Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB vs. 16GB Tested Across PCIe 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0

[Steve]

We test how PCIe bandwidth impacts 8 GB GPUs like Nvidia's RTX 5060 when VRAM is exceeded and fall back to RAM. Let's see how bandwidth plays a major role in avoiding severe performance drops.

Read the full article here.

Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 8GB vs. 16GB Tested Across PCIe 3.0, 4.0 and 5.0

 

[m3diapers]

Why there is no configuration for 16GB PCIe 5.0x16?

 

[wildfirede]

Another day, another Article that 16 > 8, anohter month where the 12GB 5070 is top recomendation.

 

[ZackL04]

Why does the 8gb at PCI 4.0 sometimes outperform 1% lows of the 8gb at PCI 5.0?

 

[Xander3600]

Another day, another Article that 16 > 8, anohter month where the 12GB 5070 is top recomendation.

Not a lot of experts, or people in general, are recommending the RTX 5070. It's pretty expensive for the performance you get and especially with it having less vram than multiple lower end cards. 12GB really isn't a lot at that price. There will be an 18GB variant coming out at some point which will age a lot better, though that one is also going to be pretty expensive for what it is, most likely.

 

[wildfirede]

Not a lot of experts, or people in general, are recommending the RTX 5070. It's pretty expensive for the performance you get and especially with it having less vram than multiple lower end cards. 12GB really isn't a lot at that price. There will be an 18GB variant coming out at some point which will age a lot better, though that one is also going to be pretty expensive for what it is, most likely.

Was quoting this "The end result is that in nearly all regions, if you're shopping for a mid-range graphics card, the RTX 5070 stands out as the best option with the lowest cost per frame." - a few Articles ago.

 

[demonicmaniac]

That's because 12gb does not hit the wall yet that 8gb do - but mostly because the 9070 in most markets hasn't dropped in price at all and is above msrp while the 5070 is below msrp. cost per frame even 4k ultra settings it simply is the best option for consumers when looking at cost per frame currently with 12gb probably enough for a year or two at least before it becomes a hard limit.
As they also say in this article if the 5060 ti 8gb was named 5050 ti with a lower price techspot wouldn't like it for 8gb having issues running current games above low but it still would be acceptable.

 

[yRaz]

Why does the 8gb at PCI 4.0 sometimes outperform 1% lows of the 8gb at PCI 5.0?

it takes up compute power to supply the bus with the proper speed. There is enough headroom on the higher end cards that you don't really notice it