ASUS Radeon RX 9060 XT Prime OC 16 GB

[NSR]

Thanks for the review. Exactly what I expected out of this card. It's competitive but should have been cheaper if they wanted to make a 5060 purchase look stupid.

16GB XT should have been $299
8GB XT should have never been made
Save the silicon and flood the market with 16GB XTs at $299.

This is a soft jab. People who do their research will buy it but it's surrounded by two 5060 options that average buyers will default to instead for the green branding.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Gonna have to start calling them AMDong!

-AMDong-less with all the dick shooting.

 

[Hecate91]

LTT said he didn't get a card man.

I would expect LTT to be able to get a card somehow, I'd assume they could ask an AIB for one or something, so Linus whining he didn't get one seems like such a dumb evasion tactic, though he's always been biased towards Nvidia.

Of course it is. If you only send review samples to channels that for example are favorable to you.

Except every reputable tech reviewer got a card, that's not the same as Nvidia looking desperate to hype up an 8GB card while also having a fit over anyone wanting to give the card a fair assessment, yet also not even caring about the gaming market. Jensen talked about the Switch 2 SoC more than he did about Geforce cards at Computex.
We already know the 9060XT 8GB card sucks, it'll be close to the 5060Ti 8GB, but maybe 2-5% faster in some titles similar to the 16GB 9060XT. The difference is there isn't a massive amount of mindshare for AMD, so no one is going to defend an 8GB Radeon card.

 

[Lost_Wanderer]

Half of a 9070 (XT) for around half the price. The graphics card market these days is an absolute steal. Just not for the consumer.

 

[LastDudeALive]

What's with the discrepancies of the 2560x1440 on Native on showing 58 fps, but another graph shows 63fps for the same setting in Indina Jones at 2560x1440 Native no FSR??

ASUS Radeon RX 9060 XT Prime OC 16 GB Review

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT launches at a highly competitive $350 MSRP, which is much lower than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, yet the card offers similar performance. Thanks to the dual BIOS feature, noise levels of the ASUS Prime are incredible: whisper quiet!

www.techpowerup.com

ASUS Radeon RX 9060 XT Prime OC 16 GB Review

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT launches at a highly competitive $350 MSRP, which is much lower than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB, yet the card offers similar performance. Thanks to the dual BIOS feature, noise levels of the ASUS Prime are incredible: whisper quiet!

www.techpowerup.com

8% difference for the same settings?

Probably just a new run, and maybe a different benchmark area?

 

[Quicks]

No, just stop with that nonsense. The 9060XT is a solid budget card.


And stop with that nonsense too.

Please stop telling others it's nonsense. Everyone has a right to an opinion not only you.

There are many others that agree, this card isn't that good. Just because you have an different opinion does not make others wrong.

 

[Outback Bronze]

but I would just grab a 5060Ti 16Gb or a 5070 if I really had to

If I couldn't find a deal and had to buy at current prices, most likely a 5070.

5080. Already thinking about it.

If gaming at 1440 then the 9070 or 9070 XT depending on the price difference between the two. 5070 Ti if it doesn't cost much more than the 9070 XT.

For a quick replacement, i'd fancy some 30% uplift with either the 16GB 5070 TI or 9700 XT

Wow, wasn't expecting so many responses from the one post. It's great to hear everybody's different ideas/thoughts about upgrading.

Keep em coming!

 

[webdigo]

This is big dilemma for me.
I was really hoping RX9060XT would edge out on the RX7700XT.
Even if just a little bit.

Im torn if I should get 7700xt or 9060xt for my budget.

It seems to me:
9060xt.
Pro: lower power consumption.
Newer tech.
Con:
Less performance than 7700xt

7700xt.
Pro: Higher performance.
Con: Power consumption is around 50w more under gaming.

What would you guys do?
It depends which one turns out cheaper?

 

[JustBenching]

Wow, wasn't expecting so many responses from the one post. It's great to hear everybody's different ideas/thoughts about upgrading.

Keep em coming!

Okay, as an owner of a 3060ti, all of these cards are just horrible. Who is the target group - people that their cards died and people that have 7+ years old GPUs I assume? The cheapest card that would make sense as a 3060ti upgrade is the 5070.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Wow, wasn't expecting so many responses from the one post. It's great to hear everybody's different ideas/thoughts about upgrading.

Keep em coming!

This generation is so bad I'd rather spend money on my wife, toddler, or other hobbies. Even if both my 3080ti/4090 went up in flames tomorrow.

 

[JustBenching]

This is big dilemma for me.
I was really hoping RX9060XT would edge out on the RX7700XT.
Even if just a little bit.

Im torn if I should get 7700xt or 9060xt for my budget.

It seems to me:
9060xt.
Pro: lower power consumption.
Newer tech.
Con:
Less performance than 7700xt

7700xt.
Pro: Higher performance.
Con: Power consumption is around 50w more under gaming.

What would you guys do?
It depends which one turns out cheaper?

