AMD did not present a lot by means of efficiency comparisons, however it’s promising that the playing cards have the identical variety of compute models as AMD’s last-generation RX 7600 collection. AMD says that RDNA 4 compute models are a lot quicker than these used for RDNA 3, significantly in video games with ray-tracing results enabled. This helped make the Radeon RX 9070 playing cards typically as quick or quicker than the RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT collection, regardless of having round two-thirds as many compute models. Sticking with 32 CUs for the 9060 collection is not thrilling on paper, however we must always nonetheless see a good generation-over-generation efficiency bump. The RX 7600 collection, against this, offered a fairly modest efficiency enchancment in comparison with 2022’s Radeon RX 6650 XT.
Renders of AMD’s reference card for the 9060 XT collection.
Renders of AMD’s reference card for the 9060 XT collection.
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No surprises right here: it is a compact dual-fan design with a single 8-pin energy connector.
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Renders of AMD’s reference card for the 9060 XT collection.
No surprises right here: it is a compact dual-fan design with a single 8-pin energy connector.
AMD
AMD says that the playing cards’ complete board energy—the quantity of energy your complete graphics card, together with the GPU itself, RAM, and different parts—begins at 150 W for the 8GB card and 160 W for the 16GB card, with a most TBP of 182 W. That is a shade greater than however typically akin to the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti, and (relying on the place precise efficiency finally ends up) fairly a bit extra environment friendly than the RX 7600 collection. This partly comes all the way down to a extra environment friendly 4nm TSMC manufacturing course of, a considerable improve from the 6nm course of used for the 7600 collection.
It is uncommon for a GPU maker to outline a TBP vary—extra generally we’re simply given a single default worth. However that is in step with new settings we noticed in our RX 9070 overview; AMD formally helps a spread of various user-selectable TBP numbers in its Catalyst driver package deal, and a few GPU makers have been transport playing cards that used greater TBPs by default.
Larger energy limits can improve efficiency, although often the efficiency improve is disproportionately small in comparison with the rise in energy draw. These energy limits also needs to typically imply that almost all 9060 XTs could be powered with a single 8-pin energy connector, moderately than utilizing a number of connectors or the 12-pin 12VHPWR/12V-2×6 connector.
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