AMD 9060 XT performance benchmarks vs Nvidia 5060 Ti, 5060, AMD 9070 XT, 7600 XT, leaks

AMD is preparing to launch the RX 9060 XT next and it will be available in two variants, one with 16 GB VRAM and another with half of that at 8 GB. The company publicly defended the latter explaining how it felt there is still a huge market for it as many users do not actually need more than that.

We recently wrapped up our review of the AMD Radeon 9070 series with the RX 9070 scoring a 9 out of 10 for AI testing and 7.5 out of 10 in gaming. If you read our reviews you will see that the performance of the is decent for the price but it is definitely more efficient than its XT counterpart. Thus we already have a fairly good idea of how it performs.

With the RX 9060 XT launch scheduled for June 5 later this week, reviewers are starting to test the GPU. As such, one such review has accidentally leaked early and it has revealed the performance of the RX 9060 XT variant against the likes of AMD's own 9070 series, 7700 XT, 7600 XT, as well as Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti, 5060, and more.

On average at 1440p, the 9060 XT 16 GB model appears to be a bit slower than the 7700 XT as well as Nvidia's 5060 Ti 16GB. Interestingly though the Radeon GPU does seem to be offering better minimums so maybe we could see a smoother gaming experience overall despite a lower average.

AMD says that it is expecting better than 5060 Ti 8GB performance with the 9060 XT 16 GB. The former has an MSRP of $379 while the latter is priced $349.

Versus the $299 GeForce 5060 (8GB), the 9060 XT 16 GB is about 10% better but the minimums are a whopping 43% higher.

AMD's 9060 XT is also showing excellent performance in case of ray tracing (RT) as you can see in Cyberpunk 2077 above where it is giving comparable throughput as the 7800 XT and is miles better than its preceeding 7600 XT with 63% boost.

We see a similar situation in Black Myth: Wukong as well which is another RT heavy game. To understand how AMD achieved the ray tracing gains on RDNA 4, you can read our architecture overview article here.

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