
AMD has introduced the cardboard it’s placing up towards the Nvidia RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti. It’s referred to as the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT and comes with 8GB or 16GB VRAM – each undercut the 5060 Ti pricing.
The RX 9060 XT is basically half of RX 9070 XT. It has 32 compute models, 32 ray accelerators and 64 AI accelerators, but it surely does run at barely larger clock speeds – 2,530MHz sport frequency and three,130MHz increase frequency. The cardboard has 25.6 TFLOPS peak single precision compute. AI duties can leverage 410 TOPS of INT8 or 821 TOPS of INT4 compute.
As talked about, the cardboard has 8GB or 16GB of GDDR6 with a 128-bit bus (as much as 320GB/s), plus 32MB of Infinity Cache. Once more, that’s half of what the 9070 XT has. However this card makes use of half the ability – TBP is 150W for the 8GB mannequin and a bit larger at 160W for the 16GB mannequin.
The Radeon RX 9060 XT is an RDNA 4 card with full assist for FSR 4 upscaling, helped by assist for FP8 acceleration. The cardboard is fed by a full PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, which is a boon for individuals with older motherboards that solely have older PCIe slots. There’s additionally an 8-pin connector for added energy.
The cardboard’s connectivity choices embody DisplayPort 2.1a and HDMI 2.1b. There’s encode and decode assist for H265 and AV1 movies.
Be aware that the playing cards pictured above are simply 3D renders – AMD won’t be releasing own-branded 9060 XT playing cards. As a substitute, they may come from companions together with Acer, ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, Vastarmor, XFX and Yeston later this 12 months.
The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB has an MSRP of $300, the 16GB mannequin is $350. For comparability, the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti from Nvidia is $380 MSRP and the 16GB is $430. The non-Ti 5060 with 8GB VRAM is $300.