RTX 5060 - No Reviews?

[JustBenching]

But who wants to watch that guy shoveling the schmoo? Not here.. Not going to waste my time on such a dolt.

That's why I said close your ears and just watch the numbers. That's what im doing

Really? Steve Walton was objective?

No, he wasn't, but his numbers disagreed with his conclusion. "5060 is bad don't buy, but it offers the best perf / $ of any card we have ever seen". So, tough to argue

 

[lexluthermiester]

No, he wasn't, but his numbers disagreed with his conclusion.

Ok, I'll go look.

EDIT: Just looked, kept it on pause and just looked at the graphs. Seems like a solid improvement over the 4060 and even the 4060ti in most of those benchmarks at 1080p and even 1440p with a few exceptions. Keeping in mind all those tests are done with max settings. Turn a few things down and Bob's your uncle(as always). Hell in a few of those games it's bumping up close to a 4070, which I found surprising!

Steve's own numbers show the 5060 8GB is a very solid budget offering, his silly rhetoric not withstanding..

 

[Outback Bronze]

No, he wasn't, but his numbers disagreed with his conclusion. "5060 is bad don't buy, but it offers the best perf / $ of any card we have ever seen". So, tough to argue

Lol yeah totally have to agree with this statement. It's quite contradicting.

 

[wolf]

Seems unlike Steve, he usually chooses his conclusion and then constructs the testing in a way that it will lead to said conclusion.

This time he had the conclusion in mind yet the testing itself paints a considerably more positive picture.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Lol yeah totally have to agree with this statement. It's quite contradicting.

Yes. 100% agree. The numbers say good things about the card.

This time he had the conclusion in mind yet the testing itself paints a considerably more positive picture.

Exactly.

@W1zzard
Please do get and review one of these cards! Another PNY model would be a solid choice. We all know the drama that will come, but we also need your objective and impartial look at it.

 

[eidairaman1]

I'd personally wait for the 9060 XT myself. Brand new with warranty. You don't know how many of those 6800's have been mined on. Problem would be released MSRP as usual, but good points non the less

About 98% should go this route, bnib, not used (general statement, nothing to do with a particular card)

 

[Todestrieb]

Look, if you need all these boxes ticked: newest gen, NVIDIA, cheap, right now, then 5060 is the choice.
Driver support timeframe is something I don't care that much, but is a fair point to sway towards NVIDIA.

The problem of buying 5060 is...
- If you can wait a bit and can accept AMD cards, there's the looming shadow of 9060XT and not-yet-announced 9060-non-XT. And a rumoured RTX5050 (but do not take this one too seriously for now). If 9060XT and 9060 stays close at their MSRP, they can offer a better performance/price ratio. Unfortunately I don't have a crystal ball to say if this will be true.

- If you can accept older / used cards, used 3070/Ti/4060Ti makes sense. On this side of the world 3070Ti is USD~250 equiv so it isn't a bad deal, but beware some 3070/Ti might have been used to mine. Still not something I would care (because, erm, I mined quite a little bit on my 3070 and nothing bad happened), but FYI.

OP has at least implied 8GB VRAM is fine in his use case.

 

[lexluthermiester]

OP has at least implied 8GB VRAM is fine in his use case.

It's fine for a lot of people and the numbers prove that.

 

[Todestrieb]

It's fine for a lot of people and the numbers prove that.

I'm personally not okay with 8GB even at 1080p (maybe it's because I refuse to drop below high settings).
But this is more of an attempt to steer away from that kind of discussion, because it's clear that OP is in a tight budget and I'm tired with that kind of threads (even though they helped kill my work time.)

 

[oxrufiioxo]

No, he wasn't, but his numbers disagreed with his conclusion. "5060 is bad don't buy, but it offers the best perf / $ of any card we have ever seen". So, tough to argue

Not really the 4060ti 8GB and 7800XT both had better cost per frame at the initial review of the 7800XT and neither of those cards were good either.





Both the 4060 and 7600XT also had better cost per frame.....Also not good cards

 

[lexluthermiester]

I'm personally not okay with 8GB even at 1080p (maybe it's because I refuse to drop below high settings).

