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

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3 points for, and 3 points against, and it still got a score of 4 stars?
Some of these points must be worth more/less than others...


Wow! Speechless 😉
That name helps too, doesn't it?


$625 and ships may 23rd. Not sure what that is in USD.
A quick search for convert cad to usd currently nets $450.44.
 
All I need is distractions to waste away the remaining minutes of my life until I can finally find peace.

This card might be 10% faster, but will it give me aggressive, untreatable brain cancer? Because I think what I need right now is a faster way to get cancer.
 
This seems like an okay card with an okay price if the MSRP were real (though I think they should have just eliminated the 8GB version and made the 16GB the only choice and used $400 MSRP). The one pleasant surprise is that despite the 20W higher power target it doesn't really seem to use that much more than the 4060 Ti. Overall I suppose not being disappointed is a win for this generation from nvidia. Still hoping AMD brings right priced competition with the 9060 cards and Intel decides to take a run at mid range because we're still talking $400+ cards with minimal generational uplift.

One note regarding the 4060 Ti: 16GB model has 165W power target compared to 160W on 8GB.
 
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I didn't have time to rerun some of the B580 numbers, though I do have them. I may add them later today/tomorrow.
Do not bother with other people saying 3 stars. You are the reviewer, not them. I am tired of the quibbling over X/5. Place it where you think its best suited because this is your opinion, not everyone else's combined rating.
 
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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.
It isn't terrible, they even included medium settings to show the lower bounds. Basically 8GB is fine for 1080/1440 on high. Going above that really should have a higher end card.
 
Oh look... Jarred gave another RTX 5000 GPU a grossly over-positive review score for what's actually at BEST incredibly mediocre hardware... What a surprise... Not. 😑
Oh look another Jarred hater.
My opinion, he benchmarks before forming an opinion, wild concept, I know.
He’s pretty consistent in his testing and very thorough. So if his review feels “over-positive,” maybe it’s less about bias and more about you expecting every GPU to be a gaming revolution.

Maybe, just maybe he likes what he does, has an open mind and does his job well...... what a concept.
 
I want to say that is a nice card... But with 180w TBP for those numbers it's a waste of sand.
nvidia is afraid to bench the 8GB cards... Just buy an AMD card and be happy

What sort of bs comment is this. You pull "180W" out of it's specs and think you know everything about how efficient it is?
It's actually MORE efficient than the 4060 Ti.. but sure just pull random sht out of azz. AMD won't be able to compete with Nvidia's efficiency at any price point this generation.

Afraid to bench 8GB? Bruh, go look at a 4060 Ti 8GB.. it's not really much different. It's there to fulfill a price segment.
Get a grip and think about how to do better with your posts, it really isn't hard when ur default is 🚮.
 
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Basically the same performance as 7700XT in raster and not much faster in RT. 9060(XT) should do very well when it's released next month.

It'll do well but be the better card? I doubt it but for the price it won't go wrong, AMD have built up some goodwill.
7700XT is 192-bit, 9600 and XT are 128-bit, Nvidia has the advantage with the better architecture and with DLSS, 7700XT has no FSR 4 so you're relying 100% on raster unless you want to sacrfice image quality considerably. Also I can't find 7700XT here in NZ new either.
 
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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.

Cool rant bro.

Thing is, you can substitute any government type in there and it's still true.

Ergo, the overall problem is something else.
 
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Pretty much a useless review. Why? All game graphs start at 7600 / 4060. And then above 5060 there's a a bunch of GPUs like 9070. Shouldn't it be other way around? Showing eg 2060 and 3060 users what they'd gain by moving to 5060? Or are we just trying to entice everyone to get 5070/9070 cards. I doubt many 9070 owners are looking at downgrading to 5060, nor do I think many 4060 owners plan upgrade to 5060 this soon and at theae prices (and low perf bump). Nice amount of graphs and pages, but - useless.
 
Pretty much a useless review. Why? All game graphs start at 7600 / 4060. And then above 5060 there's a a bunch of GPUs like 9070. Shouldn't it be other way around? Showing eg 2060 and 3060 users what they'd gain by moving to 5060? Or are we just trying to entice everyone to get 5070/9070 cards. I doubt many 9070 owners are looking at downgrading to 5060, nor do I think many 4060 owners plan upgrade to 5060 this soon and at theae prices (and low perf bump). Nice amount of graphs and pages, but - useless.
This was done already by Jarred, but the entire lineup for the last 10 years is there.

https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gpu-hierarchy,4388.html
 
“Better to have Blackwell's features than not”

Really? Depends on your needs. A full quarter of my Steam purchases are pre 2015 and some of my favourite games use PhysX. I’ll hold off…
 
“Better to have Blackwell's features than not”

Really? Depends on your needs. A full quarter of my Steam purchases are pre 2015 and some of my favourite games use PhysX. I’ll hold off…
Personally, I'm far, FAR more concerned with having the new features Blackwell supports (DLSS 4, faster AI, even MFG) than I am with keeping support for a not-widely-used tech that has been defunct for a decade (PhysX). Yeah, it's annoying PhysX and 32-bit CUDA were dropped, but things that are actively in development and use have switched from 32-bit already. I haven't played a game that used GPU PhysX in well over five years.
 
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Personally, I'm far, FAR more concerned with having the new features Blackwell supports (DLSS 4, faster AI, even MFG) than I am with keeping support for a not-widely-used tech that has been defunct for a decade (PhysX). Yeah, it's annoying PhysX and 32-bit CUDA were dropped, but things that are actively in development and use have switched from 32-bit already. I haven't played a game that used GPU PhysX in well over five years.
Then you should be playing Mirror's Edge more often!
 
