After months of leaks and rumors, the lid has finally been lifted on the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT specs, as the new gaming GPU has just been unveiled at Computex. Although the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT price and release date still haven’t been nailed down yet, AMD has given us a glimpse of the 9060 XT specs, suggesting that this new graphics card launch is imminent.
After securing the best graphics card title with its mid-range graphics cards, this new AMD GPU takes aim at the cheaper end of the graphics card market. AMD has already proved that its RDNA 4 architecture can be a formidable force in our Radeon RX 9070 XT review, but Nvidia is offering strong competition with the RTX 5060 Ti, so AMD will have to make sure it absolutely nails the price with this one too.
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT specs
Here are the Radeon RX 9060 XT specifications:
| Radeon RX 9060 XT specs | |
| GPU architecture | AMD RDNA 4 |
| Compute units | 32 |
| Stream processors | 2,048 |
| RT cores | 32 |
| AI cores | 64 |
| Interface | 16x PCIe 5.0 |
| Boost clock | 3.13GHz |
| VRAM | 8GB / 16GB |
| Total board power | 150-182W |
| Power connectors | 1 x 8-pin |
As previously rumored, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT will indeed come in both 8GB and 16GB flavors, but the company is particularly emphasizing the latter. “The Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB variant makes a great upgrade for gamers looking to future-proof their systems,” says AMD, without saying anything about the 8GB version other than it exists.
As I found in my Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti review, 16GB of VRAM is definitely the sweet spot in the sub-$500 graphics card market right now, with 8GB cards falling over in some of the latest demanding games, such as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.
Meanwhile, the GPU itself features 32 compute units, each of which contains an RT core for ray tracing workloads, and AMD promises that this GPU also “doubles ray tracing throughput compared to the previous generation.” Although AMD hasn’t officially announced the number of stream processors in the GPU, you can work it out from the known structure of the RDNA 4 architecture, and 32 compute units gives you 2,048 stream processors – exactly half the number in the 9070 XT.
AMD has also confirmed that the new GPU will contain 64 AI cores, which can be used to play games with AMD’s FSR 4 upscaling tech. FSR 4 is a significant upgrade over all previous versions of FSR, meaning AMD now finally has a decent rival for DLSS in terms of image quality. However, AMD is still behind Nvidia when it comes to frame gen, with the latest RTX 5000-series GPUs now able to use AI to generate up to three extra frames between each pair of genuinely rendered ones.
AMD is making a big deal about the AI performance of the new GPU, though, citing its performance at 821 TOPS, and also clarifying that it supports FP8 datasets and structured sparsity, which it says makes “it ready for the next-generation of AI-assisted gameplay, creative tools, and generative experiences.” Comparatively, Nvidia says the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti performance is 759 TOPS, but all these figures should be taken with a grain of salt until their tested independently.
Meanwhile, AMD has confirmed that the Radeon RX 9060 XT clock speed is 3.13GHz (boost), which is 160MHz higher than the 9070 XT’s top boost clock. The company also says the Radeon RX 9060 XT power draw is 150-182W in terms of total graphics power, with that figure presumably fluctuating depending on whether the GPU is overclocked or not.
AMD has shown off some renders of a stock 9060 XT card that it says won’t be for sale, with 9060 XT cards only being available from board partners. However, the render also shows off another key part of the spec, which is that the 9060 XT requires a single 8-pin power connector, at least when it’s running at stock speeds.
Finally, one other part of the specs I’m pleased to see is the full 16x PCIe 5.0 interface. Although this is overkill for the power of this graphics card on a PCIe 5.0 motherboard, this means you can still get 16 lanes if you put this GPU in a PCIe 3.0 or PCIe 4.0 motherboard, ensuring you get as much bandwidth as possible. Some other GPUs, including the RTX 5060 Ti, drop down to an 8x PCIe 5.0 interface, so you only get eight lanes on older motherboards, which can affect performance.
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT release date estimate
Our best estimate for the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT release date is June 2025, based on rumor and speculation, as AMD hasn’t made an official announcement. Radeon RX 9060 XT launch rumors suggest that the graphics cards will be available to buy in June, a few weeks after the official announcement in May 2025.
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT price estimate
Our best estimate for the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT price is $399 for the 16GB card and $329 for the 8GB card, as no official announcement has been made. Previous 9060 XT price rumors have put the prices at $519.99 and $449.99, respectively, but these prices would make the new GPU significantly more expensive than the RTX 5060 Ti, at least when it comes to MSRP. Given the highly competitive prices of the 9070 cards compared with the RTX 5070 series, it’s likely AMD will price the 9060 XT aggressively, but this is all speculation right now.
While we eagerly await more details about this new budget AMD gaming GPU, check out my AMD Radeon RX 9070 review to see how the company’s latest GPU architecture copes with the latest games. You can also read my full guide on how to install a GPU, which takes you through the whole graphics card upgrade process.
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