RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB vs RX 9060 XT 16 GB

Good budget option

Editorial opinionOur verdict

Both have 16 GB. The RTX 5060 Ti has 40% more bandwidth (448 vs 320 GB/s) and CUDA, so it is faster and easier. The RX 9060 XT is cheaper. If the difference is small, take the NVIDIA card.

Factual data	RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB	RX 9060 XT 16 GB
Memory (largest)	16 GB	16 GB
Usable for models	16 GB	16 GB
Bandwidth	448 GB/sMore	320 GB/s
Largest popular model at 4-bit	gpt-oss-20b	gpt-oss-20b
Price from	$789	$349Advantage
Price per GB	$49	—
Power	180 W	160 W
Compute stack	CUDA	ROCm / Vulkan

Which models each one runs

Popular models at Q4_K_M with a 32K-token context. Memory needed from real model files; speed is the theoretical ceiling.

Model	RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB	RX 9060 XT 16 GB
Qwen3 1.7B	Runs≤ 404 tok/s	Runs≤ 288 tok/s
Qwen3.5 9B	Runs≤ 79 tok/s	Runs≤ 56 tok/s
Gemma 4 12B	Runs≤ 63 tok/s	Runs≤ 45 tok/s
gpt-oss-20b	Runs≤ 224 tok/s	Runs≤ 160 tok/s
Qwen3.6 27B	Not enough memory	Not enough memory
Qwen3.6 35B A3B	Partly in system RAM	Partly in system RAM
Llama 3.3 70B	Not enough memory	Not enough memory
gpt-oss-120b	Partly in system RAM	Partly in system RAM
Qwen3.5 122B A10B	Partly in system RAM	Partly in system RAM
Qwen3.5 397B A17B	Partly in system RAM	Partly in system RAM

Speed ceilings are theoretical; see each page for measured results.