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.

[SNIP!]
Yeah, sorry... welcome to the ignore list. It's such a wild premise to begin with, that GPUs are like concert tickets. Just because both can be scalped doesn't make them the same, and there's no way in hell the 5060 Ti 16GB sells for $900+ when you can already buy 5070 cards for anywhere between $550 and $700. So the long diatribe with garbage numbers can go to the bin where it belongs as far as I'm concerned.

Bye, Freud. I didn't much care for your philosophy and psychology when I had to take those classes back in school, and apparently I still don't! LOL
 
Then you should be playing Mirror's Edge more often!
LOL. I played it back in the day. Even used it as a benchmark at AnandTech for a while. I don't need to return to it, or the Batman Arkham games (which are still the best implementation of PhysX IMO). I have hundreds of games I'd rather try out before I decided to go back to things I already played.

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Speaking of benchmarks, I've updated all the charts to show Arc B580/B570 numbers. It was an oversight to not include them originally, considering I have the 4060 and 7600/7600 XT in the charts. But, time crunch always causes things like that.

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As for the score whiners, I look at it like this: Point to a better card you can buy at a similar or lower price RIGHT NOW. Is the 5060 Ti 16GB faster than the 4060 Ti 16GB? Yes. Unequivocally. The numbers there are simple, 15~20 percent. Is MFG and AI stuff worth something extra relative to the previous generation? Again, I'd say yes — probably only 10%, but that's still something. Is the price better than the previous generation? On paper (which is why "price paper cut" is in the headline), yes. In practice? Also yes, unless you include used cards. So basically, it's about 30% "better" than the 4060 Ti 16GB and costs 5~15 percent "less," which is about a 40~50 percent improvement.

Right now, I can drive down to Micro Center and there are actually RTX 5060 Ti 16GB cards in stock, starting at $479. There are no RTX 4060 Ti 16GB (or 8GB) cards available. Online, 5060 Ti shows up as out of stock everywhere, but it's only the day after launch, while the lowest price on a 4060 Ti 8GB is $533.

Given we've seen 5070 relatively available, at 10~15 percent above the MSRP, I expect the same to happen with 5060 Ti cards. It will take a few weeks. But speaking of Micro Center, my local (ish) store also has 18 RTX 5070 cards in stock, at $549. So given the performance, no, I wouldn't recommend the 5060 Ti 16GB at anything above $450, which is why I expect it to generally fall back toward MSRP. That or the 5070 MSRP cards will need to forever disappear.

Anyway, TLDR: At $430~$450, I think the 5060 Ti 16GB offers a reasonable blend of performance and features and warrants the 4-star score. At higher prices, the score would drop, but there's no way to accurately predict where prices end up. And that's really "higher relative prices" — because if everything ends up costing 20% more, and you can't buy previous generation hardware at significantly lower prices, then we can hate it but it becomes the new norm. I don't score based on the "good old days" is what I'm saying, I guess.
 
Personally, I'm far, FAR more concerned with having the new features Blackwell supports (DLSS 4, faster AI, even MFG) than I am with keeping support for a not-widely-used tech that has been defunct for a decade (PhysX). Yeah, it's annoying PhysX and 32-bit CUDA were dropped, but things that are actively in development and use have switched from 32-bit already. I haven't played a game that used GPU PhysX in well over five years.

Same here. Last PhysX game I played, was probably back in 2019, with my 1050 Ti.

5090’s MFG and improved Ray Tracing performance, have proven to be much more useful to me, than an obsolete tech that I’m not even missing.
 
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LOL. I played it back in the day. Even used it as a benchmark at AnandTech for a while. I don't need to return to it, or the Batman Arkham games (which are still the best implementation of PhysX IMO). I have hundreds of games I'd rather try out before I decided to go back to things I already played.
Everybody's different. Some people never watch a movie more than once, no matter how good it was, which I find odd. Others will rewatch a movie they like multiple times in a week.

Mirror's Edge is one of those games I return to once every couple of years or so, since it's such a blast and is a relatively short experience. But big, open world, checklist-y games? Yeah, those I'm much less likely to play through more than once (if at all).

I once saw someone who said he plays through Mirror's Edge every Christmas Eve. Kind of a fun tradition.
 
Personally, I'm far, FAR more concerned with having the new features Blackwell supports (DLSS 4, faster AI, even MFG) than I am with keeping support for a not-widely-used tech that has been defunct for a decade (PhysX). Yeah, it's annoying PhysX and 32-bit CUDA were dropped, but things that are actively in development and use have switched from 32-bit already. I haven't played a game that used GPU PhysX in well over five years.
They all come and go for other features, that's natural. Now, if PhysX and 32-bit CUDA weren't PROPRIETARY, there might be less of a fuss over it.

Everyone doesn't play the same games, an issue I have with the 'X game average' charts from some of the reviewers I check, but I guess it's something...


Everybody's different. Some people never watch a movie more than once, no matter how good it was, which I find odd. Others will rewatch a movie they like multiple times in a week.
That reminds me, I must have watched The Hunt For Red October over 50 times...

Some of these newer titles just don't have the replay-ability of the old - or perhaps that's just nostalgia clawing at my 38-year old self.
 
That reminds me, I must have watched The Hunt For Red October over 50 times...
I haven't seen that. Sounds like I ought to give it a watch.

Some of these newer titles just don't have the replay-ability of the old - or perhaps that's just nostalgia clawing at my 38-year old self.
I do think modern high-budget games tend to be excessively bloated, but there are always exceptions, as well as indie and AA games.
 
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