Following AMD’s press conference at Computex 2025, board partners are finally free to reveal more about their plans for Radeon RX 9060 XT. No GPU launch would be complete without Sapphire, and the brand is making several changes to its coolers from its recent designs.
Like Radeon RX 9070 XT and Radeon RX 9070, you’ll be able to pick up 9060 XT with Pulse, Pure, and Nitro+ stylings. While the company stopped shy of sharing pricing for the cards, there are some particulars worth talking about in the interim.
Let’s start with Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9060 XT. This is the company’s most affordable SKU, forgoing creature comforts like RGB while retaining rock solid build quality in service of a lower price point. OC models will push boost and game clocks up to 3,290MHz (+160MHz) and 2,790MHz (+260MHz) respectively.
This is the only model that will cover both Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB and 16GB, while its siblings will only be available in the higher memory count. While this makes it a maverick of sorts relative to other board partners, it makes sense to me that more premium coolers should rock the higher buffer capacity.
Sitting in the middle of the Sapphire stack is Pure Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB. The biggest change from the brand’s RX 9070 Series designs in this case is the shift from a triple fan setup to dual fan. OC models will push boost and game clocks up to 3,290MHz (+160MHz) and 2,700MHz (+170MHz) respectively.
Given that Radeon RX 9060 XT pulls considerably less power than even Radeon RX 9070 (160W vs. 220W), two fans should be more than enough to keep the GPU running cool.
Sapphire Nitro+ Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB sits at the head of the family. As the flagship model, it naturally pushes frequencies up the most relative to its siblings with boost and game clock rising to 3,320MHz (+190MHz) and 2,780MHz (+250MHz), respectively.
While it looks almost identical to the brand’s RX 9070 Series designs, it’s actually undergone a major change. In place of the 12V-2×6 power connector, Sapphire instead adopts a single eight-pin power connector on the side of the shroud.
This adjustment naturally eliminates the need for the magnetic backplate as seen on Radeon RX 9070 Series models. However, it still retains the same slick look.
I’m looking forward to seeing Sapphire’s Radeon RX 9060 XT designs in action, once the graphics card launches on June 5. Fingers crossed that availability remains strong and pricing closely follows AMD’s SEP of $299 (8GB) and $349 (16GB).
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