INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
AMD didn't provide much by way of performance comparisons, but it's promising that the cards have the same number of compute units as AMD's
last-generation RX 7600 series
AMD says that RDNA 4 compute units are much faster than those used for RDNA 3, particularly in games with ray-tracing effects enabled
This helped make the Radeon RX 9070 cards generally as fast or faster than the RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT series, despite having around
two-thirds as many compute units
Sticking with 32 CUs for the 9060 series isn't exciting on paper, but we should still see a respectable generation-over-generation
The RX 7600 series, by contrast, provided a pretty modest performance improvement compared to 2022's Radeon RX 6650 XT.
Renders of
AMD's reference card for the 9060 XT series.
Renders of AMD's reference card for the 9060 XT series.
No surprises here: it's
a compact dual-fan design with a single 8-pin power connector
AMD
No surprises here: it's a compact dual-fan design with a single 8-pin power
AMD
Renders of AMD's reference card for the 9060 XT series.No surprises here: it's a compact
dual-fan design with a single 8-pin power connector
That's a shade higher than but generally comparable to the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti, and (depending on where actual performance ends up) quite a
bit more efficient than the RX 7600 series
This partly comes down to a more efficient 4nm TSMC manufacturing process, a substantial upgrade from the 6nm process used for the 7600
But this is in line with new settings we observed in our RX 9070 review; AMD officially supports a range of different user-selectable TBP
numbers in its Catalyst driver package, and some GPU makers were shipping cards that used higher TBPs by default.Higher power limits can
increase performance, though usually the performance increase is disproportionately small compared to the increase in power draw
These power limits should also generally mean that most 9060 XTs can be powered with a single 8-pin power connector, rather than using
multiple connectors or the 12-pin 12VHPWR/12V-2x6 connector.
