Sunday, July 27th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Leads TechPowerUp Frontpage Poll for its Price-Performance
The mainstream gaming GPU market segment is a jungle, with dozens of graphics card models from NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel fighting for a share of the largest segment of the market. With products priced between $250 and $450, these graphics cards are competing with value-ended gaming consoles such as the Xbox Series S. We drew up a list of graphics cards available in the market, and threw the question up to our readers on which card they'd buy given their pricing. The results are fascinating, and point to AMD getting the price-performance of its Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB graphics card just right. Our survey sample size is 16,333 responses.
Three key products emerge from our survey, with the rest being minor or academic choices. AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB at $370 is a simple-majority winner, with 52.4% or 8.552 responses backing it. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB at $440 is a distant second, with 21.6% or 3,520 votes in its favor. Intel Arc B580 12 GB at $250 is an interesting third place, with 10.1% or 1,648 votes backing it. The rest of the poll options are marginal choices, with none of the entries crossing 3.1%. The results highlight that there are three price-bands driving the 1080p gaming GPU segment—$250, $350, and $450.
$250 is what gamers are willing to pay to enter the segment. We tested the Intel Arc B580, and found it to provide an excellent value proposition for its starting price of $250. It's able to play any of today's games at 1080p with max settings, and has a surprising low performance-hit from enabling ray tracing, due to the generational advances Intel made with its ray tracing hardware.
$440 is as high as buyers are willing to go for a graphics card in this segment, with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB scoring twice as many votes as the Arc B580. The RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB from our testing comes across as an aspirational product. While NVIDIA recommends this for 1080p gaming, it is capable of 1440p-class gaming with high to maxed-out settings, if you can get the NVIDIA App to pick the right settings. NVIDIA App tends to be conservative with its choices, so it would help to just use your in-game performance presets for a high setting, and playing with individual settings until you get 60 FPS with some combination, or better yet, take advantage of DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. NVIDIA's new Transformer-based upscaling and frame generation models are, well, transformative. Even the "quality" preset yields excellent results.
The winner of this poll, however, is the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB. This card is being massively favored for its price of $370, which undercuts the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB. We tested the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB and found it to be heavily compromised at its $380 price point, with its memory size eroding the GPU's aspirational value as a 1440p + RT product. The RX 9060 XT is a well-rounded product from our testing, because not only is it able to max out 1080p gameplay, but also brings some of the same capabilities of RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB in the form of 1440p gameplay with high settings. AMD took major strides in improving the ray tracing performance of RDNA 4 over its previous RDNA 3, with the RX 9060 XT nearly doubling RT-enabled frame-rates over the RX 7600 series. While the RX 9060 XT 16 GB is not as fast as the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, its $70 cheaper pricing comes through. Besides ray tracing performance, AMD also significantly improved image quality with FSR 4, which uses ML-based upscaling models. FSR 4 is expected to get additional features later this year.
In conclusion, our readers have done a good job cutting through the clutter of 1080p-class GPUs, and identifying three contemporary choices, with the Radeon RX 9060 XT at $370 emerging the winner, followed by the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB at $440, and the Intel Arc B580 12 GB at $250.
It's also worth noting just how averse our readers are to 8 GB graphics cards, particularly cards priced in the $300-$400 segment that offer 8 GB. These models are found fighting for scraps, with each securing under 3% of the vote. Notice how badly the 8 GB models of the RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti fare against their 16 GB siblings. Also notice how the Arc B580 with its 12 GB memory crushes the RTX 5050 that's priced on par, but only offering 8 GB. It's curtains for 8 GB.
Three key products emerge from our survey, with the rest being minor or academic choices. AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB at $370 is a simple-majority winner, with 52.4% or 8.552 responses backing it. NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB at $440 is a distant second, with 21.6% or 3,520 votes in its favor. Intel Arc B580 12 GB at $250 is an interesting third place, with 10.1% or 1,648 votes backing it. The rest of the poll options are marginal choices, with none of the entries crossing 3.1%. The results highlight that there are three price-bands driving the 1080p gaming GPU segment—$250, $350, and $450.
