• A brand new leak claims to element the specs and pricing of AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU
• The worth could possibly be as little as $269 within the US for the 8GB mannequin
• Efficiency is claimed to sit down between the Nvidia RTX 4060 Ti and AMD Radeon RX 7700 XT

We’d lastly have a correct concept of what AMD’s long-awaited Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU goes to be able to – and it is trying prefer it could possibly be worthy of induction into the very best graphics card corridor of fame.

Due to leaked data shared by Moore’s Regulation Is Useless (MLID) on YouTube, we now know that the RX 9060 XT could possibly be delivery with 32 compute items, a 128-bit reminiscence bus with each 8GB and 16GB VRAM fashions out there, and a TDP between 150W and 200W.

Now, that is not an entire lot to go off at this level, however MLID’s leak additionally notes that efficiency is ‘above RTX 4060 Ti, however possible under RX 7700 XT’. Okay, so that does not sound that spectacular, however this is the factor: the leak additionally contains pricing particulars, and it is trying very enticing on that entrance.

The 8GB mannequin will reportedly price between $269 and $299, whereas the 16GB model is claimed to be priced at $329-379. It is unclear whether or not these are potential worth ranges AMD itself remains to be considering, or projected worth ranges for AIB accomplice playing cards. For reference, the RTX 4060 Ti – which it supposedly outperforms – initially retailed at $399, and that was nearly two full years’ value of GPU worth inflation in the past.

Battle of the budgets

Even when AMD hits us with the excessive finish of those worth estimates, it will be a significantly competitively priced desktop GPU. Though Nvidia has been dominating the high-performance finish of the market with its RTX 5000 playing cards, there is not any denying that AMD’s greatest rival has been fumbling its price range sport these days, leaving Intel (is not that bizarre) as the most effective choices within the reasonably priced PC gaming house because of its glorious Arc B580 card.

If Workforce Crimson can ship RXT 4060 Ti-beating efficiency at a $269 worth level, properly, it is sport set and match for the price range GPU market – no less than, in the interim. It is value noting, although, that MLID’s supply does say ‘authentic plan as of a month in the past’ concerning these projected costs, possible in reference to the current tech pricing carnage attributable to Donald Trump’s tariff struggle. So… watch this house, I assume.

One other attention-grabbing level raised by the leaker was that the RX 9060 XT may lack {hardware} encoders – it is doable that to maintain the worth down, AMD has opted to incorporate solely the free-to-implement AV1 video encoder, not the (arguably higher) H.264 and H.265 encode capabilities, since these require a licencing charge.

The leaker claims there are not any plans for a ‘non-XT’ RX 9060 card, which tracks given the 2 totally different VRAM variations and the urged $269 base worth. Moreover, AMD is perhaps contemplating a Radeon RX 9050 XT, presumably priced someplace within the $200-250 vary.

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