Competing pick for a budget build that can last for years to come.
Reliable, powerful. An excellent budget pick, this might be one of the best GPU’s I’ve ever seen. Especially for its price. Competes with my friends 3080. Easy to install. If you want a beast of a GPU for an excellent price, this is the one I recommend for a budget build that stands on its legs for future proofing your PC.
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Eric Sizemore –
Simply amazing – Night and day difference.
I have a rather old system that I built back in 2019/2020. It currently has the Ryzen 3600, 16GB Ram, and a 650W PSU all running on the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max II. Prior to buying this card, I had the MSI Nvidia GTX 1650 Super (4GB). Initially I had trouble with getting the system working when switching over to the new card. I could hear the Windows boot sounds but had nothing on the screen. In the end, making sure my PCIE slot was set to Gen 3 in the BIOS, and switching over to an HDMI cable resolved the issue (I suppose the Displayport version my monitor supported was just too old, compared to the card).The difference is night and day. The card itself is beautiful and has been working flawlessly. I’ve trusted Sapphire in the past and it’s great to see they are still putting out quality AMD cards. The stability has been simply amazing with everything I’ve thrown at it. I’ve gone back and tried some of my more demanding games that the old card struggled on, and this card didn’t even break a sweat.Overall, very satisified, and Sapphire has definitely outdone themselves here. If you have an old system like me and you can only afford to update a couple components at a time, it is worth it by starting here with the GPU. 🙂
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Chris W –
High-performing, quiet 16GB AMD video card with full PCIe 5×16
Sapphire is currently my favorite manufacturer of AMD video cards, and this card is great for what it is. It’s powerful enough to blow the doors off of most modern titles at 1440p and, if you pay around MSRP, it’s a great value.Unlike the RX 7600 [Navi 33] which was limited to PCIe 4×8, the RX 9060 XT [Navi 44] has a full PCIe 5×16 interface. While this doesn’t make that much difference per se, it certainly can if you’re planning to pair this card with a system with an older or more limited PCI bus (e.g. PCIe Gen2 or Gen3). In other words, this card has a fully implemented bus interface, which is good. 16GB of VRAM is good too, and no longer “future proof” since Unreal Engine 5’s proliferation; the future is now.As usual, Sapphire’s implementation is easy to work on, lightweight, fairly compact and stays quiet despite cooling very well. This card is also classy looking, IMO, with subdued colors and no LED light show. This model has a very reasonable amount of overhead, though you’re hard limited at 182W for power. Expect edge temperatures in the mid to high 50’s Celsius under typical gaming loads, even when overclocked. The pre-applied Honeywell PTM7950 TIM probably helps out on the cooling front, you can’t do much better than that. Though if you do plan to push the card much beyond stock, it may be wise to disable Zero RPM and set a custom, linear fan curve; the junction temps can jump up pretty fast if you’re not actively cooling.Linux support is outstanding (make sure your kernel, firmware and Mesa stack are as current as possible for best results), and has been absolutely rock solid. All in all, I’d recommend this card to anyone who wants a good value card that’s easy to work on and performs well without being too flashy.EDIT: I’ve found that undervolting can help push the boost clocks quite a bit beyond stock without increasing temps much, if at all. I have two of these cards, and neither was stable with a boost offset until I undervolted by 50mV.EDIT #2: After a firmware update, I’ve found that I can set the wattage cap to 200W in software. Nice.
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Ivan –
Base card that works great
Package arrived in perfect condition. Performance is as expected according to benchmarks.This card is almost the same size as my RX 480 Nitro+, just a tad taller at 2,5 slots, yet it cools more watts at lower noise ouptut. In the 16 GB version (recommended) I was a bit concerned with the memory temperature of the chips in the back, but benchmarks show it’s not an issue as it was with the old 7600 XT. Cooling quality has certainly improved over the years, making this base card feel premium.It doesn’t have any lighting, but I already knew that.I got it for $ 359, I would recommend it if you can get it for a good price vs the competition.
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Dustin –
OUTSTANDING!
