ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC Review - AMD Brings the Fight to GeForce RTX

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Our Verdict

With RDNA 4, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC offers a viable alternative to mainstream GeForce RTX thanks to improved ray-tracing performance and FSR 4. Although it's not dramatically faster than the RTX 5060, getting 16GB of VRAM does make it a better 1440p choice.

Pros

• 16GB of VRAM makes it great for 1440p gaming
• Excellent ray-tracing performance for a mainstream Radeon GPU
• FSR 4 is a game-changer for AMD's upscaling tech at 180p and 1440p
• A viable alternative to the GeForce RTX 5060 Series
• ASRock's Steel Legend model is fast and runs remarkably cool

Cons

• FSR 4 adoption still has a ways to go to catch up to DLSS
• There's a huge performance gap between the 9060 XT and 9070

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Introduction

Although there's no ultra high-end option that competes with the likes of the GeForce RTX 5080, now that AMD has released its mid-range and mainstream RDNA 4 GPUs, it's safe to say that the Radeon RX 9000 Series is the company's most impressive line-up of desktop gaming GPUs in years. And it's not because the raw rasterized performance and pricing blows previous generation Radeon or current GeForce RTX cards out of the water, it's because they offer a more complete set of features designed for the modern gaming and content creation era.

Yes, a significant improvement to Radeon ray-tracing performance is long overdue. And with the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC reviewed here, we've finally got a mainstream GPU from Team Red that can handle ray-tracing at 1080p and even 1440p - often outperforming the baseline GeForce RTX 5060. But it doesn't stop there, as AMD has beefed up the AI hardware inside the Radeon RX 9000 Series to the point where the new AI-powered FSR 4 upscaling finally offers a comparative experience to NVIDIA DLSS. And with FSR 'Redstone' adding AI Frame Generation, Ray Regeneration (AMD's answer to DLSS Ray Reconstruction), and Neural Radiance Cache later this year, real-time Path Tracing is on the way for RDNA 4 gamers.

For the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB GPU (we don't have an 8GB model on hand, so all references to performance and value are currently tied to the 16GB variant), all of this means that comparing performance to previous-gen offerings like the Radeon RX 7600 makes the mainstream RDNA 3 GPU look incomplete. Regarding 1080p gaming, across our 14-game benchmark suite, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC is 54% faster. Bump up the resolution to 1440p, and the lead increases to 63%, a massive gen-on-gen improvement.

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However, once you drill down into the individual results, you realize that RDNA 4 is something of a fresh start or reset for Radeon desktop graphics. Horizon Forbidden West with FSR 4 enabled at 1440p, a feature unavailable on the Radeon RX 7600, sees the game run 91% faster with the same fantastic image quality as the game being rendered natively. And even when you take FSR 4 out of the picture, Cyberpunk 2077's demanding RT Ultra mode runs 104% faster in 1080p on the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC than it does on the Radeon RX 7600.

However, the Radeon RX 9060 XT isn't quite the GeForce RTX 5060 Series killer you might expect, as the ray-tracing improvements and arrival of FSR 4 can also be viewed as AMD playing catch-up. As an overclocked model, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC is currently available at a similar price point as several GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB cards - a GPU that performs, on average, slightly faster. Of course, having 16GB of VRAM means the RDNA 4 option is more versatile and better suited for 1440p gaming, but it's not the sort of blow-out that would make it the outright GPU to get.

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RDNA 4 - AMD Levels the Playing Field

Below is a summary of AMD's new RDNA 4 architecture, applicable to all models.

AMD's new RDNA 4 architecture presents a massive improvement over the chiplet design that we saw with RDNA 3. Returning to the monolithic design of RDNA and RDNA 2 might sound like a regression, especially when AMD CPUs have gone in the other direction, but this isn't the case. In a nutshell, RDNA 4 is built for 2025. This GPU architecture embraces ray-tracing performance as a key pillar, lays the groundwork for neural rendering, and supercharges AI performance for the new FSR 4 Super Resolution and complex AI workloads. Throw in a revamped media engine for creators and streamers, and support for next-gen DisplayPort 2.1a displays, and RDNA 4 presents a new and revitalized direction for Radeon graphics.

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RDNA 4's overhauled Compute Unit, which houses all of the raster, ray-tracing, and AI hardware, has seen several enhancements over RDNA 3 and is one of the reasons why the Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs deliver impressive performance gains. The RDNA 4 Compute Unit, or CU, features an enhanced memory subsystem, improved scalar units (for raw raster), dynamic register allocation to reduce latency and bottlenecks, and increased efficiency. The improvements also mean that Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs can ship with much higher clock speeds than their RDNA 3 counterparts, hitting close to 3 GHz in several 9070 XT models, with 9060 XT models pushing up to 3.3 GHz.

