For the first time in a long while, there’s now a genuinely awesome sub-£300 gaming GPU, thanks to this Amazon Black Friday GPU offer. If you act quick, you can currently grab yourself a Sapphire AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB GPU for £299. That’s this card’s lowest ever price, and a great deal for the 16GB version.
Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
£299
“AMD has another winner on its hands. Summarily, this is the best graphics card in its price class.” Read our review.
As we established in our Radeon RX 9060 XT review, this RDNA 4 GPU has some fantastic gaming performance in the bank, but it also needs enough VRAM to breathe. As an example, if you run Forza Motorsport at 1080p on an 8GB card, it will be unplayable (the 8GB Radeon RX 7600 only averages 24fps in this test), whereas the 16GB 9060 XT can handle it smoothly at 67fps.
In fact, in several of our benchmarks, the 16GB 9060 XT isn’t far off the performance of the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, a card that costs £399, and sometimes, as in Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Extraction, it even beats the Nvidia GPU. Needless to say, the 9060 XT 16GB is also a big step up from the similarly-priced RTX 5060, which has a comparably underpowered GPU and just 8GB of VRAM.
Importantly, this affordable GPU offers great performance across the board at 1080p, and it can handle a fair few games at 1440p as well. The 9060 XT also fully supports AMD’s latest FSR 4 upscaling tech, which is based on machine learning, and offers a significant improvement in image quality over FSR 3 in games that support it.
Nvidia GPUs still have the upper hand here, with their superior frame gen tech and wide game support for DLSS, but the 9060 XT is still a fantastic GPU in terms of rendering performance for your money. Unlike AMD’s previous-gen GPUs, it also handles ray tracing really well, as long as you don’t expect it to do path tracing.
Basically, if you’re looking for an affordable GPU upgrade that can play the latest games at decent settings, this 16GB 9060 XT is absolutely the card to buy at this price. You’ll need to be quick, though. It’s a Black Friday deal that won’t last forever, and it looks very much as though GPU prices will go up in the very near future, as the memory drought impacts supply.
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