AMD have rocked as much as this yr’s Computex tech convention with a handful of new Ryzen Threadripper CPUs (not ) and affirmation of a long-rumoured graphics card, the Radeon RX 9060 XT (cautiously ). It’s a real mid-ranger within the RTX 5060 Ti vein, and like its Nvidia rival, will launch with each 8GB and 16GB variations – the latter of which is able to value $349, the bottom MSRP of any current-gen 16GB gaming GPU, upon its launch in June.
Whether or not or not that pricing holds stays to be seen; AMD’s higher-end RX 9070 GPUs have been famously troublesome to search out at their marketed beginning worth, and whereas the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB was alleged to launch from $379, in follow you’d be fortunate to search out one beneath $420. Though, if everybody’s GPUs are inflated, then the most cost effective one ought to nonetheless stay the most cost effective? In concept?
Both approach, there are different encouraging indicators for the 16GB RX 9060 XT, even when its $299 8GB version appears like a little bit of a non-starter. It’s the primary of AMD’s mid-range playing cards, for instance, to assist PCIe 5.0 x16 bandwidth, that means it’ll take higher benefit of recent motherboard slots than earlier Radeons (just like the dud RX 7600). Efficiency-wise, AMD say it’s 6% sooner on common than the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti at 1440p, although in a little bit of graphs-bodging that Nvidia themselves can be pleased with… that’s solely the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti. Presumably the 16GB mannequin places up a greater struggle.
You do get the identical FSR 4 upscaling compatibility because the RX 9070 household, although, so Nvidia’s DLSS 4 benefit may not weigh so closely. The RX 9060 XT additionally occurs to be launching into what seems like a interval of all-time-low goodwill in the direction of the inexperienced group, who’re at present mired in accusations of giving preferential access to friendly media and making an attempt to leverage undue strain on impartial assessment processes.
That gained’t make the RX 9060 XT a greater graphics card, clearly. However extra VRAM, upgraded PCIe tech, and a cheaper price simply may. We’ll discover out subsequent month, and I’ll replace this story with UK pricing if I can get it.
