RX 9060 XT Roundup: ASRock, PowerColor and Sapphire Tested!

1. Introduction2. ASRock RX 9060 XT Steel Legend3. PowerColor RX 9060 XT Hellhound4. Sapphire RX 9060 XT Nitro+5. Testing Methodology6. Game Benchmarks7. Clock Speed8. GPU Temperatures9. Acoustics10. Noise-Normalised Temperatures11. Power Draw and Efficiency12. Overclocking13. Closing Thoughts14. View All Pages

For our temperature testing, we measure steady-state GPU temperatures under load. A reading under load comes from running A Plague Tale: Requiem for 30 minutes.

As for GPU thermals, remember this is looking at out of the box behaviour, so noise levels aren't taken into account. Still, it's great to see that even the warmest results – the Hellhound's Silent BIOS – are still very good overall, with the GPU at 66C and the hot spot at 82C. Yes, the likes of the Nitro+ and the Steel Legend do run cooler, but it's great to know you could buy any of these cards, stick them in your machine and they'll run nice and cool without any tweaking.

Memory results follow a similar trend, with the Hellhound running joint-hottest alongside the ASUS Prime, though the Nitro+ and Steel Legend offer small improvements. GDDR6 memory temperatures do seem higher with RDNA 4 than previous generations, but the results are still well within safe limits.

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