NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
vs
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 has 3072 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.46 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 15.11 TFLOPS.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE has 2304 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.62 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 7.48 TFLOPS.

GPU

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Ada Lovelace architecture, which has 24 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is based on the RDNA 1 architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 GPU Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 Based on AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT
AD107 GPU Chip Navi 10 XLE
Ada Lovelace Architecture RDNA 1
24 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
3072 Shader 2304
48 Render Output Units 64
96 Texture Units 144
24 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.125 GHz clocks.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE has a 6 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR6
2.125 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
17.0 Gbps Memory Speed 14.0 Gbps
272 GB/s Memory bandwidth 336 GB/s
128 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 has a turbo clock of 2.460 GHz. The turbo frequency of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is 1.620 GHz.

1.830 GHz Base Clock 1.130 GHz
2.460 GHz Boost Clock 1.620 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.56 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 100 °C.

115 W TDP 160 W
-- TDP (up) 195 W
90 °C Tjunction max 100 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is cooled by a Air cooling.

-- Fan-Type Axial
-- Fan 1 2 x 100 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) 34 dB
-- Noise (Load) 39 dB

Connectivity

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

4 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.3
1x HDMI v2.1a HDMI Ports 2x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4a DP Ports 2x DP v1.4
-- DVI Ports --
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

-- Length 231 mm
-- Height 123 mm
-- Width 40 mm
-- Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 4.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 4.0 x 16
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 5 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 was released in Q2/2023.

The Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE published in Q1/2020 is manufactured with a structure width of 7 nanometers.

-- Part-no 11296-05-20G
Q2/2023 Release date Q1/2020
299 $ Launch Price 279 $ (Reference)
5 nm Structure size 7 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Steel Nomad Light Graphics score

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
10579

Steel Nomad Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

Speed Way Graphics Score (Raytracing)

Solar Bay (Raytracing)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
48867

Cyberpunk 2077

Cyberpunk 2077 was developed by CD Projekt Red and is based on the development studio's own REDengine 4. Ray tracing is switched off in our benchmarks.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
42 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
52 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
80 fps (avg)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
20 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
40 fps (avg)
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE
6 GB GDDR6
29 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
82 fps (avg)
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE
6 GB GDDR6
54 fps (avg)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
65 fps (avg)
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE
6 GB GDDR6
42 fps (avg)

2560x1440 (1440p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
112 fps (avg)
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE
6 GB GDDR6
84 fps (avg)

1920x1080 (1080p)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060 NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4060
8 GB GDDR6
162 fps (avg)
Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 5600 XT BE
6 GB GDDR6
117 fps (avg)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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