AMD has formally said that there’s an RX 9060 collection and that it will likely be arriving in Q2 of this yr. Meaning an AMD Radeon RX 9060 and probably an AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT will likely be obtainable by the top of June, with the playing cards even probably breaking cowl as early as April 2025.
With AMD‘s massively anticipated RX 9070 collection gaming GPUs happening sale later this week, and Nvidia additionally primed to unleash its RTX 5070 within the subsequent few days, the struggle for the most effective graphics card that doesn’t price over $1,000 is broad open. Nonetheless, whereas the RX 9070 XT, in addition to the RX 9070 may probably supply nice calue, they’re nonetheless going to price at the very least $549. As such, the RX 9060 collection is actually going to be the one to observe for avid gamers on a finances.
The official reveal of the RX 9060 identify and its launch date window was made throughout AMD’s RX 9000 collection reveal, proven within the video beneath. With the majority of the 32-minute video devoted to detailing the corporate’s new RDNA 4 structure for GPUs, revealing the RX 9070 and RX 9070 XT graphics card specs and costs, and teasing what FSR 4 has in retailer, the corporate snuck within the new RX 9060 info proper on the finish.
AMD company vice chairman and GM, David McAfee, proclaimed that “within the second quarter of this yr we’ll broaden the [GPU] household even additional with the RX 9060 merchandise, which we’ll inform you extra about later.”
Because the above quote suggests, AMD offered no additional particulars on what we are able to anticipate from the GPU(s), with no trace at pricing or specs. Nonetheless, different current rumors present extra particulars of what we may anticipate.
Common tech leaker and speculator, Moore’s Regulation Is Useless posted a brand new video lately (beneath), which suggests the RX 9060 XT might be “just a bit weaker than a 4070” if the clock velocity of the cardboard is pushed laborious. In any other case, the channel claims the brand new AMD GPU would sit between the RTX 4060 Ti and RX 7700 XT for efficiency, which might nonetheless be a strong improve over the corporate’s current-generation “60 collection” card, the RX 7600 XT.
Different hypothesis by tech rumor website Videocardz.com suggests there will likely be each an RX 9060 and RX 9060 XT, and that each will use a Navi 44 GPU with a 128-bit reminiscence interface related to 20Gbps VRAM.
As for pricing, given the naming conference AMD is now utilizing, we’d anticipate the RX 9060 vary to be a substitute for the RX 7600 collection, and people playing cards have MSRPs of $249 for the RX 7600 and $329 for the RX 7600 XT. As such, we might anticipate the RX 9060 collection to demand related costs, however it’s additionally doable that AMD may select to place the RX 9060 costs larger or decrease than these figures.
Regardless of the precise specs and worth of the brand new GPUs, we are able to anticipate them to assist the improved ray tracing efficiency of RDNA 4 together with the improved picture high quality of FSR 4. When mixed, this might make these new GPUs transformative for avid gamers on a finances.
Take a look at our RX 7600 overview, in addition to our RX 7600 XT overview, for extra of a way of what kind of efficiency AMD’s present finances GPUs supply. It’s also possible to observe us on Google Information for every day PC {hardware} information, critiques, and guides, or be part of our neighborhood Discord to remain within the know.