The show's star, at least in terms of the massive improvement over what has come before, has to be the arrival of RDNA 4's 3rd Generation Ray-Tracing Accelerators. AMD is aware that game developers across PC and console are embracing ray-tracing, which presents a realistic depiction of lighting and related effects like shadows and reflections. The only problem is that real-time ray-tracing is complex, requiring the right blend of raw performance and innovative technologies to enhance efficiency and deliver a playable experience.

One area RDNA 4's RT Accelerator delivers where RDNA 3's don't is the arrival of "Oriented Bounding Boxes," an innovative method of handling ray-tracing Bounding Volume Hierarchy (BVH) data. Think of it as efficiently tracing rays through an environment and geometry with a lower memory cost and less hardware. RDNA 4's RT Accelerator also adds a second intersection engine to double the performance of specific raytracing workloads and calculations. The results can be seen in titles with heavy ray-tracing like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk 2077, where the Radeon RX 9070 XT delivers a significant 30+% performance improvement over the previous gen flagship - the Radeon RX 7900 XTX. A card with 50% more RT Accelerators than the Radeon RX 9070 XT. The mainstream Radeon RX 9060 XT also delivers substantially faster ray-tracing performance than the Radeon RX 7600, to the point where mainstream RDNA 4 is now what you'd call RT-ready.

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RDNA 4 also fully embraces AI, with new AI accelerators that support FP8 while delivering double the FP16 and four times the INT8 performance compared to RDNA 3's AI accelerators. For gamers, this means the new AI-powered FSR 4 leverages AI to deliver a massive improvement in image quality over FSR 3. However, AMD's custom AI model, which was trained on powerful AMD Instinct hardware, is FP8-based, so it is exclusive to RDNA 4 hardware.

AMD is also looking to introduce its answer to NVIDIA's DLSS Ray Reconstruction and Frame Generation for Path Tracing with Project Redstone's new AI-based Ray Regeneration and Frame Generation, alongside support for Neural Radiance Caching. FSR "Project Redstone" is currently in development and on track for release in the second half of 2025.

With improved raw performance and a massive boost to ray-tracing and AI performance, RDNA 4 presents an enormous leap forward over RDNA 3. However, catching up to GeForce RTX in these areas and offering a viable DLSS alternative does mean that early adopters will need to wait for game support and AMD to deliver its Path Tracing solution. With 60+ FSR 4-ready titles available now, there's still a massive deficit compared to DLSS 3 and DLSS 4 as we head toward 2026. Falling behind for over five years in these areas means there's a lot of catching up to do, and this will take time.

This brings us to RDNA 4's enhanced Media Engine, which offers creators and streamers a big improvement to H.264, HEVC, and AV1 encoding and decoding. NVIDIA's lead in this area has meant that few creators use Radeon hardware. With RDNA 4, AMD is looking to close the gap and offer a viable alternative, especially regarding image quality, when using popular settings in apps like OBS.

Specs and Test System

Specifications

Here's a comparison of the Radeon RX 9060 XT specs to those of the previous generation's Radeon RX 7600 XT and the Radeon RX 9070 Series.

On paper, the Radeon RX 9060 XT features half of what's inside the Radeon RX 9070 XT, with 32 Compute Units compared to 64, and 64 AI Accelerators compared to 128. This aligns with the mainstream RDNA 3 GPU, the Radeon RX 7600, which also features 32 Compute Units and 64 AI Accelerators. However, with the shift to a more efficient and cutting-edge TSMC 4nm process, the Radeon RX 9060 XT's GPU is impressively denser, with 29.7 billion transistors compared to 13.3 billion on the Radeon RX 7600. And even though both GPUs share the same Stream Processor count of 2048, RDNA 4's 3rd-Gen Ray Accelerators and 2nd-Gen AI Accelerators are dramatically more complex, capable, and efficient than what was found in the mainstream RDNA 3 GPU. This delivers the improvements to ray-tracing and powers AMD's impressive new FSR 4 Super Resolution.

Like the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, which AMD is marketing as the 9060 XT's main competitor, the Radeon RX 9060 XT is also available in two models - one with 8GB and one with 16GB of VRAM. As it's the older GDDR6 memory on a slow 128-bit memory interface, the RTX 5060 Ti's GDDR7 memory is faster; however, AMD has clocked the memory here at 20.1 Gbps, which does close some of that gap.

