A leak has given us an initial idea of how AMD’s RX 9060 XT will perform in a series of benchmarks. Obviously, these synthetic benchmarks (Geekbench) are no substitute for a good battery of game tests, but they already show a significant gain over the equivalent previous generation RDNA 3. We can see gains of up to 31%, which is a great promise for these new cards. For the record, the comparison between a 9060 XT and an RX 7600 XT is interesting because they both have the same number of computing units (CU). The performance gains of 25% and 31% for the RX 9060XT in Geekbench’s Vulkan and OpenCL tests are therefore very impressive.
With its RX 9060 XT, AMD could also put Nvidia to the sword
AMD claims that its RX 9060 XT 16GB model is 15% faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 8GB on average at 1440p. This puts AMD in a strong position, as AMD’s RX 9060 XT 16GB is expected to cost less than Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 8GB models. During its presentation, AMD claimed that its RX 9060 XT 16GB model is 15% faster than the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB on average at 1440p. This would enable AMD to repeat the success of its RX 9070s. In terms of sales, these two ranges could put AMD in a strong position, as the RX 9060 XT 16GB should cost less than Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 8GB models.
However, the ultimate test will be how these RX 9060s perform in video games. AMD previously announced that it had designed RDNA 4 to optimise its architecture for gaming. Instead of adding extra processing units to a GPU, RDNA 4 concentrates on optimising the performance of each available processing unit. This was demonstrated with the RX 9070 XT and its 64 compute units, which regularly outperformed the RX 79XX RDNA 3, which is supposed to be more high-end and have more compute units. If this logic is followed with the RX 9060 XT, it should outperform the RX 7600 XT in games and give the ‘big’ RTX 5060s a run for their money.