Best bang for buck GPU ever. I had an old 5700XT that served its purpose and still rendered and ran like a champ… but Doom: The Dark Ages required ray tracing, so she had to be retired. I picked this up and have to say with zero tweaking it was awesome. After a quick undervolt/overclock it is an absolute BEAST! I run the previously mentioned game on Ultra with 190 FPS on average!!
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Gus –
Great GPU!
This GPU is the bees knees. of course I upgraded from an RX580 so that is expected. but this is quiet af and works like a dream. It stays super cool even at 100% continuous usage. 5/7 stars!
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Nicholas Miller –
Amazing 1080p/1440p card
Astonishing how good this graphics card performs for the price. I have been able to consistently get 200+ fps at 1080p benchmarks with 3,330mhz clock speed and 120+ fps during any game I want to play. It’s a really great card for 1080p/1440p gaming and fairly high vram workloads. I vastly prefer amd’s control panel for monitoring temperatures, changing graphic settings, overclocking, and managing fans vs nvidia’s control panel. It is extremely easy to overclock either by letting amd automatically do it for you at an extra 105mhz or manually overclocking to 200 mhz without issue. Leaving it stock would give you more than enough performance.
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Tm –
Best grafics card eva
Exceeded my expectations… I swear I was so picky about a new graphics card I did weeks of research of which card to get, brand, type and not only is this cards handle whatever game i throw at it but it also seems very well build and looks awesome…in the case . Also I run every game on ultra and it runs so damn smooth it’s like taunting me … like that all you got … so far I’ve been unable to throw a game at it that slows it down at 140fps on even the most demanding games this card just laughs at me….. best buy eva
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José Luis Barrón Díaz –
Excelente opcion, aún usándola con pcie 3.0 su rendimiento es genial.
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Asher –
With my former GPU which was the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4GB, this graphics card (Sapphire Pulse RX 9060 XT) is a substantial upgrade, went from a chocking 4GB of VRAM to a breathable 16GB of VRAM is a phenomenal jump, with its latest FSR Technology, it’s an extra ordinary experience, wild how powerful GPU has become nowadays. With its pricing, I would say its worth its price, given that it defeats the NVIDIA’s RTX 5060 non-TI’s which has a little less performance but more pricey (but has DLSS though), its amazing for budget builders, but if you have more budget, I would go for the RTX 5060 TI (16GB version), but for me, I went for the budget card, given that mid to high end current GPU nowadays is expensive (i.e. RTX 5060 TI’s).FPS in games: (No FSR Scaling and Frame Gen.)- Minecraft (with Complementary Shaders v5.5 + Euphoria Patches): 140FPS on Popular settings (Default Minecraft Settings)- War Thunder (Movie Settings Preset): 220FPS (May vary between maps)- GTA 5 Enhanced (Max Preset w/ Ray Tracing): 60 – 70FPS (Untested) (May vary since it’s CPU demanding)- Marvel Rivals (Optimized Settings) (High Settings, AMD FSR 4 Scaling, AMD Anti Lag 2, FPS Capped on 180FPS, Render Scaling set to where arrow is pointed) (In-game Optimization may vary depending on hardware) (Tokyo Map): w/Frame Gen. ( 157 FPS Max, 70 FPS Min ) without Frame Gen. ( 114 FPS Max, 67 FPS Min ).- BeamNG.Drive (Ultra) (Italy): 70 – 90FPS- CS2 (Ultra, capped FPS to 180): 180FPS (map with lake and some kind of vegetated stones everywhere, I forgor ;-;)PC Specs:- Intel Core i5-12400F (with Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120)- Corsair Vengeance DDR4 CL16 32GB, XMP @ 3200MT/s- Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB) (at HYPR-RX and ‘Favours Performance’ settings) (with adaptive sync)- Crucial P3 1TB (non 3D)- Corsair CX650
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Chris –