And that's fair. Everyone has their own thing. No worries.

But this is more of an attempt to steer away from that kind of discussion, because it's clear that OP is in a tight budget and I'm tired with that kind of threads (even though they helped kill my work time.)

Yeah, it has gotten tiresome, and am very certain the mods are tired of it as well. I've kinda toned myself down because of that as a way of not being too burdensome to them.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Yeah, it has gotten tiresome, and am very certain the mods are tired of it as well. I've kinda toned myself down because of that as a way of not being too burdensome to them.

For sure regardless of how good or bad some of us think the 5060 8GB is if the OP can't afford a dime over 300+tax and is not comfortable buying used which I am not a fan of it is what it is..... AMD is late as usual with their 9060 series but OP should probably wait 2 weeks just to see.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Is it Well spoken in the meida?


Do you not read what I said about the "RTX 4060 being crapped by On Reviewer's" or do just ignore what I wrote?
If your going to cherry pick you reply Please keep on the topic of what I actually said & not what you believe. Other wise don't quote me again.

I feel like you misunderstood me. There's more than a bit of sensationalism with techtubers these days, and the critical mistake is to think the consumer is stupid. That's the worst mistake anyone can make, really. This outrage of low VRAM exists here, and only here in the tech community.

Normies read things like the PC Gamer mag, which I will quote their 77% review score

The RTX 4060 is fundamentally a good video card. Its stellar performance per watt, DLSS and frame generation support, and RTX 3060-beating performance are definite positives. It would be considered VERY good if it was a bit cheaper and called the RTX 4050. But the die is cast, it's the RTX 4060 by name, and it doesn't do enough to excite us at $299.

Hm, good video card, you say? Stellar performance per watt? DLSS and frame generation support? Sold. Oh, you say it's a bit more expensive than it should have been? Ah whatever, prices on everything are crap anyway.

Are you honestly surprised?

You mean the marketing guy, whos job it is to market a product? Consider me surprised /s

At least AMD admits their mid range cards are intended for e-sports, not the CEO standing on stage going wow look at this card rendering the backdrop, but 9 out of 10 pixels are AI, and wow how did this 5060 fit into a laptop.

FOMO is very much a thing at the mass market level, these level of cards are intended for the mass market, where people will be buying them because it's what they can afford, or because the card is in a OEM system and the buyer doesn't know any better other than it's a newer card so it must be better. I dunno but I sure don't buy a card for the "je ne sais quoi" I buy a card because it plays games, then again I don't expect those with a taste for foie gras to understand the pain that is the GPU market in 2025. Especially since both Nvidia and AMD want to sell you beans on toast for the cost of what should be a nice meal, and the used market isn't any better.

The 5060 only ticks one of those boxes, it's the newest product, so the average gamer will feel FOMO and buy it because it's newer than their 2060 or 3060, many reviewers gave it well deserved criticism
for being too expensive while not providing any significant uplift over a RTX 4060Ti. As for the Switch 2, it'll sell well of course, because it's Nintendo, and Nvidia fans are hyping it up just because of the Nvidia SoC in it, but that doesn't mean the Switch 2 is also overpriced while being underwhelming.

And the answer to all that is, "Marketing, the soul of the business." A product being desirable doesn't necessarily mean that a product has to be good - the brand, and the name alone go a long way towards selling something.

 

[lexluthermiester]

For sure regardless of how good or bad some of us think the 5060 8GB is if the OP can't afford a dime over 300+tax and is not comfortable buying used which I am not a fan of it is what it is.....

And a lot of people are in that place in life currently. There's no shame in it because of how crazy and wild the world economy is. This is why I think the 5060 series and even the 9060 series are going to be a godsend for many people looking to build a new PC on a limited budget.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

And a lot of people are in that place in life currently. There's no shame in it because of how crazy and wild the world economy is. This why I think the 5060 series and even the 9060 series are going to be a godsend for many people looking to build a new PC on a limited budget.

