Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB: specs and benchmarks

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Aggregate performance score

Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB provides good gaming and benchmark performance at 50.59% of a leader's which is GeForce RTX 5090 D.

Summary

AMD started Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB sales 2 January 2025. This is a high-end RDNA 4 architecture desktop card based on 4 nm manufacturing process and primarily aimed at gamers.

Primary details

Some basic facts about Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB: architecture, market segment, release date etc.

Place in the ranking63
Place by popularitynot in top-100
ArchitectureRDNA 4 (2025)
Market segmentDesktop
Release date2 January 2025 (less than a year ago)

Detailed specifications

Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB'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 16GB's performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider its benchmark and gaming test results.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2048of 24064 (RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell)
Boost clock speed2530 MHzof 3230 MHz (Radeon RX 9060 XT)
Manufacturing process technology4 nmof 3 nm (GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop)

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of memory installed on Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB: 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 typeGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount16 GBof 288 GB (Radeon Instinct MI325X)
Memory bus width128 Bitof 8192 Bit (Radeon Instinct MI250X)
Shared memory-
Resizable BAR+

Benchmark performance

Synthetic benchmark performance of Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB. The combined score is measured on a 0-100 point scale.


Combined synthetic benchmark score

This is our combined benchmark score.

RX 9060 XT 16GB 50.59

3DMark Fire Strike Graphics

Fire Strike is a DirectX 11 benchmark for gaming PCs. It features two separate tests displaying a fight between a humanoid and a fiery creature made of lava. Using 1920x1080 resolution, Fire Strike shows off some realistic graphics and is quite taxing on hardware.

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Gaming performance

Let's see how good Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in frames per second. Comparisons with game system requirements are included, but remember that sometimes official requirements may reflect reality inaccurately.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular modern games across different resolutions:

Full HD139
1440p65
4K43

FPS performance in popular games

Full HD
Low Preset

Counter-Strike 2 260−270
Cyberpunk 2077 120−130
Resident Evil 4 Remake 150−160

Full HD
Medium Preset

Battlefield 5 150−160
Counter-Strike 2 260−270
Cyberpunk 2077 120−130
Far Cry 5 160−170
Fortnite 220−230
Forza Horizon 4 190−200
Forza Horizon 5 150−160
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
Valorant 280−290

Full HD
High Preset

Battlefield 5 150−160
Counter-Strike 2 260−270
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 270−280
Cyberpunk 2077 120−130
Far Cry 5 160−170
Fortnite 220−230
Forza Horizon 4 190−200
Forza Horizon 5 150−160
Grand Theft Auto V 150−160
Metro Exodus 120−130
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 260
Valorant 280−290

Full HD
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 150−160
Cyberpunk 2077 120−130
Far Cry 5 160−170
Forza Horizon 4 190−200
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 170−180
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 133

Full HD
Epic Preset

Fortnite 220−230

1440p
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 140−150
Counter-Strike: Global Offensive 350−400
Grand Theft Auto V 110−120
Metro Exodus 80−85
Valorant 300−350

1440p
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 120−130
Cyberpunk 2077 65−70
Far Cry 5 120−130
Forza Horizon 4 160−170
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 98

1440p
Epic Preset

Fortnite 140−150

4K
High Preset

Counter-Strike 2 65−70
Grand Theft Auto V 120−130
Metro Exodus 50−55
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt 85
Valorant 300−310

4K
Ultra Preset

Battlefield 5 85−90
Cyberpunk 2077 30−35
Far Cry 5 75−80
Forza Horizon 4 110−120
PLAYERUNKNOWN'S BATTLEGROUNDS 85−90

4K
Epic Preset

Fortnite 75−80

Closest competitors

Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB's performance relative to its closest rivals among desktop graphics cards.


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NVIDIA equivalent

According to our data, the closest NVIDIA alternative to Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which is faster by 1% and higher by 1 position in our ranking.

Here are some closest NVIDIA rivals to Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB:

Similar GPUs

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Recommended processors

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