At Computex 2025 this year, AMD announced its RX 9060 XT mid-range desktop GPUs. The new graphics card landed in both 8GB and 16GB flavors and targets 1080p as well as light 1440p gaming. The community and some of the media criticized the 8GB VRAM model, but AMD defended the move explaining how the smaller memory buffer is not a cause of worry for the majority.
Both the 8 GB and the 16 GB RX 9060 XT are now available for purchase. A new driver is out too with Adrenalin version 25.6.1.
However, as always, day one stocks would likely be highly limited, similar to other GPUs or any other product, like the Nintendo Switch 2, that also landed today.
Third-party AIB (add in board) vendors like Gigabyte, for example, are selling the 8GB at $329 (SEP is $299) currently on Amazon US, so expect some markup.
The technical specifications of the Radeon RX 9060 XT are given below:
| Specification | Value |
|---|---|
| GPU Architecture | AMD RDNA™ 4 |
| Core Compute Units | 32 |
| Video Memory | 16 GB / 8GB GDDR6 |
| Infinity Cache |
32 MB |
| Core Boost Clock | Up to 3.13 GHz |
| Memory speed/bandwidth | 20 Gbps / 320 GB/s |
| AI Performance | 821 TOPS (INT4 with sparsity) |
| Raytracing & AI Accelerators | 32 3rd Generation Raytracing Accelerators; 64 2nd Generation AI Accelerators |
| PCIe Interface | PCIe® 5.0 x16 |
| Display Outputs | DisplayPort™ 2.1a, HDMI® 2.1b |
| Total Board Power (TBP) | 160W* |
If you notice, we have an asterisk for the TBP value in the table above. That is because AMD says that it can vary between 150 and 182 watts.
Performance-wise, we know the $349 16 GB variant is close to the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti in rasterization but falls behind in ray tracing. Meanwhile, the 8GB model, priced the same as the GeForce RTX 5060 at $299, should be better, as both 8 Gig and 16 Gig SKUs are identical spec-wise outside of memory capacity.
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