With barely a week remaining until its release, Radeon RX 9060 XT has begun showing its worth in early synthetic benchmarks. In these tests, the new mid-ranger presents some exciting results, putting it comfortably ahead of its predecessor.
According to recent entries in the Geekbench database, Radeon RX 9060 XT managed to turn in 109,315 points in the OpenCL test and 124,251 in Vulkan. This puts it respectively 25% and 36% ahead of its predecessor, Radeon RX 7600 XT, in these same tests. Though these may not be representative of gaming performance, they show great potential that is likely to translate into a noticeable real-world boost.
Looking further up the stack, RX 9060 XT is unable to beat the Radeon RX 7700 XT, though it manages to get fairly close. Looking at the numbers in more detail, RX 9060 XT slots in roughly 14% behind RX 7700 XT in OpenCL, and 12% behind in Vulkan. The new RDNA 4 GPU may be able to close this gap further in ray-traced tasks, but only further testing can reveal whether this is the case.
| GPU | RX 9060 XT | RX 7600 XT |
| Process | TSMC N4P | TSMC N6 |
| Shader units | 2,048 | 2,048 |
| Boost clock | 3,130MHz | 2,755MHz |
| Memory speed | 20Gb/s | 18Gb/s |
| VRAM | 8GB / 16GB | 16GB |
| Memory bus | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Bandwidth | 320GB/s | 288GB/s |
| TBP | 160W | 190W |
| Launch date | June 5, 2025 | January 24, 2024 |
| MSRP | $299 (8GB) / $349 (16GB) | $329 |
These gains are inherently down to AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture, since the RX 9060 XT specs are eerily similar to its predecessor on paper. As a reminder, RX 9060 XT comes with a Navi 44 GPU featuring 2,048 shader units and 32 ray tracing accelerators. These are identical in in number to RX 7600 XT but not in quality, and also benefit from a slightly higher boost clock of 3,130MHz.
Same goes for the memory configuration, both GPUs are very close, with RX 9060 XT improving the memory speed from 18Gb/s to 20Gb/s, translating into an 11% increase in bandwidth since the memory bus remains at 128-bit. The most notable change here is the addition of an 8GB VRAM variant while RX 7600 XT always rocks a 16GB buffer.
Moving to pricing, RX 9060 XT will launch on June 5 at $299 for the 8GB model and $349 for the 16GB. AMD clearly aims to undercut Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 8GB and 16GB, which cost $379 and $429, respectively. That’s not forgetting providing a better value offering than RTX 5060 at $299. We won’t have to wait much longer to see which card will emerge victorious.