For sure the next worthwhile card currently is the 5070 and it's over twice the price at least here.... Good luck finding a 9070 for a decent price.... To me the 5060ti 8GB makes no sense and the 5060ti 16GB is a massive cost increase vs just turning down a couple settings and using DLSS.....


People in this price ranges only hope for a better card is the 9060 not sucking but I am not holding my breath.

 

[Dr. Dro]

And a lot of people are in that place in life currently. There's no shame in it because of how crazy and wild the world economy is. This why I think the 5060 series and even the 9060 series are going to be a godsend for many people looking to build a new PC on a limited budget.

Not to mention it's literally all you need if you're an aging socket AM4 (most CPUs excluding the X3Ds and the 5900XT/5950X) or 1151/1200 machine.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Not to mention it's literally all you need if you're an aging socket AM4 (most CPUs excluding the X3Ds and the 5900XT/5950X) or 1151/1200 machine.

My 3080ti has been fine with a 5800X at 1440p so it just depends at 1080p sure.

 

[yfn_ratchet]

I'll agree that the 5070 should be a 16 GB card and the 5080 probably should have at least 20 GB, but 8 GB is not gonna stop anyone's fun with a 5060/Ti or 9060/XT, this is a hill I'm perfectly willing to die on. If you wanna play the latest AAAs at ultra settings, then maybe don't buy the lowest end GPU available in the market today.

People be testing the 5060 on ultra high settings and complaining about performance. Yeah it's a budget card. Try medium settings. You'll be surprised how max textures and low textures quality looks the same these days.

5060, for better or worse, is a card for people still running 1080p screens and mostly playing popular online games and/or just wanting “good enough” performance in mainstream AAA titles on console equivalent settings. So, for the vast majority out there. Just like the 4060 turned out to be.

Apologies for the mass-quote here, I imagine it's bad etiquette especially when I have nothing to directly say in response.

This is what gets me about the defense of the 5060 today. It is an exact repeat of the defenses used for the 4060 back in the day. People panned it for lacking VRAM, and the defense was "It's not meant for ultra settings/high res. Get a better card." I have various disgruntlements about that exact statement, especially given how prohibitively expensive PC enthusiasm was and is these past few years, and how capable my own xx60-class card was at time of purchase no less, but that would go off-topic.

The way I see it, the 4060 was a card with a good processor gimped by its memory config. The 5060 exacerbates that flaw by being significantly better than the 4060 in both GPU perf and memory speed... when it's not choked up on memory. People do not fiercely defend the 4060Ti/5060Ti 8GB like this, and I propose it is hard to do so when the alternative exists and is tangibly better. The 5060 is capable of Ultra in most if not all games right now, given its memory is not a concern. But it is.

It should be damning enough that if you truly needed more memory, a 3060 was still a viable option over the 4060. You left sheer performance on the table for 4 gigs extra. Hell, I wouldn't be able to do some of the local AI stuff I do on my computer if I didn't have those 4GB of wiggle room. A 5060 12GB would have been a total home run, and they tripped over their shoelaces.

"5060 is bad don't buy, but it offers the best perf / $ of any card we have ever seen". So, tough to argue

In Steve's defense here, the more proper quote is "The 5060 is the best FPS/$ card at current retail prices." Given that the 5060 is miraculously somewhere within the ballpark of listed MSRP, it's kind of a given. As for by-MSRP numbers... I mean, yeah, I sure hope it improved value over Ada. That was half the selling point of Blackwell. The other half was generated by AI. /s

 

[lexluthermiester]

My 3080ti has been fine with a 5800X at 1440p so it just depends at 1080p sure.

I'm on a 3080 + X299. It was excellent for the dual 1440p screens I was running. So yeah.. I've since gone back to dual 1080p screens because of scaling issues with certain things. I'm not ready to make the 2160p jump yet on my desktop.

This is what gets me about the defense of the 5060 today. It is an exact repeat of the defenses used for the 4060 back in the day.

