Friday, February 28th 2025
AMD Teases Upcoming Launch of Radeon RX 9060 Series, Slated for Q2 2025
AMD's proper introduction of first wave RDNA 4 graphics cards has focused on Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 models; officially due for retail release next week (March 6). Lower-end options popped up—via naming scheme material—during CES 2025, albeit with little fanfare. According to the latest reports emerging from China's tech press, AMD teased an upcoming Radeon RX 9060 Series launch. TechPowerUp's well-maintained GPU database has listed a speculative Radeon RX 9060 XT 12 GB model since early January; a fresh update has revealed the "theorized" existence of a Team Red "Navi 48 LE" GPU.
As reported earlier today, AMD rolled out a "surprise" in-person Chinese RDNA 4 event—in contrast, Western audiences have just watched an official virtual presentation. According to ITHome and VideoCardz, a Team Red representative slipped in a brief mention of the forthcoming Radeon RX 9060 Series. This announcement was made right at the tail end of the company's presentation (in China); teasing a second quarter 2025 launch window. AMD did not go into great detail—ITHome divulged the company's key goals for forthcoming Radeon RX 9060 cards: "mid-range market, focusing on cost-effectiveness, and aiming to provide high-performance/low-power solutions for 1080p and 1440p gamers." Local insiders reckon that the lower-end of AMD's RDNA 4 lineup will be downgraded with fewer computing units and a pool of 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM. ITHome's sources believe that Radeon RX 9060 TBPs are expected to be somewhere "between 150 W and 200 W." Speculated MSRP info indicates a range of $349 to $449 (USD) pricing.
VideoCardz has extracted (and AI-translated) a short segment from the longer (source) Bilibili video upload:
Sources:
VideoCardz, VideoCardz Unlisted YouTube Video, ITHome, Bilibili Video
As reported earlier today, AMD rolled out a "surprise" in-person Chinese RDNA 4 event—in contrast, Western audiences have just watched an official virtual presentation. According to ITHome and VideoCardz, a Team Red representative slipped in a brief mention of the forthcoming Radeon RX 9060 Series. This announcement was made right at the tail end of the company's presentation (in China); teasing a second quarter 2025 launch window. AMD did not go into great detail—ITHome divulged the company's key goals for forthcoming Radeon RX 9060 cards: "mid-range market, focusing on cost-effectiveness, and aiming to provide high-performance/low-power solutions for 1080p and 1440p gamers." Local insiders reckon that the lower-end of AMD's RDNA 4 lineup will be downgraded with fewer computing units and a pool of 8 GB GDDR6 VRAM. ITHome's sources believe that Radeon RX 9060 TBPs are expected to be somewhere "between 150 W and 200 W." Speculated MSRP info indicates a range of $349 to $449 (USD) pricing.
26 Comments on AMD Teases Upcoming Launch of Radeon RX 9060 Series, Slated for Q2 2025
The encoder is needed specifically for broadcasting. The decoder is needed for efficient playback. What does that mean?
It's a two way street. My RX580 isn't AV1 decode capable but if I update LAV Filters, I can have AV1 playback just fine.
Now there's an experiment:
Don't mind me, just running YT-DLP and FFMPEG kit directly from the default admin user dir like a psycho...
Lets mux some kind of AV1 content. #234 m3u8 audio playlist roulette and #398 720p mp4 in AV1 rather than AVC/VP9.
Very cool. MPlayer Classic 1.7.8.162 has no playback issues.
CPU might struggle a bit though. Oh it's chuggin...A whole 3%. Had to wait a bit for this outrageous peak to appear.
It blips the GPU a bit too but is there any GPU hardware specific decode happening here? Nope, all 3D.
If I play this clip directly from YT I get something a little unusual:
YT is sending AV1 content in a 360p mp4 with the default opus audio package (396+251).
I'm able to see this because the browser supports it. So what happens when AV1 is livestreamed? I have no idea.
Will it make my RX580 chug? Probably not. Will my R5 3600 go full jet engine? It's possible in a transition period.
There may very well be a situation where it gets dumped to THE worst renderer and hammers the CPU this badly:
That's just pinning the speed up command but many CPUs struggled this bad on 1080p H.264 when 480p was the norm.
AV1 is the type of encode candidate to clean up ALL the major streaming quality issues and make 2K/4K streaming optional.
I'm not a 4K gamer and don't play anything at 4K. I can do that from an HMD, just not desktop. That future may be very soon™.This is another point that's too easy to overlook. I just got everything back by jumping ship for build 191206-1406.
Will another superfluous bullshit string of Windows updates take out everything on this desktop next TUE? Likely.
I don't ever want to be at a point where I have to decide between Win10 and Win11 for gaming vs streaming.
We already can't have nice things as gamers, developers or content creators without shutting off an obscene amount of updates.
Is it any wonder Valve took the prerogative of funneling gamers into the emergency exit solution marked LINUX?
The Steam Deck was the opening of the magical gate that made everyone notice. The 9070XT is a shiny new vehicle to get us there.
So what are the 9070 and 9060? Stripped down silicon? Are these missing encoders and mission critical technologies like the RX6400?
If it has all the goodies that have me looking at old enterprise junk nvidia cards and Intel A series, it will be a watershed moment.
This is AMDs chance to instantly knock the status quo on its ass and I am so here for it. This could be the ticket to BIG freedom.