I put this on an inexpensive tiny PC as an external GPU, because my gaming laptop (ASUS ROG Strix G16) had a 13th gen i9, and 13th and 14th gen i9 chips are redlined by Intel to try and pretend they’re as good as AMD, resulting in system instability and crashes (complete reboot) when running anything written in Unreal Engine 5. This is a known issue.I replaced the extremely expensive G16 laptop with a 600 CAD tiny PC from China that had a Radeon 7840U processor (with integrated R790 graphics) and 32 gigs of DDR5, as well as an Oculink interface. Then got myself a Minisforum DEG1 external GPU dock, and plugged the 9060XT into it. The tiny PC is now officially a monster. It performs WAY better than I expected, and this card seems more or less in competition with the RTX 5060Ti 16-gig. Slightly lower performance but half the price and lower power usage.I’m very happy. Easy to get going, and it’s a powerhouse. Having 16 gigs of RAM, it’s actually better at raytracing than pretty much any RTX card that has only 8 GB of RAM, despite their optimizations. Believe it or not, this card actually closes the gap with the 5060Ti once raytracing is enabled.As a bonus, most of the time the fans don’t run on this card unless I’m actually gaming. It’s very cool, and even when I cranked up settings to the max, my GPU rarely goes above around 57 C.It’s also insanely efficient on power, which was my other primary concern, since I’ll be going off-grid in a year or so, and the difference in power draw is more than 1 KWh per day. That’s a huge difference when you’re off grid.Update – Running this card externally and adding “Lossless Scaling” (from Steam) in the background, and with frame generation and upscaling (FSR and LS together) I can get Cyberpunk 2077 to hit 200 FPS at 3440×1440. Comparatively, Incursion Red River is in Alpha, runs on Unreal Engine 5 and is completely unoptimized. It still hits over 100 frames on Ultra settings.I couldn’t be happier with the performance of this car, especially considering it’s half the size of most of the monster cards out there these days.
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Jeremy –
It’s small but so might look kinda small in some builds but works well. Was also the cheapest 9060 16GB I could find.
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Semisi Bailey-smith –
Major jump from a 1070. Brought for pcvr and hasn’t let me down.
Amazon Customer –
Competing pick for a budget build that can last for years to come.
Reliable, powerful. An excellent budget pick, this might be one of the best GPU’s I’ve ever seen. Especially for its price. Competes with my friends 3080. Easy to install. If you want a beast of a GPU for an excellent price, this is the one I recommend for a budget build that stands on its legs for future proofing your PC.
Eric Sizemore –
Simply amazing – Night and day difference.
I have a rather old system that I built back in 2019/2020. It currently has the Ryzen 3600, 16GB Ram, and a 650W PSU all running on the MSI B450 Tomahawk Max II. Prior to buying this card, I had the MSI Nvidia GTX 1650 Super (4GB). Initially I had trouble with getting the system working when switching over to the new card. I could hear the Windows boot sounds but had nothing on the screen. In the end, making sure my PCIE slot was set to Gen 3 in the BIOS, and switching over to an HDMI cable resolved the issue (I suppose the Displayport version my monitor supported was just too old, compared to the card).The difference is night and day. The card itself is beautiful and has been working flawlessly. I’ve trusted Sapphire in the past and it’s great to see they are still putting out quality AMD cards. The stability has been simply amazing with everything I’ve thrown at it. I’ve gone back and tried some of my more demanding games that the old card struggled on, and this card didn’t even break a sweat.Overall, very satisified, and Sapphire has definitely outdone themselves here. If you have an old system like me and you can only afford to update a couple components at a time, it is worth it by starting here with the GPU. 🙂
Chris W –
High-performing, quiet 16GB AMD video card with full PCIe 5×16