The problem with that statement is that you're veiwing it as a "defense".
We're not on the defensive.
We're trying to help others see the forest for the trees and see the big picture.
We're trying to help people understand that lower tier budget models are fine for those that need them.
We're trying to help others understand that these budget models fit into a market space that needs product offerings.
We're trying to help people think objectively and understand the factual info the testing numbers present.
We're trying to be a voice of reason in a sea of agenda seeking nonsense.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

The problem with that statement is that you're veiwing it as a "defense".
We're not on the defensive.
We're trying to help others see the forest for the trees and see the big picture.
We're trying to help people understand that lower tier budget models are fine for those that need them.
We're trying to help others understand that these budget models fit into a market space that needs product offerings.
We're trying to help people think objectively and understand the factual info the testing numbers present.
We're trying to be a voice of reason in a sea of agenda seeking nonsense.

At most people should let them know what downsides it has and if those are acceptable to the buyer at 299 usd or whatever the local rate that's really the end of it.


I hate how nvidia is acting, I don't like this card, I hate how much progression we've had in this price range but that doesn't change the fact that there is literally no new options that are better at 299. Like others have said turn down a couple settings use DLSS SR in the quality mode and live with it till you can upgrade again.

Ball is in AMD court but people need to wait two weeks for that and some people aren't willing to do that and it's fine.

 

[suraswami]

Peoples take a chill pill. I am not in a hurry to buy anything. Moreover, my son is going to pay for it, when I told him the cost, he was like, so much? Duh! So, he can decide what he wants to do with it.

MC always have some open box deals, if it makes sense will buy, test it out and then put it in his system.

FYI - most of the time he plays LOL. I am sure the 5060 or even a used 6650xt will be fine.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Peoples take a chill pill. I am not in a hurry to buy anything. Moreover, my son is going to pay for it, when I told him the cost, he was like, so much? Duh! So, he can decide what he wants to do with it.

MC always have some open box deals, if it makes sense will buy, test it out and then put it in his system.

You are in literally the best situation near a microcenter the last hope of getting a half decent deal on a gpu...... Regardless of what you grab I am sure it will end up just fine in the end.

 

[JustBenching]

Not really the 4060ti 8GB and 7800XT both had better cost per frame at the initial review of the 7800XT and neither of those cards were good either.


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Both the 4060 and 7600XT also had better cost per frame.....Also not good cards

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Im talking about currently. We can argue whether or not it's a good card but i think that's irrelevant, guy wants to buy a card, if he shouldn't buy the card that offers the best perf / value currently then what should he buy? And in his case, waiting aint even an option, his gpu is dead / dying

Peoples take a chill pill. I am not in a hurry to buy anything. Moreover, my son is going to pay for it, when I told him the cost, he was like, so much? Duh! So, he can decide what he wants to do with it.

MC always have some open box deals, if it makes sense will buy, test it out and then put it in his system.

FYI - most of the time he plays LOL. I am sure the 5060 or even a used 6650xt will be fine.

If he is just playing lol he doesn't need a dgpu. Certainly not a 300$. Unlike what you may be reading online, a 300$ 5060 8gb vram gpu is an extreme overkill for lol.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Peoples take a chill pill. I am not in a hurry to buy anything. Moreover, my son is going to pay for it, when I told him the cost, he was like, so much? Duh! So, he can decide what he wants to do with it.

MC always have some open box deals, if it makes sense will buy, test it out and then put it in his system.

FYI - most of the time he plays LOL. I am sure the 5060 or even a used 6650xt will be fine.

To be fair, in your situation a 3060 or 3060ti might suit your needs very well. Either one can be had for a very reasonable price on the Ebay.

 

[suraswami]

Im talking about currently. We can argue whether or not it's a good card but i think that's irrelevant, guy wants to buy a card, if he shouldn't buy the card that offers the best perf / value currently then what should he buy? And in his case, waiting aint even an option, his gpu is dead / dying


If he is just playing lol he doesn't need a dgpu. Certainly not a 300$. Unlike what you may be reading online, a 300$ 5060 8gb vram gpu is an extreme overkill for lol.

that is why I said, a used 66xx series will just be fine.