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"
AMD are like: "What we're cooking up for you will be legendary. And the prices will be excellent!"
But then the release date is meh, stock almost doesn't exist and you're a lucky guy if you "only" overpaid 15 percent over the MSRP. And maybe next year everything is kinda resolved.
NVIDIA being 10 or whatever times worse doesn't matter at this point. AMD ain't your indie developer with a toaster and a dream. They are a multi billion company that can deliver and must deliver, yet they never live up to their promises. I would've been wordless and complaintless if they just released the same cards at the same price but in a complete silence.
Nvidia is 3.2 Trillion
AMD is 178 Billion
When developing cutting edge silicon and fighting for the same limited labor pool that are qualified to actually design these things, AMD is at a staggering disadvantage.
That they manage to compete at all, on two fronts no less (CPUs and GPUs), is a minor miracle.
Edit: It's like comparing your average "wealthy" retiree to Elon Musk. Like yeah they both have money and are on a shitload of drugs, but the retiree is closer to being homeless than being Elon Musk when it comes to wealth.
I saw an interview of jensen, now you guys tell me what is obvious and what he really wants, clues "infinite race" "compete for a long time" "enormous amounts of investments"
Love it or not, Nvidia is caught up in the hegemonic "AI war", and the powers that be decided that the United States retaining supremacy and/or primary control of this technology is vital to their interests, so, yeah.
So that number is not real, it is a perceived value that can change if China farts an AI model, make it open source and free.
If you have money you can gamble in las vegas or wall street, see if you can beat the system with no inside information.You missed all the clues!
What he is trying to convey is that AI race will never end, US will need to forever invest in AI/Nvidia, it is an "infinite race" that requires "enormous amounts of investments".
The man is brilliant, he says China can beat US anytime, but, if you invest as much money as you can get, then you might still be ahead but not by much, as long as you spend with us you can have a chance.
He will milk USA DRY ! he might even play both sides so the spending is enormous.
It's always great to see the same tired old arguments wheeled out, like only wanting a brand to be cheaper so you can buy a different brand even cheaper, and that anyone expressing positive views of a product could be a paid agent.
Techpowerup, come for the reviews, stay for the mental gymnastics.
What it is not, however, is the upgrade that someone who bought a 3070 Ti or RX 6800 back in 2021. Buying one would be a foolish sidegrade.
Still waiting for Rx HDR, would be awesome if the price will be adequate. But I am suspicious. Best case scenario towards end of this year it could be aviable in good price maybe. But for sure if anything this or arc b770 is something I am waiting for.
Also remind me who released current gen GPUs under 500 dollars and who didn't pretty please.
By the way, did you see or glance over AMD's CES keynote back in January? It was all about AI. Nvidia isn't the only company riding the wave, you know.
Edit: So if the 18 times smaller company can sell 10 times more cards than the bigger one on launch day, that says something about the difference in their attitude towards gamers, don't you think?Remind me who released current gen GPUs under 500 that are worth buying. (I'll tell you: Intel)
While I'm pissed off by both parties I at least understand why the Greens do that. Logic is dead on the AMD's side.
So going from there, 10x more 9070 (XT) cards than 5070 (Ti) at launch is 10x better in my point of view. And I haven't even mentioned the better price.
Edit: typo
Gainward Python III - 2600 PLN (2500 on sale right now)
Palit Infinity 3 - 2630 PLN
Palit GamingPro - 2790 PLN
That's for RTX 5070.
Cheapest ASRock Challanger or Sapphire Pulse means 3000 PLN (or 2812 PLN for PowerColor Hellhound from that one small store who is selling things not from official distribution).
It looks better for 9070 XT though, as it starts from 3200 PLN (PowerColor Reaper), while RTX 5070 Ti starts from 3800-3900 PLN (Inno3D X3/Gigabyte Windforce).
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Now. There's a chance I'm going to join Macro Device with him complaining all around :D If 330$ (RX 7600 XT's MSRP) means at least 1500-1600 PLN in my country, then RX 9060 XT will cost at least 100-200 PLN more. And that's a price range of a brand new 7700 XT or RTX 5060 Ti 8GB (or 6750 XT when was available). So, if not cheaper, better be significantly faster than them or it's really DOA for me. Hope to be wrong as I want one. No need it, but want.
The performance gains vs previous gen are... dissapointing. The comparison against 8GB (even though GDDR7) is even more slimy move. $350 for the card with bottom bin chip, that doesn't even exist is absolute garbage. The slides are misleading, and they don't even have the downward pointers, to prevent the annotation (games names) to overlap each other.
xx60 is a mass production, entry level card. This is what makes the bulk of the sales for all consumer grade prducts, not only VGAs. And it should be affordable, in order to be purchasable, by as bigger audience possible. So far it seems AMD wants neither/naught of it.
This is just silly. AMD is clearly not fighting nVidia. There's no challange, no competition, no progress. They do not make products affordable. They want to be a "slightly cheaper and inferior" nVidia. I don't get how this is different of their previous "stigma" of underdog, and how does this show up as being a "premium" brand, outside the price making.
The worst part, is that this should have been an affordable SKU. What it does however, is completely otherwise, and cements the gauging prices even more. This means the eventual price would be twice or thrice higher, considering all the supplier and retailer markups. The things got ugly.
What we have is crumbs and it's beyond unforgivable.
P.S. FSR4 is also very slow to expand. The number of games natively supporting it is still minimal.
This alone would have eliminate the which upsacler tech is better dispute, for good.
Oh... and stop advertising the RT for the entry level cards. This is just silly BS. Be honest, and you will get the reward. As soon as people realise, that RT doesn't cut for x60 class cards, this would hit heavilly on nVidia, as it sells them more.