Where to buy AMD's RX 9060 XT

[Admin]

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT is out in the wild. Here's where to buy AMD's latest graphics card release.

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[toaste]

Your headline prompts a different question:

Where to find benchmarks of AMD’s 9060 XT?

And why aren’t they up on TomsHardware?

 

[palladin9479]

9060XT reviews--both /16 and /8--are on YouTube, among other usual places. No surprises. There's a greater amount of proselytizing than usual, from YT reviewers pushing for more baseline VRAM. That, and more lambasting of Nvidia marketing for the 5060 "preview" stunt.

Yeah I looked and not a single one of them is doing 9060 XT 8GB vs 16GB. If there was any truth to their complaint there 100% would of been a comparison so they could rant on it and farm more outrage from viewers. It's the same as Jared found a few months ago, that situations where you need that extra memory, these entry level cards are already at terrible framerates. Bringing the resolution / graphics options to a point with comfortable framerates also drops the memory requirements down.

AMD is correct that 1080p / 1440p high or less (not medium), 8GB is fine. Of course turning on RT or going into 2160p territory you really want that extra memory, but these entry level GPU's just don't have the compute to do that anyway.

1080p "medium"

1080p "ultra", almost insignificant difference, very playable

1440p "ultra", ok memory starting to matter a little but not good on those 16GB varients

2160p "ultra", it's really mattering now, but also unplayable on the 16GB variants.

This is the pattern you will keep seeing. If someone wants to play on anything higher then 1440 high, they need to buy a higher tier card with 192 or 256-bit memory bus's, which already gives them 12-16GB of VRAM.

 

[Paul Alcorn]

Yes, Jarred has moved on to work in the industry. We wish him well! As such, there is a delay in our 9060 XT/5060 reviews as we re-establish the pipeline, but those reviews will be published soon. After that, the cadence and launch-day reviews will return to normal. Thanks for the patience.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Your headline prompts a different question:

Where to find benchmarks of AMD’s 9060 XT?

And why aren’t they up on TomsHardware?

Because Jarred left... but I'm still doing this one as a freelancer, and I was out of town last week. So, I'm nearly done with testing the 9060 XT and I will have the review ready (as a final hurrah!) for Monday. And we will have RTX 5060 numbers as well. Spoiler: running ultra settings hurts badly in about a third of the games I tested. Granted, those are newer / more demanding games. Serious RT (meaning, not F1 24 or Avatar, which do technically have DXR support but don't do much with it) is basically a no-show for modern games on an 8GB card.