AMD Teases Upcoming Launch of Radeon RX 9060 Series, Slated for Q2 2025

[T0@st]

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.




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[TechBuyingHavoc]

8 GB VRAM at a price of $350? WTF is Lisa Su thinking, you can buy a 12 GB VRAM GPU for $350 right now.

Good old AMD, always snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

 

[Gatt]

Playing 1440p at high settings with 8MB? Good luck

 

[Nostras]

7900GRE like performance for 400$ is quite attractive.
If the 9070XT is as performant as AMD states.

But AMD can't really release a new 9000 series card with 8GB for more than 270$ considering that's where the 7600 slots.

 

[Dragokar]

I guess we see both 8 and 16 and maybe some fancy cutdown 12s.

 

[LabRat 891]

Reminds me...
I was really hoping AMD'd stick w/ a RX 9500, 9600, 9700, 9800 branding. -I'd have paid $$$ just to have a 9800 XT or 9600 XT in my PC, again.

Oh god the "VRAM uber alles" babies on this forum are going to be bawling their eyes out. I wonder what new copium they'll come up with now that one of AMD's "advantages" over NVIDIA is no longer present.

To be fair, the 'complaints' surrounding the low VRAM amounts isn't even just from gamers. AI @ home, is becoming an entire market on its own.
-Which, I believe is the primary driver for only the 5090 offering 32GB and most cards being only 16GB, this gen

 

[hsew]

9060 with 12GB and 9050 with 8GB sounds reasonable. Let's see what AMD does.

 

[john_]

8 GB VRAM at a price of $350? WTF is Lisa Su thinking, you can buy a 12 GB VRAM GPU for $350 right now.

Good old AMD, always snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

You seem to missed the positives about the 9070 announcement, but you where quick to comment something negative about a rumor. Strange?

5060s will also come with 8GB of VRAM by the way.... (and maybe FAKE MSRPs)

 

[Random_User]

8 GB VRAM at a price of $350? WTF is Lisa Su thinking, you can buy a 12 GB VRAM GPU for $350 right now.

Good old AMD, always snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

Lets see what it will be. There seems to be no rumours about stock availability of 9060/XT. By the time they would be released, AMD might "test the waters" with how much the public (the most crucial, medium-end market segment) will accept 8GB. But I doubt, the 9060 would have any benefit of more VRAM, unless it will be proven to have 12GB+ and 192+ bit bus. But this might end up 128 bit 8 lanes all over again.

And yes, the $350, even $300 for the severely cut down SKU/silicon, even considering the heavy inflation, is quite ridiculous. It shouldn't be any higher than $250 for 9060, which probably is less than half of 9070 performance.

 

[john_]

10GB and 12GB becoming the standard, means Intel NEEDS to succeed, because they are the first who offered these VRAM capacities on good enough GPUs with good enough (?) drivers at excellent prices.
Unfortunately they seem to gotten all the positive reviews but not having the sales they should have, or enough supply to cover demand. AMD seeing Intel failing, means they can keep offering 8GB models and Nvidia will probably do the same, to sub $300 or maybe sub $350 market. I am expecting AMD to increase pricing. While 9070s are great and MSRPs are good for the performance, there is a huge gap under the $550 price. We could see 9060 coming even at $330, the MSRP of RX 6600(but in a period of crypto mining) and 9060 XT with 16GBs at $400. AMD can leave the sub $300 market to RX 7600 and Intel.

 

[ymdhis]

$350 for a 9060 sounds way too much, it seems the 9050 will by in the $250 class, and that one will likely be gimped again with crap like no hardware decoding or performance on par with the Polaris chips. Oh well.

 

[yfn_ratchet]

I'm not sure AMD wants to miss the bus on VRAM-for-cheap when it's in high demand regardless of the GPU's actual power. If Navi 48 LE actually exists and is going to slot in for the 9060 XT, then there's probably going to be a split in the hairs for the speculative '9060' model—the standard 9060 8GB and a 16GB SKU under a working title. Assuming the snort supply is consistent for AMD's marketing team, I'd put $20 on it being called the 9060 AI.

