Key Takeaways
1. AMD will unveil the Radeon RX 9060 XT on June 5, following the RX 7600 XT, with significant performance improvements anticipated.
2. Early benchmarks from a Reddit user show the RX 9060 XT achieving a score of 17,069 with a mild overclock, indicating strong performance capabilities.
3. The GPU reportedly has memory limitations, unable to overclock past 2,538 MHz without causing crashes.
4. In performance comparisons, the RX 9060 XT nearly matches the RX 7700 XT, achieving 36 FPS in Black Myth: Wukong’s Cinematic mode while overclocked.
5. A Geekbench listing suggests a 25% to 30% performance improvement over the RX 7600 XT, though 3D Mark Time Spy is seen as a more accurate benchmark.
AMD is gearing up to unveil the Radeon RX 9060 XT on June 5, which will follow the Radeon RX 7600 XT. A Geekbench listing found last week (between May 26 and June 1) indicated a notable increase in performance compared to the previous model. However, a recent leak suggests it might have even greater performance capabilities. A Reddit user posted benchmark results from Time Spy GPU as well as gaming tests for the RX 9060 XT that featured a slight overclocking of the clock speeds.
Impressive Benchmark Scores
Screenshots shared by a Reddit user, who claims to have gotten early access to the unreleased RX 9060 XT, reveal that the GPU achieved a score of 17,069 with an overall score of 14,210. The tests were done using an AMD Ryzen 5 5600 CPU at 1080p. Importantly, it had a mild overclock with a 200 MHz boost to the clock speed and a 40mV undervolt. At these settings, the GPU reached a clock speed of 3.47 GHz while consuming 199W of power.
Memory Limitations
The user also pointed out that they could not increase the memory clock speeds past 2,538 MHz, labeling it “un-overclockable.” The benchmark run or system would crash when they tried to go beyond that point.
Performance Comparison
In addition, a commenter sought benchmark results from Black Myth: Wukong’s tool, and the RX 9060 XT provided an average of 36 FPS in Cinematic mode (with overclocking), which was merely 3 FPS behind the RX 7700 XT. This performance places the RX 9060 XT nearly on the same level as the Radeon RX 7700 XT, which has an average Time Spy graphics score of 17,113 according to the 3D Mark database. Even though the Radeon RX 9060 XT, specifically the XFX Swift Pro Gaming variant, was overclocked, it managed to match the performance of a more expensive, higher-tier GPU from the previous generation.
This benchmark result arrived shortly after the Geekbench listing, which indicated a 25% to 30% improvement in performance over the RX 7600 XT, the RX 9060 XT’s direct predecessor. While Geekbench may not be the most accurate for GPU performance, the 3D Mark Time Spy and Black Myth: Wukong benchmarks are considered far better indicators.
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