AMD has announced the AMD RX 9060 XT, which seems to be a competitor to the RTX 5060 Ti, according to the benchmarks that AMD has released. It comes with two variants, the 8 GB VRAM and the 16 GB VRAM variant, and is priced well.
Features
Ray-tracing
The RDNA 4 architecture comes with 3rd-gen ray-tracing cores, which bring a massive double the throughput of ray-tracing compared to the previous generation GPU, which was behind Nvidia and Intel in ray-tracing performance, but in this generation, ray-tracing performance will be good from AMD.
AI
The 9060 XT delivers up to 821 AI TOPS in INT4 configuration, and it comes with 64 AI accelerators and support for FP8 and support for structural sparsity to make these possible. It’s powered by the 2nd generation AI accelerators from AMD, and thanks to the massive AI performance on the card, it supports the latest FSR 4 Redstone.
The machine learning pipeline layers advanced neural rendering techniques on top of super-resolution, pushing performance and fidelity further. Instead of brute-force path tracing for higher quality, FSR Redstone does it smartly, bringing cinematic realism in an efficient and accessible way.
This version focuses on three components: neural radiance caching, which learns how light bounces in a scene to predict and store indirect lighting, and ML regeneration, which uses a trained neural network to regenerate the pixels that could not be accurately path-traced. ML Super Res: an enhanced ML model to reconstruct lower-resolution frames to maximize performance. Lastly, Frame Gen introduces a new ML model that uses temporal and spatial awareness to generate the frames, and this will come to all RDNA 4 graphics card users. This technology will come to the users later this year, and starting from June 5, over 60 games will support it, with more coming later this year.
Display
Thanks to an enhanced media engine, the 9060 XT supports H.264, H.265, and the AV1 codec with a new and updated encode/decode engine optimized for low-latency streaming, and the 9060 XT now supports HDMI 2.1b and DisplayPort 2.1a with an updated scaling and denoising engine with lower power while idling in 2 display configurations.
SKU, Availability, Pricing
RX 9060 XT
The 9060 XT is an upgrade over the 7600 XT model, and it brings in massive performance upgrades over the predecessor while being at the same MSRP as the 7600 XT model. The 9060 XT has two variants, which are the 8GB variant and the 16GB variant. The 8 GB variant is priced at 299 USD and the 16GB variant at 350 USD, and AMD claims it’s the best GPU at the price point. It comes with 32 compute units and boost clocks of up to 3100 MHz and a base frequency of 2530 MHz and comes with 32 ray accelerators and 32 AI accelerators with 64 ROP and 2100 stream processors on the GPU and 128 texture units.
It packs 29.1 billion transistors, which is two times higher than the previous generation, and the power consumption seems good too since it consumes just 160 W at peak and 183 W when you overclock the GPU for more performance and 32 MB of AMD Infinity Cache, and it is 6% faster than the 5060 Ti 8 GB variant on an average of 40 games and is 15% better in performance per dollar ratio, and starts shipping from the 5th of June from AMD’s leading board partners like Asus, Acer, and XFX, and the sad part here is that AMD isn’t making a stock variant of the GPU, so we aren’t getting an OEM edition card, which looks good.
Conclusion
The 9060 XT is just good at the pricing and performance. $299 for the 9060 XT and 16 GB feels so good, and I think maybe we can’t see this GPU at MSRP since the pricing of the GPU is good. I think this is the best price-performance after the B580.
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