AMD Announces Radeon RX 9060 XT Graphics Card, Claims "Fastest Under $350"

[Macro Device]

this product is exactly 50% of an RX 9070 XT at every level

And this is why it's very bad for 300+ USD.

WE ALREADY HAVE THIS PERFORMANCE FOR 300!

 

[Bomby569]

Half the 9070, half the 9070 price isn't great is it.
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.

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

The 16 GB version for $350 is not too bad if it actually sells at that price.

The 8 GB version for $300... well... those of you who frequented our recent 5060 (Ti) 8 GB threads know what I've got to say, so I'm not gonna waste my breath.

The stupid 50 buck upsell from AMD is annoying.

That said, I wonder where is the spot that MSRP and current retail prices are changing, the AIB's or the resellers?

 

[jpvalverde85]

I know it works better from an arch perspective, but looking at the specs it will be hardly that much better than the 7600xt, which by the way was/is dissapointing. Just barely better than 5060 aint good enough, even for 350 usd, that level of performance is for single fan cards at 200-250ish usd

 

[AusWolf]

The stupid 50 buck upsell from AMD is annoying.

Not just that. I think 300 bucks is a bad price for an 8 GB card, regardless of the colour of the box.

 

[Epo]

Now if only the term MSRP actually means something...

Also, finally a new card, 9060-non-XT, that supposedly costs <= USD250?
* I know it is not mentioned. It is only a guesstimation. But I might want that for a secondary build.

This is the only 8 GB card I'm interested in. If it sells for €270 including VAT in Spain, it will fly off the shelves. The only competing option is Intel's Intel Arc B580, but people tend to avoid them and I bet the performance of the RX 9060 will be superior even if it is limited by VRAM.

 

[Dragokar]

I wait for the € prices since the USD are usually without tax.....would be nice if it would be 329€ and 379€ or so.

 

[Red Hood]

$300 is too much for an 8GB mainstream card in 2025

$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

 

[Neo_Morpheus]

Not just that. I think 300 bucks is a bad price for an 8 GB card, regardless of the colour of the box.

Exactly, stupid 50 bucks upsell.

this should be 200 or 250.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Honestly so long as the 9060/5060/etc start putting some downward pressure on used card prices that's all I really want from them.

Let me snag a used 6800 or 7700xt for $200 and I'll be a happy camper...

 

[Macro Device]

9060/5060/etc start putting some downward pressure on used card prices

They won't do that unfortunately. Not this year at the very least.

 

[Hecate91]

Exactly, stupid 50 bucks upsell.

this should be 200 or 250.

I don't like the $50 upsell, the 8GB version should be $250 at most, with the 16GB for $300, that would make the 8GB 5060 look even more dumb than it is.
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.

 

[Deleted member 234478]

$350 for 1080 gaming... dahell.. who the hell needs 16gb for 1080 gaming. and should be $270 for the 8gb version...ahem I mean $400 by the thieves selling online

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

 

[oddrobert]

Now it just has to stay below 400...one can dream.

Don't forget - the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB was the worst value card of last generation. Now the new RTX 5060 Ti manages to be an even worse deal for the money. You can get, 6700xt for half the price and...

 

[calhau]

Let's see if this can even match the average price/performance of the 5060ti 8gb.

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 (https://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.

 

[Marcus L]

6% faster in 40 games? Yea huh when i hear that makes me thing its dead even or its slower in most those 40 except a few where its built for their card gives them a small lead. Lets see what independent tests show us.

Edit: as i look at 2nd images that shows the %, i see the AMD deception. They compared 5060ti 8gb card vs 9060XT 16gb using 1440p ultra. So yea.................. you aren't running 1440p ultra if you buy an 8gb card least if you have slightest bit of sense you wouldn't.

Don't you know everyone who buys an 8GB GPU expects to run ultra super duper nightmare settings in games at 1440p, at least that's the impression people give, what happened to the days of tuning game settings to a balance between your GPU/vRAM power and game settings, heck most of us older gamers were doing this and still acheiving between 30-60FPS 20+ years ago and happy, not now, people want the cheapest cards to run the highest settings and bitch about it when they don't lol I think most of it come from pricepoints, since covid they have never recovered so a lot of people are still stuck in the mindframe of a £300 GPU should be able to run current games at the highest settings, if the cards were half the price they are now it would make much more sense but then why are NV or AMD going to give up profit on each GPU when they can sell them at upto and above £2k nowadays and people will happily pony up, it makes me laugh when I hear people saying £700 is mid-range like WTF have you lost your mind? that should be high end barring halo cards ie **90/titan class cards

 

[Mrgravia]

Honestly will come down to reviews and availability. If it's not a significant update to my current 6700 10gb, i'll probably wait another year or two and see how UDNA turns out, of see if the 9070 drops to a more affordable or near MSRP level by this fall.

 

[720p low]

And this is why it's very bad for 300+ USD.
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WE ALREADY HAVE THIS PERFORMANCE FOR 300!

With respect, which one of those cards in that collection was $300 at launch? Or, even $350? I'm not throwing stones; I wouldn't consider a $300 8Gb graphics card a good investment, myself.

I don't like the $50 upsell, the 8GB version should be $250 at most, with the 16GB for $300, that would make the 8GB 5060 look even more dumb than it is.
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.

Even at your desired price-points, almost certainly someone would start carping about the $50 delta between the $250 8Gb model and the $300 16Gb card.

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.

 

[Macro Device]

With respect, which one of those cards in that collection was $300 at launch?

Neither but 6750 GRE 12 GB (which is effectively a renamed 6700 XT) was sold for just above 300 bucks at launch.

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.

 

[oddrobert]

6700xt

And this is why it's very bad for 300+ USD.
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WE ALREADY HAVE THIS PERFORMANCE FOR 300!

The 6700 XT and 7700 XT stand as the gold standard for this console generation. AMD will undoubtedly charge a premium for their superior upscaling tech and sweet 16GB of VRAM - but it seems like a solid product lineup.

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.

 

[NSR]

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.

Same story with the 9070. 9000 series so far is settling an MSRP that's lower than previous generations and the 50 series for the same performance (afaik).

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.

 

[oddrobert]

Same story with the 9070. 9000 series so far is settling an MSRP that's lower than previous generations and the 50 series for the same performance (afaik).

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.

Are there any viable workarounds for this artificial memory capping? Would something like replacing memory chips on a GPU actually be feasible?

 

[NSR]

Are there any viable workarounds for this artificial memory capping? Would something like replacing memory chips on a GPU actually be feasible?

Admittedly I'm not the engineer to ask (as in not an engineer at all ).

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.

 

[Heiro78]

Woulda been great if they dropped the 8GB version and made a 12GB or 16GB at at the 300 price point.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Woulda been great if they dropped the 8GB version and made a 12GB or 16GB at at the 300 price point.

- I figure we'll see future chips designed to accommodate 10gb at the bottom tier. Gotta pinch those pennies where you can!