Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB
16GB for $349. On memory per dollar, nothing new touches it.
Average in-stock listing $709 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $500), 2.0 times the $349 launch MSRP. See its price history. The links open live listings. Amazon links may earn us a commission.
Will it run your models?
VRAM meterLocal AI fit: up to low-20B class models. Rule of thumb for 4-bit quantized models; context length and other apps eat into the same memory.
Open models that fit comfortably at Q4
- gpt-oss-20b 21B · 11.7 GiB · headroom 2.8 GiB
- DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B 14.8B · 8.3 GiB · headroom 6.2 GiB
- Qwen3 14B 14.8B · 8.3 GiB · headroom 6.2 GiB
- Phi-4 (14B) 14.7B · 8.2 GiB · headroom 6.3 GiB
- Gemma 3 12B IT 12.2B · 6.8 GiB · headroom 7.7 GiB
- Mistral NeMo 12B Instruct (2407) 12.2B · 6.8 GiB · headroom 7.7 GiB
- Qwen3.5 9B 9.65B · 5.4 GiB · headroom 9.1 GiB
- Gemma 2 9B IT 9.24B · 5.2 GiB · headroom 9.3 GiB
Tight but possible: Codestral 22B v0.1, Mistral Small 3.2 24B Instruct (2506), Gemma 4 26B-A4B IT.
What it costs to run
160W of board power, 4 hours a day under load, priced at the residential electricity rate where you live. Pick a state and the numbers update.
Board power is the rated maximum; real gaming load usually sits below it and idle is a few watts, so treat this as the ceiling. Rates: EIA residential average, May 2026. See every card ranked by running cost →
Why you buy it
- 16GB VRAM at the lowest price of any current card
- Solid 1080p and 1440p performance
- 160W power draw
Why you hesitate
- An 8GB variant exists, check the box carefully
- ROCm support at this tier is hobbyist territory
The editor's take
AMD's answer to the 5060 Ti 16GB, and it undercuts it by $80. Gaming value is excellent and the 16GB buffer future-proofs it at this tier. For AI work the CUDA gap matters more down here where every driver headache costs you an evening, so gamers should grab it and AI tinkerers should think twice.
Decided?
Live listings for the Radeon RX 9060 XT 16GB, straight from the retailers.
Average in-stock listing $709 on Sep 26, 2026 (lowest $500), 2.0 times the $349 launch MSRP. See its price history. Amazon links may earn us a commission.