OcUK RX9060XT Review Thread

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

@humbug That is why I think AMD missed a trick! They could have made two versions of these dGPUs with different types of RAM and spanned the whole market segment under £1000 with only two dGPU designs. I wonder if GDDR7 availability is a problem or whether the validation costs were not worth it for AMD?

Could I ask a noob question in here about the cheaper versions of AMD cards vs the "higher end" ones. Gibbo has shared there are 1000 units of the 16gb Pulse 9060 xt and will be at MSRP tomorrow at least.

I've only ever bought one card, a 3080 FE. So no experience buying a board partner card

Whats the difference between the pulse and lets say a hellhound. I get that the hellhound comes with higher clock speeds out the box, but do they have the same silicon so I could just buy a Pulse and it would have the same OC headroom as a hellhound?

Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm trying to decide before 2pm tomorrow to simply buy something like the Pulse or whether it's.more the extra £ to get one of the bigger cards.

The RX9600XT 16GB on average consumes less than an RTX3060TI or RX7600XT,so doesn't really need massive coolers unless you are very sensitive to noise,or want to overclock.

The RX9060XT Pulse should be fine IMHO.

 

[humbug]

Could I ask a noob question in here about the cheaper versions of AMD cards vs the "higher end" ones. Gibbo has shared there are 1000 units of the 16gb Pulse 9060 xt and will be at MSRP tomorrow at least.

I've only ever bought one card, a 3080 FE. So no experience buying a board partner card

Whats the difference between the pulse and lets say a hellhound. I get that the hellhound comes with higher clock speeds out the box, but do they have the same silicon so I could just buy a Pulse and it would have the same OC headroom as a hellhound?

Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm trying to decide before 2pm tomorrow to simply buy something like the Pulse or whether it's.more the extra £ to get one of the bigger cards.

The only real difference between these AIB cards is the cooler, there might also be some slight differences in PCB's but they are all designed to a minimum specification laid out by the vendor, that in this case being AMD, those slight differences don't matter, some might have a couple more VRM's that are frankly unnecessary, its just a way to market that as added value, some might have fuses on the PCB, that matters a little more but only in the sense that the fuses might stop the board from completely eating its self if it develops a catastrophic short.

Right now its hard to know how the coolers on all these different cards perform as they haven't really been compared to that extent yet, a better cooler will obviously offer lower temps at a lower noise level, i watched the GN review of the Pulse and the core temps look very good, sub 60c at 16DB, that's very good.

For me my first choice is Sapphire (The Pulse) they tend to be well made and the coolers are very good, i don't know much about Powercolor (The Hellhound) not had a Powercolor GPU since the R9 290 i had.

So for overcloking what you're looking for is the best cooler, the cooler the card is the higher it will clock and the more headroom you have.

 

[Chrisc]

A couple thousand in stock across all brands.

That is oddly satisfyingly stacked.

 

[humbug]

@humbug That is why I think AMD missed a trick! They could have made two versions of these dGPUs with different types of RAM and spanned the whole market segment under £1000 with only two dGPU designs. I wonder if GDDR7 availability is a problem or whether the validation costs were not worth it for AMD?

If they think they can sell a big enough bunch to at least make back their added development and tooling costs for this SKU i think they will, even if they don't make any extra profit when all is said and done they would still do it for the mindshare, so long as they don't lose money.

 

[deshepherd]

After the 9070 Borg cube is this the Gate of Mordor?

 

[Rob_B]

Anyone seen an 8GB review yet? I'd love to upgrade my son's 7600 but I'm not paying £315, £270 I could just about justify including selling his old card.

And yeah, yeah, I know. 8GB is evil and will burn my house down and kill my budgie

 

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Anyone seen an 8GB review yet? I'd love to upgrade my son's 7600 but I'm not paying £315, £270 I could just about justify including selling his old card.

And yeah, yeah, I know. 8GB is evil and will burn my house down and kill my budgie

HUB are doing a review tommorrow.

 

[uscool]

Just the bare minimum from both

 

[Glanza]

 

[arc@css]

budgie

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What I want to know is do we get the lovely lady included in the box when we purchase a 9060XT?

 

[SonicSW20]

Anyone seen an 8GB review yet? I'd love to upgrade my son's 7600 but I'm not paying £315, £270 I could just about justify including selling his old card.

And yeah, yeah, I know. 8GB is evil and will burn my house down and kill my budgie

AMD apparently pulled a Nvidia and did not send out 8GB review samples (because it will be poor value for money and VRAM limited in some titles), so reviews will be coming later.

