The little AMD card is certainly a cutie, but details remain scant—not least the price.
AMD has taken the wraps off the RX 9060 XT at Computex 2025, and it looks like a graphics card of few surprises so far. That being said, some of the key info is still a little thin on the ground—and it’s making me wonder if AMD’s latest budget card has got the goods to take on the RTX 5060 Ti with which it will likely compete.
Featuring 32 RDNA 4 Compute Units, 32 RT Accelerators, 64 AI Accelerators, and a 3.13 GHz boost clock, the RX 9060 XT looks, as our Nick aptly put it when summarising the earlier leaks, a bit like an RX 9070 XT chopped in two.
It’ll come in 8 GB and 16 GB variants, much like the RTX 5060 Ti. While AMD hasn’t yet released any performance figures yet for the new card, many will be hoping that it does for the RTX 5060 Ti what the RX 9070 XT did for the RTX 5070 Ti—give it a darn good run for its money, and even the odd thrashing.
However, what’s still unclear is whether the new AMD card makes use of a significant amount of L3 Infinity Cache to make up for the fact that it’ll likely use slower, GDDR6 memory in comparison to the speedier 28 Gbps GDDR7 in the RTX 5060 Ti.
Without some mitigation here, it’s possible the RX 9060 XT will lose out to the Nvidia card, although that’s all speculation while the details are still this scant. It’s certainly got a higher boost clock than the 2.57 GHz RTX 5060 Ti, which should help to even the odds somewhat.
It looks fairly power efficient, too, with a 150-182 W TGP in comparison to the RTX 5060 Ti’s similarly power-sipping 180 W max figure. Comparing the specs sheets of the two is a bit of an exercise in frustration when one is still something of a mystery, but in many regards they appear to be trading theoretical blows, at the very least.
Being an RX 9000-series card, buyers will also be able to take advantage of FSR 4 to boost frame rates—although it won’t have the Multi Frame Generation advantage the new RTX 50-series cards lean on for surprising AI-enhanced frame rate figures.
Still, even if its performance proves to be impressive despite the potential disadvantages, pricing and availability in relation to its Nvidia competition is key.
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While the RTX 5060 Ti has an MSRP of $379 for the 8 GB model and $429 for the 16 GB variant, the latter is often found for much more, and availability still seems to be somewhat patchy.
If AMD can provide substantial stock at a lesser MSRP (and if the RX 9060 XT manages to perform similarly well at 1080p and 1440p), it might just have an entry-level winner on its hands.
That’s a big set of ifs, buts, and maybes. It’s a bit of a cutie with that little twin-fan reference design, though, isn’t it? Mind you, being a reference card it won’t be the one you actually buy, so I hope the AIB partners create designs of similar size. Anyway, here’s hoping it’s more of a Jack Russell terrier than a handbag pooch, come the benchmarks. Fingers crossed, yes?
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