Is the radeon 9060 xt any good?
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I've been looking into upgrading my gpu from a 1660 super and I looked into a 4070 with were around $500 and $600 then i looked into a 7700 which were around $400 but I noticed the new 9060s were only $300. I'm assuming the 9060s are worse or similar to how the 50 series cards are worse than the 40 series in performance, but am I wrong? I'm just very confused, is the 9060 a good card or should I pay more and get a 40 series?
hurdeehurr@reddit
Going from a GTX1080 I wasn't impressed with mine and returned it.
Xample-@reddit (OP)
what didnt impress you if I may ask?
hurdeehurr@reddit
In a couple games at 1080p it wasn't faster and in some cases slower than my GTX1080.. crazy I know. I'm sure if I was at 1440 it would have made a bigger difference but the game I play the most I saw no gain.
Thats with all the framegen off which was really bad in that game too(not fsr 4.0)
Malplancher@reddit
why would u even buy a 1440p card for gaming at 1080p? that's the equivalent of buying 5080 or 7900 XTX only for gaming on 1440p or worse, 1080p. Not saying you can't, but obviously a waste of money and u can't fully utilize it's full power.
hurdeehurr@reddit
A 9060xt is barely a 1440 card. I got a used 6800 and it's much faster in the games i play.
mangyhyper@reddit
Yeah nah man you're pretty much wrong here, I've had a 3060ti ajd used it only for 1440p since 2020, the 9060xt is most certainly a 2k card. Might need to research a bit more champ
hurdeehurr@reddit
Turn off framegen and play a modern game on 1440 on a 9060xt and come talk to me.. Champ
heemtrim@reddit
I avg 200 frames and up on bo7 paired with a 7800x one day ill upgrade tho but im sticking with amd forever.
hurdeehurr@reddit
On a 9060xt on 1440? pft.
heemtrim@reddit
I’m so serious dude lmao it’s a comp shooter turn the settings down boom 1440p beast
Malplancher@reddit
I won't say it's barely a 1440 card when there ada still people using rtx 2070 and 4060, 5060 for 1440p. again, it depends on the games you play. for triple AAA titles with maxed out graphics + ray tracing ? yeah 9060xt ain't getting 100++fps, but its playable on finely tuned settings.
6800xt on the other hand is 8-10% faster in raster, but doesn't have the latest tech and yeah worse ray tracing. so it depends on your needs honestly.
Badused18@reddit
That Pentium4 is probably the bottleneck
hurdeehurr@reddit
the fug you talking about? You mean am5 9600x? spouting BS.
HK201020@reddit
Bro proably ahs frame caps or V-sync or some otehr thing. isntead he blames a Graphics Card which is essentially newer and newer 99.999% is always better
hurdeehurr@reddit
Nope and nope.
itsjusternieman@reddit
I Just made the same jump and its over 100 percent better framerate in COD and Warzone, what are the rest of your specs?
Proud_Cattle_8165@reddit
My only guess is there is a weird setting in his bios or game that isn’t quite matching up that or he has not uninstalled his previous drivers and they are fighting with each other in the background tanking potential gain because I was in the same boat 1080ti up to 9060xt 8gb and I saw consistent improvement across every game so I don’t know
RottenBonar@reddit
You got a card that's 92% faster and wasn't impressed, what would actually impress you?
hurdeehurr@reddit
in the games I play it was FAR from 92% faster. the real world didn't match
RickyFromVegas@reddit
I have the 9060 XT 8gb version, and it's a bit of a mess.
The frame rate fluctuates wildly in some games depending on where you're looking.
For instance, silent Hill f plays really well, but it struggles for some reason when you look down at the ground or open areas with a lot of objects.
I think some games have too many textures that need to render or something, it's not only game dependent, but also area dependent, which makes it super unreliable for playing newer games.
Proud_Cattle_8165@reddit
Silent hill f isn’t greatly optimised id suggest playing on medium settings should smooth out the frame drops and it doesn’t look all that different from high imo
NS-LEE@reddit
It's silent hill f problem.
GeraltForOverwatch@reddit
8GiB version is bad/buyer be aware.
16GiB is pretty good given proper pricing.
Same with 5060Ti.
Xample-@reddit (OP)
so whats the reason a 16gb 9060 brand new gpu is more is more expensive that a 8gb old 40 series
Economy_Health_8010@reddit
The most ridiculous question ever
BaronB@reddit
Because it’s faster.
40 series GPUs weren’t faster than 50 series. The 50 series just wasn’t as big of a performance improvement over the 40 series as previous generations have been.
GeraltForOverwatch@reddit
Yeah pricing and logic don't go hand-in-hand anymore.
Maybe never did.
Specific_Gravity989@reddit
Hello. I got a rx 9060 xt 16g from newegg for appx $400. I have an I7, 32g ram, higher speed HD on a MSI tommahawk mobo. I'm blazing fps. Been playing Deadzone: Rogue over 150 and thats a poop optimized game. Same with Robocop, rough game but smooth like butter. Do reccomend.
Sweaty-Historian1734@reddit
I heard it was gapped by other companies
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sheepoga@reddit
no such thing as a bad graphics card only a bad price
ncilswdk2@reddit
Why do you think the 5000 series is worse than the 4000 series? Because they are not, each equivalent tier card is better than their replacement (4070<5070, etc). There wasn't a huge uplift compared to previous gen but they are better across the board. This is the same for amd's gpus for 7000 to 9000 series cards.
Xample-@reddit (OP)
well i didnt mean the 5000 series as a whole, i meant most of actual gpus werent as good as in less vram, worse cooling, less ports stuff like that. More worse based on the manufactors as msi, gigabyte, brands like that. I have now learned tho that its more that the 40 series to 50 series wasnt as big of a improvement as the 30 series to 40 series was and thats why people arent as big of fans of the 50 series. Also ive seen the ai graphics are also not liked by some people.
RJsRX7@reddit
The 9060 XT 8gb is fine for 1080 and even older-game 4K, but will fall over in some games way before max settings in some regards thanks to the VRAM. Well, erm,but they're cheap-ish. $250 would be the point I'd consider one as an actual recommendation, roughly, but they aren't really there yet.
Because it does outperform the Arc B580 until it runs out of VRAM. Which is /actually/ $250 again, which is a point it makes sense.
The 16gb version is similar, but with more VRAM. This moves the eventual choke to memory bandwidth because skinny buses seat fewer, but that means /slower/ performance instead of /stopped/, which is vastly preferable.
Naerven@reddit
Well, to begin with every rtx50 series is better than the older rtx40 series counterpart so you are wrong about them being worse.
On top of that most every review of the rx9060xt 16gb has it as a solid 1080p GPU and a decent 1440p option. There are plenty of YouTube reviews along with written reviews on sites like techpowerup.
I would also say if you are buying a GPU today you want more than 8gb of vram if you are able.
Z7_Pug@reddit
The 9060 xt is good, the 16gb version is especially futureproof
Last gen cards go on discounts after new stuff gets released, especially if you buy used, which can sometimes make last gen better value. But the 9060 XT is the latest gen, so the latest efficiency and AI/RT updates (as AI/RT is the main point of upgrade nowadays)
RDNA3 (RX 7000) is awful at RT and FSR 2/3 sucks, though fsr4 is available on it unofficially but worse than fsr4 on RDNA4