AMD, the next big player in the graphics card industry, is not about to sit around and watch NVIDIA collect all the glory. Meet the new AMD Radeon RX 9000 Series GPUs, AMD’s answer to NVIDIA’s RTX 50 Series—only it starts at a more wallet-friendly US$549 (as opposed to US$599).
The series made its debut in February with the Radeon RX 9070, flaunting 16 GB of memory and the new RDNA 4 architecture. It brought along revamped ray tracing and AI accelerators for gamers and creators who demand more, but also don’t want to sell a kidney.
Then came COMPUTEX in May, and AMD wasn’t done. Enter the Radeon RX 9060 XT and Radeon AI PRO R9700.
The RX 9060 XT is AMD’s mid-range power play, with 32 compute units and your choice of 8 GB or 16 GB of VRAM. It runs at a game clock of 2.53 GHz, boosts up to 3.13 GHz, and comes with 32 MB of Infinity Cache. It’s built for buttery-smooth 1440p gaming with FSR 4 and Fluid Motion Frames, keeping everything fast and fancy.
Basically, it’s like a sports car that can drift through AAA titles without breaking a sweat—except it costs US$299 (8 GB) or US$349 (16 GB), not the price of an actual car.
On the serious side of things, AMD also revealed the Radeon AI PRO R9700. If the RX 9060 XT is your weekend racer, this one’s the industrial machine.
Built for AI development, creative workloads, and model finetuning, this card rocks 64 compute units, 32 GB of VRAM, and a 256-bit memory interface. Boosting up to 2.92 GHz, with 64 MB of Infinity Cache and a 300W TBP, it’s basically the equivalent of handing your PC a jetpack.
And yes, it supports multi-GPU setups, because sometimes one AI-powered graphics card just isn’t enough for your day job (or your ego). Plus, you know what they say, the more the merrier, well, that’s if money is no object.
The RX 9060 XT will be out later this year through the usual suspects—ASUS, Gigabyte, Sapphire, XFX, and the gang. The AI PRO R9700 will follow in July. Pricing is TBA.
Looks like AMD just brought a flamethrower to the GPU war.
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