 

[Rob_B]

I'd have hoped someone would have grabbed one to test by now!
£45 cheaper (15%) and maybe limited in some games, could be promising.

 

[bushmins]

As someone needing a new graphics card I've been following the 5060 16gb vs 9060 16gb saga. Its been quite fun, especially watching all the 9060 videos pop up on YT at 2pm (And one sneaky vid at 1pm - That got pulled down). With about £400 to spend, out of the two I will most likely be going for the 5060 (Dependant on actual 9060 prices hopefully released tomorrow). 5060 has less power consumption, less heat, less noise and better FPS in games. These values are only slightly better on the 5060 but in the price saving range of £30-£40 for a 9060, its not going to pull me over to AMD. I would have been very willing if the saving was/is a lot better, but I have a feeling it will be in that £30-£40 saving, just not enough.
I've not bought a new card since I got an 8800gt quite a few years ago, since then I've only bought 2nd hand cards. I'm just a general consumer, who plays games at 1080p with maybe a slighty above average pay check. There is no way I could ever justify paying £700-£1000 on a card, if it ever gets to those prices for a basic card that will be me done with PC gaming.

 

[handyandy24]

The only real difference between these AIB cards is the cooler, there might also be some slight differences in PCB's but they are all designed to a minimum specification laid out by the vendor, that in this case being AMD, those slight differences don't matter, some might have a couple more VRM's that are frankly unnecessary, its just a way to market that as added value, some might have fuses on the PCB, that matters a little more but only in the sense that the fuses might stop the board from completely eating its self if it develops a catastrophic short.

Right now its hard to know how the coolers on all these different cards perform as they haven't really been compared to that extent yet, a better cooler will obviously offer lower temps at a lower noise level, i watched the GN review of the Pulse and the core temps look very good, sub 60c at 16DB, that's very good.

For me my first choice is Sapphire (The Pulse) they tend to be well made and the coolers are very good, i don't know much about Powercolor (The Hellhound) not had a Powercolor GPU since the R9 290 i had.

So for overcloking what you're looking for is the best cooler, the cooler the card is the higher it will clock and the more headroom you have.

Right thanks. So the more expensive cards may have a better cooling solution which may enable a more aggressive OC before the noise/temps tip over

 

[handyandy24]

Rtx 5060ti 16gb models can be had on OC for £390 (Gainward Python) or £400 (zotac/asus). Vs. 9060 xt £315.

C.20% more for the rtx 5060ti

Could come down to which games you play. At £300 it becomes an easier decision

 

[humbug]

Right thanks. So the more expensive cards may have a better cooling solution which may enable a more aggressive OC before the noise/temps tip over

Usually they do yes but don't just buy the most expensive card on that basis, sorry i don't have a decisive answer for you, buying the right GPU for ones self is nuanced and you're not talking about buying a 5090 if you get my drift...... just buy what seems like a good cooler for a reasonable price.

 

[Tetras]

Whats the difference between the pulse and lets say a hellhound. I get that the hellhound comes with higher clock speeds out the box, but do they have the same silicon so I could just buy a Pulse and it would have the same OC headroom as a hellhound?

The pulse is an entry-level card (i.e. meant to sell in volume at a price), the hellhound is a higher tier model (e.g. fixed function RGB, dual BIOS and ball bearing fans).

RE: OC headroom, they may also have different power limits.

 

[GuruJockStrap]

Could I ask a noob question in here about the cheaper versions of AMD cards vs the "higher end" ones. Gibbo has shared there are 1000 units of the 16gb Pulse 9060 xt and will be at MSRP tomorrow at least.

I've only ever bought one card, a 3080 FE. So no experience buying a board partner card

Whats the difference between the pulse and lets say a hellhound. I get that the hellhound comes with higher clock speeds out the box, but do they have the same silicon so I could just buy a Pulse and it would have the same OC headroom as a hellhound?

Sorry if this is a silly question, I'm trying to decide before 2pm tomorrow to simply buy something like the Pulse or whether it's.more the extra £ to get one of the bigger cards.

Please tell me you’re not replacing the 3080 with a 9060XT?

 

[handyandy24]

Please tell me you’re not replacing the 3080 with a 9060XT?

Ah hell no. The 3080 is still doing what I need it to in my computer. This is to replace my sons gtx 970

 

[RavenXXX2]

Only thing that would put me off the 9060 vs the 5060 ti is lack of fsr4 support in many older games and most new games don't support it, is that worth an extra £75, possibly if it's a long term purchase.