The Best-Worst 8GB GPU of 2025: 9060 XT vs RTX 5060 Ti

[Steve]

We tested AMD and Nvidia's latest 8GB GPUs and found major performance issues when compared to their 16GB counterparts. Here's how they hold up under real-world, VRAM-intensive conditions.

Read the full article here.

The Best-Worst 8GB GPU of 2025: 9060 XT vs RTX 5060 Ti

 

[BSim500]

"What if I wanted to cherry pick the same 6 VRAM bloated games AND insist on playing them on a 8x bus 8GB VRAM GPU inserted into an ancient PCIe 3.0 motherboard BUT despite the fact I can't afford a PCIe 4.0x motherboard, I somehow demand to want to max out 1440p 360Hz monitor" is as niche cherry picking as it gets. I'm pretty sure it's common sense that 1. Anyone with an old PCIe 3.0 motherboard (eg, 10th Gen Intel and older) who plans on keeping it around would rather buy a used 16x bus GPU (eg, RTX 3070) for less money than artificially cripple themselves like this, not to mention 2. Many people who buy low-end GPU's do so precisely because they want to play the other 99,994 / 100,000 games that aren't the same 6x artificially crippled cherry picked problem games recycled over & over...

I love Techspot but "Indiana Jones And the Great Circle is the centre of everyone's gaming universe, but if it used only 6GB VRAM then we would certainly have dropped it and found some other obscure title people don't play that also doesn't work and this is representative of what real-world budget gamers want" is getting ridiculously clickbaity vs what low-end gamers actually do in the real world (1. Play older / lighter weight games, 2. Focus on what they can play, not what they can't, and 3. Turn the settings down rather than deliberately cripple everything until it reaches 11fps @ 1440p then start posting "woe is me" clickbait Youtube videos for the 'likes'...) I've never seen such a huge gaping chasm of a reality split between what tech sites want people to believe budget gamers do vs how and what they actually do in reality...

 

[StrikerRocket]

By now, everyone understands this I think: do NOT buy an 8GB video card. And for manufacturers: STOP making 8GB versions of otherwise decent GPUs, artificially crippling them, you'll probably sell more of them doing so...

 

[dirtyferret]

"What if I wanted to cherry pick the same 6 VRAM bloated games AND insist on playing them on a 8x bus 8GB VRAM GPU inserted into an ancient PCIe 3.0 motherboard BUT despite the fact I can't afford a PCIe 4.0x motherboard, I somehow demand to want to max out 1440p 360Hz monitor" is as niche cherry picking as it gets.

Damn it! get with the program, if you don't spend $2k+ on your next PC in order to play a 15hour $19 game on STEAM's next sale than you just aren't a real gamer. Now if you excuse me I'm going back to play Civ 5 which still beats most modern games for replay-ability and fun. I think you need a 9800X3D and RTX 5090 to play it.

 

[axiomatic13]

So moving out of my big house in to a much smaller condo now that I am an empty nester. I am using a RTX 5060 in a Asrock x600 DeskMeet SFF system as an UNRAID system to host PLEX, Sonarr, Radarr, etc. It's doing its job very well. It was the only sub 200mm GPU that could do an AV1 stream.

 

[highwind]

So moving out of my big house in to a much smaller condo now that I am an empty nester. I am using a RTX 5060 in a Asrock x600 DeskMeet SFF system as an UNRAID system to host PLEX, Sonarr, Radarr, etc. It's doing its job very well. It was the only sub 200mm GPU that could do an AV1 stream.

There are several A310/A380 cards with about 150mm length for about 1/3 the cost of an 5060…

Current iGPUs could even do AV1 without the need of any dGPU

 

[axiomatic13]

There are several A310/A380 cards with about 150mm length for about 1/3 the cost of an 5060…

Current iGPUs could even do AV1 without the need of any dGPU

Being an UNRAID server, I am running way more than PLEX. I specifically need CUDA cores for my AI project.

 

[EdmondRC]

What is to attribute for higher framerates in the 5.0 for the 9060 XT 8GB than 4.0, 4.0 X16 is more than enough bandwidth for the GPU, does the additional bandwidth in 5.0 help with accessing system RAM in VRAM limited situations? I thought for the most part there was no benefit for PCI 5.0 with the currently available graphics cards, but perhaps in a VRAM limited situation 5.0 offers some help?

 

[ioliveirafarias]

"What if I wanted to cherry pick the same 6 VRAM bloated games AND insist on playing them on a 8x bus 8GB VRAM GPU inserted into an ancient PCIe 3.0 motherboard BUT despite the fact I can't afford a PCIe 4.0x motherboard, I somehow demand to want to max out 1440p 360Hz monitor" is as niche cherry picking as it gets. I'm pretty sure it's common sense that 1. Anyone with an old PCIe 3.0 motherboard (eg, 10th Gen Intel and older) who plans on keeping it around would rather buy a used 16x bus GPU (eg, RTX 3070) for less money than artificially cripple themselves like this, not to mention 2. Many people who buy low-end GPU's do so precisely because they want to play the other 99,994 / 100,000 games that aren't the same 6x artificially crippled cherry picked problem games recycled over & over...

I love Techspot but "Indiana Jones And the Great Circle is the centre of everyone's gaming universe, but if it used only 6GB VRAM then we would certainly have dropped it and found some other obscure title people don't play that also doesn't work and this is representative of what real-world budget gamers want" is getting ridiculously clickbaity vs what low-end gamers actually do in the real world (1. Play older / lighter weight games, 2. Focus on what they can play, not what they can't, and 3. Turn the settings down rather than deliberately cripple everything until it reaches 11fps @ 1440p then start posting "woe is me" clickbait Youtube videos for the 'likes'...) I've never seen such a huge gaping chasm of a reality split between what tech sites want people to believe budget gamers do vs how and what they actually do in reality...

Your analisis is very superficial, once you realize that RTX30 cards lacks newer codecs capalities and are fit for new AI features(not only FSR4), such a 2-gen old card makes no sense.

 

[guillejp]

So today I learned that the 5060ti 8GB is/uses and limits the PCI-E port to x8 instead of x16. Interesting!