MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ventus 2X Black 8G OC… vs GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC 16G… — Head-to-Head (2026)

Our verdict

GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC 16G… is our pick.

For most 2026 buyers building a 1440p gaming or local-AI PC, the Gigabyte Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC 16G is the better buy than the MSI RTX 4060 Ventus 2X 8G. It has twice the VRAM (16 GB vs 8 GB) for only a modest premium. We have no benchmarks for the RX 9060 XT yet, so this call rests on memory capacity and platform, not on measured fps.

Buy the MSI GeForce RTX 4060 Ventus 2X Black 8G OC if you need CUDA-only software (certain training scripts, CUDA-locked plugins, NVENC workflows), stay at 1080p or esports-level 1440p, and only run 7B-class models like deepseek-r1:7b, which uses 4.7 GB and runs at 42.60 tok/s. Buy the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 9060 XT Gaming OC 16G if you want 16 GB of VRAM for texture-heavy 2026 AAA games at 1440p, want to fit 13B–14B quantized LLMs fully on the GPU, or plan to keep the card for three or more years.

SpecPicks editorial verdict, written April 23, 2026. Prices move, so check the current price on each listing before you buy.