Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT GPU Review: AMD's RTX 5060 Rival Debuts

Speed Way is the most recent addition to the UL 3DMark graphics test suite. Speed Way uses the DirectX 12 Ultimate API and leverages advanced features like DirectX Ray Tracing tier 1.1 for real-time global illumination and ray traced reflections, Mesh Shaders, and high resolution textures and artwork. All of the graphics cards here were testing using the default benchmark options should you want to compare the performance of your system to our test rig...

UL 3DMark Speed Way DX12 Ultimate Benchmarks

In 3DMark's most-taxing DX12 test with ray tracing, the Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC trails all of the other cards we tested, except for the Radeon RX 7600 XT. The GeForce RTX 5060 is over 17% faster here.

UL 3DMark Steel Nomad DX12 Benchmarks

3DMark Steel Nomad is one of the newer cross-platform GPU benchmarks developed by UL Solutions as part of the 3DMark suite. This test is designed to evaluate the performance of modern gaming hardware in non-ray-traced scenarios, but using otherwise advanced rendering techniques with DX12.

With ray tracing removed from the equation, it's a completely different story. Here, the Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC shoots way up the chart, outpacing even the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti.

VR Benchmarks: Unigine Superposition And VRMark

Superposition is an aging benchmark from Unigine, powered by the UNIGINE 2 Engine. It offers an array of benchmark modes, targeting gaming workloads as well as VR, with both DirectX and OpenGL code paths. There is an extreme hardware stability test built-in too. Unigine Superposition uses the developer’s unique SSRTGI (Screen-Space Ray-Traced Global Illumination) dynamic lighting technology, along with high quality textures and models, to produce some excellent visuals. We ran Superposition's VR Future benchmark to compare the performance of all of the graphics cards featured here.

Unigine Superposition VR Future Test

Unigine's VR Future benchmark has the Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC outrunning the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti and nipping at the GeForce RTX 5060's heals.

UL VR Mark Blue Room Benchmarks

UL's VRMark was designed to test a PC’s readiness for HMDs like the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift. The benchmark does not, however, require that one of the headsets is attached to the PC to run and it uses an in-house graphics engine and content to ensure comparable results between different platforms. We ran the "Blue Room" VRMark test at defaults settings here, which is the most taxing test offered by the tool.


We saw more of the same with VRMark. The Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC and GeForce RTX 5060 are right on top of each other, with the GeForce RTX 4060 ti and Radeon RX 7600 XT falling behind.