Sapphire is currently my favorite manufacturer of AMD video cards, and this card is great for what it is. It’s powerful enough to blow the doors off of most modern titles at 1440p and, if you pay around MSRP, it’s a great value.Unlike the RX 7600 [Navi 33] which was limited to PCIe 4×8, the RX 9060 XT [Navi 44] has a full PCIe 5×16 interface. While this doesn’t make that much difference per se, it certainly can if you’re planning to pair this card with a system with an older or more limited PCI bus (e.g. PCIe Gen2 or Gen3). In other words, this card has a fully implemented bus interface, which is good. 16GB of VRAM is good too, and no longer “future proof” since Unreal Engine 5’s proliferation; the future is now.As usual, Sapphire’s implementation is easy to work on, lightweight, fairly compact and stays quiet despite cooling very well. This card is also classy looking, IMO, with subdued colors and no LED light show. This model has a very reasonable amount of overhead, though you’re hard limited at 182W for power. Expect edge temperatures in the mid to high 50’s Celsius under typical gaming loads, even when overclocked. The pre-applied Honeywell PTM7950 TIM probably helps out on the cooling front, you can’t do much better than that. Though if you do plan to push the card much beyond stock, it may be wise to disable Zero RPM and set a custom, linear fan curve; the junction temps can jump up pretty fast if you’re not actively cooling.Linux support is outstanding (make sure your kernel, firmware and Mesa stack are as current as possible for best results), and has been absolutely rock solid. All in all, I’d recommend this card to anyone who wants a good value card that’s easy to work on and performs well without being too flashy.EDIT: I’ve found that undervolting can help push the boost clocks quite a bit beyond stock without increasing temps much, if at all. I have two of these cards, and neither was stable with a boost offset until I undervolted by 50mV.EDIT #2: After a firmware update, I’ve found that I can set the wattage cap to 200W in software. Nice.
Ivan –
Base card that works great
Package arrived in perfect condition. Performance is as expected according to benchmarks.This card is almost the same size as my RX 480 Nitro+, just a tad taller at 2,5 slots, yet it cools more watts at lower noise ouptut. In the 16 GB version (recommended) I was a bit concerned with the memory temperature of the chips in the back, but benchmarks show it’s not an issue as it was with the old 7600 XT. Cooling quality has certainly improved over the years, making this base card feel premium.It doesn’t have any lighting, but I already knew that.I got it for $ 359, I would recommend it if you can get it for a good price vs the competition.
Dustin –
OUTSTANDING!
Best bang for buck GPU ever. I had an old 5700XT that served its purpose and still rendered and ran like a champ… but Doom: The Dark Ages required ray tracing, so she had to be retired. I picked this up and have to say with zero tweaking it was awesome. After a quick undervolt/overclock it is an absolute BEAST! I run the previously mentioned game on Ultra with 190 FPS on average!!
Gus –
Great GPU!
This GPU is the bees knees. of course I upgraded from an RX580 so that is expected. but this is quiet af and works like a dream. It stays super cool even at 100% continuous usage. 5/7 stars!
Nicholas Miller –
Amazing 1080p/1440p card
Astonishing how good this graphics card performs for the price. I have been able to consistently get 200+ fps at 1080p benchmarks with 3,330mhz clock speed and 120+ fps during any game I want to play. It’s a really great card for 1080p/1440p gaming and fairly high vram workloads. I vastly prefer amd’s control panel for monitoring temperatures, changing graphic settings, overclocking, and managing fans vs nvidia’s control panel. It is extremely easy to overclock either by letting amd automatically do it for you at an extra 105mhz or manually overclocking to 200 mhz without issue. Leaving it stock would give you more than enough performance.
Tm –
Best grafics card eva
Exceeded my expectations… I swear I was so picky about a new graphics card I did weeks of research of which card to get, brand, type and not only is this cards handle whatever game i throw at it but it also seems very well build and looks awesome…in the case . Also I run every game on ultra and it runs so damn smooth it’s like taunting me … like that all you got … so far I’ve been unable to throw a game at it that slows it down at 140fps on even the most demanding games this card just laughs at me….. best buy eva
José Luis Barrón Díaz –
Excelente opcion, aún usándola con pcie 3.0 su rendimiento es genial.
