Review Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB review: More VRAM and a price 'paper cut' could make for a compelling GPU

Once the 8GB model comes out would be nice to see a quick article focusing just on 4060 and 5060 8 / 16 finding the settings where 8GB stops being capable. The 1080p medium graph shows that the 8GB cards work fine at that level, but then the next step is "ultra" which usually has ridiculous texture sizes. Would be nice to see 1080, 1440, 2160 "high" or "very high", one step down from ultra and see how well those cards do. Someone buying a xx60 class card isn't going to have a good experience playing at 4K "ultra".

nvidia is afraid to bench the 8GB cards... Just buy an AMD card and be happy

It's right in the article just compare both versions of the 4060. Each test has a graph at the very end using 1080p medium and you can see the 8GB model does very well there. They didn't have time to do additional testing with "high" or "very high" intermediate levels and ultra has ridiculously large texture sizes that start to hurt 8GB cards. I see them as doing well on 1080/1440 with "high" settings, basically a budget gamer using whatever they can get their hands on. We laugh but I know a ton of guys like that at work, have wives and kids are upgrade a piece at a time.
 
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Once the 8GB model comes out would be nice to see a quick article focusing just on 4060 and 5060 8 / 16 finding the settings where 8GB stops being capable. The 1080p medium graph shows that the 8GB cards work fine at that level, but then the next step is "ultra" which usually has ridiculous texture sizes. Would be nice to see 1080, 1440, 2160 "high" or "very high", one step down from ultra and see how well those cards do. Someone buying a xx60 class card isn't going to have a good experience playing at 4K "ultra".
In our test suite, 1080p ultra is still playable in all 18 games on an 8GB card, or at least an 8GB Nvidia card. (The RX 7600 may have some issues in one or two games.) There are however games like Indiana Jones where 8GB represent a real limit to the settings you can use. The TLDR is that it varies by game, but 1080p/1440p "high" should be fine on an 8GB card. I'd still pay the extra $50 if I were in the market for this sort of GPU (assuming it's only a $50 difference, naturally).
 
So the new gen 60 TI class card cant even come close to matching the last gen vanilla 70 class card?
Seems like a really bad "upgrade" to me.
Definitely a 3 star, not 4, kind of score.

Also if you have been keeping up with the news Nvidia is purposely not letting 8gb cards get reviewed.
They told partners they are not allowed to sample those cards out for review.
The only way you will get 8gb card reviews is AFTER release and when they are purchased at retail by reviewers.

The only reason this is happening is because Nvidia knows the 8gb cards are crap. Making reviews wait until after retail availability ensures that at least the first batch will fly off shelves regardless.

Nvidia is a terrible company.
 
In our test suite, 1080p ultra is still playable in all 18 games on an 8GB card, or at least an 8GB Nvidia card. (The RX 7600 may have some issues in one or two games.) There are however games like Indiana Jones where 8GB represent a real limit to the settings you can use. The TLDR is that it varies by game, but 1080p/1440p "high" should be fine on an 8GB card. I'd still pay the extra $50 if I were in the market for this sort of GPU (assuming it's only a $50 difference, naturally).

Yeah it's all price dependent $50 USD to go from 8 to 16 is a no brainer, but there is a large market for older stuff including used cards (see your other article). Steam survey has 1080p being 56.40% of the market with 1440p being 19.06%, that's 3/4ths of the gaming market between those two resolutions. 8GB VRAM was 35.52% with 12GB at 18.42 and 6GB at 11.93%. Over 60% of the market was 8GB or less and only ~7.2% had 16GB or more. We've obviously got a center mass of sorts around 1080/1440 with 8GB, kind of the definition of "mainstream" and why I'm interested in that bracket despite youtubers claiming that a 8GB card can't run solitaire in 2025.

It's not sexy but it's the vast majority of the consumer gaming market and with economies being what they are are prices going up, that market segment wants to squeeze as much out of it's limited disposable income as possible.

I mean RX 7600 8GB at $290 USD. Dirt cheap by todays standards. The poster child of "1080p medium/high".

 
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I'd say this is a 3 star card.

Should have knocked a star off just because the 8gb model exists to up charge for the 16gb model.

