AMD RX 9060 XT 16GB Leaked Benchmark Reveals Worse Performance Than RX 7700 XT

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9060 XT Can't Beat One Tier Higher GPU From Last Generation!

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  • The RX 9060 XT has been spotted online with new Geekbench scores.
  • The graphics card has achieved slower scores than the RX 7700 XT, a GPU just one tier higher during the last generation.
  • The new GPU could still be faster in specific games due to better ray-tracing and architectural advancements.

The AMD RX 9060 XT is set to arrive next week, following up on the largely well-received RX 9070 XT. Thanks to a 16GB variant priced at $350, AMD’s upcoming offering has the potential to make a huge dent in the mid-range PC gaming market.

Although AMD is also releasing an 8GB variant of the same graphics card, everyone is interested in the performance of the 16GB variant. On that note, a new leak suggests that the graphics card will fall short of the RX 7700 XT’s results.

Why it matters: Consumers typically expect newer graphics cards to outperform offerings from the previous generation’s higher tiers. In this case, the RX 7700 XT was just one tier higher than the RX 7600 XT, so the RX 9060 XT was expected to outperform it.

As spotted by Benchleaks on Twitter, the RX 9060 XT has appeared on Geekbench. When tested with the Vulkan API, the card attained a score of 124251, which put it ahead of the RX 7600 XT by 25%. However, this score was around 12% worse than that of the RX 7700 XT.

Similarly, the OpenCL score of 109315 put the RX 9060 XT behind the RX 7700 XT by 14%For a rough comparison, the RX 7700 XT scored 141288 and 127276 with the Vulkan and OpenCL APIs, respectively.

This comparison is interesting because AMD’s RX 7700 XT was considered a mid-range GPU for the masses. The RX 9060 XT is priced lower, but it should appeal to a similar market, and many expected it to at least match the RX 7700 XT’s performance.

9060 Specs
RX 9060 XT Official Spec Sheet via AMD

Although the benchmark does not directly indicate real-world performance, the RX 9060 XT will likely fall behind the RX 7700 XT in most scenarios. However, games that prefer newer architectures and ray-tracing workloads might run marginally better on the upcoming $350 GPU.

Although the result is certainly far from impressive, the RX 9060 XT still appears to be the best mid-range offering in the current market. It certainly looks a lot better than Nvidia’s $300 RTX 5060, which is limited to just 8GB of VRAM.

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