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TLDR; Amazing 1080p performance, great at 1440p with FSR and Frame Gen. Tons of VRAM which more games are needing. Highly recommended especially if you can pick it up around $380 like I did.
Upgraded from an RTX 2060 6GB to this RX 9060 XT 16GB, and all I can say is WOW!
This card is a beast at 1080p. I can see it being good for 1440p as well though I only have a 1080p monitor.
The 2060 could not play Oblivion Remastered at Low settings 30FPS, with this card I can crank most things to Ultra and hit over 60FPS without FSR. The game is poorly optimized so take that with a grain of salt.
Stalker 2 had the same issues with the old card, now I can crank it to full Ultra at hit 60FPS.
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle was another title my old card had issues on. With this card, I can hit full Ultra settings 80FPS without FSR.
FSR and their frame generation tech works just as good as Nvidia's these days so don't listen to people who say otherwise. AMD has made major improvements to these technologies over the years and are now just as good.
The only downside with AMD cards is Ray Tracing and Path Finding. I personally don't care much for that, preferring higher frames over looks always, so any game I can disable those features or turn them down, I do.
As for cooling, this Mercury edition is XFX's high end version of the card, so they've put a lot of focus on improving the cooling. This card barely hits 50c in most games I play! I use a very basic fan curve in MSI Afterburner, 0% at 0c then 100% at 100c, and it stays cool and quiet. I use headphones so noise levels don't concern me at all but this is a nice quiet card if you care.
Overall, highly recommended for budget/mid-range gamers. Performance is great at 1080p, online benchmarks say its great for 1440p as well especially with FSR/Frame Gen, temps stay very cool.
Only minor complain is the included GPU stand is too short for me. I have an older style mid tower ATX case that does NOT have a PSU shroud. If you have a newer case with the shroud or a mATX case, it should work perfectly for you. It only extends to around 5 inches total, in my case there is a good 8 inches of space between the GPU and the bottom of the case.
