518 MHz. The Asus also has 4608 shading units, which is significantly more than the Sapphire's 2048 shading units. The Sapphire card, however, has more texture mapping units (TMUs) at 128 compared to the Asus's 144, and also more render output units (ROPs) at 64, compared to the Asus's 48. Both cards support Double Precision Floating Point (DPFP) capability.

The Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC Edition 16GB features an effective memory speed of 28000 MHz, which is higher than the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB's 20000 MHz. The maximum memory bandwidth of the Asus card is 448 GB/s, again surpassing the Sapphire's 322.3 GB/s. Both cards have the same VRAM size of 16GB, but the Asus uses the newer GDDR7 memory, while the Sapphire utilizes GDDR6.

Both products share the same memory bus width of 128-bit, ensuring similar memory architecture in terms of data throughput across both cards. Additionally, both the Asus and Sapphire cards support Error Correction Code (ECC) memory, ensuring better reliability and stability during heavy workloads.

Both the Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC Edition 16GB and the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB support DirectX 12 Ultimate and OpenGL version 4.6, meaning both cards are fully compatible with the latest graphical features and APIs. The Asus card supports OpenCL version 3, while the Sapphire card supports OpenCL version 2.2, showing a slight version difference between them.

Both products support multi-display technology, ray tracing, and 3D content, making them well-suited for advanced visual effects and multi-monitor setups. However, the Asus card supports DLSS (Deep Learning Super Sampling), which is absent on the Sapphire card. On the other hand, the Sapphire card features RGB lighting, while the Asus card does not.

The Asus card is compatible with Intel Resizable BAR, while the Sapphire card supports AMD SAM (Smart Access Memory). Both cards do not have LHR (Lite Hash Rate), ensuring they are suitable for gaming and other GPU-intensive tasks without restrictions. Lastly, the Asus card supports up to 4 displays, while the Sapphire card supports up to 3 displays.

Both the Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC Edition 16GB and the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB come with 1 HDMI port each, both supporting HDMI version 2.1b. The Asus card offers 3 DisplayPort outputs, while the Sapphire card has 2 DisplayPort outputs, providing slightly more connectivity options on the Asus card.

Neither card includes USB-C, DVI, or mini DisplayPort outputs, ensuring a standard range of display connectivity options but with no additional flexibility for those interfaces.

The Asus Prime GeForce RTX 5060 Ti OC Edition 16GB features the Blackwell GPU architecture, while the Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB uses the RDNA 4.0 architecture. Both cards support PCI Express (PCIe) version 5, ensuring high-speed data transfer. The Asus card has a thermal design power (TDP) of 180W, while the Sapphire card has a slightly higher TDP of 182W.

In terms of semiconductor size, the Asus card uses a 5 nm process, while the Sapphire card uses a smaller 4 nm process, which can potentially result in better efficiency. The number of transistors differs as well, with the Asus card featuring 21,900 million transistors, compared to the Sapphire's 29,700 million transistors.

Neither card comes with air-water cooling, so both are likely to rely on standard cooling solutions. The Asus card has a width of 304 mm and a height of 120 mm, while the Sapphire card is slightly smaller in width at 300 mm but taller at 131 mm.