The 19% rasterization performance improvement deserves another deduction because it is a terrible Gen over Gen increase, same across the 5000 series stack. Yes it's just a refinement generation, but even for MSRP you're talking over $400 for 1080p75/1440p60 in 2025 and not even matching last gens 4070, which will be made all the worse once custom editions tack on their upwards of $100 premiums.

Granted this is an upper entry level gaming card, a PC built around it is still very much more expensive than a console, and needs to have performance that justifies it.
 
I have checked my local market. All 8Gb cards were sold out while 16Gb were still in stock, some even at MSRP (although many had price close to 5070 lol). For me it is clearly foul play by NVIDIA: let the ppl watch 16Gb version reviews and then go buy cheaper 8Gb models coe they're cheapo and ppl don't understand difference.
 
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B580s are still in stock... So many similar cards tested from the big two, why not toss in the ARC B580 for buyer options? We know it sits in the 7600/4060 class or higher.
 
So the new gen 60 TI class card cant even come close to matching the last gen vanilla 70 class card?
Totally agree with you. I was kinda hoping the 5060ti would have a similar bump like the 3060ti did, being faster than a 2080 Super. I kinda figured from the reviews of the new gen 50xx models that it wouldn't really hit the point. But to do so, so unspectacularly is not good.

As pointed out, the 5060ti 16gb is the only choice for only $50 more. It's a no brainer.

I'm quite happy now with my 4070 Super, and have no FOMO. Well, maybe apart from the 9070XT, which I think is hands down the award winner in the last roll out of GPU's. Defo the stand out card right now, if they are available.
 
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I have checked my local market. All 8Gb cards were sold out while 16Gb were still in stock, some even at MSRP (although many had price close to 5070 lol). For me it is clearly foul play by NVIDIA: let the ppl watch 16Gb version reviews and then go buy cheaper 8Gb models coe they're cheapo and ppl don't understand difference.
Honestly, if people don't understand the difference between 8 GB VRAM and 16 GB VRAM, they shouldn't be spending $400+ on a GPU in the first place. But it's kind of hard to imagine someone knowledgeable enough to build their own PC not comprehending VRAM. The people who bought those cards most likely knew exactly what they were getting.
 
Honestly, if people don't understand the difference between 8 GB VRAM and 16 GB VRAM, they shouldn't be spending $400+ on a GPU in the first place. But it's kind of hard to imagine someone knowledgeable enough to build their own PC not comprehending VRAM. The people who bought those cards most likely knew exactly what they were getting.
Well, maybe, but a lot of folks buy prebuilt systems with these cards. They walk into a shop, little Jonny wants a new gaming PC, and boom, sale done, mediocre GPU, and away they go. Those folks don't know any better, but we can't say they shouldn't be buying a gaming PC without very detailed knowledge, because we know better. Not everyone builds their own PC either. Just sayin'
 
Well, maybe, but a lot of folks buy prebuilt systems with these cards. They walk into a shop, little Jonny wants a new gaming PC, and boom, sale done, mediocre GPU, and away they go. Those folks don't know any better, but we can't say they shouldn't be buying a gaming PC without very detailed knowledge, because we know better. Not everyone builds their own PC either. Just sayin'
That's fair. But I don't think the 8 GB card is going to be that terrible. Maybe that's just from my perspective as a 1660 Super user. Also, an uninformed buyer of pre-builts is likely to be burned in other ways too.
 
For years, the world of graphics cards has been the same as the world of buying tickets for live shows. It's a different world, it must be said, as lies are the only thing humankind has to offer.

While a show ticket may seem "reasonable" in theory, in practice it's nothing more than a charade, a well-oiled underworld. Indeed, a simple $200.00 bill will ultimately be "worth" ten times more, or $2,000.00. We can always attack the ticket traffickers, who make a living from these resales, but it goes further.

It is first and foremost the entertainment companies that profit from this. They even participate in the trafficking. It's very lucrative. Even though they claim to know nothing, it's completely false.

The proof is that this trafficking continues and will continue in the future, enriching the traffickers and, by extension, the entertainment companies. Yet, the ways to stop this trafficking are endless.

