Like every year, the Computex currently taking place in Taipei is an opportunity for major players in the IT industry to present new products. AMD is therefore taking advantage of the opportunity to launch its brand new Radeon RX 9060 XT, a graphics card designed to compete with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti at the lower end of the mid-range market (or the upper end of the entry-level range, depending on how you analyze the market).
Interesting features on paper
Based on a Navi 44 graphics chipset, this RX 9060 XT naturally incorporates all the new features and improvements brought by the manufacturer's RDNA 4 architecture, introduced by the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT earlier in the year. The number of computing units embedded in this smaller – but also cheaper to manufacture – chipset is unsurprisingly decreasing: we go from 4096 cores on a 9070 XT to 2048 computing units on the 9060 XT. The number of ray-tracing accelerators and units dedicated to inference are also reduced by half, but in return the GPU Boost frequency is revised upwards, slightly exceeding 3 GHz.
| Model | RX 9070 | RX 9060 | Architecture | RDNA 4 Navi 48 | RDNA 4 Navi 44 | Blackwell GB206 | Blackwell GB206 | CUDA Cores 3584 | 2048 | 4608 | | 3840 RT Hearts | 56 | 32 | 36 | 30 | | AI Cores 112 | 64 | 144 | 120 | | Frequency Boost 2.52 GHz | 3.13 GHz | 2.57 GHz | 2.5 GHz | | Memory | 16 GB GDDR6 | 8/16 GB GDDR6 | 8/16 GB GDDR7 | 8 GB GDDR7 | Speed Memory | 20 Gbps | 20 Gbps | 28 Gbps | 28 Gbps | Memory Bus | 256-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | Band Band | 640 GB/s | 320 GB/s | 448 GB/s | 448 GB/s | TDP | 220W | 160W | 180W | 145W | Interface | PCIe Gen5 x16 | PCIe Gen5 | PCIe Gen5 x8 | PCIe Gen5 x8 |
In terms of memory, the RX 9060 XT still relies on GDDR6 while the competition relies on GDDR7 memory. With a speed of 20 Gbps and a memory bus width of 128-bit, this graphics card therefore has a bandwidth of “only” 320 GB/s; This is significantly less than the 448 GB/s of the 5060 Ti.
Fortunately, this difference doesn't seem to have too big an impact on performance, with AMD proudly announcing that its new card – in the 16 GB version, the 8 GB model being much less interesting – is on average 6% faster in 1440p Ultra than its direct competitor. We will still have to wait for the first independent tests to confirm these values. In any case, with contained consumption and a recommended retail price lower than that of the 5060 Ti (respectively 389 euros for the 16 GB version and 299 for the 8 GB version), this Radeon RX 9060 XT could quickly prove to be a particularly annoying thorn in NVIDIA's side.
Source: AMD
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