$440 is as high as buyers are willing to go for a graphics card in this segment, with the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB scoring twice as many votes as the Arc B580. The RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB from our testing comes across as an aspirational product. While NVIDIA recommends this for 1080p gaming, it is capable of 1440p-class gaming with high to maxed-out settings, if you can get the NVIDIA App to pick the right settings. NVIDIA App tends to be conservative with its choices, so it would help to just use your in-game performance presets for a high setting, and playing with individual settings until you get 60 FPS with some combination, or better yet, take advantage of DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. NVIDIA's new Transformer-based upscaling and frame generation models are, well, transformative. Even the "quality" preset yields excellent results.
The winner of this poll, however, is the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB. This card is being massively favored for its price of $370, which undercuts the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB. We tested the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB and found it to be heavily compromised at its $380 price point, with its memory size eroding the GPU's aspirational value as a 1440p + RT product. The RX 9060 XT is a well-rounded product from our testing, because not only is it able to max out 1080p gameplay, but also brings some of the same capabilities of RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB in the form of 1440p gameplay with high settings. AMD took major strides in improving the ray tracing performance of RDNA 4 over its previous RDNA 3, with the RX 9060 XT nearly doubling RT-enabled frame-rates over the RX 7600 series. While the RX 9060 XT 16 GB is not as fast as the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, its $70 cheaper pricing comes through. Besides ray tracing performance, AMD also significantly improved image quality with FSR 4, which uses ML-based upscaling models. FSR 4 is expected to get additional features later this year.
In conclusion, our readers have done a good job cutting through the clutter of 1080p-class GPUs, and identifying three contemporary choices, with the Radeon RX 9060 XT at $370 emerging the winner, followed by the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB at $440, and the Intel Arc B580 12 GB at $250.
It's also worth noting just how averse our readers are to 8 GB graphics cards, particularly cards priced in the $300-$400 segment that offer 8 GB. These models are found fighting for scraps, with each securing under 3% of the vote. Notice how badly the 8 GB models of the RX 9060 XT and RTX 5060 Ti fare against their 16 GB siblings. Also notice how the Arc B580 with its 12 GB memory crushes the RTX 5050 that's priced on par, but only offering 8 GB. It's curtains for 8 GB.
62 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT Leads TechPowerUp Frontpage Poll for its Price-Performance
One has to wonder what kind of perks these companies are receiving for always pushing out Intel/nvidia based systems instead of AMD?
People still want Nvidia, and the small difference in price doesn't make that much difference, AMD is the only one to blame for the usual Nvidia -100usd. They should have done what they did on the cpu's instead of the same old tired strategy that got them to 10% market share.
For there to be no statistical significance of 9000 cards for even 0.01% doesn't sound right. Even as unpopular as AMD is.Never mind, I thought this chart listed all GPUs but there's a cut-off. 5 months of no 9070 presence is still hard to believe. Even the 5090 has sold more, based on Steam.
If I wanted to buy new card its either 4060 Ti 16GB (highly unlikely because locally price is absurd, local shop reason is of course old stock, I can buy 4070 for the price) or realistically 5060 Ti 16GB, although price is a bit too much for my liking. I run some AI stuff and CUDA support is something I can't lose. I feel like buying another 3080 but GDDR6X runs hot even when I undervolt the core, consume a lot of power and produce a lot of heat, but it is powerful, just wish it has 20GB instead of just 10.
Even on Amazon, I don't find the 9060 XT attractive, and some of these "low-price" listings are scams (also happens on 9070 XT, you can only count on XFX and even then there are still scammers)
I've noticed on Amazon outside of the us it's like the wild wild west lol.
Meanwhile cheapest 9060 XT 16GB at 370usd is only available at Newegg
At 16% price difference, it takes some biased techtubers with cherry pick test suite to steer their audience toward 9060XT
And gigabyte cards have had issues so the cheapest one I'd trust is the prime.