It's the same thing happening in the graphics card industry. Companies like NVidia and AMD claim to sell cards at "good prices" while knowing they'll sell for double, triple, quadruple, etc., the price.
Of course, just like entertainment companies, they make money from this trafficking. The ticket smugglers are very low-level in this most lucrative "market."

It's certain that the "Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB" card will sell for $900.00 or more. A profit margin of 1000% or more. It already makes at least 500% profit per card. It's understandable that the United States doesn't want the Chinese to enter the card and other market. Why make 20% profits when 100%, 200%, 1000%, 10000% are possible?

After all, this is the capitalist world that the rich call—and propagate every second through their propagandists (the "journalists")—"democracy"—in which we live.

Besides, nothing else will ever exist, because for humans, what's important is having money to consume, consume ever more, without worrying about the future, without even worrying about their own children, much less about others. More than a third of the population of the United States of America is poor, and we never talk about it, and even if we did, we would only talk about it. Why help others when we can get ever richer?

Money, God of humans. With television (with all this nonsense—that's all there is to it; we mustn't educate the people), smartphones, and consumerism, we do what we want with the people.

Okay, another very "pretty" theoretical "map" that will remain theoretical for some people.
But no matter, if 3% of the population (of 340 million) is millionaire, that's still more than 10 million rich people. And if 15% earn more than $100,000, that's 35 million wealthy people.
Plenty enough to easily sell anything. Enough to call Capitalism Democracy and extol its "merits."
The money must continue to flow, of course, into the hands of the wealthy and well-off.

Capitalism is truly the "brave new world." Moreover, the United States of America proves this by being the most "powerful" territory (countries have never existed and never will; to do so would require governments, and there are only politicians whose honesty is as great as a neutrino) on the planet.
All this because it "manages" all the money that exists on the planet...

This is surely why "scientists" say that Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis were idiots. Imagine living without money. A "heresy"...
Luckily, politicians and their friends, other rich people, appeared later...
Why move a "mountain" to say it "belongs" to us when a piece of paper, a few bits, can do it?

"Prediction"

2025
The minimum wage in the United States remained unchanged at $7.25/hour in 2025, compared to $7.25/hour in 2024.
Nvidia's market capitalization is $2.9624 trillion in 2025.
Average salary of a medical specialist in 2025: $1 million
Politicians, all millionaires and debt-free, and by extension their friends in the media (even richer and all debt-free) talk about: "crises," "debts," "deficit," "terrorists," "China," "the Russians."
The United States of America, every state in the United States of America, every city, town, village, everyone except the rich, is in debt, and getting deeper and deeper. In fact, this is proportional to all the money (about 90-95%) lying dormant in tax havens, which doesn't circulate, which will never circulate, which serves to satisfy, for a nanosecond, the endless greed of the rich, making their greatest satisfaction in seeing the poor, toothless, uneducated, without health care, without housing, and eating rats.

2026
The "Nvidia GeForce RTX 6060 Ti 16 GB" card will sell for $1,000.00 or more (profit margin of 1000% or more).
The minimum wage in the United States is $7.30/hour in 2026, compared to $7.25/hour in 2025. An extraordinary increase of 0.689%.
Nvidia's market capitalization is $3.5 trillion in 2026.
Average salary of a medical specialist in 2026: 1.2 million.
Politicians, debt, see 2025.

2027
The "Nvidia GeForce RTX 7060 Ti 16 GB" card will sell for $1,200.00 or more (profit margin of 1000% or more).
The minimum wage in the United States remains unchanged at $7.30/hour in 2027, compared to $7.30/hour in 2026.
Nvidia's market capitalization is $4 trillion in 2027.
Average salary of a medical specialist in 2027: $1.6 million
Politicians, debt, see 2025.

2028
The "Nvidia GeForce RTX 8060 Ti 24 GB" card will sell for $1,300.00 or more (profit margin of 1000% or more). The minimum wage in the United States remains unchanged at $7.30/hour in 2028, compared to $7.30/hour in 2027.
Nvidia's market capitalization is $4.5 trillion in 2028.
Average salary of a medical specialist in 2028: 1.8 million.
Politicians, debt, see 2025.

