Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Review: They Didn't Want This Out

[brucek]

Such a shame that Nvidia insists on wasting scarce wafers on this while the memory that could have made it useful is readily available at low cost.

 

[llamapanda]

Any chance of updating the graphs to include the 9060XT results? Their prices are theoretically comparable once the discounts/market adjustments kick in, so would be useful to see exactly how badly AMD spanks nVidia in the mainstream market this time round.

 

[Liranan]

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?

That's what the XT should have been but they won't sell 32GB at a decent price because AAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII.

 

[nismo91]

So 8GB 5060 is more or less a slightly overclocked 3060ti with less TDP. got it.

 

[OortCloud]

So 8GB 5060 is more or less a slightly overclocked 3060ti with less TDP. got it.

Also with 50% less VRAM so, especially with more recent titles, it will either refuse to run the games at all or will suffer from horrible stutters as it starts texture thrashing. This will be even more problematic if you try to run at a higher resolution. You're better off with a 3060 ti.

It's hard to imagine that it can't even beat its own TI equivalent from 3 years and 2 generations ago. It's so awful I'd give 25% in a review tops.

 

[candle86]

I feel pretty good about the RTX 2070 Super I snagged for $150 to replace my dying RX 5600XT, seems I made a smart move, Nvidia still has nothing to offer

 

[takaozo]

And we have the prices here in East Europe, 350 Euros plus VAT = 400 euros.
This is the price of used 4070 12GB or 3080 10GB.

 

[Hooda Thunkett]

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.

While I would hope that would be the case, I suspect that Nvidia would just assume that nobody wants a cheap, efficient, good graphics card anymore and just discontinue cards in the lower tier.

 

[meric]

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.

Agree 100%. This card should have had 12GB, it would sell very well.

 

[ScottSoapbox]

While I would hope that would be the case, I suspect that Nvidia would just assume that nobody wants a cheap, efficient, good graphics card anymore and just discontinue cards in the lower tier.

I'm not sure. With their market share, they may win sales by default on the cheapest prebuilds that they don't want to give up to AMD.

If they keep tarnishing their reputation that may change in the future, but they probably have another gen before enough damage is done to shift the pre-builders parts orders much.