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AMD announce the Radeon RX 9060 XT and a big FSR 4 'Redstone' upgrade

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Last updated: 21 May 2025 at 4:35 pm UTC

Some fun news coming out of Computex 2025 with AMD revealing two models of the Radeon RX 9060 XT, along with a big upgrade for FSR 4 named 'Redstone'.

AMD didn't give exactly much on the Radeon RX 9060 XT, with the press details on it being rather light. The basics specs and pricing for the cards are below:

Model Compute
Units
VRAM Game
Clock
(GHz)
Boost
Clock

(GHz)
Memory
Interface
Infinity
Cache
TBP Price
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB 32 8 GB 2.53 Up to 3.13 128-bit 32 MB Starting at 150W $299
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB 32 16 GB 2.53 Up to 3.13 128-bit 32 MB Starting at 160W $349

For availability their original press announcement simply said it will be "later this year". However, during their actual livestream of Computex and their press materials sent over they said they will begin to be available on June 5th. This will include cards from the likes of Acer, ASRock, ASUS, Gigabyte, PowerColor, Sapphire, Vastarmor, XFX and Yeston.

Sounds like a reasonable card, with AMD claiming it will be at around 6% faster than the NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti across 40 games tested "without upscaling or frame generation".

From the press release:

Designed to unlock ultra-smooth gaming at 1440p, the Radeon RX 9060 XT is built for players who expect more. Equipped with up to 16GB of GDDR6 memory and 32 AMD RDNA 4 compute units, the GPU doubles ray tracing throughput compared to the previous generation, providing gamers with more realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections that bring virtual worlds to life.

Second-generation AI accelerators power features like FidelityFX™ Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4), which uses machine learning to boost frame rates and image fidelity under even the most demanding rendering conditions. HYPR-RX delivers a full suite of optimizations, including Radeon Super Resolution and Fluid Motion Frames for lightning-fast response times and immersive, tear-free visuals. With support for FP8 data types and structured sparsity, the RX 9060 XT is ready for the next generation of AI-assisted gameplay, creative tools, and generative experiences.

As for AMD FSR 4's Redstone update, it sounds rather promising, as AMD continue trying to catch up to NVIDIA. It's still for RDNA4 only, since it was designed for their latest generation of cards. It will include "Neural Radiance Caching", "Machine Learning Ray Generation" and "Machine Learning Frame Generation".

FSR 4 should be available in over 60 game titles by June 5th according to AMD.

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Stella 13 hours ago
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Great, more DOA 8GB cards. Seriously, this needs to stop. Any and all cards released should be 12GB minimum regardless of how low they are in the product stack
doragasu 12 hours ago
Interesting prices, assuming the perf is on par with the 5060Ti and that you can buy it at MSRP (that I doubt will happen at launch). For people like me that don't give a fuck about 4K, the 16 GB one should be a very good alternative.
Avehicle7887 11 hours ago
Using the same model with different vram can be very misleading to non tech savvy users. The 8GB model should have been called simply 9060.
Tevur 11 hours ago
The FSR4 SDK is still nowhere to be seen and FSR4 still doesn't run with Linux/Proton/vkd3d...

Is there an ETA for these?
Mohandevir 10 hours ago
Just a question... 8gb vram... If I play exclusively in 1080p, is it going to be enough?

Seriously, I have absolutely no interrest in 4k gaming.

Edit: 150$USD difference between the 16gb and 8gb versions... I seriously consider the 8gb model. Oups! 50$!

It should still be much more powerfull than my RX6600 which is still really capable and yep, the 8gb version should have been called the RX 9060.


Last edited by Mohandevir on 21 May 2025 at 12:15 pm UTC
Stella 10 hours ago
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Whatever you do, don't buy the 8GB model, even for 1080p gaming. It's dead in the water and wasted silicon. Games are requiring more and more VRAM, not less. Even if you might be just fine now with 8, the trend towards heavy VRAM hitters continues and you'll be forced to upgrade or you'll have a subpar gaming experience with super blurry textures and stuttering. I would even recommend the B580 over anything that has 8GB, and that's not a great card. But it has 12GB of VRAM


Last edited by Stella on 21 May 2025 at 11:56 am UTC
Mohandevir 10 hours ago
Games are requiring more and more VRAM, not less.

Because of 4k textures? Raytracing?
Looking forward to the first benchmarks. I can't believe it won't be a huge upgrade over my RX6600.

Edit: Ok sorry... Didn't got my 2nd coffee! 50$, between both model. Not 150$, like I wrongly calculated. Muuuch better. Yeah. The 8gb model just got less interresting.


Last edited by Mohandevir on 21 May 2025 at 12:14 pm UTC
linuxisdabest 10 hours ago
The FSR4 SDK is still nowhere to be seen and FSR4 still doesn't run with Linux/Proton/vkd3d...

Is there an ETA for these?

FYI it has been running on Linux for over a month
Tevur 8 hours ago
FYI it has been running on Linux for over a month
Really? In which game?
Liam Dawe 5 hours ago
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Updated the images from AMD press.
LeaPhant 5 hours ago
  • New User
Really? In which game?
Either as a FSR3 upgrade (via FSR4_UPGRADE=1) or with Optiscaler from a DLSS/XeSS source, but it needs major tinkering. It's merged into VKD3D and available in several custom Proton builds but currently needs a mesa fork to work, not sure when that is being upstreamed. Once rolling it works really well though and I've played through COE33 with it and no issues.
kaiman 5 hours ago
Looking forward to the first benchmarks. I can't believe it won't be a huge upgrade over my RX6600.
I also have a RX6600, but as long as the games I play run decently, I don't think it makes sense for me to upgrade.

But once I do, I would not look at less than 16GB of VRAM, and possibly more by then. When I buy a card, even in the $300-something price range, I want it to last at least 5 to 6 years.

And at least during the past upgrade cycles, I always quadrupled VRAM, from 512MB on the 9600GT to 2GB on the GTX950 to 8GB on the RX6600. I'd be hard pressed to remember what I had before, though.


Last edited by kaiman on 21 May 2025 at 4:46 pm UTC
Nagezahn 1 hour ago
I'm still waiting for something with less TDP.
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