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This brings us to the GPU Boost Clock speed of the Radeon RX 9060 XT, which exceeds 3 GHz for the first time. In overclocked ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend form, the out-of-the-box Boost Clock is an impressive 3320 MHz. This does mean that OC models increase the power draw from the listed 160W. However, power delivery is still delivered over a single 8-pin power connector, and the Radeon RX 9060 XT is AMD's most efficient desktop GPU with this level of performance to date, even when drawing up to 180W. Compared to the flagship Radeon RX 9070 XT, you're looking at a GPU that uses around half the power.

Another area where RDNA 4 presents a notable improvement over RDNA 3 is its revamped media engine, which is optimized to deliver higher-quality media for content creators and streamers. This is an essential aspect of modern gaming GPUs, even for those who don't consider themselves creators or streamers. Recording gameplay videos that look better than ever is a plus, even if it's just for sharing clips with friends on Discord.

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Physical Design and Cooling

With white components and PC gaming hardware becoming more common, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC offers an all-white option for gamers. ASRock's Steel Legend design serves two purposes or styles, one driven by customizable RGB lighting and one that is minimal, sleek, and 'sci-fi' pristine. Although each fan is RGB-lit, with more lighting flourishes on the side, ASRock includes a simple switch on the GPU to turn off all lighting for a sleeker look. The Steel Legend logo on the metal backplate resembles the Superman logo, with the camo-inspired print and 'sci-fi' patterns on the front rounding out the look of the GPU.

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As an OC model, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC is a triple-fan card with a 2.5-slot thickness, so it's a little larger than the more compact Radeon RX 9060 XT GPUs. It's also a little heavier, weighing in at 967 grams. On the plus side, you're getting a premium thermal design that keeps the GPU running so cool that you'll question whether or not the sensors are working correctly. Yes, in our stress test, the GPU temperature hovered at around 50 degrees Celsius, which is impressive. And with that, you're also getting a near-silent performance.

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You could say that the cooler design of the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC is overengineered. You don't need an enhanced nickel-plated copper baseplate and high-density fin stack for a card powered by a single 8-pin power connector. But then again, it's fantastic to see ASRock deliver the same high-quality components and power management as you'll find on higher-end Steel Legend cards. The results speak for themselves.

One final thing to note is that the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC includes two DisplayPort 2.1a and one HDMI 2.1b output, which is a different configuration to models that feature only one DisplayPort 2.1a and two HDMI 2.1b outputs. AMD is opting to cut the display outputs from four to three, which is a little weird, and for those running two displays, you'd probably want something like ASRock's configuration.

The Games and Tests

PC gaming not only covers a wide range of genres and styles, from indie games with simple 2D graphics to massive 3D worlds lit by cutting-edge real-time ray tracing technology. With that, the needs and requirements of each gamer vary. High refresh rates and latency reduction become more important than flashy visuals or playing at the highest resolution possible for those who live and breathe fast-paced competitive games. For those who want to live in a cinematic world and become a key player in an expansive narrative, ray-tracing, and high-fidelity visuals are a stepping stone toward immersion.

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Our chosen benchmarks cover various games, engines, APIs, and technologies. For the Radeon RX 9060 XT, all tests are run at 1080p and 1440p and include results for performance-boosting Super Resolution technologies like AMD's new AI-powered FSR 4, alongside older FSR 3 and FSR 2 versions. However, our benchmark results are still sorted using 'raw performance' or native rendering.

Here's the breakdown of games, settings, and what's being tested.

Games and Settings Benchmarked

Path Tracing Games and Settings Benchmarked

Gaming Performance Analysis - 1080p and 1440p

Average Gaming Performance - 1080p Results

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For 1080p gaming, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC is 54% faster than the Radeon RX 7600, and 63% faster than the GeForce RTX 3060, which is currently the most popular GPU among PC gamers. Upgrading to the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB would be a relatively easy decision for those with either of these cards or an older Radeon GPU. As our 14-game benchmark suite includes a bunch of games with ray-tracing, this is easily AMD's most impressive mainstream GPU in years, where ASRock's OC model also outperforms the GeForce RTX 5060 by 8%, with average performance sitting within 5% of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB and 16GB GPUs.

