AMD didn’t supply much by method of efficiency contrasts, however it’s assuring that the cards have the exact same variety of calculate systems as AMD’s last-generation RX 7600 series. AMD states that RDNA 4 calculate systems are much faster than those utilized for RDNA 3, especially in video games with ray-tracing impacts made it possible for. This assisted make the Radeon RX 9070 cards usually as quick or quicker than the RX 7900 XTX and 7900 XT series, regardless of having around two-thirds as numerous calculate systems. Sticking to 32 CUs for the 9060 series isn’t interesting on paper, however we must still see a decent generation-over-generation efficiency bump. The RX 7600 series, by contrast, offered a quite modest efficiency enhancement compared to 2022’s Radeon RX 6650 XT.

AMD states that the cards’ overall board power– the quantity of power the whole graphics card, consisting of the GPU itself, RAM, and other parts– begins at 150 W for the 8GB card and 160 W for the 16GB card, with an optimum TBP of 182 W. That’s a shade greater than however normally similar to the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti, and (depending upon where real efficiency winds up) a fair bit more effective than the RX 7600 series. This partially boils down to a more effective 4nm TSMC production procedure, a significant upgrade from the 6nm procedure utilized for the 7600 series.

It’s uncommon for a GPU maker to specify a TBP variety– more typically we’re simply offered a single default worth. This is in line with brand-new settings we observed in our RX 9070 evaluation; AMD formally supports a variety of various user-selectable TBP numbers in its Catalyst chauffeur bundle, and some GPU makers were delivering cards that utilized greater TBPs by default.

Greater power limitations can increase efficiency, though normally the efficiency boost is disproportionately little compared to the boost in power draw. These power limitations ought to likewise usually indicate that a lot of 9060 XTs can be powered with a single 8-pin power port, instead of utilizing several adapters or the 12-pin 12VHPWR/12V -2 x6 port.