All’s quiet on the Radeon front in terms of AMD’s official plans. However, recent changes made to AIDA64 reveal the company may be working on a new entry into its RX 9000 Series. More specifically, Team Red is looking to cutdown its RX 9060 XT and craft a rival for RTX 5050 in the form of RX 9060.
The latest stable release of AIDA64 Extreme, version 7.70.7500, has debuted support for the unreleased Radeon RX 9060 non-XT. The system information, diagnostics, and benchmarking suite should therefore be able to explicitly recognise the GPU’s full specs. This marks the first indication of such a Radeon model.
Details on RX 9060 specs are scarce but there are a number of educated guesses we can make. For instance, the card will likely use the same Navi 48 die that sibling model RX 9060 XT uses, albeit with cuts to cores and more. This is the same approach that AMD took with RX 9070 XT and 9070, which each share a Navi 44 GPU with some differences.
Some cuts remain unclear. It’s likely that AMD will shrink VRAM capacity down from the 16GB maximum to 8GB, to not cannibalise potential sales of RX 9060 XT 8GB despite this card’s weaker GPU. Such a buffer size would place the pixel pusher on equal footing with RTX 5050 but behind Arc B580.
With the above in mind, I wouldn’t expect RX 9060 to cost any more than $249. Every cent counts in the budget space and AMD cannot run the risk of pricing above Nvidia in this case if the brand hopes to secure market share. Any victory in that regard would be helpful, as RTX 5090 remains more popular than the entirety of RX 9000 Series.
The update also includes mentions of Zen 6 processors, adding preliminary support for desktop, server, and mobile variants. While this is an important milestone in measuring the development of the architecture, it’s clearly still a ways off. Still, the promise of up 240MB of L3 cache is so mouth-watering that you can’t help but ask AMD to hurry up.
We should learn more about RX 9060, if it does exist, in the near future. Gamescom seems like a safe bet if AMD plans to tie the card’s announcement to a trade show. After all, the brand launched RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT at the event in 2023.
