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Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti — Specs & Performance Compared

Verdict: The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti leads on 6 of 9 shared benchmarks (39% in 3DMark Speed Way); the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB takes 3 (7% in 3DMark Time Spy). On gpt-oss:20b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti generates 111.5 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub (Discussion #15396, gpt-oss guide)) against 105.8 for the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (per llama.cpp GitHub ROCm perf discussion #15021), best community run on file for each.

Side-by-side GPU comparison of the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti. Both released in 2025. MSRP range: $349 · $429. Specs, synthetic benchmarks, AI inference tok/s, and Amazon availability below; each column header links to that part's benchmark page.

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*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

SpecRadeon RX 9060 XT 16GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
vram gb 1616
vram type —GDDR7
tdp w 160180
cuda cores —4608
process nm 4—

Synthetic benchmarks

Each row says whether a higher or a lower number is better (ranks and times are lower-is-better). Scores come from Funky Kit, KitGuru, LANOC, Beebom, Overclocking.com, StorageReview, BabelTechReviews, 3DMark, Notebookcheck, PassMark and Tom's Hardware; 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.

BenchmarkRadeon RX 9060 XT 16GBNVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
3DMark Fire Strike (higher is better)
Source: Funky Kit, KitGuru, LANOC		 38,923 points40,925 points
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme (higher is better)
Source: LANOC		 18,501 points—
3DMark Fire Strike Ultra (higher is better)
Source: Beebom, LANOC		 9,436 points9,437 points
3DMark Port Royal (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com, StorageReview, KitGuru		 9,751 points10,096 points
3DMark Speed Way (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com, StorageReview, KitGuru, LANOC		 2,942 points4,100 points
3DMark Steel Nomad (higher is better)
Source: Overclocking.com, StorageReview, KitGuru, BabelTechReviews, 3DMark, LANOC		 3,767 points3,588 points
3DMark Time Spy (higher is better)
Source: Notebookcheck, KitGuru, Funky Kit, LANOC		 16,333 points15,279 points
3DMark Time Spy Extreme (higher is better)
Source: KitGuru, LANOC		 7,384 points7,136 points
Geekbench 6 OpenCL (higher is better)
Source: StorageReview		 102,750 points—
PassMark G2D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 1,177 pts1,196 pts
PassMark G3D Mark (higher is better)
Source: PassMark		 20,122 pts22,264 pts
Tom's Hardware GPU Hierarchy (lower is better)
Source: Tom's Hardware		 369 rank16 rank

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 XT 16GB

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti

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Quick answers

Which is faster, the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB or the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti?

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti leads on 6 of 9 shared benchmarks (39% in 3DMark Speed Way); the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB takes 3 (7% in 3DMark Time Spy).

Which is better for running local LLMs?

On gpt-oss:20b, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti generates 111.5 tokens/s (per llama.cpp GitHub (Discussion #15396, gpt-oss guide)) against 105.8 for the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB (per llama.cpp GitHub ROCm perf discussion #15021), best community run on file for each.

What did the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti cost at launch?

The Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB launched at a $349 MSRP and the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti at $429. Street prices drift from launch pricing; the Where to buy section links current listings.

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