SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB
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ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB has 2048 shader units and these clock a maximum of 3.13 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 25.64 TFLOPS.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050 has 2560 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 2.60 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 13.32 TFLOPS.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB is equipped with a graphics chip of the RDNA 4 architecture, which has 32 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050 is based on the Blackwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 20 execution units.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB is equipped with a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 2.518 GHz clocks.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050 has a 8 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory and the memory clock is 2.500GHz.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB has a turbo clock of 3.130 GHz. The turbo frequency of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050 is 2.602 GHz.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB has 1 x 8-Pin connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as Unknown.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050 is equipped with a 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 85 °C.

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB are cooled with a Air cooling.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050 is cooled by a Air cooling.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050 supports HDCP in version 2.3 and all previous versions.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_2 (Ultimate).

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_2 (Ultimate).

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

The SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB is 41 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050 is 41 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

Manufactured using the 4 nanometer process, SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon RX 9060 XT 8GB was released in Q4/2025.

The ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5050 published in Q3/2025 is manufactured with a structure width of 5 nanometers.