AMD today launched the Radeon RX 9060 graphics card to improve its standing against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 series, particularly the RTX 5060 8 GB, which the RX 9060 XT convincingly beats. While the RX 9060 XT 8 GB is price-matched with the RTX 5060, it's an uphill battle for AMD, against features such as multi-frame generation and transformer model based upscalers. To address exactly these, the RX 9060 (non-XT) is being launched to match the performance of RTX 5060 at a lower price. There is a catch, though.

VideoCardz reports that the RX 9060 comes with limited overclocking headroom compared to the RX 9060 XT. This is done to ensure that the card only delivers its out-of-the-box performance, and does not cannibalize the RX 9060 XT. An ASUS RX 9060 DUAL graphics card ships with 2400 MHz Game clock and 2990 MHz boost; but its software-activated OC Mode only turns up both clock speeds by 10 MHz for both the Game- and boost clocks. Besides these, the RX 9060 gets 28 CU for 1,792 stream processors, compared to the 32 CU and 2,048 stream processors of the RX 9060 XT; and the memory speed is reduced to 18 Gbps compared to 20 Gbps of the XT SKU. Another interesting piece of specification is power, and here AMD reduced the total board power (TBP) to 132 W, lower than the 150 W of the RX 9060 XT 8 GB.