We've tested Nvidia's new RTX 5060 on the road at Computex 2025. With faster memory and more cores than the 4060, it looks promising – until you hit its 8 GB VRAM limit. Let's see how it performs.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Review: They Didn't Want This Out
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It's crazy that the 5060 is not even a worthy upgrade to the 3060 from 5 years ago.
Well they are going to bait the uninformed consumers to buying these vanilla cards (through OEMs etc), pump the profits and then release the super variants with better perf for the same price = profit again. If AMD can deliver acceptable perf with and keep the price of their $350 XT around MSRP they could grab some market share. OEM market is where AMD is weak though, imo that's one of the bigger reasons why AMD struggles to gain market share.
It's their way of selling the initial low yield products for the same price. And people actually buy it. Genius.
Vulcanproject
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It's like that joke where you have this massive factory to build the product and then the last step of the conveyor line leads directly into the trash. E waste.
The 5060 actually did better than I expected. If they'd given it 12GB of VRAM, it could have been a decent card. Now it looks like AMD is your only real option for entry-level.
Hopefully sales suffer enough for Nvidia to take notice and stop stagnating.
Hopefully sales suffer enough for Nvidia to take notice and stop stagnating.
Dreadcthulhu
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Neatfeatguy
Posts: 1,962 +3,852
4.5 years after the 3060Ti came out, two generations ago, and it barely out performs it. My brother was looking at perhaps upgrading his 3060Ti soon, but with how things are looking I told him he probably shouldn't waste his money....looks like I'm right, it would be a waste since all GPUs are overpriced right now.
takaozo
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This is real or wtf? You can still get 3060Ti for $200-220 today.
NVDOA waste of sand here.
NVDOA waste of sand here.
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demonicmaniac
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My biggest gripe with this - aside from all the **** they do pressuring reviewers to use mfg only in games it works to inflate benchmarks - is that they released it so 'long' after the 5060 ti 8gb. For me this card would make sense for 250 because the rt performance is certainly above the 3060 where it's possible to use it with vram and you can't discredit mfg entirely even tho I'd never use it.
My takeaway is that the 5060 ti 8gb is now even more pointless than it was before and nvidia just scammed suckers for 90$ more with that over the 5060. It is undeniable that it currently offers the best value in terms of fps/$ - which certainly just goes to show what a shitshow the gpu market is. Essentially I just dislike this card less than the 5060 ti 8gb and hope amd can deliver 9060xt 8gb for < 300$ forcing the 5060 to move to < 300 as well. Still not great but the options for a new efficient card < 300$ really don't exist.
My takeaway is that the 5060 ti 8gb is now even more pointless than it was before and nvidia just scammed suckers for 90$ more with that over the 5060. It is undeniable that it currently offers the best value in terms of fps/$ - which certainly just goes to show what a shitshow the gpu market is. Essentially I just dislike this card less than the 5060 ti 8gb and hope amd can deliver 9060xt 8gb for < 300$ forcing the 5060 to move to < 300 as well. Still not great but the options for a new efficient card < 300$ really don't exist.
"At 1440p, we saw several examples where 8 GB GPUs began to fall apart. In some cases, performance appeared acceptable, but the visual quality suffered due to missing textures that couldn't fit into local video memory."
As stated in the 9060XT article, beside a couple of games at 1440p at Ultra settings, 8GB is still an option if you are ready to make sacrifices for the prices. I find it ironic that you have the audacity to state SEVERAL when we are talking about a couple of titles in your sample of games that are some of the most demanding on the market.
If you use upscalling or if you drop the settings, then you will be able to manage having a playable experience at 1440p.
As for 1080p, 8GB is clearly not an issue either at Native or if you are upscaling from 1080p.
As stated in the 9060XT article, beside a couple of games at 1440p at Ultra settings, 8GB is still an option if you are ready to make sacrifices for the prices. I find it ironic that you have the audacity to state SEVERAL when we are talking about a couple of titles in your sample of games that are some of the most demanding on the market.
If you use upscalling or if you drop the settings, then you will be able to manage having a playable experience at 1440p.
As for 1080p, 8GB is clearly not an issue either at Native or if you are upscaling from 1080p.
I wouldn't be sure of that. This CP 2077 test shows 8GB could be a major issue in 1080p too."At 1440p, we saw several examples where 8 GB GPUs began to fall apart. In some cases, performance appeared acceptable, but the visual quality suffered due to missing textures that couldn't fit into local video memory."
As stated in the 9060XT article, beside a couple of games at 1440p at Ultra settings, 8GB is still an option if you are ready to make sacrifices for the prices. I find it ironic that you have the audacity to state SEVERAL when we are talking about a couple of titles in your sample of games that are some of the most demanding on the market.
If you use upscalling or if you drop the settings, then you will be able to manage having a playable experience at 1440p.
As for 1080p, 8GB is clearly not an issue either at Native or if you are upscaling from 1080p.
Upscaling can actually increase memory usage because the software to run it has to run in the GPUs VRAM."At 1440p, we saw several examples where 8 GB GPUs began to fall apart. In some cases, performance appeared acceptable, but the visual quality suffered due to missing textures that couldn't fit into local video memory."
As stated in the 9060XT article, beside a couple of games at 1440p at Ultra settings, 8GB is still an option if you are ready to make sacrifices for the prices. I find it ironic that you have the audacity to state SEVERAL when we are talking about a couple of titles in your sample of games that are some of the most demanding on the market.
If you use upscalling or if you drop the settings, then you will be able to manage having a playable experience at 1440p.
As for 1080p, 8GB is clearly not an issue either at Native or if you are upscaling from 1080p.
gingerbill
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The GeForce RTX 5000 series cards are so terrible they basically rebrand GeForce RTX 4000 series cards.
Please do not update. If you have GeForce RTX 4000 serious card stick to it as the GeForce RTX 5000 series cards are not faster than the GeForce RTX 4000 cards.
The RTX 5000 series cards are just basically rebrand GeForce RTX 4000 cards.
You should rarely be upgrading ANY hardware over 1 generation nowadays…. 2-3 gens is far better - although with this card, even that fails…
amghwk
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From the days NVIDIA reserved the best for the last (read the "Ti" cards) - medium to best, now it settled down in showcasing the worse and worse carsd in its timeline - from best to worst. How times have changed.
Though the 5090 is still the fastest, it is nevertheless a disappointing release when compared to the 4090.
Though the 5090 is still the fastest, it is nevertheless a disappointing release when compared to the 4090.
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I would want to hear your opinion then about the 9700pro, it's a 9070xt with 32gb of vram, they would be charging you hundreds of $ for 16gb of vram. Im sure youd be outraged about it, right?
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