New Navi44 chip: Radeon RX 9060 XT with 16 GByte and RDNA4 from 349 US dollars

At first glance, the prices announced by AMD for the Radeon RX 9060 XT look like a challenge to Nvidia, whose GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is already expected to cost 379 US dollars with 8 GB. The Radeon RX 9060 XT, on the other hand, has a recommended retail price of 299 US dollars with 8 GB of memory and 349 US dollars with 16 GB. As usual, taxes will be added to this, so the price in Germany is likely to be closer to 350 or 430 euros. As soon as we have an official euro price for Germany, we will add it here.

In fact, the RTX 5060 Ti is also the GeForce with which AMD itself compares the Radeon RX 9060 XT and also sees it ahead in its benchmarks in WQHD resolution with 2560 × 1440 pixels shown in advance. Over a course of 40 current titles, the RX 9060 XT 16 GB is said to be six percent faster than the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB – including the advantage of the larger memory expansion. AMD is apparently comparing the different memory configurations due to their price proximity.

How realistic this is will have to be shown by independent tests, which should appear before the sales launch on June 5, 2025. Cards come from all known partners.

With the AI-supported upscaler FSR4 and intermediate image generation, smooth frame rates should then also be possible in most gaming scenarios. According to AMD, FSR4 will already be running more than 60 titles at the launch of the RX 9060 XT on June 5.

More economical chip

As with the Radeon 9070 models, the new RX 9060 XT also uses the RDNA4 architecture, which gets more performance per compute unit out of the silicon than the previous generation. It also has a record-breaking high clock rate of 3130 megahertz under gaming conditions. These two key points are particularly important, as the new graphics card only has 32 compute units (2048 shaders), just like the old entry-level model Radeon RX 7600. Only with the higher clock frequency does this result in almost 20 percent more computing power.

As AMD revealed to our Computex-visiting colleagues, the approximately 199 mm² Navi 44 requires slightly less power than the Navi 33 in the RX 7600, ranging from 150 to 182 watts for the 8 and 16 GByte models, around 10 watts less than in the previous generation. A regular eight-pin connection to the power supply unit is therefore also sufficient for the power supply.

AMD continues to rely on GDDR6 components for the graphics memory. Their slightly higher data rate supplies the chip with 320 GByte/s instead of 288 GByte/s, only an increase of around 11 percent. The system connection is provided by a downward-compatible PCIe 5.0 connector, which is only connected with eight lanes as in the predecessor. However, AMD saves more elsewhere: Not only does the rendering of the reference card indicate this, AMD also confirms that the Navi-44 GPU only connects three screens at the same time. However: The artistic representation of the Navi-44 chip shows a complete x16 interface and four display engines – we remain curious.

	Radeon RX 9060 XT	Radeon RX 7600 XT	Radeon RX 9070 XT	Radeon RX 9070	RTX 5070 TI	RTX 5070	RTX 5060 Ti
Architecture	RDNA4 / Navi 44	RDNA3 / Navi 34	RDNA4 / Navi 48	RDNA4 / Navi 48	Blackwell GB203	Blackwell GB205	Blackwell GB206
Shader cores / shader multiprocessors	2048 / 32	2048 / 32	4096 / 64	3584 / 56	8960 / 70	6144 / 48	4608 / 36
Base / boost clock rate	k.A. / 3,13 GHz	1,98 / 2,47 GHz	1,66 / 2,97 GHz	1,33 / 2,52 GHz	2,30 / 2,45 GHz	2,16 / 2,51 GHz	2,41 / 2,57 GHz
Throughput shader cores (FP32)	25,6 TFLOPS	20,2 TFLOPS	48,7 TFLOPS	36,1 TFLOPS	43,90 TOPS	30,8 TFLOPS	23,7 TFLOPS
Throughput tensor cores (max.)	821 TOPS	81 TOPS	1557 TOPS	1156 TOPS	1406 TOPS	988 TOPS	758 TOPS
Storage connection / data rate	128 Bit / 20 Gbps	128 Bit / 18 Gbps	256 Bit / 20 Gbps	256 Bit / 20 Gbps	256 Bit / 28 Gbps	192 Bit / 28 Gbps	128 Bit / 28 Gbps
Storage quantity / type	8 / 16 GByte GDDR6	16 GByte GDDR6	16 GByte GDDR6	16 GByte GDDR6	16 GByte GDDR7	12 GByte GDDR7	8 / 16 GByte GDDR7
Memory transfer rate	320 GByte/s	288 GByte/s	640 GByte/s	640 GByte/s	896 GByte/s	672 GByte/s	448 GByte/s
Display	2 x DP 2.1a (UHBR13.5), 1 x HDMI 2.1b	3 x DP 2.1, 1 x HDMI 2.1a	3 x DP 2.1a (UHBR13.5), 1 x HDMI 2.1b	3 x DP 2.1a (UHBR13.5), 1 x HDMI 2.1b	3 x DP 2.1b (UHBR20), 1 x HDMI 2.1b	3 x DP 2.1b (UHBR20), 1 x HDMI 2.1b	3 x DP 2.1b (UHBR20), 1 x HDMI 2.1b
PCIe version / lanes	5.0 / x8	4.0 / x8	5.0 / x16	5.0 / x16	5.0 / x16	5.0 / x16	5.0 / x8
TDP	150 / 182 watts	190 watts	304 watts	220 watts	300 watts	250 watts	180 watts
Market launch	05.06.25	08.01.24	06.03.25	06.03.25	20.02.25	04.03.25	16.04.25
Price (street)	299 / 349 US dollars plus tax	329 US dollars plus taxes (325 €)	689 € (726 €)	629 € (645 €)	879 € (830 €)	649 € (570 €)	399 / 449 € (385 / 450 €)

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