AMD did not present a lot by the use of efficiency comparisons, but it surely’s promising that the playing cards have the identical variety of compute models as AMD’s last-generation RX 7600 sequence. AMD says that RDNA 4 compute models are a lot quicker than these used for RDNA 3, significantly in video games with ray-tracing results enabled. This helped make the Radeon RX 9070 playing cards usually as quick or quicker than the RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT sequence, regardless of having round two-thirds as many compute models. Sticking with 32 CUs for the 9060 sequence is not thrilling on paper, however we must always nonetheless see a decent generation-over-generation efficiency bump. The RX 7600 sequence, against this, offered a pretty modest performance improvement in comparison with 2022’s Radeon RX 6650 XT.
Renders of AMD’s reference card for the 9060 XT sequence.
Renders of AMD’s reference card for the 9060 XT sequence.
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No surprises right here: it is a compact dual-fan design with a single 8-pin energy connector.
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Renders of AMD’s reference card for the 9060 XT sequence.
No surprises right here: it is a compact dual-fan design with a single 8-pin energy connector.
AMD
AMD says that the playing cards’ complete board energy—the quantity of energy all the graphics card, together with the GPU itself, RAM, and different parts—begins at 150 W for the 8GB card and 160 W for the 16GB card, with a most TBP of 182 W. That is a shade increased than however usually akin to the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti, and (relying on the place precise efficiency finally ends up) fairly a bit extra environment friendly than the RX 7600 sequence. This partly comes all the way down to a extra environment friendly 4nm TSMC manufacturing course of, a considerable improve from the 6nm course of used for the 7600 sequence.
It is uncommon for a GPU maker to outline a TBP vary—extra generally we’re simply given a single default worth. However that is consistent with new settings we noticed in our RX 9070 evaluation; AMD formally helps a variety of various user-selectable TBP numbers in its Catalyst driver bundle, and a few GPU makers have been delivery playing cards that used increased TBPs by default.
Larger energy limits can enhance efficiency, although normally the efficiency enhance is disproportionately small in comparison with the rise in energy draw. These energy limits also needs to usually imply that the majority 9060 XTs could be powered with a single 8-pin energy connector, moderately than utilizing a number of connectors or the 12-pin 12VHPWR/12V-2×6 connector.