There are several titles where the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC delivers performance virtually identical to the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB or 16GB GPU. However, there are games like Black Myth: Wukong and Cyberpunk 2077 with ray-tracing, where performance is on par with the baseline GeForce RTX 5060. As all of these are currently available with similar price points, with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB commanding a premium, the decision of what GPU to get will come down to a few factors and personal preference. DLSS is a selling point and key feature of all GeForce RTX 50 Series cards, but AMD's FSR 4 has closed the gap big time, with game support and adoption set to ramp up in the weeks and months ahead.

One thing is for sure: if you're a Call of Duty gamer, the Radeon RX 9070 XT 16GB is the way to go. Here, its performance matches the GeForce RTX 5070, NVIDIA's more expensive mid-range GPU. On that note, when it comes to the next model up in the RDNA 4 line-up, the Radeon RX 9070 non-XT, you're looking at a GPU that is 40% faster than the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC for 1080p gaming. This is a considerable gap, so we wouldn't be surprised if AMD releases a new GPU with performance between the 9060 XT and 9070.

Average Gaming Performance - 1440p Results

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Making the jump from 1080p to 1440p, the performance drop-off is around 30%, which sees the 114 FPS average drop to 80 FPS. At this resolution, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC increases its lead over the previous generation's Radeon RX 7600 and NVIDIA's popular mainstream 60-Class graphics cards. Based on our 14-game benchmark suite, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC is 63% faster than the Radeon RX 7600 and GeForce RTX 3060. It's also 43% faster than the GeForce RTX 4060 and 11% faster than the GeForce RTX 5060. Performance at the resolution, on average, is also on par with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB while falling short of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB.

As seen in the individual results, having 16GB of VRAM is better than being limited to 8GB for 1440p gaming using ultra-quality settings. In two games where more VRAM makes a performance difference, Dragon Age: The Veilguard and Horizon Forbidden West, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC delivers performance that is 15-20% faster than the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB GPU simply because it has double the capacity. We know this because the performance in these games is identical to the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPU.

The Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB GPU is a more impressive 1440p option than the GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti 8GB GPUs; however, DLSS 4 at this resolution is formidable, as it can level up NVIDIA's cards through AI and software. FSR 4 is right up there. However, it's not quite as prevalent as DLSS, and titles with the older FSR 2 and FSR 3 look dramatically worse. Over time, we expect FSR 4 to catch up as more games and new releases add support, which makes picking up an RDNA 4 GPU like the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB a much better investment than, say, a discounted or second-hand RDNA 3 GPU.

Benchmarks - 3DMark Synthetic Tests

3DMark offers a suite of synthetic benchmarks built to test GPUs in various scenarios. 3DMark Steel Nomad is a cutting-edge DirectX 12 benchmark with newer, modern rendering techniques designed to push GPUs to their limit. The 'Light' version tests at 1440p, while the main Steel Nomad benchmark tests pure native 4K rendering. Port Royal is a benchmark focusing exclusively on real-time ray tracing for lighting effects like reflections, shadows, and more.

As we move into the Unreal Engine 5 era of PC gaming, the 3DMark Steel Nomad synthetic benchmark tests offer a fascinating look at what the RDNA 4 and RTX Blackwell GPUs are capable of. The ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC's scores represent what you'd find in several games. However, the differences can be a little inflated in either direction. For example, the 1440p-based Steel Nomad Light score falls slightly behind the GeForce RTX 5060, while the 4K Steel Nomad score sits 20% higher. The 1440p results swing more toward the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC in real-world gaming.

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The 3DMark Port Royal results are also fascinating because when it comes to Radeon, we've gotten used to RDNA being a step or two behind GeForce RTX whenever ray-tracing enters the picture. Port Royal is a ray-tracing benchmark that tests raw RT performance without any upscaling action. Here, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC's score is not only 72% higher than the Radeon RX 7600, but it's also 58% higher than the GeForce RTX 4060 and 12% higher than the GeForce RTX 5060. This is a significant result for the mainstream RDNA 4 GPU, which you'll find in most titles with ray-tracing effects enabled. That said, for ray-tracing at 1080p and 1440p, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is still the faster option, which means NVIDIA still has the advantage.

Benchmarks - 1080p Gaming

Benchmarks - 1440p Gaming

FSR 4 and AMD Frame Generation

With the arrival of the Radeon RX 900 Series and the new Radeon RX 9070, AMD's new FSR 4 represents a massive improvement over FSR 3.1, FSR 3, and FSR 2. The shift to a custom and powerful AI model for upscaling shows that ML or AI is the definite way to maintain image quality that is on par or even superior to native rendering. As FSR 4 was explicitly designed for RDNA 4, and trained on powerful AMD hardware, it is exclusive to the Radeon RX 9000 Series due to the advanced AI hardware requirements. The good news is that games with FSR 3.1 are automatically upgraded to FSR 4 via AMD's Adrenalin Software, with a nice overlay showing a green FSR 4 tick when booting up a compatible game.

