AMD's mainstream Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU will boost to up to 3.3 GHz out of the box

Some new specs and hardware details surrounding AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT have surfaced. This will be the company's answer to NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5060 Ti. Like the RTX 5060 Ti, the more mainstream-focused RDNA 4 GPU is set to arrive in 8GB or 16GB flavors - however, with slower GDDR6 memory.

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The latest piece of information arrives via Videocardz. Citing information from board partners, it outlines a few interesting things about the new Radeon RX 9060 XT. The reference spec includes a Game Clock of 2620 MHz and a Boost Clock of 3230 MHz. According to the report, OC models will push this to 3.3 GHz out of the box with a PSU requirement of 550W - which means some models might feature two 8-pin power connectors.

The updated specs also note that the GPU inside the Radeon RX 9060 XT, Navi 44, is essentially half the size of the GPU inside the Radeon RX 9070 XT - with 2048 Stream Processors compared to 4096 Stream Processors.

This doesn't mean it will feature half the performance; however, the expectation (like with the RTX 5060 Ti versus the RTX 5070) is that there will be a big gap between the Radeon RX 9060 XT and the Radeon RX 9070.

Interestingly, the Radeon RX 9060 XT is set to ship with only three display connectors, as opposed to the standard four, due to Navi 44's limitations. Some rumors in recent days have suggested that the Radeon RX 9060 XT won't include RDNA 4's updated media engine for video encoding and decoding, so we'll have to wait to see if that turns out to be true. If so, it will limit the card's appeal to entry-level gamers looking to stream or dabble in content creation.

The good news is that with RDNA 4's massive improvement to ray-tracing performance and the arrival of FSR 4, the Radeon RX 9060 XT should present a massive improvement over RDNA 3's Radeon RX 7600 and RX 7600 XT - which struggled to keep up with mainstream GeForce RTX while also offering notably worse image quality at lower resolutions when enabling older versions of FSR in games.

The report indicates that AMD's board partners expect the launch to be at Computex 2025, which takes place in late May. NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is rumored to launch this week, giving the Radeon team a few weeks to prepare for its reveal.