AMD Radeon RX 9060 non-XT Smokes GeForce RTX 5050

After gaining access to a Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 8 GB Pulse graphics card, Korean tech journal Technosaurus quickly tested it against competitors in the same market. The card is priced about in the middle of the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB and the GeForce RTX 5050. AMD would aim to sell it around $275 when it becomes widely accessible, with 8 GB as the only memory size choice. For the $250 GeForce RTX 5050, the RX 9060’s ability to level up to the $300 GeForce RTX 5060 at this price can only imply doom.Technosaurus provided us with performance figures on how the GPU performs on both types of PCs by testing the RX 9060 on systems with Ryzen 7 9800X3D and Ryzen 5 7500F processors.

The Radeon RX 9060 non-XT tests 19.8% quicker than the GeForce RTX 5050 and only ends up 2% slower than the GeForce RTX 5060 when averaged over 10 benchmarks at 1080p. This places the RX 9060 at a modest price-performance edge over the RTX 5050, which is 9% less expensive, while the RTX 5060, which is 9% faster, has a larger price-performance difference. Unfortunately, according to Technosaurus, the RX 9060 is now only marketed to OEMs and systems integrators; the card is now accessible through the do-it-yourself retail channel. With the same core configuration as the RX 9060 XT 8 GB, the RX 9060 can support all 32 CU found on the “Navi 44” silicon, although with reduced clock rates and total board power and overclocking restrictions.