Exposed before the gathered throngs at Computex 2025, the card plugs a glaring gap between the RX 9070 line and the chasm below it, giving AMD something to throw at Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti.

Built around fresh Navi 44 silicon, the 9060 XT lands just as Nvidia’s PCIe 4.0 interface shenanigans have started dragging frame rates down by 10 per cent. AMD seems to have learned its lesson. Unlike the RX 7600 XT with its gimped PCIe 4.0 x8 link, this card has a proper PCIe 5.0 x16 interface.

AMD isn't shipping any Made by AMD reference cards this time. Just like with the RX 9700 series, it’s leaving the heavy lifting to board partners who'll offer reference-clocked models that should hover around the MSRP.

Navi 44 is the real debutante. It is smaller than Navi 33 by around two per cent in die area but crams in 2.2 times more transistors thanks to the TSMC N4P process. That brings the density to 149.2 million transistors per mm², a massive leap from Navi 33’s 65.2 million. It is still monolithic and now packs 29.7 billion transistors into 199 mm².

The Radeon RX 9060 XT unlocks all 32 Compute Units from Navi 44, giving it 2,048 Stream Processors. That matches the RX 7600 XT in core count, but the RDNA 4 Compute Units and boost in clock speeds do the heavy lifting. It also comes with 32 third-generation ray tracing cores, allegedly twice the throughput of the previous gen, plus 64 second-gen AI accelerators offering up to 821 TOPS.

The boost clock hits 3,130 MHz, 14 per cent higher than the RX 7600 XT and even higher than the RX 9070 series. On paper, that translates to roughly 13 per cent more FP32 compute.

AMD's hand-picked gaming benchmarks claim the RX 9060 XT 16GB is up to six per cent faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 8GB across 40 games at 1440p Ultra. That comparison is a bit cheeky, as AMD conveniently omitted the 16GB version of the Ti. T the RX 9060 XT ships in  8GB and 16GB variants.

The 8GB version is priced at $299 (€276), which is nine per cent less than the RX 7600 XT. The 16GB model costs $349 (€322), just six per cent more than its predecessor and eight per cent cheaper than the $379 (€350) RTX 5060 Ti 8GB. AMD reckons that nets a 15 per cent advantage in gaming performance per dollar.

Power draw is fairly tame. The board consumes between 150W and 182W, needing only a single 8-pin PCIe power connector.

Display outputs have been upgraded. The RX 9060 XT supports DisplayPort 2.1a and HDMI 2.1b, though it drops one DisplayPort compared to the RX 9070 series.

FSR 4 launches alongside the RX 9000 range with support for 30 games at launch, expected to exceed 60 by the time the 9060 XT hits shelves on 5 June. AMD is also prepping FSR Redstone for later in the year, bringing new tricks like neural radiance caching, ML-based ray regeneration and frame generation.

Expect custom models from Acer, ASRock, Asus, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, Yeston and XFX to crowd shelves shortly after launch.