Radeon 9060 XT: First Geekbench appearance shows significantly better performance than previous generation

AMD made the Radeon RX 9060 XT official on May 21, introducing an 8 GB and a 16 GB variant. Scheduled to launch on June 5, the first synthetic benchmarks for the 16 GB variant have surfaced and they show significantly better performance than the previous generation. The card competes with the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti which also comes in 8 GB and 16 GB VRAM models.

The data comes from Geekbench, a benchmarking website, and it shows the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB’s OpenCL and Vulkan scores. For the former, the GPU got a score of 109,315 and a 124,251 for the latter. It was tested on a Gigabyte X870E Aorus Master motherboard with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU. Considering the GPU is positioned as a successor to the Radeon RX 7600 XT 16 GB, it outperforms the older card by over 25%.

As for its Nvidia counterpart, the RTX 5060 Ti is much faster in the same tests netting 138,869 in OpenCL and 133,861 in Vulkan tests (via Videocardz). It should be noted that Geekbench synthetic benchmarks are hardly representative of actual gaming performance so the lower scores compared to the RTX 5060 Ti, and even the Radeon RX 7700 XT, do not show the full picture.

AMD claims the RX 9060 XT can outperform the RTX 5060 Ti by 6% on average at 1440p in 40 games. It also features GDDR6 memory rather than the GDDR7 found in the Green Team’s competitor. As for pricing, the Radeon RX 9060 XT is much cheaper than the RTX 5060 Ti as the 8 GB variant starts at $299 and the 16 GB variant costs $349.