If there's one thing PC gamers must be itching for this generation, it's cheaper graphics cards. We've had the main entry-level GPUs hit the market now in the form of the RTX 5060, RTX 5050, and RX 9060 XT, but with prices being what they are in 2025, the more the merrier, I say. Now, AMD has stealth-launched the RX 9600, and the first set of benchmarks show it performing better than expected.
The RX 9060 was announced last week, and its specs were revealed to be cut back from the RX 9060 XT to the tune of a handful fewer compute units (CUs) and slower memory. Given the extent of the cut-back, I expected more of an RTX 5050 than RTX 5060 level of performance, but the first and only benchmarks for the new AMD GPU, delivered by YouTuber Technosaurus and harukaze5719 (via VideoCardz), show the opposite.
