Tuesday, May 20th 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 $350"
Does it have half the cooler, half the vram, half the silicon, half the capacitors? By cost of making one this doesn't make any sense.
This is just more of the same, 60 class cards are now bottom of the barrel cards, 1080p entry cards. When they never were in the past, i doubt it can hold it's own on 1440. This is more shrinkflation.
8GB of GDDR6 is 50$, go f*** yourself AMD.
By itself on the current context, seems like a good product.
That said, I wonder where is the spot that MSRP and current retail prices are changing, the AIB's or the resellers?
$350 is an ok price for the 16GB card if retailers actually sell it at that price but $300 would be the right price for this card imo
this should be 200 or 250.
Let me snag a used 6800 or 7700xt for $200 and I'll be a happy camper...
Although I guess the good thing is the 16GB version could be a better value than an 8GB 5060, if the retailers sell it at MSRP, but it really sucks there hasn't been much performance progression in the midrange from AMD or Nvidia.
and this will tire very fast with newer games at 1440p, so much that more memory wont matter.
for that price get a 3080. still a beast gpu. will destroy that 9060xt
Games that favor AMD are under preforming the 5060ti in the presentation. Extrapolating a bit from 9070xt and 5070ti results, taking into account that there's a bias in the comparison in favour of vram bottlenecked games and that for 2 gens AMD inflates the average performance on their presentation I'm expecting that when reviews hit the +6% will turn into -6% at best.
And the some comments in here about the 16gb and the 8gb models are insane.
8gb of gddr 6 have been, on average, below 20 bucks for a long time (www.dramexchange.com/), and ppl are claiming the 16gb price is fine but the 8gb is overpriced?! If you think the the 8gb is overpriced then the 16gb is even more. This is even a worst upsell than Nvidia.
In the case of the 9060 XT, for two products that are essentially identical except for the doubling of VRAM, what is the proper difference in price? Should it be only the BOM for the additional memory, plus whatever extra manufacturing step(s) in attaching that to the PCB, and segregating the products during production and securing two different cartons for product packaging versus just one? Is $50 outrageous for that? Maybe the Plant Manager at Sapphire wants to send his kids to a better school, or a Production Foreman at Power Color would like a new Lexus? I don't know. Now, Doubling that difference to $100 sure seems excessive, but halving it to $25 would probably just lead to a mountain of unsold 8Gb cards. And, yes, I realize that latter result aligns with "the 8Gb RTX 5060Ti, RTX 5060 and RX 9060 XT should not exist" sentiment.
Guys, recall that the 16Gb 4060Ti was initially pushed out the door at $500, and was quite justifiably lit-up for that reason. And, recall that the $400 8Gb model wasn't a exactly a hit with the general population either.
Here, we're seeing a pair of cards at 8Gb and 16Gb that are likely at least equally as performant, for $300 and $350, respectively. How is that not a step in the right direction? So, while I do agree that purchasing *any* new 8Gb graphics card in 2025 is an unnatural act, most especially for $300, I'm still not inclined to start passing out the torches and pitchforks to the angry mob. This isn't the hill I want to die on.
No doubt, the MSRP of all graphics cards produced in 2025 will quickly get a case of "happy feet" not long after launch. But, I don't see these "60-class" examples as being more egregious in that regard then their higher-tier siblings. That is the World we live in, currently. Pease forgive me for being terminally pragmatic.
I still am less than impressed with what nVidia and especially AMD are doing lately. Team Green are like "whatever, it'll sell well anyway" and AMD aren't doing enough about it. Yes, 9070 XT is cheaper than 5070 Ti. But the stock was and still is limited, MSRP is still fake and 9060 XT is about to do little to nothing for this market as only the most desperate (or illiterate) will buy such graphics cards for this kind of pricing.
Perhaps if I'm too pessimistic and the scaling isn't perfectly linear and N44's clocks are for some reason significantly higher than those of N48 it might be an okay value SKU but from where I'm standing it looks silly.
I'm still waiting for AMD to unleash RX HDR and truly outclass Team Green in every aspect. Plus, I remain genuinely hopeful about Intel stepping up their performance game soon.
The 8GB card still can't be recommended at $300 but this is the competition people have been wanting. NVIDIA can answer back by going even lower, that's their move to make. Wouldn't recommend 8GB cards in 2025 from either company above $200 either way.
Apparently it's been done before (search adding more VRAM to GPU) but the process is too much trouble for something that AMD/NVIDIA can do themselves.