On paper, the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT 8 GB makes a whole lot of sense. I was particularly impressed by the RX 9060 XT 16 GB when I tested it last year, and the 8 GB version is usually substantially cheaper. In fact, out of all of AMD and Nvidia's current-generation graphics cards, it's the most affordable of the lot. Dropping the VRAM to 8 GB can't make that much of a difference, can it?
Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but yes it can. Not all the time, of course. Certain games at high settings, though, will hamper the AMD card's performance quite badly—and crucially, in a more significant way than its main competition, the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB.
Does that make the RX 9060 XT 8 GB a total write off? Nope. In fact, if the Nvidia card didn't exist, I'd be tempted to call the AMD GPU's performance pretty good for its paltry MSRP of $299. The RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB doesn't have it all its own way in my benchmarks, either. So...
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