AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT wants to be the cheapest 16GB GPU on the market

$349 for an RTX 5060 Ti-botherer

AMD person rocked up to this year’s Computex tech league with a fistful of caller Ryzen Threadripper CPUs (not interested) and confirmation of a long-rumoured graphics card, the Radeon RX 9060 XT (cautiously interested). It’s a existent mid-ranger successful the RTX 5060 Ti vein, and similar its Nvidia rival, volition motorboat with some 8GB and 16GB versions – the second of which volition outgo $349, the lowest MSRP of immoderate current-gen 16GB gaming GPU, upon its merchandise successful June.

Whether oregon not that pricing holds remains to beryllium seen; AMD’s higher-end RX 9070 GPUs person been famously hard to find astatine their advertised starting price, and portion the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB was expected to motorboat from $379, successful signifier you’d beryllium fortunate to find 1 beneath $420. Although, if everyone's GPUs are inflated, past the cheapest 1 should inactive stay the cheapest? In theory?

Either way, determination are different encouraging signs for the 16GB RX 9060 XT, adjacent if its $299 8GB variation sounds similar a spot of a non-starter. It’s the archetypal of AMD’s mid-range cards, for example, to enactment PCIe 5.0 x16 bandwidth, meaning it volition instrumentality amended vantage of modern motherboard slots than erstwhile Radeons (like the dud RX 7600). Performance-wise, AMD accidental it’s 6% faster connected mean than the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti astatine 1440p, though successful a spot of graphs-bodging that Nvidia themselves would beryllium arrogant of... that’s lone the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti. Presumably the 16GB exemplary puts up a amended fight.

You bash get the aforesaid FSR 4 upscaling compatibility arsenic the RX 9070 family, though, truthful Nvidia’s DLSS 4 vantage mightiness not measurement truthful heavily. The RX 9060 XT besides happens to beryllium launching into what feels similar a play of all-time-low goodwill towards the greenish team, who are presently mired successful accusations of giving preferential entree to affable media and attempting to leverage undue unit connected autarkic reappraisal processes.

That won’t marque the RX 9060 XT a amended graphics card, obviously. But much VRAM, upgraded PCIe tech, and a little terms conscionable might. We’ll find retired adjacent month, and I’ll update this communicative with UK pricing if I tin get it.