NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB

[wolf]

I don't understand how this card is supposed to be excellent price to performance

It's all there in the review. Test methodology, game results, aggregates, then weighing performance against cost. This isn't the reviewers opinion, this is test results, prices and math.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB Review

The GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB is NVIDIA's newest release. It is built using the same chip as the RTX 5060 Ti, but only comes with an 8 GB VRAM option. In our review we run it through all our tests, including 1440p and 4K with and without ray tracing, and we also recommend optimal settings for...

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[scooze]

Saying like "it ONLY caught up with 3070, it should have caught up with 4070," is like walking out of a cave with no idea what's going on and yelling something incoherent. 5000 series has brought nothing in essence. Except for 5090 and 5060, and maybe 5060ti. And while 5090 is just something unique, like another tier upper then 4090 aka super TITAN, but 5060 is real 4060, delayed by two years. That's exactly how I perceive it. And yes, this 5060 is most valuable today. Like it or not. And it's available cheaply right now, although it is not yet cheap everywhere. For many this is a big upgrade without need to change power supply and case. That's important. Because you often hear that it is possible to get a cheap 3080 or 3070ti. Apparently, along with the 3080 they will give a 750-850 power supply and a spacious case free. Maybe they will even help pay the electricity bills.
This 5060 should kick 4050 from top of steam with wet rags. ad107 on top gives me a migraine.

 

[dlgh7]

After seeing some of the comments of the review i just wanted to say that as a owner of a low 50 series card which i use mostly as a workstation and some gaming on the side (5060ti) my experience is actually exactly as the reviewer says, if i have 45-50 frames as base activating frame gen x2 is actually a good experience in all the titles i have played so far and DLSS quality even at 1080p would surprise you with the image quality it produces.

I can understand the dislike towards these technologies but for those not seeing any value i ask that you to check how the 5060 ti 16g card handles PT and RT on the new F1 game when benchmarks comes out, it may surprise you and realize that there was no bias from the reviewer.

The difference is that most websites and YouTube Channels have all the most high end setups to also test side by side. They can see what native vs fake frames and added latency looks like vs what it looks like native. Maybe some games perform better better between fake frames and 8gb of Video Memory even old games like Control won't generate the proper frame because bad frames can't be turned into good frames. So any limitation you have will just duplicate itself.

The truth of the matter is the most beneficial place for these technologies is when you already have super high frames like 90 or 100 and then are using these tech in addition to it. Even then though you add latency. Which might be negligible in some games but I have seen some really bad cases of when latency is just really bad.

 

[LittleBro]

Fails to beat higher end model from two generations ago (RTX 3070).
Fails to beat higher end model from previous generation (RTX 4060 Ti).
Beats predecessor RTX 4060 at higher consumption. Bugs, black screens.
Terrible launch, selected (p)reviewers got drivers (at time of release only).

Candidate for being worst card ever made by Nvidia.
This card should have been named RTX 5050, priced at $249 and it'd be a great multimedia/entry gaming card.
Also, I hope RX 9060 (XT) 8 GB gets also as much attention as RTX 5060 in this review.


@W1zzard Great to see that you finally decided to put more games into efficiency test (previously there was only CB2077).

 

[Bwaze]

"PCI-Express 5.0 x8 interface (not x16), but generally not an issue"

What about tunning the card on older motherboards, where we have PCIe 4.0 x8?

 

[ZeroFM]

Average 1080p actually 74fps(same like 1060 review), i don't count CS, witcher 3 10YEAR OLD GAME ..., doom eternals, cb2077. Because they are to old or low graphics .
10years and we still at same point ... wow

 

[PLAfiller]

Sadly the current leader for fastest low profile card on the market.

No idea if the sparkle b570 low profile will move the needle there at all.

Not sure I follow you. The card reviewed here is a standard slot width, not a low profile. Are you referring to a possible LP version of this card? As far as I know if money is no object RTX A4000 SFF is King of the Hill for low profile. Then GTX4060 LP, then RTX A2000. Pretty sure Sparkle is focused on Intel's ARC pro B50/60, which are scheduled to be released in mere weeks (Q3), which I am quite excited for.

 

[Tea_n_Crumpets]

I feel like how you feel about this card is gonna be very dependent on where you live. Where I live, this card is identical in real price to the B580, so by that metric it's a pretty good value. Of course it's a terrible uplift over the 4060, but the 5060 is still better with the two at equal price (which they are where I live).

 

[nguyen]

Not sure I follow you. The card reviewed here is a standard slot width, not a low profile. Are you referring to a possible LP version of this card? As far as I know if money is no object RTX A4000 SFF is King of the Hill for low profile. Then GTX4060 LP, then RTX A2000. Pretty sure Sparkle is focused on Intel's ARC pro B50/60, which are scheduled to be released in mere weeks (Q3), which I am quite excited for.

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Gigabyte 5060 LP will be selling soon

 

[MadMan007]

These '8GB in 2025 cards' need a side-by-side image quality comparison using those cool slider and settings pictures you guys use, which are much more telling than a written description. Some Youtube content is out there showing this, and even at reduced settings the differences can be striking.

 

[ZeroFM]

Lithuania B580-298€, 5060-370€.
At 4K(best resolution to test gpu with lowest cpu inpact) 5060 is 14% slower and 25% more expensive.

 

[sLowEnd]

"PCI-Express 5.0 x8 interface (not x16), but generally not an issue"

What about tunning the card on older motherboards, where we have PCIe 4.0 x8?

