XFX RX 9060 XT Swift Review

Introduction and Technical Specifications

Introduction

The popularity of mid-range graphics cards cannot be overstated. Any time you glance through the Steam Hardware Survey it’s abundantly clear that most people don’t own beefy graphics cards. The best current AMD GPU is the RX 7900 XTX, but twice as many people use a RX 6600 than that. Heck more people are still running the old RX 580. It is no surprise then that AMD have produced a card even more affordable than their recently launched RX 9070 XT ones.

Will you please welcome to the stage, the XFX RX 9060 XT Swift.

Tomorrow sees the launch of the factory overclocked models, so today we’re just looking at the MSRP vanilla option. This isn’t a mildly cut-down 9070 either. The RX 9060 XT has half the Stream Processors and Compute Units of its bigger sibling. That probably explains why it’s only half the price too. For this reason we’re sticking just to 1440P testing today. We know that 1080P is still far and away the most popular resolution – 55% compared to 20% for 1440 according to the SHS linked above – but 1440 is really the image quality sweet spot. Additionally it’s the resolution manufacturers target their cards at. Obviously some high end ones at for 4K gamers, but they cost exponentially more.

Affordable gaming has always been AMDs métier and with the RX 9060 XT it promises to bring performance and affordability to the party. Let’s take a look.

Technical Specifications