SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070
vs
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 has 3584 shader units and these clock a maximum of 2.70 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 38.71 TFLOPS.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has 4608 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.57 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 25.32 TFLOPS.

GPU

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 4 architecture, which has 56 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is based on the Blackwell architecture and is equipped with 36 execution units.
SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 GPU NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Based on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 TI 16GB
Navi 48 XT GPU Chip GB206
RDNA 4 Architecture Blackwell
56 Streaming Multiprocessors 36
3584 Shader 4608
128 Render Output Units 48
224 Texture Units 144
56 Raytracing Cores 36

Memory

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 is equipped with a 16 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.518 GHz clocks.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB has a 16 GB large GDDR7 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.750GHz.

16 GB Memory Size 16 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR7
2.518 GHz Memory Clock 1.750 GHz
20.1 Gbps Memory Speed 28.0 Gbps
645 GB/s Memory bandwidth 448 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 128 bit

Clock Speeds

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 has a turbo clock of 2.700 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is 2.572 GHz.

1.330 GHz Base Clock 2.407 GHz
2.700 GHz Boost Clock 2.572 GHz
2.21 GHz Avg (Game) Clock
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 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 85 °C.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 85 °C.

245 W TDP 180 W (Reference)
-- TDP (up) --
85 °C Tjunction max 85 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 are cooled with a Air cooling.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is cooled by a Air cooling.

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

Connectivity

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

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

Featureset

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12_2 (Ultimate) DirectX 12_2 (Ultimate)
Yes Raytracing Yes
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
Addressable LED 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 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP8 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode VP9 Decode / Encode

Dimensions

The SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 is 66 mm wide and therefore needs the space of -- in the case.

The width of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is 66 mm and thus requires the space of -- in the PC case.

331 mm Length --
129 mm Height --
66 mm Width --
4 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) --
-- Weight --
PCIe 5 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 5 x 8
No SFF-Ready No

Additional data

Manufactured using the 4 nanometer process, SAPPHIRE NITRO+ Radeon RX 9070 was released in Q2/2025.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB published in Q2/2025 is manufactured with a structure width of 4 nanometers.

11349-01-20G Part-no --
Q2/2025 Release date Q2/2025
549 $ (Reference) Launch Price 429 $ (Reference)
4 nm Structure size 4 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

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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