Nitro+ AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT OC is Sapphire’s top-tier 16GB RX 9060 XT model. Alongside powerful cooling and excellent operating characteristics, the manufacturer also bets on stylish looks and prominent ARGB lighting—elements that help it fit right into popular PC design cases. If you’re building a PC for gaming at the lower 1080p and 1440p resolutions and care about aesthetics, it’s certainly worth considering.
Cyberpunk 2077, RT Medium, 3840 × 2160
The first set of measurements is from the Cyberpunk 2077 benchmark with RT Medium settings at 3840 × 2160 resolution. This consists of eight consecutive benchmark runs. The graph always shows the last run, from which the average value for the warmed-up card is calculated. The frame rate with these settings is quite low, but the power draw sits at 182 W, corresponding to full GPU load at the power limit.
The clock speed of the heated GPU ranges between 2846 and 3009 MHz, with an average of 2903 MHz. This is significantly higher than the stated typical game clock of 2780 MHz.
The card’s power draw according to monitoring (light green data series) held impeccably at the power limit of 182 W.
The entire system, thanks to the combination of an efficient processor and a card that is fairly power-efficient by current standards, has an average power draw of just 291.9 W.
The average chip temperature reached a maximum of 52 °C in the measured segment, memory at 80 °C. The hotspot reached 78 °C.
The fans typically run at 1740 RPM, only spiking briefly to up to 1860 RPM when the load initially starts.
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Honeslty, with how slow advancement in this tier is, there’s a very good argument for getting the Nitro on build so the thing will live as long as possible.