According to leaked results, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB graphics card is 25–31% faster than the RX 7600 XT.

Officially released a little more than a week ago, the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card was touted as the fastest gaming GPU available for “under $350.” It is the second wave of AMD’s RDNA 4 GPU generation, but final decisions won’t be made until review embargoes are lifted, which is probably going to happen on June 4, the day before retail release. The presence of pre-launch benchmark results in the Geekbench Browser database indicates that media outlets and influencers most likely hold evaluation samples. OpenCL and Vulkan were used to test a generic Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB model using “Geekbench 6.2.2 for Windows AVX2.” The total numbers are 124251 and 109315, respectively. The Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU from Team Red, a Gigabyte X870E AORUS MASTER motherboard, and 32 GB of DDR5-8000 RAM made up the test setup.v

Though semi-useful data can be compared to figures produced by predecessors and current-generation siblings, Geekbench results are not the best indications of gaming performance on contemporary PC platforms. The benchmarked Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB sample is outperforming its RDNA 3-based predecessor, the Radeon RX 7600 XT, by 25 to 31%, according to a quick examination. The brave new contender lags behind the Radeon RX 7700 XT 12 GB model by 14% in OpenCL stakes and 12% in Vulkan. The Radeon RX 9070 16 GB (non-XT) card and its upcoming smaller sister, of course, have a performance gap of around +23% in OpenCL and about +32% in Vulkan. Importantly, According to other entries in the Geekbench Browser, NVIDIA’s rival GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16/8 GB and RTX 5060 8 GB designs have marginally higher OpenCL ratings. The total Vulkan score of AMD’s Navi 44 XT GPU-powered card is marginally higher than that of the RTX 5060. Next week, we’ll create a clearer picture of the Radeon RX 9060 XT’s position; stay tuned for TechPowerUp’s unavoidable in-depth examinations of board partner specimens.