2029
The "Nvidia GeForce RTX 9060 Ti 24 GB" card will sell for $1,400.00 or more (profit margin of 1000% or more).
The minimum wage in the United States is $7.35/hour in 2029, compared to $7.30/hour in 2028.
A "very generous" increase of 0.689%. Nvidia's market capitalization is $5 trillion in 2029.
Average salary of a medical specialist in 2029: $2.0 million
Politicians, debt, see 2025.


2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, etc.:
A copy/paste of this article, modifying only the date and model number of the Nvidia card.

Propaganda, of which the media are only one tool, is the most powerful weapon ever invented by the rich.
 
For years, the world of graphics cards has been the same as the world of buying tickets for live shows. It's a different world, it must be said, as lies are the only thing humankind has to offer.

While a show ticket may seem "reasonable" in theory, in practice it's nothing more than a charade, a well-oiled underworld. Indeed, a simple $200.00 bill will ultimately be "worth" ten times more, or $2,000.00. We can always attack the ticket traffickers, who make a living from these resales, but it goes further.

It is first and foremost the entertainment companies that profit from this. They even participate in the trafficking. It's very lucrative. Even though they claim to know nothing, it's completely false.

The proof is that this trafficking continues and will continue in the future, enriching the traffickers and, by extension, the entertainment companies. Yet, the ways to stop this trafficking are endless.

It's the same thing happening in the graphics card industry. Companies like NVidia and AMD claim to sell cards at "good prices" while knowing they'll sell for double, triple, quadruple, etc., the price.
Of course, just like entertainment companies, they make money from this trafficking. The ticket smugglers are very low-level in this most lucrative "market."

It's certain that the "Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB" card will sell for $900.00 or more. A profit margin of 1000% or more. It already makes at least 500% profit per card. It's understandable that the United States doesn't want the Chinese to enter the card and other market. Why make 20% profits when 100%, 200%, 1000%, 10000% are possible?

After all, this is the capitalist world that the rich call—and propagate every second through their propagandists (the "journalists")—"democracy"—in which we live.

Besides, nothing else will ever exist, because for humans, what's important is having money to consume, consume ever more, without worrying about the future, without even worrying about their own children, much less about others. More than a third of the population of the United States of America is poor, and we never talk about it, and even if we did, we would only talk about it. Why help others when we can get ever richer?

Money, God of humans. With television (with all this nonsense—that's all there is to it; we mustn't educate the people), smartphones, and consumerism, we do what we want with the people.

Okay, another very "pretty" theoretical "map" that will remain theoretical for some people.
But no matter, if 3% of the population (of 340 million) is millionaire, that's still more than 10 million rich people. And if 15% earn more than $100,000, that's 35 million wealthy people.
Plenty enough to easily sell anything. Enough to call Capitalism Democracy and extol its "merits."
The money must continue to flow, of course, into the hands of the wealthy and well-off.

Capitalism is truly the "brave new world." Moreover, the United States of America proves this by being the most "powerful" territory (countries have never existed and never will; to do so would require governments, and there are only politicians whose honesty is as great as a neutrino) on the planet.
All this because it "manages" all the money that exists on the planet...

This is surely why "scientists" say that Homo habilis and Homo rudolfensis were idiots. Imagine living without money. A "heresy"...
Luckily, politicians and their friends, other rich people, appeared later...
Why move a "mountain" to say it "belongs" to us when a piece of paper, a few bits, can do it?

"Prediction"

2025
The minimum wage in the United States remained unchanged at $7.25/hour in 2025, compared to $7.25/hour in 2024.
Nvidia's market capitalization is $2.9624 trillion in 2025.
Average salary of a medical specialist in 2025: $1 million
Politicians, all millionaires and debt-free, and by extension their friends in the media (even richer and all debt-free) talk about: "crises," "debts," "deficit," "terrorists," "China," "the Russians."
The United States of America, every state in the United States of America, every city, town, village, everyone except the rich, is in debt, and getting deeper and deeper. In fact, this is proportional to all the money (about 90-95%) lying dormant in tax havens, which doesn't circulate, which will never circulate, which serves to satisfy, for a nanosecond, the endless greed of the rich, making their greatest satisfaction in seeing the poor, toothless, uneducated, without health care, without housing, and eating rats.

