Korean tech publication Technosaurus got access to a Sapphire Radeon RX 9060 8 GB Pulse graphics card, and wasted no time in testing it against segment rivals. The card is priced about halfway between the GeForce RTX 5050 and the Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB. When generally available, AMD would look to price it around the $275-mark, with 8 GB as its sole memory size option. At its price, the RX 9060 is able to level up to the $300 GeForce RTX 5060, which can only mean one thing for the $250 GeForce RTX 5050—disaster. Technosaurus tested the RX 9060 on machines powered by the Ryzen 7 9800X3D, and the Ryzen 5 7500F, to give us performance numbers of how the GPU fares on both kinds of machines.

Averaged across 10 benchmarks at 1080p, the Radeon RX 9060 non-XT tests 19.8% faster than GeForce RTX 5050, and only ending up 2% slower than the GeForce RTX 5060. This puts the RX 9060 at a nominal price-performance advantage over the RTX 5050, which is 9% cheaper; but with a wider price-performance gap with the RTX 5060, which is 9% faster. There is some bad news, though—Technosaurus reports that for now the RX 9060 is being sold only to OEMs and systems integrators, the card is now available in the DIY retail channel. The RX 9060 comes with an identical core-configuration to the RX 9060 XT 8 GB, enabling all 32 CU present on the "Navi 44" silicon, but at lower clock speeds and total board power; and limits on overclocking.