Asher –
With my former GPU which was the Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 580 4GB, this graphics card (Sapphire Pulse RX 9060 XT) is a substantial upgrade, went from a chocking 4GB of VRAM to a breathable 16GB of VRAM is a phenomenal jump, with its latest FSR Technology, it’s an extra ordinary experience, wild how powerful GPU has become nowadays. With its pricing, I would say its worth its price, given that it defeats the NVIDIA’s RTX 5060 non-TI’s which has a little less performance but more pricey (but has DLSS though), its amazing for budget builders, but if you have more budget, I would go for the RTX 5060 TI (16GB version), but for me, I went for the budget card, given that mid to high end current GPU nowadays is expensive (i.e. RTX 5060 TI’s).FPS in games: (No FSR Scaling and Frame Gen.)- Minecraft (with Complementary Shaders v5.5 + Euphoria Patches): 140FPS on Popular settings (Default Minecraft Settings)- War Thunder (Movie Settings Preset): 220FPS (May vary between maps)- GTA 5 Enhanced (Max Preset w/ Ray Tracing): 60 – 70FPS (Untested) (May vary since it’s CPU demanding)- Marvel Rivals (Optimized Settings) (High Settings, AMD FSR 4 Scaling, AMD Anti Lag 2, FPS Capped on 180FPS, Render Scaling set to where arrow is pointed) (In-game Optimization may vary depending on hardware) (Tokyo Map): w/Frame Gen. ( 157 FPS Max, 70 FPS Min ) without Frame Gen. ( 114 FPS Max, 67 FPS Min ).- BeamNG.Drive (Ultra) (Italy): 70 – 90FPS- CS2 (Ultra, capped FPS to 180): 180FPS (map with lake and some kind of vegetated stones everywhere, I forgor ;-;)PC Specs:- Intel Core i5-12400F (with Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120)- Corsair Vengeance DDR4 CL16 32GB, XMP @ 3200MT/s- Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 9060 XT (16GB) (at HYPR-RX and ‘Favours Performance’ settings) (with adaptive sync)- Crucial P3 1TB (non 3D)- Corsair CX650
Chris –
I put this on an inexpensive tiny PC as an external GPU, because my gaming laptop (ASUS ROG Strix G16) had a 13th gen i9, and 13th and 14th gen i9 chips are redlined by Intel to try and pretend they’re as good as AMD, resulting in system instability and crashes (complete reboot) when running anything written in Unreal Engine 5. This is a known issue.I replaced the extremely expensive G16 laptop with a 600 CAD tiny PC from China that had a Radeon 7840U processor (with integrated R790 graphics) and 32 gigs of DDR5, as well as an Oculink interface. Then got myself a Minisforum DEG1 external GPU dock, and plugged the 9060XT into it. The tiny PC is now officially a monster. It performs WAY better than I expected, and this card seems more or less in competition with the RTX 5060Ti 16-gig. Slightly lower performance but half the price and lower power usage.I’m very happy. Easy to get going, and it’s a powerhouse. Having 16 gigs of RAM, it’s actually better at raytracing than pretty much any RTX card that has only 8 GB of RAM, despite their optimizations. Believe it or not, this card actually closes the gap with the 5060Ti once raytracing is enabled.As a bonus, most of the time the fans don’t run on this card unless I’m actually gaming. It’s very cool, and even when I cranked up settings to the max, my GPU rarely goes above around 57 C.It’s also insanely efficient on power, which was my other primary concern, since I’ll be going off-grid in a year or so, and the difference in power draw is more than 1 KWh per day. That’s a huge difference when you’re off grid.Update – Running this card externally and adding “Lossless Scaling” (from Steam) in the background, and with frame generation and upscaling (FSR and LS together) I can get Cyberpunk 2077 to hit 200 FPS at 3440×1440. Comparatively, Incursion Red River is in Alpha, runs on Unreal Engine 5 and is completely unoptimized. It still hits over 100 frames on Ultra settings.I couldn’t be happier with the performance of this car, especially considering it’s half the size of most of the monster cards out there these days.
Jeremy –
It’s small but so might look kinda small in some builds but works well. Was also the cheapest 9060 16GB I could find.
Semisi Bailey-smith –
Major jump from a 1070. Brought for pcvr and hasn’t let me down.