discussion RX 9060 (non-XT) - launched / announced

[Bond007]

No idea when there will be availability, but it looks like AMD has posted a product page for the 9060 (no extra letters). No real surprises here, with a slightly cut down chip based on the 9060XT (28 of 32 CU), slightly slower vram (18 vs 20Gbps), the same 8GB vram capacity as the lower end 9060 XT. TPU for some reason calls that a “significant downgrade”, but I think that seems perfectly reasonable for a lower sku…not sure why they would expect a smaller cut than that.

https://www.amd.com/en/products/graphics/desktops/radeon/9000-series/amd-radeon-rx-9060.html

AMD Officially Launches Radeon RX 9060 non-XT GPU

Yesterday, we covered a leak that seemingly revealed the final specifications of AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9060 non-XT GPU SKU, indicating that it appears to be a unit very similar to its XT sibling. However, AMD has officially posted a product page with detailed specifications, providing us with...

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Additionally, it looks like a board power of 132w (down from a minimum of 150w on the XT), and limited OCing headroom.

AMD Limits Overclocking Headroom of Radeon RX 9060

AMD today launched the Radeon RX 9060 graphics card to improve its standing against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 series, particularly the RTX 5060 8 GB, which the RX 9060 XT convincingly beats. While the RX 9060 XT 8 GB is price-matched with the RTX 5060, it's an uphill battle for AMD, against...

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[gingerbee]

8 GB of VRAM is a mistake, IMHO, unless these cards have other uses, such as AI.

 

[moocow]

8 GB of VRAM is a mistake, IMHO, unless these cards have other uses, such as AI.

There's no use for them in AI, there's not enough RAM to run anything. You run out of VRAM or end up spending a lot of time swapping stuff between VRAM and system RAM which slows down a lot. Right now, RTX 3090 is the recommended budget AI inference card (run local chat and AI image generation). Like one commenter in Videocardz article, should of just kill 9060XT 8GB and just sell this instead.

 

[Bond007]

AMD Radeon RX 9060 non-XT Smokes GeForce RTX 5050

Korean tech publication Technosaurus got access to a Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 8 GB Pulse graphics card, and wasted no time in testing it against segment rivals. The card is priced about halfway between the GeForce RTX 5050 and the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB. When generally available, AMD would look...

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Seems like SI and OEM only for now. One has been tested and it looks like pricing roughly between the 5050 and 5060, with performance pretty close to par with the latter. SI/OEM only ruins it for the DIY market though.