AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT: Two VRAM variants – 8 GB and 16 GB planned

Well, that smells suspiciously like a copy of NVIDIA’s strategy. According to the latest EEC listings, the upcoming Radeon RX 9060 XT will be released in two versions: one with 8 GB and one with 16 GB VRAM. Just like the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, which is also expected in these configurations. Coincidence? Hardly. But at least this should offer AMD fans a nice selection – at least if the card doesn’t come onto the market with artificially trimmed variants.

EEC listings reveal first details

The new information comes from a filing with the Eurasian Economic Union (EEC), discovered by leaker Harukaze5719. The Radeon RX 9060 XT appears there several times, including as Acer Predator Bifrost. The fact that Acer is announcing models so early indicates that the release is indeed not far away. Although the exact technical specifications are still missing, the card is likely to be based on the Navi-44 GPU. In other words, a slimmed-down RDNA-4 variant for the mainstream sector. The memory issue is particularly interesting: while 8 GB is still considered standard today, it is slowly becoming tight with regard to modern games and memory-hungry applications. The 16 GB version could last longer here, but it remains to be seen whether AMD will make the variant artificially slower – for example by trimming the memory interface.

Two models instead of a whole product range?

It is striking that AMD only wants to launch two RX-9060 models, a strategy that has already been seen with the RX-9070 series. No “non-XT” variant, just different memory expansion stages. This could be a reaction to the increasingly fragmented GPU market or simply an attempt to save costs by producing fewer chips in different configurations. NVIDIA has shown with the RTX 4060 and RTX 4060 Ti that artificial segmentation through VRAM expansion stages is not always well received – remember the confusion surrounding the 8 GB and 16 GB versions of the RTX 4060 Ti, which hardly anyone wanted in the end. Whether AMD will do better here remains to be seen.

Market launch and competitive pressure

According to AMD, the RX 9060 XT will be released in the second quarter of 2025, i.e. sometime between April and June. Coincidentally, this is exactly when NVIDIA is also launching its 60-class on the market. This smells of direct competition and should make for heated comparisons. The pricing will be exciting: if AMD takes an aggressive approach here and does not make the 16 GB version excessively expensive, this could well be an advantage. After all, the last few years have shown that VRAM capacity is becoming increasingly important – and an 8 GB card could look old again in a year or two. Whether AMD is acting strategically clever here or simply blindly following the competition remains to be seen. What is clear, however, is that the RX 9060 XT will cause discussion with this memory strategy. And anyone who remembers the RX 7600 with 8 GB knows that AMD’s decisions in this area were not always entirely comprehensible.

Source: Harukaze5719