AMD was quiet on the graphics card front for a couple of months following its simultaneous launch of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT and the AMD Radeon RX 9070. At Computex 2025, AMD has expanded this lineup with a new desktop GPU: the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT.
This new card will be available with 8GB of video RAM for $299 and 16GB of RAM for $349; products start shipping on June 5. If AMD’s performance claims hold up, the Radeon RX 9060 XT may dominate its budget-to-midrange market segment just as well as the new Radeon RX 9070 XT leads the firmly midrange $599 segment.
AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT Slices the RX 9070 XT In Half!
AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT reveal provided some basic details but failed to tell all. We now know it will have 32 AMD RDNA 4 Compute units, which alone reveals a lot. The resources included in a compute unit are a known quantity, and from this, I did a little math to determine that the Radeon RX 9060 XT will have 2,048 stream processors and 128 texture mapping units (TMUs).
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You can also do the math to see that the RX 9060 XT will have 32 ray accelerators and 64 AI accelerators, but AMD already confirmed those specs for the card. What we don’t know about the hardware includes the number of raster operation processors (ROPs), the memory speed, and the width of the memory interface. These items are independent of the compute unit, though based on other AMD graphics cards, the RX 9060 XT will likely have 64 ROPs and a 128-bit memory interface with 20Gbps GDDR6 RAM.
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This would effectively mean the Radeon RX 9060 XT would have about half the resources of the Radeon RX 9070 XT in all areas except RAM, as the Radeon RX 9070 XT itself has 16GB of 20Gbps GDDR6 memory.
Breaking Down AMD’s Performance Claims
Estimating the performance of the Radeon RX 9060 XT from here is tricky. While the Radeon RX 9060 XT on paper may be equal to about half a Radeon RX 9070 XT, we don’t often see performance scale that linearly. Differences in clock speed further complicate this, as the Radeon RX 9060 XT can run at up to 3.1GHz, which is a bit faster than the Radeon RX 9070 XT, which tops out at 2.9GHz.
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Of course, according to AMD, performance looks promising. AMD compared the Radeon RX 9060 XT with 16GB of RAM with the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 8GB of RAM in several games. AMD itself reported that in some of these games, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti gets the upper hand, but overall, out of 40 games tested, AMD said the Radeon RX 9060 XT would be about 6% faster on average.
That 6% advantage isn’t huge, but AMD also pointed out the price difference. The 8GB Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is priced at $379, while the Radeon RX 9060 XT with 16GB of RAM costs just $349. Figuring this in, AMD claimed that its product produced 15% better gaming performance per dollar, averaged across those 40 games it tested.
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Naturally, we will need to test an AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT to confirm these performance claims. I certainly need to see how performance varies at different resolutions, too. Last generation, all of the cards competing in this market segment suffered with 128-bit memory interfaces, and this situation has played out again this generation.
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Both the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and the GeForce RTX 5060 have 128-bit interfaces, but those cards also feature GDDR7 memory. This new type of memory is faster and supports greater bandwidth than GDDR6, which has helped lessen the impact of the 128-bit interface on the RTX 5060 Ti. I expect the same for the RTX 5060.
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However, the Radeon RX 9060 XT still uses GDDR6 memory, and it seems likely that it also has a 128-bit memory interface. This will likely hamper the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT’s performance, particularly at higher resolutions.
AMD FSR Redstone
Alongside the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT announcement, AMD teased some new FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) technologies it is developing. These technologies are referred to as a group as “FSR Redstone.” For now, these are presented as separate from AMD’s recently released FSR 4 technology.
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Four key technologies feature in FSR Redstone, all based around AI and machine learning. First is what AMD calls Neural Radiance Caching, which uses machine learning to understand how light moves through a scene for future reference. The idea here seems to be that the AI can see how the light is moving, and then repeat that with AI without the need to process it again with traditional graphics hardware.
Next is ray regeneration technology, which creates pixels with the correct lighting where the rasterization hardware was otherwise unable to. The impact of these first two features seems to be focused on improving overall image quality and performance.
Redstone’s third and fourth technologies are enhanced super resolution and frame generation, respectively. Super resolution has been part of FSR from the beginning, and frame generation has been in AMD’s toolkit since FSR 3, making neither of these technologies technically new. However, they appear to be working in different ways and using machine learning to improve performance.
Which to Buy, 8GB or 16GB? Decide by June 5!
If you are considering buying an AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT, you won’t have to wait long. AMD plans to ship the Radeon RX 9060 XT on June 5, with 8GB models selling for $299 and 16GB for $349. If you are interested, you now have a rather difficult choice.
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Having more memory is often beneficial, making the 16GB version of the card feel more alluring. But if the Radeon RX 9060 XT has just a 128-bit memory interface with 20Gbps GDDR6, you should question how much benefit that additional memory will get you. Paying up for the extra RAM is almost worth it for the peace of mind of knowing you have it if you need it, but you’ll likely get better performance per dollar spent with the 8GB model. Until we test both options, however, we cannot say for sure which is best.
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