FAQs on my AMD RX 9060 XT

Last Thursday I talked about retiring my RTX 3070 for a new AMD RX 9060 XT. This garnered a few questions from you fine people, which I’ve aggregated here. Why not the 9070 XT? Price, availability, and requirements. The AMD 9070 XT is the best graphics card for the money you can get today, and the 9070 gets close to it while offering efficiency gains I thought the industry had long abandoned. If I didn’t have other life priorities for that money, I’d have bought a 9070. I got the 9060 XT because it was at a steep-enough discount that I couldn’t ignore it. Benchmarks also showed it being of comparable performance to my 3070. Turns out it still exceeds it in the workloads and games I care about, which was nice. Why not just retrofit/fix your 3070? My RTX 3070 was a great, if overpriced card for my needs. As I said, it was a big upgrade over my GTX 970, and let me play games during those Covid lockdown days. In spite its thermal and heat problems, it never made me feel like I was losing…