Leaked RX 9060 XT benchmark highlights strong generational gains

AMD’s RX 9060 XT is up to 31% faster than its predecessor in early Compute benchmarks

Geekbench benchmark results for AMD’s upcoming Radeon RX 9060 XT have leaked, revealing substantial performance gains over AMD’s last-generation RDNA 3 products. Tom’s Hardware uncovered these early results, which revealed that AMD’s RX 9060 XT is up to 31% faster than AMD’s RX 7600 XT.

What should be noted about these early tests is that they do not accurately represent real-world gaming performance. Geekbench is a tool that tests computational performance. Regardless, it showcases the strength of AMD’s RDNA 4 graphics architecture. Remember, AMD’s RX 9060 XT and RX 7600 XT have the same number of Compute Units (CUs). That makes the RX 9060 XT’s 25% and 31% performance gains in Geekbench’s Vulkan and OpenCL tests very impressive.

It remains to be seen how AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT will perform in games. AMD says its 16GB RX 9060 XT model is 15% faster than Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti 8GB on average at 1440p. This places AMD in a strong position, as AMD’s 16GB RX 9060 XT should cost less than Nvidia’s 8GB RTX 5060 Ti models.

(Geekbench data – via Tom’s Hardware)

AMD’s RDNA 4 architecture prioritises gaming over compute. Instead of adding more compute units to a GPU, RDNA 4 focuses on maximising the performance of every compute unit available. That’s why AMD’s RX 9070 XT and its 64 CUs can often best AMD’s 96 CU RX 7900 XTX. With this in mind, expect the RX 9060 XT to far surpass AMD’s RX 7600 XT in gaming workloads.

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