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Ahead of the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card hitting retailers tomorrow, today the review embargo lifts on this latest addition to the RDNA4 family. Here are the initial Linux graphics performance benchmarks for this new $349 graphics card compared to other AMD Radeon graphics cards as well as the NVIDIA GeForce and Intel Arc competition.

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The Radeon RX 9060 XT is launching with 8GB and 16GB variants while for this launch-day review AMD kindly provided the Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB graphics card. Base pricing on the 16GB version starts out at $349 USD.

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The Radeon RX 9060 XT features 32 compute units, 2.53GHz game frequency, and a 3.13GHz boost frequency. There are 64 AI accelerators with the Radeon RX 9060 XT, 64 ROPs, 128 texture units, and 2048 Stream processors. The RX 9060 XT is rated for 25.6 TFLOPs of single precision compute, 51.3 TFLOPs of half-precision compute, and up to 821 TOPs of INT4 performance.

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The Radeon RX 9060 XT features a 32MB Infinity Cache and the 16GB of GDDR6 video memory is connected to the GPU via a 128-bit memory bus. Powering the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card requires a single 8-pin PCI Express power connector to satisfy its rated 160 Watt typical board power. DisplayPort 2.1 and HDMI 2.1b are supported by the Radeon RX 9060 XT.

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The Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux support is basically in the same state/requirements as the [6]Radeon RX 9070 series that launched back in March. On Linux 6.14+ and Mesa 25.0+ you are basically in good shape but ideally at least Mesa 25.1 for the best Linux gaming experience thanks to more RadeonSI/RADV enhancements and now that the Mesa 25.0 series upstream has reached end-of-life. As is usually the case for new hardware and open-source drivers, the newer the software you are able to run, the better and more performant the experience. But even out-of-the-box on the likes of Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 is a pleasant RDNA driver stack.

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With my testing of the Radeon RX 9060 XT series over the past week it's been working well. In the launch testing is focused on the Linux graphics performance while a separate article in the coming days will be looking at the GPU compute / ROCm experience now on the Radeon RX 9060/9070 series.

For this initial Radeon RX 9060 XT Linux gaming benchmarks a variety of other Intel / AMD / NVIDIA GPUs were re-tested atop the latest Linux drivers on Ubuntu 25.04. The graphics cards for this comparison based on similar range graphics cards I had available include the Arc A770, B570, and B580 on the Intel side. Tested AMD graphics cards for this mid-range comparison were the Radeon RX 7600, RX 7600 XT, RX 7700 XT, RX 7800 XT, RX 7900 GRE, RX 7900 XT, RX 9060 XT, RX 9070, and RX 9070 XT. The NVIDIA GeForce graphics cards re-tested were the RTX 4060, RTX 4070, RTX 4070 SUPER, RTX 4080 SUPER, RTX 5060 Ti, RTX 5070, and RTX 5080. (Unfortunately haven't had any review sample of the RTX 5060 non-Ti and similar.) So let's see how the Radeon RX 9060 XT is performing on Ubuntu with the Linux 6.15 kernel and latest Mesa drivers.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=radeon-rx-9060xt-amd-linux&image=amd_rx9060xt_1_lrg

[2] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=radeon-rx-9060xt-amd-linux&image=amd_rx9060xt_2_lrg

[3] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=radeon-rx-9060xt-amd-linux&image=amd_rx9060xt_3_lrg

[4] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=radeon-rx-9060xt-amd-linux&image=amd_rx9060xt_5_lrg

[5] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=radeon-rx-9060xt-amd-linux&image=amd_rx9060xt_4_lrg

[6] https://www.phoronix.com/search/Radeon+RX+9070

[7] https://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=radeon-rx-9060xt-amd-linux&image=amd_rx9060xt_6_lrg