Wednesday, May 21st 2025

AMD Announces Radeon RX 9060 XT Graphics Card, Claims "Fastest Under $350"
AMD at Computex 2025 announced the new Radeon RX 9060 XT mid-range graphics card. The card is designed to offer maxed out gaming at 1080p, with ray tracing enabled, and lets you take advantage of new features such as FSR 4 and the upcoming FSR "Project Redstone" feature-set. The card comes in two variants, the RX 9060 XT 16 GB, priced at $350, and the RX 9060 XT 8 GB, priced at $300. Both models are based on the 4 nm "Navi 44" silicon, which they both max out in terms of on-die components. The GPU is based on the RDNA 4 graphics architecture, and comes with 32 CU (compute units), which works out to 2,048 stream processors, 64 AI accelerators, 32 RT accelerators, 128 TMUs, and possibly 64 ROPs. The chip features a 128-bit wide GDDR6 memory interface, the company didn't reveal memory speeds. Both models come with a total board power value of 180 W. The company claims that the RX 9060 XT 16 GB offers up to 821 peak AI TOPS (INT4).
AMD also put out some first party performance claims. The company claims that the RX 9060 XT 16 GB, should beat the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB by 6% on average, tested across 40 game titles, at 1440p. The RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB has an MSRP of $380, making the RX 9060 XT 16 GB cheaper by $30, and as a result, have a 15% performance-per-Dollar edge. The company did not put out any performance claims for the RX 9060 XT 8 GB model. Given that NVIDIA is not developing a 16 GB model of the new RTX 5060 (non-Ti), and its $300 price, things could get interesting for AMD, especially if its claim that the RX 9060 XT 16 GB will be the fastest current-gen GPU under $350 holds. Both the 16 GB and 8 GB variants of the Radeon RX 9060 XT should be available on June 5, 2025.
AMD also put out some first party performance claims. The company claims that the RX 9060 XT 16 GB, should beat the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB by 6% on average, tested across 40 game titles, at 1440p. The RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB has an MSRP of $380, making the RX 9060 XT 16 GB cheaper by $30, and as a result, have a 15% performance-per-Dollar edge. The company did not put out any performance claims for the RX 9060 XT 8 GB model. Given that NVIDIA is not developing a 16 GB model of the new RTX 5060 (non-Ti), and its $300 price, things could get interesting for AMD, especially if its claim that the RX 9060 XT 16 GB will be the fastest current-gen GPU under $350 holds. Both the 16 GB and 8 GB variants of the Radeon RX 9060 XT should be available on June 5, 2025.
141 Comments on AMD Announces Radeon RX 9060 XT Graphics Card, Claims "Fastest Under $350"
AMD definitely can but will not increase wafer allocation to this product line. Even if for a few batches, they could flood the market and drive prices down overall... it's just that there is no incentive for them to do so whatsoever. They will sell each "Radeon AI Pro W9700" they build, and gamers/AI bros will be vying for them.
Intel could be in an enviable position, but they use their smaller TSMC allocation to manufacture CPUs instead. It's a safer revenue stream for a traditional CPU company, even though the Ultra 9 285 and 285K are both expensive, difficult to find and even if they weren't, still doesn't change Intel's foundry failed and that Arrow Lake's performance is rancid.
Yet now they've started up this VRAM controversy. The industry is belly up, just waiting for it to gasp its last, really.
Neither Nvidia or AMD will abandon what is a sure thing, even if it's small business at least it's there, remember mining, now is gone, who knows what happens with AI but gaming never goes away.
I also think AMD now actually competes with Nvidia, the reason many have bought RDNA4/9070 XT it's because they looked at the specs, it finally has the AI component they were missing and they offered a bit more compute power to make up for the lack of optimization, it's a matter of time before current and future RDNA4 gpu's, equal Nvidia in ray tracing games, so AMD actually challenged Nvidia here.
Just wait and see!
Edit: For that reason, I think we should be happy if we get any GPU that's worth buying instead of just scraps at an artificially inflated price. One can't deny that AMD is trying with the 9070 series. About the 9060 XT, I'm not sure. I'd never spend 300 quid for an 8 GB card anno 2025, that much is certain.
May be a good business for the investors, but not for the customers. :wtf:
Opinion:
This price is fckN absurd.... Just one example: Nobody asked nVidia or AMD to produce chips on expensive nodes...
Another example: Radeon RX 580 MSRP was 230 USD. This is 152% gain in the GPU class (~180W) by the last 8 years. This is FAR not only inflation...
Come'on guys: Hands up Who's salary gained by 152% by the last 8 years ???
Let me guess, ~95-97% of the society did not get 152% increasement of salary in the last 8 years.
Maybe Who can EZ forget the near past, can be happy for the price, but truth is, these prices are absurd.
videocardz.com/newz/amd-radeon-rx-9060-xt-appears-in-first-synthetic-benchmarks-at-least-25-faster-than-rx-7600-xt
Far from a fail if it scales like its bigger brother does.
Shave at least $100 off their price tag and they're golden.
I am fed up with the benchmarkers opinion 8GB VRAM is no go. 8GB VRAM is tons of RAM for 1080p.
What we need first of all:
1. Win 11 dwm.exe sometimes use almost 1GB VRAM. That is nonsense! "fck Microsoft!"
2. Game devs should take care more of opitmization.
(Just 1 reason of many: We are living a world that is fighting against GHG gases, so if software developers do not take care efficient code/design we fucked up. Personally I do not support hardware monster games, they have nonsense ration of visuals/performance of the gaming experience aspect. For example isometric games could be beautiful with low hardware requirements. Real time 3D rendered games needs good optimization. But studios do not make enough efforts of it.)
That said, I also agree on the pricing. I think the 5060 and 9060 are absolute turds because they are priced out of reason for the punch that they actually deliver. Maybe not $100 off, because a $200 GPU is probably well under the component costing, but the $200-250 range with a gradual decay to $180-220 as they age would be absolutely worth being on the market. That, combined with either 12th gen Intel or a 5000 series AMD processor would be the answer to the middle finger that Nintendo and the other consoles are offering this generation...and having everybody as part of the PC master race would be excellent.
Nintendo is actually the one who forces game studios to optimize the games for their consoles (ironically, thing they sometimes don't do themselves as we've seen with BotW on the WiiU first). I don't understand that hate of PC enthusiasts against Nintendo when Nintendo doesn't care about PC enthusiasts or even the PC market and other consoles as a whole.