Asus Prime 9060 XT 16GB - 440usd
Asus Prime 5060 Ti 16GB - 480usd
But as I said originally neither card is good they both are trash to me I'm not sure I'd spend even 15% more on the Nvidia card i dont like frame generation and I could live with fsr4 and both suck at RT.
Maybe if I switched to 1080p... id lean towards the Nvidia card if a good model was 430-450
Every tech YouTuber is going to be biased in some way unless they all used the same suite of games and settings.
Is it a heavy part, light part, moderate part of the game we have no idea.
A card could show 60fps in a review and then struggle hard in various parts of the game so 30-40s benchmark tells us very little to begin with. Other then it being ok for comparison data.
Same with vram some games accumulate it over time as you play or downgrade the texture quality.
But I try not to be too harsh becuase testing and reviewing hardware isn't easy you got fanbots on both sides that think there is only one right way to test and if you don't test their way you're shill. Which cracks me up becuase 90% of the time it comes from a person that is heavily biased towards a specific brand.
They have the tech. Just not the will.B580 already has CPU overhead issues that thus far have not been resolved via drivers (it that's even doable). B770 would be even more CPU limited. Not to mention the die size relative to performance and power. Intel already makes very little profit on B580. B770 would be even worse.I dont see how any cost saving is good on the long run if you have to start managing 8GB today. What happens years down the line if this is the situation today? Here it's 310€. I can get 9060 XT 16GB for 390€. For +80 i get double the VRAM and a 10% faster GPU.
For those that want Nvidia on an older platform the 3060 12GB is still king.You do realize that 9060 XT just released in the begging of June?
Of course it's not going to show up so soon.
9070 all variants are present on the table (XT missing it's XT label tho): store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/directx/
Also Steam HW Survey includes all GPU's in active use. It is not a good indication for success of new GPU series because it takes years for any new GPU to reach meaningful numbers. I mean the highest share is a 4060 Laptop. When did that release exactly? At the beginning of 2023. Over ~2,5 years ago.
9070 series has done well considering it launched less than half a year ago and has reached 0,26% share compared to the best 50 series card reaching 1,10%.
That's actually better that the generally accepted 9% of AMD market share would suggest.
Obviously wider market includes OEM, prebuilts etc where Nvidia still has strong presence.Amazon was posted here before. It's not just mindfactory examples.In my country 9060 XT 16GB is 390€.
5060 Ti 16GB is 450€
At 60€ difference i guess one could make and argument for 5060 Ti 16GB.
However the 9070 XT is 710€ (multiple models) while 5070 Ti is 850€ (only one model, most are near 900€).
There it's much harder to justify paying 140-190 more.
Not to mention the 5080 as it's only 20% faster and +455€. Waste of sand.
A 12gb version, like 6700 xt, could have been a wiser choice, but it would mean no 8gb version.
Amongst the members we've got older folks, Linux enthusiasts, and people with moderate to advanced tech knowledge, all of which segments where they have a high approval or tolerance rate.
There's also a general perception that their business ethics are better than the competition's, I might argue against that but ultimately that's the mindshare even if there's no basis in reality.
They only really fail to capture the segment of people who are into the fastest latest gen tech, which I belong to and that generally has brought me some heat :)
These numbers actually do align with the fact that AMD only has ~10% of the dGPU market.There's also a huge segment of professional technical class who no longer peruse sites like this one. 'Technical' here for the most part means, like helpdesk tech.
If you are tinkering with AI from a development aspect for you professional development (so you can stay relevant in your job), you are not likely to buy AMD GPUs. Most of those people are going to care a lot more about stability, software support, and extensibility. It's similar to the reasons that people involved in digital image content creation gravitate to Nvidia. Small differences in hardware performance are immaterial if it doesn't have the ability to do what you need it to do.
I honestly don't even know what UE4 game runs ray tracing?
Senuas Sacrifice, Returnal , Ascent, Ghostwire tokyo, Hogwarts Legacy are some UE4 games with RT.