AMD to launch Radeon RX 9060 non-XT GPU, but only for prebuilt systems

AMD launched the mainstream Radeon RX 9060 XT on June 4, in 8GB and 16GB variants. Our review of the 16GB model praised its 1080p and 1440p gaming performance alongside RDNA 4's new FSR 4 technology and improved ray-tracing performance. Although overall performance is only slightly ahead of the GeForce RTX 5060, the Radeon RX 9060 XT is easily AMD's best mainstream Radeon GPU in years.

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According to a new report over at Tom's Hardware, citing early access to a press release, AMD is planning to launch a cut-down Radeon RX 9060 non-XT GPU for entry-level 1080p gaming. The baseline Radeon RX 9060 won't be available as an off-the-shelf part; instead, it will be limited to "select system integrators" to be used in budget prebuilt gaming PCs.

Spec-wise, it's said that it will feature 28 Compute Units or CUs, compared to the Radeon RX 9060 XT's 32 CUs, which results in 22.43 TFLOPS of shader performance. This is roughly 12.5% less than the 9060 XT; however, this sort of figure isn't a direct translation to game performance.

The new Radeon RX 9060 will also feature 8GB of GDDR6 memory, with an additional report over at VideoCardz.com hinting that the memory speed will be lowered to 18 Gbps for a total memory bandwidth of 288 GB/sec. That report also notes that the GPU Boost Clock speed will be reduced from 3.13 GHz in the 9060 XT to 2.99 GHz in the 9060. Pricing and availability for the new Radeon RX 9060 are still to be confirmed.