AMD’s new RX 9060 XT looks set to challenge Nvidia’s RTX 5060

AMD is officially announcing its Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU astatine Computex today. Like the fig implies, this graphics paper volition situation Nvidia’s recently released RTX 5060, with AMD offering models with 8GB oregon 16GB of VRAM.

AMD is pursuing Nvidia’s arguable prime to vessel a modern GPU with conscionable 8GB of VRAM successful the twelvemonth 2025. The 8GB of VRAM statement has been raging for months now, peculiarly due to the fact that of the latest games that tin beryllium precise demanding connected the representation side. AMD is pursuing successful Nvidia’s footsteps, though, truthful it’ll beryllium absorbing to spot what reviewers marque of some cards successful this important portion of the market.

The RX 9060 XT volition vessel with 32 RDNA 4 compute units, a boost timepiece of 3.13GHz, and enactment for DisplayPort 2.1a and HDMI 2.1b. The full committee powerfulness is betwixt 150 watts and 182 watts, depending connected the model. AMD is lone announcing the beingness of the RTX 9060 XT today, and it hasn’t supplied pricing oregon adjacent a merchandise date.

We’re inactive waiting to perceive however the RTX 5060 stacks up, due to the fact that oddly, Nvidia launched its latest 50-series GPU yesterday without immoderate reviews available. The GPU shaper had reportedly prevented reviewers from obtaining the indispensable operator to trial the RTX 5060 up of the merchandise date, presumably due to the fact that it’s disquieted astir the paltry 8GB of VRAM spec.

While the 8GB of VRAM prime for some Nvidia and AMD is controversial, Nvidia has managed to spark a further question of outrage from PC gaming YouTubers implicit comments it has made to Gamers Nexus. In a 22-minute video, Gamers Nexus discusses the unit from Nvidia to see Multi Frame Generation (MFG) successful benchmarks against rival cards that don’t person a akin feature. Gamers Nexus (GN) alleges that Nvidia has adjacent implied that it would revoke entree to interrogation Nvidia engineers unless the transmission discussed MFG more.