Introduction
Computex 2025 is underway, and we are on the floor this year, grabbing all the latest news and checking out very cool new PC hardware to come this year. At this moment, it is time for AMD’s keynote and announcements, so be sure to watch the entire live stream. You can also check out our Computex subcategory for all Computex news. From AMD, we have some specific hardware announcements to share, including some slide decks and official press information about new things. This information is a cursory overview of the new announcements, but there is sure to be more in-depth information and coverage to come. For now, let’s look at a high-level view of what AMD is planning this year.
AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT
The big news for computer PC hardware DIY enthusiasts will be the announcement of the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT. To no one’s surprise, AMD will be launching a Radeon RX 9060 XT, which will sit just below the Radeon RX 9070 in its RDNA 4 GPU generation lineup this year for 2025. The AMD Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT launched earlier this year at the beginning of March 2025. We’ve reviewed a couple of Radeon RX 9070 XT video cards, and one Radeon RX 9070 video card you can check out. The Radeon RX 9070 XT had a limited time launch MSRP of $599, and the Radeon RX 9070 had a limited time launch MSRP of $549. The claim to fame of both is the use of AMD’s next-gen RDNA 4 architecture with improved Ray Tracing performance and FSR 4 support.
The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT will continue in the RDNA 4 lineup, slotting in underneath the Radeon RX 9070 in performance and pricing, and will be based on NAVI 44. Expected availability will be June 5th, 2025, and MSRP will be $349 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 8GB model. We do know there will be both an 8GB and a 16GB model of this GPU. The Radeon RX 9060 XT will have 32 Compute Units, 32 RT Accelerators, 64 AI Accelerators, 821 peak AI TOPS, and a boost clock of 3.13GHz with a Total Board Power of 150W-182W depending on the VRAM capacity model. Notably, the video card will support PCIe 5.0 x16 connectivity, which is good news considering there is an 8GB VRAM capacity model on older PCIe gen motherboards.
FSR 4 Redstone
AMD’s FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) is also getting an upgrade in the second half of 2025, called its FSR Redstone upgrade, with a suite of new features all powered by Machine Learning. Neural Radiance Caching, Machine Learning Ray Regeneration, and Machine Learning Frame Generation for better image quality are all coming to FSR 4 in the latter half of this year. You’ll be familiar with NVIDIA’s Ray Reconstruction, and therefore, Machine Learning Ray Regeneration is AMD’s version of that, as well as Frame Gen and Neural Radiance Caching. This will put AMD on parity with NVIDIA’s latest DLSS features. AMD is also expanding FSR 4 gaming support, which was FSR 4’s Achilles’ heel.
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700
This next one is for the professional crowd, namely, AI acceleration needs. AMD is announcing the AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics based on the AMD RDNA 4 architecture, basically bringing RDNA 4 to professionals. Specs include 128 AI Accelerators, 32GB of GDDR6, up to 96 TFLOPS peak half-precision, and up to 1531 TOPS INT4 sparse at 300W TDP. The key point here is the 32GB of GDDR6 as the sweet spot for popular AI models. AMD claims 2x better performance vs AMD Radeon PRO W78000 32GB model in DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B. AMD also claims improved performance, greatly over the GeForce RTX 5080 16GB model. This can be configured in a multi-GPU configuration with PCIe 5.0 connectivity. This will be available in July 2025 from many partners.
AMD Threadripper 9000 Series CPUs
AMD also announced some CPU news, with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series workstation processors. These consist of the Threadripper and Threadripper PRO CPUs. The gist is that these are based on the newest Zen 5 architecture on the 4nm process, up to 96 cores and 192 threads with up to 384MB of L3 cache, and up to 5.4GHz, up to 128 PCIe 5.0 lanes, on the sTR5 socket, enhanced AVX-512 with full 512b data path, up to 8-channel DDR5-6400 ECC memory, and will be available in July 2025.
Looking at the SKUs, the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9000 WX-Series consists of the 9995WX 96-core/192-thread, 9985WX 64-core/128-thread, 9975WX 32-core/64-thread, 9965WX 24-core/48-thread, 9955WX 16-core/32-thread, and 9945WX 12-core/24-thread. They all have up to a 5.4GHz boost, but the base clock does vary, as does the L3 cache size, and TDP is 350W.
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series for HEDT (High End Desktop) includes the 9980X 64-core/128-thread, 9970X 32-core/64-thread, and 9960X 24-core/48-thread, also with boosts to 5.4GHz and TDP 350W.
Conclusion
Therefore, for Computex 2025, AMD is announcing new graphics and workstation products for gaming, content creation, professional, and AI development. The Radeon RX 9060 XT is probably the most interesting for our audience, and it is confirmed that there will be 8GB and 16GB models of the same GPU, with the same GPU naming. The MSRP will be $349 for the 16GB model and $299 for the 8GB model.
We have seen that the initial launch MSRP of the Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT was a limited-time launch MSRP, and pricing is, in fact, not what the MSRP specified, but much higher in the real world in both retail and online today. Therefore, the Radeon RX 9060 XT MSRP should be taken with a giant bag of salt. Let’s see how that one works out in the real world on pricing and what gamers will actually be able to buy it at when launched, but at least we do now know the MSRPs on paper.
That said, we know the Radeon RX 9060 XT is what a lot of gamers have their eyes on to bring competition to the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti models, and is typically the more widely accepted range of GPUs for gamers since it is more affordable. We look forward to what it can provide, but if it is much like the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, you’ll want to aim for the 16GB model, and not so much the 8GB version, for gaming today on the PC in 2025. We look forward to getting them in to test, and finding out how it all applies and compares.
In terms of professional graphics, it is nice to see RDNA 4 come to professionals. RDNA 4 does include AI Accelerators; the Radeon RX 9070 XT and RX 9070 have them, as do the Radeon RX 9060 XT. The professional Radeon AI PRO R9700 has a lot more of them, as well as the all-important 32GB of VRAM for AI development. While AI is beyond the scope of this site, getting these professional cards out there helps developers, well, develop better towards RDNA 4 architecture hardware, and that’s a good thing for AMD.
In terms of the CPUs, it is also good to see Threadripper carried forward. Bringing Zen 5 to Threadripper is important, and we are happy to see both workstation WX-class CPUs as well as more affordable HEDT Threadripper for home power users or small businesses. More cores and threads, and importantly, more PCIe lanes are always welcome.
Overall, today’s announcements are high-level, and we hope to get more in-depth information on hardware, specifically the Radeon RX 9060 XT, at launch.