Got this to upgrade and replace an older GPU that was giving me problems. This installed right into my board and fired up right away! I am now getting great FPS on games running much higher settings than I was before. It runs cool and I have not had any overheating issues. Great card for the price!
David Bellows · 2026-03-26 · via amazon
★★★★★Team red is hard to ignore right now
This is my second AMD card in recent builds. My personal GPU is a 9070 XT, and this one went into my girlfriend’s PC. So far, it has been great.
If you are buying a new graphics card in 2026 or beyond and are not at least considering switching from green to red, you probably should. Price to performance on the red side is hard to beat. Raster performance is excellent, ray tracing is not quite on the level of team green but still very solid, and FSR is better than a lot of people give it credit for on these 90 series cards.
The Challenger cooler has been quiet, temps are under control, and it has had no stability issues. Just make sure you go with a 16GB model if you can. That extra VRAM is worth it.
Ben Lords · 2026-01-12 · via amazon
★★★★★The Best Budget Card on the Market!
This card is phenomenal. If you’re rocking an older gen card and are looking for a budget upgrade, this one’s the perfect choice. 16GB of GDDR6 is almost future proof and AMD’s FSR4 has almost caught up with Nvidia’s DLSS making for a card that performs well at 1440p gaming and slices butter at 1080p.
However! If you’re using a lower-mid range CPU you MAY experience some bottlenecking in some areas — specifically with video encoding. I’ve noticed when I stream to my friends on discord, I get frame spikes from downscaling my stream. Other than that I haven’t experienced any other hiccups, and this card is perfect. I’d rate it a 4.9 out of 5 easily.
Dailen Brown · 2026-03-05 · via amazon
★★★★★Great for beginner computer build.
Quiet operation. Easy to install. Works great so far.
Whitney13 · 2026-04-17 · via amazon
★★★★★Perfect Card, Exactly as Advertised. No Extras, just Performance.
Exactly what I was looking for and expected.
I first tried out ASRock when I upgraded to an RX 6600 XT awhile back, and it was also Challenger series. It gave me a long time of good use without any issues in build quality, heat distribution, or performance. I had read up online that ASRock Challenger series is basically the best bang for buck, all of the performance you want out of the card you are getting, with the trade off being subpar RGB or no RGB (which for my tastes is an upside, not a downside) and a dual fan heatsink rather than the triple fan set up of the higher tier cards, so less stellar heat dissipation than the more expensive series/brands.
But as I said, that 6600 gave me stellar performance, and continues to be of service in my spouses rig (playing new 2026 titles with ease). So when I was able to upgrade yet again with some "extra" hard earned money, I again looked to ASRock and the Challenger series. Thus far, this RX 9060 XT has been amazing. I don't care at all for the non-customizable "RGB" light bar on the side, but I do appreciate the inclusion of a tiny mechanical "light switch" to turn it off and keep it off...no software to install and have to reset after an update or anything like just, just switch it off with a piece of hardware and it will stay off forever. Nice. As for the thermals, it does perform poorer than its bigger and beefier brother cards in the more expensive series, but honestly in my experience that can be easily mitigated with a good case and good airflow throughout the rig, so I see no performance hits whatsoever, the thing never gets anywhere close to 90 C much less its TJMaxx of ~105. As a bonus, its not nearly as big and heavy of a brick as some other brands cards.
I cannot recommend this card enough. If you already know you want a 9060 XT and are just shopping different brands and series, this is indeed the better bang for buck. It does exactly as advertised, or as the Brits would say "It does exactly what it says on the tin".
