AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT now official - here's the release date, price, and specs

After months of leaks and rumors, the lid has finally been lifted on the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT release date, as the new gaming GPU has just been unveiled at Computex. AMD has also revealed the 9060 XT price and specs, and it looks like it's going to give the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 a really hard time.

After securing the Radeon RX 9070 XT review, and AMD has been similarly aggressive with the pricing of the 9060 XT.

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT release date

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT release date is Thursday, June 5, 2025. AMD's Jack Huynh confirmed the date during the AMD keynote at Computex 2025, where he stated that this date represents when the GPU will be available worldwide.

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT price

The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT price is $349 for the 16GB card and $299 for the 8GB card. This is extremely competitive, with the 8GB card's MSRP matching the RTX 5060 price, and the 16GB card significantly undercutting the price of the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB by $70. However, Radeon RX 9070-series GPUs are very hard to find at their MSRPs, even in places where stock is plentiful, so let's hope these 9060 XT prices hold up in the real world.

AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT specs

Here are the Radeon RX 9060 XT specifications:

As previously rumored, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT will indeed come in both 8GB and 16GB flavors, but the company is particularly emphasizing the latter. "The Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB variant makes a great upgrade for gamers looking to future-proof their systems," says AMD, without saying anything about the 8GB version other than it exists.

As I found in my Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti review, 16GB of VRAM is definitely the sweet spot in the sub-$500 graphics card market right now, with 8GB cards falling over in some of the latest demanding games, such as Indiana Jones and the Great Circle.

Meanwhile, the GPU itself features 32 compute units, each of which contains an RT core for ray tracing workloads, and AMD promises that this GPU also "doubles ray tracing throughput compared to the previous generation." Although AMD hasn't officially announced the number of stream processors in the GPU, you can work it out from the known structure of the RDNA 4 architecture, and 32 compute units gives you 2,048 stream processors – exactly half the number in the 9070 XT.

AMD has also confirmed that the new GPU will contain 64 AI cores, which can be used to play games with AMD's FSR 4 upscaling tech. FSR 4 is a significant upgrade over all previous versions of FSR, meaning AMD now finally has a decent rival for DLSS in of image quality. However, AMD is still behind Nvidia when it comes to frame gen, with the latest RTX 5000-series GPUs now able to use AI to generate up to three extra frames between each pair of genuinely rendered ones.

AMD is making a big deal about the AI performance of the new GPU, though, citing its performance at 821 TOPS, and also clarifying that it s FP8 datasets and structured sparsity, which it says makes "it ready for the next-generation of AI-assisted gameplay, creative tools, and generative experiences." Comparatively, Nvidia says the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti performance is 759 TOPS, but all these figures should be taken with a grain of salt until their tested independently.

Meanwhile, AMD has confirmed that the Radeon RX 9060 XT clock speed is 3.13GHz (boost), which is 160MHz higher than the 9070 XT's top boost clock. The company also says the Radeon RX 9060 XT power draw is 150-182W in of total graphics power, with that figure presumably fluctuating depending on whether the GPU is overclocked or not.

AMD has shown off some renders of a stock 9060 XT card that it says won't be for sale, with 9060 XT cards only being available from board partners. However, the render also shows off another key part of the spec, which is that the 9060 XT requires a single 8-pin power connector, at least when it's running at stock speeds.

Finally, one other part of the specs I'm pleased to see is the full 16x PCIe 5.0 interface. Although this is overkill for the power of this graphics card on a PCIe 5.0 motherboard, this means you can still get 16 lanes if you put this GPU in a PCIe 3.0 or PCIe 4.0 motherboard, ensuring you get as much bandwidth as possible. Some other GPUs, including the RTX 5060 Ti, drop down to an 8x PCIe 5.0 interface, so you only get eight lanes on older motherboards, which can affect performance.

While we eagerly await for this new AMD GPU to land in the lab, check out my how to install a GPU, which takes you through the whole graphics card upgrade process.

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