Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs RTX 4060 Ti: early benchmarks show modest gains

[midian182]

In a nutshell: Nvidia looks set to unveil the RTX 5060 Ti next week, with prices ranging around $400. Will the 8GB and 16GB versions of the card be as disappointing as the other Blackwell series? Based on new benchmarks, probably: the 16GB RTX 5060 Ti has a 13% - 14% lead over over the RTX 4060 Ti.

Nvidia is expected to announce both 8GB and 16GB versions of the RTX 5060 Ti on April 15 and launch the card on April 16.

With their arrival so close, Geekbench entries highlighting the 16GB's Vulkan and OpenCL synthetic performance have surfaced.

The entry confirms the card's 36 compute units (4,608 CUDA cores), as well as the model's 2,647 MHz boost clock and 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM across a 128-bit memory bus.

In the OpenCL test, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB scores 146,234 points, which gives it a 13% lead over the RTX 4060 Ti. The result of the Vulkan test was roughly the same: 140,147 points for the Blackwell card, 14% more than its Lovelace predecessor.

The test was carried out using an X870E motherboard and Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU.

Like the rest of the RTX 5000 series, this isn't exactly the stunning generational uplift people were expecting before Blackwell arrived. We found in our review that the RTX 5080 was just 9% faster than the RTX 4080 Super, for example. The RTX 5070 fared even worse. And while synthetic benchmarks don't tell the whole story, the results don't bode well.

According to reports from earlier this week, the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB model will cost $379, while the 16GB variant is set to land at $429. But card prices are obscene right now, and finding one in stock, especially an MSRP model, can be a near impossibility at times.

Also on the way is AMD's Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card. Like the RTX 5060 Ti, it comes in 8GB and 16GB flavors.

AMD hasn't said much about its mainstream RX 9060 series other than confirming they'll arrive in the second quarter of 2025. It's expected that Team Red will price the RX 9060 XT to undercut the RTX 5060 Ti – it priced the RX 9070 XT cheaper than the RTX 5070 Ti.

Again, though, we're expecting the RX 9060 XT cards to face stock shortage problems and inflated prices. The fact there have been only a few RX 9060 XT cards spotted to date and quite a lot of RTX 5060 Ti cards compounds those concerns.

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Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti vs RTX 4060 Ti: early benchmarks show modest gains

 

[Megalomaniac]

I visited Microcenter 2 days ago. They only have the low end cards sitting there. Nobody wants them. 8GB is absolutely not enough unless you're limited to 1080p monitors and playing milquetoast games.
AMD's low end cards were sitting there as well.

Ultimately, the new gaming laptops will move most of the low end GPU chips as we move closer to "Back to School" for summer and September. Laptops priced between $799 and $1599.

 

[ScottSoapbox]

Of course the gains are modest. That was locked in the moment the 5080 was unimpressive.

If they had good gains, they would pass the card above them.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

So long as there are enough cards to satisfy demand and actually be available for MSRP, I don't actually care what the performance is at this point.

Just bring the prices of the used market down plz!

 

[TristanVanPoll]

Problems with prices hah

 

[manowar51]

They have no competition offering a better product for less money, so this is precisely how I expect Nvidia to behave. And Radeon isn't effective competition. The reviewers may swoon for Radeon products, but the market consistently shuns Radeon. Which to me makes sense, I've had some dreadful experiences with Radeon graphics cards over the years.

Im not really sure why anyone would expect anything else. Why should Nvidia (or anyone) give you more for less?

 

[toooooot]

What wait for us in 2 years? A decent 6090, and the rest of the cards that will offer some new AI features and no raw improvement (at the price reflecting rising costs of course)?

 

[LimyG]

Of course tech spot has to cover this, so this is not negative.

Just wanted to say that it was soooo very predictable. As for the 8GB card. Errm, who would buy that - if they game?

Pathetic Leather Jacketed CEO. Actually, no, he is clever because everything will sell out at a pleasant profit margin for them.

So, I suppose that would leave the customers to blame for letting them get away with this kind of rip off. Since the GTX 1080ti with it's 11GB DDR5X memory - it just gets worse every gen.

Blackwell takes first prize I think. Awful. Can't really blame NV though.
" Money for nothing, and ya chicks for free."

(If Jensen is into that kind of thing.) Leather protection?