Nvidia RTX 5060/5060 Ti review: You can have “affordable” or “future-proof.” Pick one.

Summary

• Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 5060 GPU is “fine”, performing noticeably faster than the RTX 4060 it’s supposed to replace, but no longer does Nvidia have a substantial performance and power efficiency lead over AMD’s offerings.
• The 5060 runs roughly between 10 per cent and 25 per cent faster than the 4060 at 1080p and between 20 and 40 per cent (and occasionally more) at 1440p; it’s supposed to retail for the same price.
• However, buying the 5060 comes with two major caveats: one, 8GB of RAM is really starting to look limiting; and two, rival AMD’s similarly priced (in theory) RX 9060 XT offers better performance and will likely receive driver updates for longer.
• Unless you can find the 5060 for its $299 list price, it’s hard to recommend it over the AMD alternative.
• That said, the 16GB RTX 5060 Ti is a better deal at its list price of $429,offeringdecententry-level1440pperformance,butittooisfrequentlysellingfor$100 more than that.

By Andrew Cunningham

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