AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB Review: Not Good

This week, we put AMD's new Radeon 9060 XT through its paces. Equipped with 16GB of VRAM, the card delivers impressive results for a mainstream GPU, offering a solid experience in modern titles at 1440p. Pricing remains a question – actual street prices have yet to settle – but purely on performance, it's a strong offering.

So, happy days – we finally have a decent entry-level GPU. Well, yes and no.

AMD being AMD, they couldn't just take a clean win. They love to mimic Nvidia, and that's rarely the right move. Rather than release a single, clearly defined product, AMD opted to follow in Nvidia's controversial footsteps, offering two dramatically different versions of the 9060 XT: one with 8GB of VRAM, and another with 16GB.

It's a move that mirrors Nvidia's launch of the RTX 5060 Ti earlier this year, where a near-universal consensus emerged ...