Radeon RX 9060 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The Radeon RX 9060 leads on 7 of 9 shared benchmarks (14% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 takes 2 (16% in 3DMark Speed Way). On llama3:8b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 generates 72.8 tokens/s (per GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference (GitHub/XiongjieDai)) against 37.7 for the Radeon RX 9060 (per EveryLocalAI), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 9060 and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

AMD · RDNA 4

Radeon RX 9060

Full Radeon RX 9060 benchmarks →

NVIDIA · Ampere

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

8 GB VRAM220W TDP$499 MSRP2020

Full NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 benchmarks →

*Price sourced from Amazon.com. Price and availability subject to change.

Where to buy

A listing for each part; the current price and stock are on the retailer's page.

Specs side-by-side

Spec	Radeon RX 9060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
vram gb	—	8
vram type	—	GDDR6
tdp w	—	220
cuda cores	—	5888

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from LANOC, Overclocking.com, KitGuru, DigiStatement, Guru3D, StorageReview, BabelTechReviews, 3DMark, VideoCardz, TopCPU.net, Technetbook and PassMark; each row links its sources, and where they differ the cell shows their median. Empty cells mean we don't yet have that benchmark on file for the SKU.

Benchmark	Radeon RX 9060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better) Source: LANOC, Overclocking.com	38,923 points	—
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better) Source: KitGuru, DigiStatement, LANOC	18,501 points	17,115 points
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (higher is better) Source: Guru3D, LANOC	9,436 points	8,749 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better) Source: KitGuru, DigiStatement, StorageReview, BabelTechReviews, 3DMark, VideoCardz	9,739 points	8,324 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, Overclocking.com, TopCPU.net, LANOC, StorageReview	2,942 points	3,421 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better) Source: 3DMark, Technetbook, Overclocking.com, StorageReview, LANOC	3,777 points	3,181 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (DX12) graphics score (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	3,182 points
3DMark Steel Nomad Graphics (higher is better) Source: 3DMark	—	3,180 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better) Source: KitGuru, 3DMark, DigiStatement, LANOC, Guru3D, VideoCardz, TopCPU.net, Overclocking.com	15,972 points	13,997 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better) Source: KitGuru, DigiStatement, LANOC	7,384 points	6,907 points
Geekbench 6 OpenCL (higher is better) Source: StorageReview	102,750 points	—
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better) Source: PassMark	1,018 pts	1,005 pts

AI inference (tokens/sec)

Top community-reported tokens-per-second results for popular LLMs whose weights fit the card's memory, each linked to its source. See the per-SKU benchmark page for the full set including quantization and prompt length.

Radeon RX 9060

qwen3:8b: 711.0 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
qwen3:30b: 100.0 tok/s (LocalLLaMA)
phi (Procyon AI Text Gen): 94.5 tok/s (StorageReview)

All Radeon RX 9060 AI benchmarks →

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070

llama2:7b: 78.7 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub Discussion #10879)
llama2:7b: 78.7 tok/s (llama.cpp GitHub Discussions)
llama3.1:8b: 73.7 tok/s (Patrick Hughes (bmdpat.com))

All NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 AI benchmarks →

Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 9060 or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070?

The Radeon RX 9060 leads on 7 of 9 shared benchmarks (14% in 3DMark Time Spy); the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 takes 2 (16% in 3DMark Speed Way).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On llama3:8b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 generates 72.8 tokens/s (per GPU-Benchmarks-on-LLM-Inference (GitHub/XiongjieDai)) against 37.7 for the Radeon RX 9060 (per EveryLocalAI), best community run on file for each.