 

[TumbleGeorge]

TechPowerUp's well-maintained GPU database has listed

Not listed RX 8060S yet, RX 9070 XT didn't presented all models, in videocardz has 28 models, here has 22 which yesterday was only 10. I hope TPU GPU database really to be updated quickly!

 

[EatingDirt]

$350 for a 9060 sounds way too much, it seems the 9050 will by in the $250 class, and that one will likely be gimped again with crap like no hardware decoding or performance on par with the Polaris chips. Oh well.

Inflation, AI(limited manufacturing availability) and the threat of tariffs has effectively killed off sub-$300 cards. For context, the RX580 came out in 2017 for $230, that $230 in 2017 is $295 in 2025. Internet cafe's in small countries have what they need and casual playerrs can buy an APU or used GPU. Practically all CPU's have a GPU unit inside them for basic functionality.

Nvidia doesn't make anything lower than the 4060 at ~$300, and they haven't come out with a 5060 yet.

I think we've witnessed the effective death of the sub-$300 GPU.

 

[john_]

$350 for a 9060 sounds way too much, it seems the 9050 will by in the $250 class, and that one will likely be gimped again with crap like no hardware decoding or performance on par with the Polaris chips. Oh well.

6500XT was a mobile chip sold in combination with AMD APUs that had hardware decoding, so putting hardware decoding on 6500XT chips was looking like pointless. In the end it was a mistake from AMD's part, because they used those chips for desktop also. I don't think they intended to use those chips in desktop. Only 4 PCIe lanes and no hardware decoding?
But when 6500XT came out no one could buy a GPU at a reasonable price. Even second hand cards had gone 2-3 up, even APUs had seen their prices skyrocket. That 6500XT being bad for mining, was a life saver for people asking for a new GPU at a somewhat reasonable price. People keep forgetting when that card came out and for what that chip was designed in the first place. Everyone remembers the RX 6500XT because the tech press make it sure that no one will forget that card.

Then, a few months later Nvidia released the absolute disgrace that was the GTX 1630, much worst performance than RX 6500XT and EVERYONE gone silent. No, let's not talk bad about Nvidia. We only attack AMD.

So everyone today remembers 6500XT, but no one remembers GTX 1630.

 

[T0@st]

Not listed RX 8060S yet...

Maybe waiting on detailed photos of the "Strix Halo" APU.
Otherwise, I'd say TPU staff are dealing with a large volume of new products...so there will be gaps.

 

[_roman_]

8 GB VRAM at a price of $350? WTF is Lisa Su thinking, you can buy a 12 GB VRAM GPU for $350 right now.

Such prices for new graphic cards keeps the prices for used cards higher.

the 6600Xt with 8GiB VRAM was already problematic when it was new in WHQD. Control, the hunter call of the wild showed that card it's limit in WHQD.

--

People bought and had it problems selling the 6500XT.

Vote with your money, go buy NVIDIA graphic cards and intel cpus. When we have only one CPU maker and only one GPU makers we will get lower prices. There will be less software issues as everyone will be using the same platform. Everyone wins. Serious, who needs a second choice for central processing units or graphic cards?
(It does not matter as hardly anyone will buy an amd or even worse an intel graphic card)

 

[JohH]

They should do a 75W 8GB N44 chop for low profile cards. They won't but they should.

 

[LabRat 891]

6500XT was a mobile chip sold in combination with AMD APUs that had hardware decoding, so putting hardware decoding on 6500XT chips was looking like pointless. In the end it was a mistake from AMD's part, because they used those chips for desktop also. I don't think they intended to use those chips in desktop. Only 4 PCIe lanes and no hardware decoding?
But when 6500XT came out no one could buy a GPU at a reasonable price. Even second hand cards had gone 2-3 up, even APUs had seen their prices skyrocket. That 6500XT being bad for mining, was a life saver for people asking for a new GPU at a somewhat reasonable price. People keep forgetting when that card came out and for what that chip was designed in the first place. Everyone remembers the RX 6500XT because the tech press make it sure that no one will forget that card.

Then, a few months later Nvidia released the absolute disgrace that was the GTX 1630, much worst performance than RX 6500XT and EVERYONE gone silent. No, let's not talk bad about Nvidia. We only attack AMD.