2026
The "Nvidia GeForce RTX 6060 Ti 16 GB" card will sell for $1,000.00 or more (profit margin of 1000% or more).
The minimum wage in the United States is $7.30/hour in 2026, compared to $7.25/hour in 2025. An extraordinary increase of 0.689%.
Nvidia's market capitalization is $3.5 trillion in 2026.
Average salary of a medical specialist in 2026: 1.2 million.
Politicians, debt, see 2025.

2027
The "Nvidia GeForce RTX 7060 Ti 16 GB" card will sell for $1,200.00 or more (profit margin of 1000% or more).
The minimum wage in the United States remains unchanged at $7.30/hour in 2027, compared to $7.30/hour in 2026.
Nvidia's market capitalization is $4 trillion in 2027.
Average salary of a medical specialist in 2027: $1.6 million
Politicians, debt, see 2025.

2028
The "Nvidia GeForce RTX 8060 Ti 24 GB" card will sell for $1,300.00 or more (profit margin of 1000% or more). The minimum wage in the United States remains unchanged at $7.30/hour in 2028, compared to $7.30/hour in 2027.
Nvidia's market capitalization is $4.5 trillion in 2028.
Average salary of a medical specialist in 2028: 1.8 million.
Politicians, debt, see 2025.

2029
The "Nvidia GeForce RTX 9060 Ti 24 GB" card will sell for $1,400.00 or more (profit margin of 1000% or more).
The minimum wage in the United States is $7.35/hour in 2029, compared to $7.30/hour in 2028.
A "very generous" increase of 0.689%. Nvidia's market capitalization is $5 trillion in 2029.
Average salary of a medical specialist in 2029: $2.0 million
Politicians, debt, see 2025.


2026, 2027, 2028, 2029, etc.:
A copy/paste of this article, modifying only the date and model number of the Nvidia card.

Propaganda, of which the media are only one tool, is the most powerful weapon ever invented by the rich.
Wow! Speechless 😉
 
nvidia is afraid to bench the 8GB cards... Just buy an AMD card and be happy
hilarious p[art is...you'd likely have less driver issues using a amd card this generation....Nvidia drivers this gen are as bad as past amd ones which is bad and soooo weird.

Do agree a 60 tier gpu should have min of 16 gb vram...if you want an 8gb low card just put it on a 50 tier. (which we all know the baseline 5060 is going to effectively be)
 
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More overpriced vaporware that nobody will be able to buy let alone at msrp. A quick perusal of my local microcenter stock shows 3 skus in stock with a single sku at $480 as the cheapest option. That's gonna be a hard pass from me
 
Video cards are way overpriced these days. The 5060 should be a $300 card. Corporate greed at NVIDIA is choking off the GPU supply line for bigger margin. $500 for a toy is ridiculous. I'll keep running my Geforce 1550 for Fort Nite and TF2.

Also TSMC N4 is a three year old FinFET node yet NVIDA charging a premium.
 
Video cards are way overpriced these days. The 5060 should be a $300 card. Corporate greed at NVIDIA is choking off the GPU supply line for bigger margin. $500 for a toy is ridiculous. I'll keep running my Geforce 1550 for Fort Nite and TF2.

Also TSMC N4 is a three year old FinFET node yet NVIDA charging a premium.
IDK if you meant the 5060Ti, but the 5060 is $299.
or did you mean the 5060 should be a $200 card?
MSRP 5060: $299
MSRP 5060Ti 8GB: $379
MSRP 5060Ti 16GB: $429

But yes, they have the typical Nvidia tax. The extra shenanigans tax on top doesn't look like it's helping either.
 
Now that NV and AMD have export restrictions on their AI cards to China, maybe they'll produce more graphics cards for the US market. Wishful thinking.

I bought a regular 4060 last year for I think $292. It came with a 1GB nvme card. I didn't need the card, but it doesn't hurt to add some extra storage. Now it seems like a bargain. It works fine for me. I have a UHD monitor and it upscales everything to UHD, even a 1080p source. So, I can play pretty much everything at 1080p and the picture looks great.

I have no intention of upgrading at these absurd prices. I can wait a year for prices to match msrp.