Radeon RX 9060 XT: New release timelines revealed for Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti challenger

The Radeon RX 9070 series is nearing its two-month anniversary, having debuted at the start of last month. According to new reports, AMD is still expected to announce a cheaper alternative to the Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT, potentially just as Nvidia gets the GeForce RTX 5060 out the door.

As has been widely speculated, the next desktop graphics card in AMD's locker is a direct successor to the ageing Radeon RX 7600 XT (curr. $419.99 on Amazon). This time, BenchLife claims to have learned the Radeon RX 9060 XT remains on track for a May 21 launch to coincide with Computex 2025 in Taipei. With that being said, sales of AMD's next upper-midrange graphics card may not follow until early June.

Based on past rumours, AMD will position the Radeon RX 9060 XT as a competitor to the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti rather than the GeForce RTX 5060. To that end, AMD is expected to offer the card with a choice of 8 GB or 16 GB of VRAM starting at $299. There have been suggestions that AMD could cancel the former at the last moment though, which would see the Radeon RX 9060 XT starting at between $329 and $379.

Regardless, both variants are anticipated to leverage GDDR6 VRAM rather than its faster GDDR7 equivalent. Moreover, all Radeon RX 9060 XT options should ship with a 128-bit memory interface and PCIe 5.0 x8 bandwidth rather than PCIe 5.0 x16. As it stands, AMD is rumoured to have equipped the card with 2,048 Compute Units (CUs) too for a 42% reduction on the existing Radeon RX 9070.