The Radeon RX 9060 XT offers a good overall package

Kevin Hofer

5/6/2025

Translation: machine translated

AMD is taking on Nvidia with the RX 9060 XT and is launching the card with 8 and 16 gigabytes of graphics memory. For the time being, however, we mainly tested the larger model, which appears to be a new price-performance cracker.

As if the graphics card market wasn't already confusing enough with its countless models, AMD is launching the new RX 9060 XT in two variants: one with 8 and one with 16 gigabytes of VRAM. The smaller version is probably only recommended for competitive online games. In other words, something that most reviewers don't test. This is probably also why hardly anyone was sampled with the 8 GB version of the card.

The reviews attest that the larger model at least offers excellent performance for the price.

Performance at RTX 5060 Ti level

W1zzard from Techpowerup writes that the RX 9060 is three per cent slower than the more expensive RTX 5060 Ti in classic Rasterizer games at 1080p resolution. At 1440p resolution, the gap is the same in his tests. With ray tracing, the difference is also around three per cent. However, the increase compared to its predecessor, the RX 7600 XT, is enormous at 64 per cent for ray tracing.

Steven Walton from Techspot comes to slightly different results. In his tests, the gap to the RTX 5060 Ti in 1080p resolution is around six per cent. At 1440p, however, this is reduced to one per cent. Walton measures a much larger gap than W1zzard in ray tracing: Here, the RX 9060 XT is 20 per cent behind the RTX 5060 Ti. In his opinion, however, neither card offers an optimal ray tracing experience.

Wolfgang Andermahr from Computerbase concludes that the RX 9060 XT is slightly faster than the old mid-range model RX 7700 XT. Compared to the RTX 5060 Ti, the new one from AMD is always slightly slower, but the difference is never more than ten per cent in his tests.

In terms of upscaling technology, everyone agrees that AMD has caught up with FSR 4, but still lags slightly behind Nvidia. In particular, the manufacturer still needs to improve the number of supported games.

Damn good at the recommended retail price

If you can get hold of the card at the recommended retail price (RRP) of 350 US dollars, it offers excellent value for money, according to Walton. He calculates 5 US dollars per frame.

W1zzard, on the other hand, writes that according to his information, hardly any cards will be available at the RRP. He says that he would only favour the RX 9060 XT over the RTX 5060 Ti if it were 50 US dollars cheaper. Only the Intel Arc B580 offers a better ratio at 4.71 US dollars.

Andermahr, on the other hand, sees AMD and Nvidia on a par in terms of value for money.

Good efficiency

Andermahr believes that the RX 9060 XT takes a big step forward in terms of efficiency. The RTX 5060 Ti is even more efficient, but the difference is small.

W1zzard cites an average of 170 watts in games as a concrete figure. This puts the card in a good position. The card's efficiency is particularly impressive in idle mode.

Walton, on the other hand, mentions the difference to the RTX 5060 Ti. The card from Nvidia is on average 10 per cent less power-hungry.

Kevin Hofer

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