Sapphire Pulse AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 16 GB Review: Value Pick

The information embargo on Radeon RX 9060 XT test results has been lifted. Let’s take a look at how the new Radeon stacks up against the competing GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti. The 16GB variant is priced closer to Nvidia’s 8GB models and offers a better price-to-performance ratio than the 16GB RTX 5060 Ti. The more affordable Sapphire Pulse RX 9060 XT model adds great thermal and acoustic performance on top of that.

Cyberpunk 2077

If you’d like to use more demanding ray tracing features on lower-end cards, you can enable FSR or DLSS, which renders frames at a lower sample count and reconstructs them to the target resolution using upscaling – better described as super resolution. For Ultra and RT Ultra, we choose the higher-quality Balanced mode; for RT Overdrive with path tracing, we use FSR in Performance mode.

Global setting Ultra

Performance with FSR3 native AA, FSR3 Balanced a FSR3 Balanced + Frame Gen

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2560 × 1440

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Global setting RT Ultra

Performance with FSR3 native AA, FSR3 Balanced and FSR3 Balanced + Frame Gen

1920 × 1080

2560 × 1440

3840 × 2160

Global setting RT Overdrive

Performance with FSR3 native AA, FSR3 Performance and FSR3 Performance + Frame Gen

2560 × 1440

3840 × 2160


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