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Frank Azor defends AMD's 8GB Radeon RX 9060 XT launch plans.
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AMD defends its decision to release 8GB RX 9060 XT model
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Read more about AMD's defence of its 8GB Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
I really don't get why people complain about it. The people complaining aren't buying it anyway. It's a low mid-range card designed to be cheaper for the F2P esport gamer market.
AngryGoldfish
Old N Gold
I agree. While I don't like that they've named it what they have (removing the XT would make sense if they had no plans to make a 9060 non-XT in some other variant), the card itself is perfectly suitable for what many gamers are playing, even at 1440p. I would still recommend a 12GB card from past gen like the 7700XT for insurance sake, but if someone really wanted the latest and didn't care about TLOU or Doom, sure, go for it - it'll be an efficient GPU to fuel your love for Valorant or League of Legends.
KingNosser
Well-known member
as an low end esports it's fine but not many people are using 1080p these days in the west many are using 4k TV's that have gaming modes etc or like myself that and higher refresh rate 1440p sure you could turn it down in the game but in my view the 8gb card isn't worth making.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
This is objectively wrong. 1080p is still the dominant resolution and as AMD said the biggest gaming segment is esport and similar titles.
CSGO/2 is basically the most played steam game ever. If you only play that you don't need more than 8GB and at 1080p this card will give you great performance. Over half of all gamers on steam run 1080p and 1/3 have 8GB vram. There's at time of posting over 1 million CS players. That's quite the sizeable target audience. Doesn't even include LoL, WoW, Fortnite, etc.
Excalabur50
Well-known member
AMD are being absolutely full of it with this statement, in truth 8GB is UNACCEPTABLE in 2025 for the prices that they're charging, but putting all of that aside, just like Nvidia it's a predatory and scummy practice to have two different GPU's with the same name DON'T CALL IT THE XT!
If you persist with making an 8GB card separate it so that non tech savvy customers don't get ripped off by buying the compromised model.
They could have easily called the 16GB model the XTX as they've used that moniker already, there's NO excuse for not having a different name for the 8GB and 16 GB models.
If you persist with making an 8GB card separate it so that non tech savvy customers don't get ripped off by buying the compromised model.
They could have easily called the 16GB model the XTX as they've used that moniker already, there's NO excuse for not having a different name for the 8GB and 16 GB models.
KingNosser
Well-known member
Agreed Excalabur thou NBD note I said in the West cause last time I checked which is a very long time ago the steam stats are hardly anything to go by as most of them stats are from office laptops with integrated gpu's and laptops that have 1080p screens so i never take them stats as a benchmark of general consumer just steam itself cause personally I don't know anyone in my folk that use a 1080p screen anymore let alone as a main PC display possibly as a 2ndary display but not as a main.
NeverBackDown
AMD Enthusiast
So the largest sample size possible from any source you ignore because you think something different? That's certainly a take.
For the record, the most used GPU is a mobile rtx 4060. Not integrated graphics. And of all screens sizes 1080p is still most common plus multi screen is 3x1080p screens. Both over 50% share. Pretty hard to argue that one.
I don't have any skin in this game. This GPU isn't for me and I don't play esports. That doesn't mean the 8GB version is bad. It just means its not for YOU. the 16GB version is quite a good deal in today's market.
Just to prove I know 8GB is fine, I run a 3070ti at 1440p. I don't ever have any memory issues. I run into rasterization performance limits before lack of memory in the newest games.
For the record, the most used GPU is a mobile rtx 4060. Not integrated graphics. And of all screens sizes 1080p is still most common plus multi screen is 3x1080p screens. Both over 50% share. Pretty hard to argue that one.
I don't have any skin in this game. This GPU isn't for me and I don't play esports. That doesn't mean the 8GB version is bad. It just means its not for YOU. the 16GB version is quite a good deal in today's market.
Just to prove I know 8GB is fine, I run a 3070ti at 1440p. I don't ever have any memory issues. I run into rasterization performance limits before lack of memory in the newest games.
KingNosser
Well-known member
As an esports card fine but as a max settings card at 1440p nah 8gb isn't enough and most of the reviewers and testers will clearly show it hence look at a 5060ti 8gb vs the 16gb the 8gb suffers badly the simple fact here in my view is make only 16gb cards and charge in the middle at 329 than to gimp a product this is isn't a product i could get behind not if i wanted to play anything non esports related.
The vast amount of 3070 8gb tests that shows how badly it aged youd be better off in the 2nd hand market than buying a card like this.
The 60 class cards used to be mid range decent cards they now might as well be 50 class cards deliberately gimped to get you to upgrade sooner. Anything below an 80 series now has been generally gimped in some way. The 70ti's are the 60's of old.
I would much rather buy a 2nd hand 6900/50xt or 6800xt with twice the ram 2nd hand than to ever go near this product.
The vast amount of 3070 8gb tests that shows how badly it aged youd be better off in the 2nd hand market than buying a card like this.
The 60 class cards used to be mid range decent cards they now might as well be 50 class cards deliberately gimped to get you to upgrade sooner. Anything below an 80 series now has been generally gimped in some way. The 70ti's are the 60's of old.
I would much rather buy a 2nd hand 6900/50xt or 6800xt with twice the ram 2nd hand than to ever go near this product.
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