AMD Readies Radeon RX 9060 XT for May 18 Launch

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AMD is preparing to launch its mid-thru-performance segment graphics card, the Radeon RX 9060 XT, on May 18, 2025. The mid-May launch could likely clash with that of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 (non-Ti). With the RX 9060 XT, AMD is introducing its second silicon based on the RDNA 4 architecture, the 4 nm "Navi 44." The full chip is rumored to be exactly half that of the "Navi 48" powering the RX 9070 series, with 32 compute units. This works out to 2,048 stream processors, 64 AI accelerators, 32 RT accelerators, 128 TMUs, and possibly 64 ROPs. The memory bus is expected to be 128-bit wide, with 8 GB and 16 GB memory variants expected. The company might stick with 20 Gbps GDDR6 for 320 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The host interface is expected to be PCI-Express 5.0 x8. Although it comes with a rather low shader count of 2,048, the RX 9060 XT is expected to come with higher engine clocks, boosting well over 3.20 GHz.

Given how the RX 9070 series ended up being competitive with the RTX 5070 and in some cases even the RTX 5070 Ti; it becomes plausible that the RX 9060 XT ends up competitive with the RTX 5060 series. Then there's the matter of the RX 9070 GRE. While the RX 9060 XT is 50% of the RX 9070 XT specs-sheet on paper the RX 9070 GRE is expected to be 75% of it—think 48 CU, 192-bit memory bus. This SKU is based on the "Navi 48" with its ASIC designation "Navi 48 XL." It's now being rumored that launch of this SKU has been significantly delayed to Q4 2025. May 18 happens to be the Sunday before Computex 2025 in Taipei, and so it's possible that AMD is holding some kind of client computing or gaming-specific event there, where it will show off the RX 9060 XT. The company might even announce mobile variants of its RX 9070 series.



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[W1zzard]

May 18 is the Sunday before Computex, so they'll probably do some kind of announcement there and reviews after Computex

 

[Chaitanya]

Hopefully they cull that 8GB card or call it something else after seeing how bad 5060Ti 8G is.

 

[ixi]

Why so late... Losing sales.

 

[beautyless]

9070 XT
Compute Units: 64 (100%)
Boost clock: 2970MHz (100%)
TPU Review RT@2K: 100%

9070
Compute Units: 56 (87.50%)
Boost clock: 2520MHz (84.84%)
TPU Review RT@2K: 89.94%

9060 XT
Compute Units: 32 (50%)
Boost clock: 3230MHz (108.75%)
TPU Review RT@2K: ??
Maybe 55% of 9070XT.

 

[john_]

They probably have a huge supply of RX 7700XT/7800XT in the market. This is the only good reason I can think for delaying 9070 GRE for so long. A couple of other reasons could be that they don't have enough defective chips to build the GRE version, or that they want to price 9060s relatively high, so there is no room for the GRE, or that they don't want to offer an alternative to people looking at the current 9070s in the market.

 

[PaddieMayne]

Hopefully they cull that 8GB card or call it something else after seeing how bad 5060Ti 8G is.

I hope so too...lead the way and give us a 12gb version.

 

[Lionheart]

Mannn they should of went with a 12GB VRAM Frame buffer and 192bit, would of increased the memory bandwidth abit as well.

 

[Mrgravia]

I don't expect this to be a beat with RT.

All I'm hoping for is some solid 1080p/1440p performance at high settings.

Not to mention, please give us a new budget option and low profile option. Their current fastest LP is like a 6500 lp, with most being a 6400 which is an absolute anemic card. The only announced LP for team green is a 8 gig 5060.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

9070 XT
Compute Units: 64 (100%)
Boost clock: 2970MHz (100%)
TPU Review RT@2K: 100%

9070
Compute Units: 56 (87.50%)
Boost clock: 2520MHz (84.84%)
TPU Review RT@2K: 89.94%

9060 XT
Compute Units: 32 (50%)
Boost clock: 3230MHz (108.75%)
TPU Review RT@2K: ??
Maybe 55% of 9070XT.

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- That would be fine performance for the right price.

16g for $379 and 8gb for $279 would actually be considered pretty good pricing in this wasteland of a market.

 

[GenericUsername2001]

Hopefully they cull that 8GB card or call it something else after seeing how bad 5060Ti 8G is.

This; for that matter just doing 16 GB versions would make the board partners more money, given the GPU shortages. The bottleneck right now is the number of GPU chips being produced; GDDR6 VRAM is cheap and readily available. So from a pure financial perspective it would make sense to only make the higher profit margin 16 GB models, and save the 8 GB versions for when the higher end ones aren't flying off the shelves (or maybe for prebuilts if some OEMs really want the 8 GB model). That what really grinds my gears about the 5060Ti 8G; Nvidia & its board partners aren't even being greedy correctly.

 

[Random_User]

- That would be fine performance for the right price.

16g for $379 and 8gb for $279 would actually be considered pretty good pricing in this wasteland of a market.

Somewhat acceptable-ish!

 

[SSGBryan]

They probably have a huge supply of RX 7700XT/7800XT in the market. This is the only good reason I can think for delaying 9070 GRE for so long. A couple of other reasons could be that they don't have enough defective chips to build the GRE version, or that they want to price 9060s relatively high, so there is no room for the GRE, or that they don't want to offer an alternative to people looking at the current 9070s in the market.

If they exist - they are overpriced. I was at a microcenter this weekend & I saw a LOT of 8gb 7600s, along with a number of 5070s and 5060tis (which were priced higher than the 5070s).

All of the 9070 & 9070xt were sold in the 35 minutes I was in the store

 

[Visible Noise]

Why so late... Losing sales.

Another Months Delay