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Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB
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VRAM
16 GB
CUDA
2,048
FP32
25.64 TF
Bandwidth
322.3 GB/s
TDP
160W
Boost
3130 MHz
Strengths at a Glance
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
FP32 compute25.64 TFLOPS24%
vs RTX 5090 D: 104.8 TFLOPS
Memory bandwidth322.3 GB/s18%
vs RTX 5090 D: 1790 GB/s
VRAM capacity16 GB50%
vs RTX 5090 D: 32 GB
Shading units2,0489%
vs RTX 5090 D: 21,760
Power efficiency51/10088%
vs RTX 5090 D: 58/100
Synthetic Benchmarks
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
3DMark Time Spy17,280pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 36,000 pts
3DMark Port Royal (RT)7,380pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 18,000 pts
Blender (samples/min)2,236spm
vs RTX 5090 D: 5,200 spm
Geekbench Compute88,800pts
vs RTX 5090 D: 240,000 pts
Performance breakdown
Gaming48
Ray tracing41
AI / Compute37
Creator / 3D43
Power efficiency51
Real-World Gaming
FPS Across Resolutions
1080p · Ultra preset1440p · Ultra preset4K · Ultra preset
Cyberpunk 2077avg 42 fps
1080p
57
1440p
42
4K
26
Call of Duty: MW IIIavg 58 fps
1080p
79
1440p
59
4K
36
Alan Wake 2avg 34 fps
1080p
46
1440p
34
4K
21
Forza Horizon 5avg 61 fps
1080p
83
1440p
61
4K
38
Baldur's Gate 3avg 49 fps
1080p
67
1440p
50
4K
31
Average FPS across all PC games
1080p
149fps
1440p
67fps
4K
41fps
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($349) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
1080p
$2.05
1440p
$4.61
4K
$8.37
Community Feedback
What Owners Say
People love the frame rates at 1440p and that it stays cool under load. The main complaint is the fan noise ramps up more than they'd like.
Pros
- Plays modern games at high settings
- Handles ray tracing without stuttering
- Keeps cool on long gaming sessions
- Fits well in most PC builds
Cons
- Needs a lot of power for midrange
- Ray tracing performance is still lacking
- Driver issues at launch are common
Supported technologies
Ray TracingAV1 Encode
Full specifications
Graphics processor
Core configuration
- CUDA Cores
- 2,048
- RT Cores
- 32
- TMUs
- 128
- ROPs
- 64
- L2 cache
- 4 MB
Memory
- Size
- 16 GB
- Type
- GDDR6
- Bus width
- 128-bit
- Bandwidth
- 322.3 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 2518 MHz
Clocks & throughput
- Base clock
- 1700 MHz
- Boost clock
- 3130 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 25.64 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 25.64 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 200 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 400.6 GTexel/s
Board & power
- TDP
- 160W
- Suggested PSU
- 300W
- Power connectors
- 1x 8-pin
- Bus interface
- PCIe 5.0 x16
- Length
- 267 mm
- Slot width
- 2-slot
Display & outputs
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x HDMI 2.1b, 2x DisplayPort 2.1a
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 Ultimate (12_2)
- Shader Model
- 6.8
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 2.2
- Vulkan
- 1.3
Verdict
Our verdict on the RX 9060 XT 16 GB
A competent mid-range RDNA 4 card that finally gives you enough VRAM for modern textures without breaking the bank.
Get it if you want a solid 1440p card with enough VRAM for modern games and don't care about ray tracing. Skip it if you need top-tier ray tracing performance or plan to play at 4K.
Buy it if…
- Buy it if you play at high resolutions with loads of texture mods.
- Buy it if you want a future-proof card for heavy ray tracing games.
- Buy it if you edit large 4K video projects and need lots of VRAM.
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