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It can be hard to articulate the difference between older versions of FSR and the new AI-powered FSR 4, because seeing is believing. However, the best way to put it might be to say that FSR 4 is a technology you should enable, wherever it's available, at 1440p and even 1080p, as it offers a boost to performance without impacting image quality. That's something we wouldn't say for games with FSR 2 or FSR 3, as the older non-AI version of AMD's upscaling tech was a definite trade-off at lower resolutions - image quality for performance.

Moving to a more intensive AI approach for FSR 4 does mean that the performance gains aren't quite as pronounced as in previous versions. Still, when paired with AMD's Frame Generation, you can effectively double the perceived smoothness in games like Space Marine 2. AMD's Frame Generation doesn't quite feel as smooth or look as clean as NVIDIA's Multi Frame Generation for the GeForce RTX 50 Series, which is probably why it's switching to a new AI version later this year as part of the FSR 4 'Redstone' update.

Path Tracing Performance - 1080p

Path Tracing takes real-time ray-tracing and applies the concept of ray-traced effects to anything and everything - global illumination, shadows, reflections, indirect lighting, and more. With multiple bounces, it's a hardware-intensive and cutting-edge look at the future of PC gaming that is only possible thanks to AI tools and technologies. With RDNA 4 dramatically improving ray-tracing performance compared to RDNA 3, GPUs like the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB are capable of rendering stunning Path Traced visuals; however, it's more proof of concept than something practical.

AMD is looking to make Path Tracing a thing for RDNA 4 GPUs thanks to FSR 4 and the arrival of FSR 'Redstone' later this year. 'Redstone' expands FSR 4's AI-powered rendering to add a DLSS Ray Reconstruction-like feature called Ray Regeneration, AI Frame Generation, and even Neural Radiance Cache, which improves ray-traced lighting quality by leveraging AI to handle some of the complex ray bounce calculations. And with that, the Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk 2077 Path Tracing results above are more proof of concept to see how the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC might handle Path Tracing at 1080p.

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The good news is that the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB GPU could become a decent entry-level option for Path Tracing once FSR 'Redstone' is released. The big question mark, though, will be what games will be updated to support the new technology, as without AMD's answer to DLSS Ray Reconstruction as an in-game option to toggle, Path Tracing will continue to look dramatically more impressive on GeForce RTX hardware. On the plus side, we've gone from Path Tracing being a pipe dream on RDNA 3 to a soon-to-be reality on RDNA 4, which is terrific.

Temperature and Power Efficiency

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48 degrees Celsius with a GPU Hot Spot temperature of only 60 degrees. Yes, even with its 3.3 GHz Boost Clock, when it comes to thermal performance, the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC is one of the most impressive GPUs we've tested this year. And with the fan speeds at 20% or just under 1000 RPMs, it's also quiet. And after testing Radeon RX 9070 XT cards drawing over 300W, it's also fantastic to see that RDNA 4 scales well and can still deliver superb performance even when pared back to 160W.

Final Thoughts

Undoubtedly, the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB is AMD's best mainstream GPU release in a long time. Its raw performance is competitive with the GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti, and with the arrival of FSR 4 and RDNA 4's impressive ray-tracing overhaul, the feature set and capabilities are now up there. The latter is probably the most remarkable thing about the RDNA 4 generation, because until now, Radeon hasn't had much more going for it than raw performance and competitive pricing. FSR was always inferior to DLSS, and you'd only consider enabling ray-tracing on a high-end card like the Radeon RX 7900 XTX.

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The ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC model reviewed here looks fantastic in all-white and is one of the coolest and quietest GPUs we've tested in 2025. With 1440p performance that is 63% faster than the Radeon RX 7600 and GeForce RTX 3060, you're looking at a fantastic upgrade option that will unlock a new level of performance. For those with older RDNA or Radeon GPUs, FSR 4 opens the door to impressive and immersive ray-traced visuals and fantastic image quality.

As great as the ASRock Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB Steel Legend OC is for 1080p and 1440p gaming, it's not quite a mainstream revolution. Performance still falls a little short of matching the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, which is a lot closer than you'd think. Instead, it offers a viable alternative to GeForce RTX and AMD's most competitive mainstream GPU in years, especially for those looking for a GPU with 16GB of VRAM for under $400.