Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU Overview: AMD’s RTX 5060 Rival Debuts

	AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT: 16GB MSRP $349, 8GB $299 AMD is increasing its line-up of RDNA 4 primarily based GPUs with the affordably priced Radeon RX 9060 XT, which targets funds aware, 1080p players.
	Aggressive Efficiency In Its Class Improved Ray Tracing Many Software program Updates Good Overclocking Potential Extra Environment friendly Than RDNA 3	Excessive Energy vs RTX 5060 Ray Tracing Nonetheless Trails NVIDIA Some Efficiency Inconsistency

After unveiling the cardboard at Computex a few weeks again, AMD is increasing its line-up of RDNA 4 primarily based GPUs right now, with the Radeon RX 9060 XT. At this second in time, the Radeon RX 9060 XT, in its numerous flavors, would be the most reasonably priced Radeon RX 9000 sequence graphics card in AMD’s line-up, although additional scaled-down, lower-priced choices are most assuredly incoming sooner or later sooner or later. Just like the extra highly effective Radeon RX 9070-series playing cards which launched a number of months again, the Radeon RX 9060 XT’s Navi 44 GPU packs the identical options set and assist for AMD’s newest software program. We’ve obtained a 16GB variant readily available from Gigabyte for testing functions and can element its efficiency on the pages forward. However first, let’s try some specs and get some particulars out of the best way…

Radeon RX 9060 XT Specs

When you check out the spec desk above, you’ll see that the Radeon RX 9060 XT’s GPU is manufactured on TSMC’s N4 course of node, and that it’s comprised of roughly 29.7B transistors, with a die measurement of 199mm². It options 32 Compute Models, with a complete of two,048 Stream Processors, with 32 Ray Accelerators, and 64 AI Accelerators. There’s additionally 32MB of third Gen Infinity Cache on board, together with 64 ROPs, and the GPU connects to GDDR6 reminiscence working at an efficient 20Gbps over a 128-bit interface (320GB/s peak bandwidth). Whole board energy varies relying on the actual mannequin, however ranges from 150-180 watts.

The Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU has primarily half of the assets of the Radeon RX 9070 XT. That mentioned, AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT nonetheless helps all the newest options inherent to the RDNA 4 structure, like FSR 4 and an up to date media engine. For a deep dive into what RDNA 4 is all about, you’ll need to test this text out.

There are a number of variants of the Radeon RX 9060 XT on the best way. AMD received’t be promoting a reference card, nevertheless, and is leaving this launch to its board companions. There’ll 16GB and 8GB flavors of the 9060 XT, and normal and hot-clocked variations. The cardboard we’ll be testing right here right now is 16GB mannequin that does provide larger clocks than AMD’s base specs, however not fairly as excessive because the XFX card proven within the desk above. Meaning our Radeon RX 9060 XT benchmark scores could also be a bit of larger than another opinions that includes non-overclocked playing cards. We’ll present you precisely how excessive our card clocked a bit of later.

Gigabyte’s Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC

The particular card we examined is the Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC. As talked about, it’s a 16GB card and can doubtless fall someplace within the higher third of Radeon RX 9060 XT playing cards about to hit retailer cabinets. The Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC incorporates a triple fan, partial pass-through cooler and a few RGB lighting, in a modest two-slot, comparatively low-profile kind issue.

The Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC measures 281mm x 118mm x 40mm – it’s barely taller than its case bracket and won’t encroach on a 3rd slot like wider “2.5 slot” graphics playing cards. Beneath its textured fan shroud, the Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC is packing triple-fans and a dense heatsinks array with copper base plate, linked collectively through a number of copper warmth pipes. Gigabyte additionally notes that the cooler makes use of a non-fluid, extremely conductive thermal gel, for the GPU, reminiscence and MOSFETs. We’re unsure precisely how this thermal interface materials compares to extra widespread thermal paste and pads, however this card actually runs very cool, as you’ll see a bit of later. With such a big heatsink array and tiple followers, on a comparatively low-power GPU, thermals is not going to be a problem.

The Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC additionally incorporates a little bit of RGB lighting on the highest of the cardboard. The Gigabyte emblem on the top-edge is lit by a small LED strip that resides underneath emblem. That piece of the shroud, nevertheless, can slide by about an inch to disclose the small light-strip by itself. The lighting itself could be managed by Gigabyte’s Management Heart software program, however out of the field it’s going to robotically cycle although the colour wheel.

Outputs on the Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC include a pair of DisplayPort 2.1a ports and a single HDMI 2.1b port. Powering the cardboard requires solely a single, 8-pin PCI Categorical energy connector, although another Radeon RX 9060 XT playing cards could function a further connector as effectively.

And with all of that mentioned, let’s get to some benchmarks. AI and a few creator workloads are up first…