Sapphire RX 9060 XT Nitro+ Review

Conclusion

Conclusion

There are a lot of cards within the Sapphire range, and which one suits you best is very much a matter of personal preference. Budgetary considerations alongside aesthetic ones will always be unique to the individual. Those things are, relatively, subjective. If you want to know what the best RX 9060 XT card is objectively, it has to be the Sapphire Nitro+.

It’s blisteringly quick. Throughout our testing all three RX 9060 XT cards are closely matched, but if there is one that usually found itself above the others, it’s the Nitro+. It might not have topped the raw clock speed graph, but in every other way it edged ahead of the two XFX offerings. There is a lot to be said for consistency. We know when you’re on a tight budget the last thing you need is to be limited in what you can play. You don’t need a reminder that you might not be at the top of the fiscal heap. Thankfully the Sapphire RX 9060 XT Nitro+ takes any worries away. As long as you’re not trying to play at 4K with everything turned on, there isn’t a title you can throw at it that it can’t handle.

Obviously you’re going to have to pay extra when compared, for example, to the black XFX Swift card. That gives you a dollop of extra speed as our graphs showed. It also gives you a card which aesthetically is more up-market. The combination of the lattice framework and ARGB light bar give the Nitro+ an air of quality and class that is hard to deny. Given that the cooler also keeps everything frosty, even when being beaten around the head by Cyberpunk, is a big plus.

The Sapphire RX 9060 XT Nitro+ really looks the part and makes easy work of any game you care to play, winning it our OC3D Gamers Choice Award.

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