Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB: specs and benchmarks
Aggregate performance score
Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 48.78% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.
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Summary
AMD started Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB sales 4 June 2025 at a recommended price of $349. This is a desktop graphics card based on a RDNA 4.0 architecture and made with 4 nm manufacturing process. It is primarily aimed at gamer market. 16 GB of GDDR6 memory clocked at 2.52 GHz are supplied, and together with 128 Bit memory interface this creates a bandwidth of 322.3 GB/s.
Compatibility-wise, this is a dual-slot graphics card attached via PCIe 5.0 x16 interface. Its manufacturer default version has a length of 267 mm. 1x 8-pin power connector is required, and power consumption is at 160 Watt.
Primary details
Some basic facts about Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.
| Place in the ranking | 70 | |
| Place by popularity | not in top-100 | |
| Cost-effectiveness evaluation | 71.38 | |
| Power efficiency | 23.21 | of 100.00 (Radeon 890M) |
| Architecture | RDNA 4.0 (2025) | |
| GPU code name | Navi 44 | |
| Market segment | Desktop | |
| Release date | 4 June 2025 (recently) | |
| Launch price (MSRP) | $349 | of 14,999 (Quadro Plex 7000) |
Cost-effectiveness evaluation
The higher the performance-to-price ratio, the better. We use the manufacturer's recommended prices for comparison.
Performance to price scatter graph
Detailed specifications
Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB's specs such as number of shaders, GPU base clock, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.
| Pipelines / CUDA cores | 2048 | of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| Core clock speed | 1700 MHz | of 2670 MHz (Arc B580) |
| Boost clock speed | 3130 MHz | of 3230 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT) |
| Number of transistors | 29,700 million | of 185,000 million (Radeon Instinct MI350X) |
| Manufacturing process technology | 4 nm | of 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop) |
| Power consumption (TDP) | 160 Watt | of 2400 Watt (Data Center GPU Max Subsystem) |
| Texture fill rate | 400.6 | of 2,554 (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Floating-point processing power | 25.64 TFLOPS | of 126 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
| ROPs | 64 | of 512 (Moore Threads MTT S4000) |
| TMUs | 128 | of 1280 (Data Center GPU Max NEXT) |
| Ray Tracing Cores | 32 | of 188 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell) |
Form factor & compatibility
This section provides details about the physical dimensions of Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB and its compatibility with other computer components. This information is useful when selecting a computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards, it includes details about the interface and bus (for motherboard compatibility) and additional power connectors (for power supply compatibility).
| Interface | PCIe 5.0 x16 | |
| Length | 267 mm | |
| Width | 2-slot | |
| Supplementary power connectors | 1x 8-pin |
VRAM capacity and type
Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Note that GPUs integrated into processors have no dedicated memory and use a shared part of system RAM instead.
| Memory type | GDDR6 | |
| Maximum RAM amount | 16 GB | of 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X) |
| Memory bus width | 128 Bit | of 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X) |
| Memory clock speed | 2518 MHz | of 16000 GB/s (GeForce RTX 4050 Mobile) |
| Memory bandwidth | 322.3 GB/s | of 5,171 GB/s (Radeon Instinct MI300X) |
| Resizable BAR | + |
Connectivity and outputs
Types and number of video connectors present on Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB. As a rule, this section is relevant only for desktop reference graphics cards, since for notebook ones the availability of certain video outputs depends on the laptop model, while non-reference desktop models can (though not necessarily will) bear a different set of video ports.
| Display Connectors | 1x HDMI 2.1b, 2x DisplayPort 2.1a | |
| HDMI | + |
API and SDK compatibility
APIs supported by Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB, sometimes including their particular versions.
| DirectX | 12 Ultimate (12_2) | |
| Shader Model | 6.8 | |
| OpenGL | 4.6 | |
| OpenCL | 2.2 | |
| Vulkan | 1.3 |
Benchmark performance
Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.
Combined synthetic benchmark score
This is our combined benchmark score.
Passmark
This is the most ubiquitous GPU benchmark. It gives the graphics card a thorough evaluation under various types of load, providing four separate benchmarks for Direct3D versions 9, 10, 11 and 12 (the last being done in 4K resolution if possible), and few more tests engaging DirectCompute capabilities.
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NVIDIA equivalent
According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB is GeForce RTX 5060, which is faster by 1% and higher by 2 positions in our ranking.
Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB:
Similar GPUs
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