Radeon RX 9060 XT Round-Up, Every Model @ Computex 2025

Posted by mockingbird-@reddit | hardware | View on Reddit | 25 comments

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SherbertExisting3509@reddit

Best card for $350 = RX9060 XT 16gb Best card for $250= B580

Trash not worth considering:

All 8gb GPU's priced above $200

That's assuming you can find these cards at MSRP, which can be difficult, especially in the US with the tariffs and economic uncertainty.

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kikimaru024@reddit

TBH

The most popular games that are actually being played are fine even on 4-6GB

CS2, PUBG, DOTA, LoL, all the Mihoyo games, etc. don't need 16GB VRAM.

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McCullersGuy@reddit

It's not just tariffs, it's greedy companies and AIBs that lie about their prices.

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DerpSenpai@reddit

A bunch of these GPUs are made in China so they get hit with 30% tariffs. there's also 10% tariffs on EVERYTHING so always expect 350$+10%

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Rentta@reddit

Yet prices increase here in Europe too even though no tariffs here

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Neosantana@reddit

But you don't understaaaaaand.

They have to bend the rest of us over a barrel because Americans vote like shit.

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DYMAXIONman@reddit

Based on the statements being made, the 9070xt 8gb might not even be available in certain markets. Seems like it might only release in poorer regions.

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Vb_33@reddit

Nah it's coming to the US which is the richest region. The 8GB is being positioned as an alternative to the $299 5060. The 16GB is being positioned against the 5060ti.

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Rollingplasma4@reddit

Rx 9070 if you can find it at MSRP. If not your only option is the RTX 5070 at MSRP but it will age worse than the 9070 since it has 4 less GB of vram.

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mockingbird-@reddit (OP)

I wish AIBs would stop putting giant, bulky coolers on everything, but I guess AIBs think that the bulkier the cooler, the more they can charge.

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Today it might look excessive, but I see it far more as a mild over-correction from the past where most AIBs routinely sacrificed everything about card design to force it to fit into 2 PCIe slot width. You pretty often saw highly sophisticated and expensive designs that were also pretty loud and ran hot just to keep the physical dimensions down.

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Strazdas1@reddit

I dont. Those bulky giant coolers are great when half the time your GPu ends up being able to passively cool.

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Beautiful_Ninja@reddit

It's usually more that it's cheaper to put an overbuilt cooler on a card rather than design a more appropriate solution. Extra engineering time spent and then extra money spent on extra tooling for production of a different cooler model.

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TwoCylToilet@reddit

They also have at least an entire decade of smaller, dual fan coolers from previous generations that don't require extra tooling. I don't mind a 9600 XT 16GB that looks like an RX 580 at MSRP.

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rawwhhhhh@reddit

I used to be a fan of small GPU until I realized: I can't see what's inside my pc anyway; the temp is lower, up to 20 degrees (aka as time go on and dust accumulation increase the temp, the temps buffer mean that I can clean my GPU less often).

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Framed-Photo@reddit

I would MUCH rather this than going back to when most cards were as loud as vacuum cleaners under load just to keep the temps barely in check.

I have a ton of space in my case anyways, I want to use it.

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