9060xt because of FSR4. 0 reason to buy RDNA 3. Just don't. Makes no sense.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Okay, as an owner of a 3060ti, all of these cards are just horrible. Who is the target group - people that their cards died and people that have 7+ years old GPUs I assume? The cheapest card that would make sense as a 3060ti upgrade is the 5070.

Idk the 5070 would feel underwhelming to me vs the two generations old 3060ti.

Are the same price maybe.

 

[NSR]

16 GB on a so small and weak GPU, its shaders can't use so much VRAM.

VRAM usually concerns settings that are easy on the chip itself but still need the VRAM space regardless. There are examples where these "low-end" GPUs are very playable at max settings as long as they have the VRAM. It also opens the door for other use cases like modding.

The fact a $1000 5080 has as much VRAM as a $350 9060 XT might look strange but both GPUs benefit from it equally (well, excluding GDDR7 differences).

 

[webdigo]

9060xt because of FSR4. 0 reason to buy RDNA 3. Just don't. Makes no sense.

Thanks.
What about a used rtx 4070, would that be bad idea also?
Tho Im not a big fan of second hand hardware. But if rtx 4070 would make sense, I could make an exception just this once.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

VRAM usually concerns settings that are easy on the chip itself but still need the VRAM space regardless. There are examples where these "low-end" GPUs are very playable at max settings as long as they have the VRAM. It also opens the door for other use cases like modding.

The fact a $1000 5080 has as much VRAM as a $350 9060 XT might look strange but both GPUs benefit from it equally (well, excluding GDDR7 differences).

They also have to design a completely different gpu with a different bus width or switch to gddr7 to get it to 12.

So while 16 is a lot for this tier it's just much better than 8.

 

[JustBenching]

Idk the 5070 would feel underwhelming to me vs the two generations old 3060ti.

Are the same price maybe.

Well it's the cheapest GPU that will give you a noticeable performance improvement. It's still crap but say you really wanted an upgrade, that's the cheapest one that gives you that.

Thanks.
What about a used rtx 4070, would that be bad idea also?

I dislike comparing new to used with a passion. It's a different market altogether. You first need to decide if you want a new or used card, and then check the prices accordingly. If I was going to buy used I'd probably check 4070ti S prices - if you can get one for 500 maaaybe 550.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Well it's the cheapest GPU that will give you a noticeable performance improvement. It's still crap but say you really wanted an upgrade, that's the cheapest one that gives you that.

It's also better priced outside of the US which again none of these gpus are bad they just cost too much the 9070 at msrp would be ok also.

I dislike comparing new to used with a passion. It's a different market altogether. You first need to decide if you want a new or used card, and then check the prices accordingly. If I was going to buy used I'd probably check 4070ti S prices - if you can get one for 500 maaaybe 550.

For me the used card would need to be cheap enough that if it died in 6 months it's not a huge deal which completely eliminates the used market for me lol.

 

[JustBenching]

It's also better priced outside of the US which again none of these gpus are bad they just cost too much the 9070 at msrp would be ok also.



For me the used card would need to be cheap enough that if it died in 6 months it's not a huge deal which completely eliminates the used market for me lol.

Well the 4070ti super is kinda recent so less likely to be dead.

 

[webdigo]

Rtx 5060 ti 16gb cost 480 euro in my country, for cheapest one.

Rx9060xt has to be alot lower than that, for it to make any sense for me.

Rx7700xt new is 420 euro. Although this is now low priority for me, due to the mentioned rdna 3.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Well the 4070ti super is kinda recent so less likely to be dead.

That card would be tempting at a good price it was my second favorite ADA card.

And really makes all these gpus in its price range look bad.

 

[Outback Bronze]

Who is the target group

Does there need to be a target group? Anybody has the Liberty of upgrading, downgrading, side grading or sitting pretty, don't they?

The only way forward for me is a 5090 but they are just expensive as faaarrrrk

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Does there need to be a target group? Anybody has the Liberty of upgrading, downgrading, side grading or sitting pretty, don't they?

The only way forward for me is a 5090 but they are just expensive as faaarrrrk

100% and even though I don't like anything this generation I'm still super happy to see people get new tech and that doesn't matter if it's the 5060-5090 or any of the RDNA4 cards.

I really hope I get to build with an RDNA4 card this generation just to play around with it.

Tempted if this was msrp just to play around with FSR4 locally.

 

[Krit]

The question is why spend 350 on a 5800x 3d, you can buy 13600k and a brand new mobo for 350 and get your shiny new pcie slots.

Ah yeah, ngreedia i guess.

What do you mean by ngreedia ? 5800x3d was always a shit deal if compare to RYZEN 7 5700x3d or RYZEN 7700

 

[oxrufiioxo]

What do you mean by ngreedia ? 5800x3d was always a shit deal is compare to RYZEN 7 5700x3d or RYZEN 7700

I got one for 270 on Amazon in like Aug 2023 for a build ... Honestly I didn't feel that was too bad. Microcenter had them down to 280 I believe but that may have been with a mobo can't remember.

 

[JustBenching]

The only way forward for me is a 5090 but they are just expensive as faaarrrrk

I'd rather just skip and wait for the 6090. Pray to god it's going to be faaaast.