AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB review: Finally, a powerful $350 GPU

Nvidia releases a new video card and AMD follows with a cheap card. It has been primarily in the GPU industry for the past decade, nudia usually lead to packs and AMDs. But with the recent Redon RX 9070 and 9070 XT, the AMD finally found a winning formula with GPU that was cheaper than both Nvidia and, in many cases, more powerful. The new Radian RX 9060 XT, which aims to take NVIDIA’s RTX 5060 TI in 1080p and 1440p gaming, often repeats the formula. Starting from $ 350 with 16GB RAM (and $ 300 with 8GB), it is launching for a lot of less than 9 429 RTX 5060 TI while providing similar performance.

Once again, the key to the AMD is offering more than NVIDIA for a very small amount. Certainly, AMD is using GDDR6 RAM with 320 GB/S memory bandout compared to 448 GB/S GDDR7. But in practice, when you are dealing with large -scale textures and 3D models in modern sports, it is actually more useful to be a big memory pool. So if you are looking for the best gaming bang for the box, under $ 400, 16GB Redon RX 9060 XT is undoubtedly the winner.

What is Redon RX 9060 TI?

AMD’s Radon RX 9000 Family (so far), RX 9060 XT is basically the card you get if you can’t spend more than $ 500 on the stomach GPU. Just remember that there is a trend of increasing the price of video cards when they really target stores, depending on the availability and desire of retailers. RX 9060 XT Sports 32 RDNA 4 Compete Unit, 32 RT Excellers and 64 AI Axel. It can reach a speed of 3.1GHz with its boost clock and uses electricity up to 180W. In comparison, 9 549 MSRP RX has 56 computing units in 9070, while 9 599 RX 9070 XT has eight more.

AMD is manufacturing this GPU as an alternative to RX 7600 Xt, which launched 9 329 last year. The card also contained 16 GB Varam, but it had 288 GB/S. Bandut. Although the 7600 XT entry level was more focused on 1440p gaming, the improvement of 9060 Xt hardware makes it more capable. The AMD claims that it is 46 % faster than 7600 XT in more than 40 games, and that the data is examined by my test.

For this review, I tested Gigabite’s RX 9060 XT GPU, which has three cooling fans that point to a common copper hat sink. There is no fancy vapor cooling chamber or no extravagant material on the card, but I didn’t expect much in this price limit.

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What is good about Redon RX 9060 TI?

Across the sports and benchmarks, 9060 XT is roaming the place only where I expected: RX 9070 significantly slow, and either NVIDIA RTX 5060 TI or slightly slow. In the Steel Gypsy Benchmark of Three Mark, 9060 XT scored 200 points against this NVIDIA card, and it was 90 points ahead of the Time Spy Extra. But Navadia had a thousand points lead in the speedway benchmark and was more than 2,000 points in the Lux Mark HDR 4 Tests.

Despite these figures, I am still impressed that 9060 Xt Nvidia’s RTX 5060 TI can live in the same league while the cost is very low. The performance of the AMD -Ray tracing has also improved a lot from its previous generations, which has scored 45 % faster in the 3 -mark port Royal Benchmark. NVIDIA is still leading in ray tracing in sports, especially with DLSS 4 AI opticing and multi -frame generation’s one -to -cartoon. NVIDIA RTX 5000-Series Cards can produce three interlate frames for each locally provided frame, while AMD is still stuck in producing a single additional frame with its FSR 3 and 4 (sincere super resolution 4).

Radon RX 9060 was able to run Cyberpank 2077 In 1440p, a respected 80 FPS in the “Over Drive” mode, while the NVD’s RTX 5060 TI targeted 136 FPS thanks to a multi -frame generation. Nevertheless, there are a lot of wiegel rooms to crank more frames: Stepping on 1080p gave me 120 FPS, and I saw 90 FPS using a low -demand ray trassing “Ultra” preset at 1440p. In terms of raw performance, without any advanced fancy, 9060 XT targeted 114 FPS in 1080p and 90 FPS in 1440p.

Radian RX 9060 XT did not run very hot during my test, but it makes sense that it is focusing on 3DMark steel nomads stress tests, which is focusing on 1080p and 1440p gaming, which successfully repeats the benchmark 20 times, the card is only 54 cells. I was accustomed to reaching the video card down the load above 70C, so 9060 XT was an amazing surprise. While standing, it is sitting at 42C. This is higher than the chamber cooling cards, but it is average for cards in this price range. I did not hear the noise of any disturbing fans under the load, because he barely broke the sweat.

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What’s bad about Redon RX 9060 Xt?

Redon RX 9060 is not really much to complain with, unless you are not expecting more than $ 400 GPU. Nevertheless, it would be nice to have AMD’s new FSR 4 AI upscaling support spread more rapidly. When RX 9070 Xt launched, the feature was only available in hand -handed sports Call Off Duty: Black OPS 6, And now more than 60 sports have been supported. It is still half a game that supports NVIDIA’s DLSS 4 (which includes more than 125 titles so far).

At the RX 9060 Xt, the FSR 4 user experience is still not as easy as it is to activate DLSS on NVIDIA cards. I had to manually enable it to AMD’s adrenaline software, then flip it Call of Duty: Warson To activate it. On the bright side, I saw an average of 254 FPS while playing a match in 1440p, with high graphics settings, FSR4 and frame generation. With the frame general, but no FSR4, the performance sank at 174fps. And if I removed both of these features, it fell to 110 FPS. Clearly, the FSR4 and the frame general help a little, I wish it was in more sports.

Should you buy Redon RX 9060 Xt?

Suppose retailer Redon RX 9060 is not wild to cost high, this is a solid option if you are looking for an affordable GPU that is dedicated to 1080p and 1440p gameplay. At $ 350, 9060 Xt RTX is below the 9 429 retail price of 5060 TI, and is definitely much cheaper than models sold in more than 500.

To reach a low $ 300 price point, the AMD also unveiled RX 9060 TI with 8GB Ram. But, in fact, I will recommend avoiding it unless you play ancient games in just 1080p. It’s worth spending a bit so you can play a new game with low headaches, and if you want to play in 1440p, it’s practically one.

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Wrap

Redon RX 9060 XTS is a reminder of a world where we do not have to pay more than $ 400 to get a GPU. According to steam data, we already know that more than 80 % of PC gamers play on 1440p or less resolutions. So for the majority of players there – those who are not using a mad high refresh rate or 4K+ resolution monitor – this is all the GPUs you really need.

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