Review: At $349, AMD’s 16GB Radeon RX 9060 XT is the new midrange GPU to beat

Summary

• Nvidia’s performance and power efficiency lead has been eroded in the face of superior AI and ray-tracing performance in AMD’s latest graphics cards, according to an article in Arstechnica.
• The new AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics cards are priced at $299and$349 for 8GB and 16GB to undercut Nvidia’s GMC RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti.
• This is good news for consumers who are starving for graphics cards due to the shortage, as it will improve offerings in the mid-range area, and competition tends to drive better products and pricing.
• The specs on the RX 9060 XT, which uses the manufacturer’s new RDNA 4 architecture and is an upgraded version of the RX 7600 and RX 7600 XT, show a 32 Compute unit design, with a 128-bit memory interface carrying 8 or 16GB of GDDR6.
• The author expects the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT to perform about 15% better than the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 in typical gaming workloads, and possibly 30% or more in ray-tracing workloads.

By Andrew Cunningham

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