So everyone today remembers 6500XT, but no one remembers GTX 1630.
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Also, we've all forgotten that the 6500XT, performs like an R9 Nano.
-in the same form factor as an R9 Nano, for a fraction of the power as an R9 Nano.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-R9-Nano-Benchmarks-and-Specs.170037.0.html (Note how the R9 Nano is right-near a Navi 24 in every chart)
We got ~3 generation-back high-end performance, in a tiny low power package; and many thought it was one of the worst products AMD has ever launched.


The one thing about Navi 24 that I feel like was 'a massively missed opportunity' was a half-height low-profile card w/ a M.2 Dongle/Adapter included. (Primarily, for those that actually used those Gen4x16-x4x4x4x4 bifurcation cards in their x16 CPU-connected slot.)
Gen4x4 GPU. Gen4x4 M.2 M-key. It was a perfect match.

 

[AusWolf]

What do you mean in China? The comment was in the main presentation (youtube feed) linked on the main AMD website.

6500XT was a mobile chip sold in combination with AMD APUs that had hardware decoding, so putting hardware decoding on 6500XT chips was looking like pointless. In the end it was a mistake from AMD's part, because they used those chips for desktop also. I don't think they intended to use those chips in desktop. Only 4 PCIe lanes and no hardware decoding?
But when 6500XT came out no one could buy a GPU at a reasonable price. Even second hand cards had gone 2-3 up, even APUs had seen their prices skyrocket. That 6500XT being bad for mining, was a life saver for people asking for a new GPU at a somewhat reasonable price. People keep forgetting when that card came out and for what that chip was designed in the first place. Everyone remembers the RX 6500XT because the tech press make it sure that no one will forget that card.

Then, a few months later Nvidia released the absolute disgrace that was the GTX 1630, much worst performance than RX 6500XT and EVERYONE gone silent. No, let's not talk bad about Nvidia. We only attack AMD.

So everyone today remembers 6500XT, but no one remembers GTX 1630.
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Let's also not forget that the 6400 and 6500 XT do have hardware decode for video playback, just no hardware encode for recording.

 

[john_]

Let's also not forget that the 6400 and 6500 XT do have hardware decode for video playback, just no hardware encode for recording.

Oh, then I misunderstood and it was in fact a no (serious) problem. With all that rage from the press, I probably thought than ALL media capabilities where cut off, both encoding and decoding. If only encoding was removed, then the percentage of users affected was limited. Especially those choosing an RX 6400/6500XT to use on an Intel system, they probably would use Intel's QuickSync anyway.

 

[AusWolf]

Oh, then I misunderstood and it was in fact a no (serious) problem. With all that rage from the press, I probably thought than ALL media capabilities where cut off, both encoding and decoding. If only encoding was removed, then the percentage of users affected was limited. Especially those choosing an RX 6400/6500XT to use on an Intel system, they probably would use Intel's QuickSync anyway.

This is from AMD's website:

A lot of people (media included) got that wrong. I actually bought a 6500 XT to verify.
I don't know what the big fuss about the missing encoder was. It's not like everybody wanted a 6500 XT just to stream games on Twitch.

 

[Rover4444]

Q2 2025, huh? See you guys in May!

 

[LabRat 891]

This is from AMD's website:
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A lot of people (media included) got that wrong. I actually bought a 6500 XT to verify.
I don't know what the big fuss about the missing encoder was. It's not like everybody wanted a 6500 XT just to stream games on Twitch.

As a fellow RX 6500 XT owner, there is one 'legit' thing Navi 24 falters in that 'a gamer' might need: Steam Streaming.
The 6500 XT, even just as a 'receiver', it was notably worse than the Vega in my 4600G.

Speaking of which, anyone w/ an Intel or an an AMD APU already had a capable hardware encoder/decoder. Those on the latest consumer builds of 10, and any build of 11, would have no issue assigning things to their integrated GPU.

 

[medi01]

you can buy a 12 GB VRAM GPU for $350 right now.

You can also buy 12GB VRAM GPU for a lot more. Right now.

And even more:

So, you were saying?