Thursday, May 29th 2025
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Graphics Card Geekbenched; Leaked Results Suggest 25-31% Faster Than RX 7600 XT
Just over a week ago, the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card became official; introduced as the fastest gaming GPU option for "under $350." It represents the second wave of AMD's RDNA 4 GPU generation, but definitive verdicts are not expected until a lifting of review embargoes—likely happening the day before retail release: June 4. Evaluation samples are very likely in the possession of media outlets and influencers; as evidenced by pre-launch benchmark results appearing within the Geekbench Browser database. A nondescript Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB model was put through OpenCL and Vulkan wringers, via "Geekbench 6.2.2 for Windows AVX2." Overall tallies are 109315 and 124251, respectively. The test rig consisted of Team Red's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, a Gigabyte X870E AORUS MASTER motherboard, and 32 GB of DDR5-8000 RAM.
Geekbench results are not the best indicators of gaming performance on modern PC platforms, but semi-useful data can be compared to figures generated by predecessors and current-gen siblings. Quick analysis points to the benchmarked Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB sample pulling ahead of its RDNA 3-based elder—the Radeon RX 7600 XT—by 25 to 31%. Stepping up against the Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB model, the plucky new candidate trails by 14% in OpenCL stakes and 12% in Vulkan. Naturally, a performance gulf exists between the Radeon RX 9070 16 GB (non-XT) card and its forthcoming smaller sibling—almost a +23% difference in OpenCL, and roughly +32% in Vulkan. Crucially, other Geekbench Browser entries suggest that NVIDIA's competing GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16/8 GB and RTX 5060 8 GB designs hold slight advantages in terms of OpenCL numbers. AMD's Navi 44 XT GPU-powered card nudges just beyond the RTX 5060's overall Vulkan result. A clearer picture of Radeon RX 9060 XT's standing will be painted next week; stay tuned for TechPowerUp's inevitable in-depth analyses of board partner specimens.
Sources:
Geekbench Browser Entry #1 (OpenCL), Geekbench Browser Entry #2 (Vulkan), VideoCardz, Tom's Hardware, Wccftech
Geekbench results are not the best indicators of gaming performance on modern PC platforms, but semi-useful data can be compared to figures generated by predecessors and current-gen siblings. Quick analysis points to the benchmarked Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB sample pulling ahead of its RDNA 3-based elder—the Radeon RX 7600 XT—by 25 to 31%. Stepping up against the Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB model, the plucky new candidate trails by 14% in OpenCL stakes and 12% in Vulkan. Naturally, a performance gulf exists between the Radeon RX 9070 16 GB (non-XT) card and its forthcoming smaller sibling—almost a +23% difference in OpenCL, and roughly +32% in Vulkan. Crucially, other Geekbench Browser entries suggest that NVIDIA's competing GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16/8 GB and RTX 5060 8 GB designs hold slight advantages in terms of OpenCL numbers. AMD's Navi 44 XT GPU-powered card nudges just beyond the RTX 5060's overall Vulkan result. A clearer picture of Radeon RX 9060 XT's standing will be painted next week; stay tuned for TechPowerUp's inevitable in-depth analyses of board partner specimens.
10 Comments on AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Graphics Card Geekbenched; Leaked Results Suggest 25-31% Faster Than RX 7600 XT
The 7600XT, 7600, and 6650XT were all just process evolutions of the ancient 6600XT
First they slapped some 17.5Gbps memory on it and called it a 6650XT
Then they took the 6650XT and ported it to TSMC N6 almost like-for-like (just updating the media engine for AV1 encoding), voila - the 7600.
Then they doubled the number of VRAM packages to make the 7600XT.
There were basically zero gains moving from RDNA2 to RDNA3, and so the performance delta between the 6600XT, 6650XT, 7600, and 7600XT is less than 5% in total. They all run at 2.6GHz and they all have an identical core config with architectures that perform so closely that they're practically indistinguishable.
Ergo, 2024's 7600XT was so damn close to 2021's 6600XT that AMD's entry-level cards have been a total snoozefest for almost half a decade now.
The 6650XT, 7600, nor 7600XT never came close to the performance of the 6700XT, and were steps backwards from the 6600XT in terms of performance/$ and performance/Watt. You only bought them because you couldn't find a discount 6600XT left in stock...6800XT:
133000 OpenCL
152000 Vulkan
3080(10GB)
173000 OpenCL
157000 Vulkan
I dont think 9060xt 16gb beat 6800xt and 5060ti 16gb.
Close to 7800xt , I want to be surprised.
Personally I want to buy an RX 9060 XT to try and installing SteamOS on a desktop PC. It would be my first real attempt to stick it to Windows on a desktop
9060 xt should be clearly faster to be viable at 349$ MSRP. The answer, i.e. @W1zzard's review, is less than a week away (I hope). :D