I was planning to upgrade my graphics card, but prices have risen sharply. The RX 9070 XT recently cost around 3,999 BRL and is now closer to 5,999 BRL, occasionally dropping to 4,999 BRL. The RX 9060 XT went from roughly 2,600 BRL to about 3,999 BRL.
Because of that increase, I'm not sure whether upgrading is worth it. My RX 7600 XT has 16GB of VRAM and handles every game I play, although some titles struggle at Ultra settings, especially with ray tracing enabled. Dropping to Medium or High settings and disabling ray tracing gives me a smooth experience.
Would it be better to keep using the 7600 XT and save money for a later upgrade, or should I buy the 9060 XT now despite the inflated price? My system has a Ryzen 7 5700X3D, 32GB of DDR4 memory, a 750W power supply, and a 1080p 75Hz monitor.
3 Answers
I wouldn’t buy the RX 9060 XT at its current price. Your 7600 XT is well matched to a 1080p, 75Hz monitor, so the improvement may not feel significant enough to justify spending nearly 4,000 BRL. Keep using it, lower a few demanding settings when necessary, and wait for prices to become more reasonable or for a future upgrade that offers a much larger performance jump.
Upgrades make more sense for people coming from much older graphics cards or systems that can no longer run their games comfortably. Since you only need to turn off ray tracing or move from Ultra to High, there’s no urgent reason to replace your card. Save the money and upgrade later when you have a faster monitor or your current GPU genuinely starts limiting the games you want to play.
I’d keep the RX 7600 XT for now. It’s still a fairly recent card with 16GB of VRAM, and since it already runs all the games you play, an upgrade would mostly be paying a premium for higher settings rather than solving a real problem. FSR4 should also help in newer demanding games. Medium and High settings usually look very good, while Ultra and heavy ray tracing often have a poor performance-to-visual-quality tradeoff.
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