By KBC Associate 
AMD has announced the card it’s putting up against the Nvidia RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti. It’s called the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT and comes with 8GB or 16GB VRAM – both undercut the 5060 Ti pricing.
The RX 9060 XT is essentially half of RX 9070 XT. It has 32 compute units, 32 ray accelerators and 64 AI accelerators, but it does run at slightly higher clock speeds – 2,530MHz game frequency and 3,130MHz boost frequency. The card has 25.6 TFLOPS peak single precision compute. AI tasks can leverage 410 TOPS of INT8 or 821 TOPS of INT4 compute.
As mentioned, the card has 8GB or 16GB of GDDR6 with a 128-bit bus (up to 320GB/s), plus 32MB of Infinity Cache. Again, that’s half of what the 9070 XT has. But this card uses half the power – TBP is 150W for the 8GB model and a bit higher at 160W for the 16GB model.
The Radeon RX 9060 XT is an RDNA 4 card with full support for FSR 4 upscaling, helped by support for FP8 acceleration. The card is fed by a full PCIe 5.0 x16 interface, which is a boon for people with older motherboards that only have older PCIe slots. There’s also an 8-pin connector for additional power.
The card’s connectivity options include DisplayPort 2.1a and HDMI 2.1b. There’s encode and decode support for H265 and AV1 videos.
Note that the cards pictured above are just 3D renders – AMD will not be releasing own-branded 9060 XT cards. Instead, they will come from partners including Acer, ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, Vastarmor, XFX and Yeston later this year.
The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB has an MSRP of $300, the 16GB model is $350. For comparison, the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti from Nvidia is $380 MSRP and the 16GB is $430. The non-Ti 5060 with 8GB VRAM is $300.