5060 Ti loses almost no performance at 4.0 x8. I doubt this card will either.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti PCI-Express x8 Scaling

The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti uses the modern PCI-Express 5.0 bus interface, but supports only an 8-lane configuration. This is just half the bandwidth of the higher-end models, which run at x16. Are you in trouble with an older system, which only supports running at PCIe 4.0?

www.techpowerup.com

 

[dlgh7]

5060 Ti loses almost no performance at 4.0 x8. I doubt this card will either.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti PCI-Express x8 Scaling

The new NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti uses the modern PCI-Express 5.0 bus interface, but supports only an 8-lane configuration. This is just half the bandwidth of the higher-end models, which run at x16. Are you in trouble with an older system, which only supports running at PCIe 4.0?

www.techpowerup.com

That appears to be a chart for the 16gb card. Testing I have seen for the 5060 ti 8gb card is 10-11 percent on average. Which is a pretty big hit.

 

[usiname]

Lithuania B580-298€, 5060-370€.
At 4K(best resolution to test gpu with lowest cpu inpact) 5060 is 14% slower and 25% more expensive.

For slide show you can go with iGPU.
There always will be clueless Intel's fanboys who will praise the garbage B580 for its 30fps in 4k. When you lower the settings to get playable fps it is again behind while has worse performance/watt than everything else and terrible idle power consumption. Тo be more precise, this is one of the cards with the worst idle power consumption for single display, only A770 is worse, if this was AMD, every second comment would be about this, but strange how you close your eyes for Intel.

 

[_roman_]

I only checked the numbers and the first few lines.

• Very bad idle power consumption for a small card with one fan.
• One FAN design.

I suspect some textures are missing in hogwards Legacy most likely or it is very laggy without owning the card or the game itself. Numbers are one thing - real experience the thing that matters.

Testing with PCIE 5.0 gave better results as many future customer can expect. Slower PCIE mainboards will reduce performance a lot for certain games. I believe such cards should be tested with pcie 3.0 set for the graphic card slot for the test platform.

That's why it is what it is. "Bad" "greedy" NVIDIA are at least offering something in this segment, unlike "good guys" AMD.

Does not change the fact that this card should be a 30€ card, like the nivida 710 and nvidia 730 which i put many in desktop computers at work.
Looks the same

Believe me I also critise low 16GIB Vram on the 9070 / XT which others heavily disagree. I'm not in the mood to buy low 16GiB VRAM 9070 or 9070XT also. Soon its 2026. Especially after my buy decision and than hunting for a good deal or amd cashback or amd bonus game reward

You are right. I forgot to criticise that the nvidia 5060 something does not have 24GiB VRAM. you are 100% total correct. That card has not 24Gib VRAM which I want and need. And all the problems with the not open binary drivers for any operating system available as of now.
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edit #70 - Post #70 really sums it up very good. Very friendly. Guys please read #70

edit: I think the Radeon 7800XT and some other cards are also a good choice still in 2025. They are still on sale in central europe.

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Maybe some games perform better better between fake frames and 8gb of Video Memory even old games like Control won't generate the proper frame because bad frames can't be turned into good frames. So any limitation you have will just duplicate itself.

I played Control when the Radeon 6600XT 8GiB got fresh on the market in August. 8GiB VRAM is not that worse. But I saw issues when changing the rooms. I recently played again Control with the Radeon 7800XT 16GiB- all those loading buffer issues were gone at nearly max settings. Visually zero difference between raytracing or not on a calibrated screen in my point of view. The difference is in the louder graphic cards and more money spend for the energy. whqd Control was playable with the ryzen 5800x in the past with the radeon 6600XT, 45 FPS but playable with some reduced settings.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Does not change the fact that this card should be a 30€ card, like the nivida 710 and nvidia 730 which i put many in desktop computers at work.
Looks the same

The age of the cheap GPU is over. Research and development costs no longer make it feasible to release a product at the pricing of those old 710's, not to mention that there simply is no market anymore. Even low end processors have usable graphics nowadays, which means that there is zero reason to release anything below this tier. AMD isn't going lower either, and their prices have been largely considered to be fake marketing MSRPs as, not entirely unlike Nvidia, they have been consistently unable to honor their pricing thus far - which just tells you exactly what kind of market we're in.

That being said, this is and remains a low end GPU - and it is also the lowest end GPU currently available in the market. This card fills the shoes of the GTX 1650, treat it accordingly.

You are right. I forgot to criticise that the nvidia 5060 something does not have 24GiB VRAM. you are 100% total correct. That card has not 24Gib VRAM which I want and need. And all the problems with the not open binary drivers for any operating system available as of now.

Buy an used Titan RTX or RTX 3090 instead. Won't be cheap as this, but it'll have the Nvidia feature set and the framebuffer capacity you are after. If you want 24 GB, you aren't buying literally the cheapest, weakest GPU of the generation.

That appears to be a chart for the 16gb card. Testing I have seen for the 5060 ti 8gb card is 10-11 percent on average. Which is a pretty big hit.

Inconsequential in my opinion. WDDM spillover is undesirable even on an RTX 5090 with its ample cache and unrivaled bandwidth. If you're hitting framebuffer capacity, your only true recourse is to lower settings. The hit will be felt even if PCIe and memory bus bandwidth is high.

 

[Luminescent]

A good conclusion for RTX 5060 would be "The true cost of a cheap thing isn’t the price—it’s the time wasted before you buy the right one."
The cost of compromise is too big here, enjoy pop in, stutters, lower quality textures without even knowing the game doesn't have to look that bad and medium to low preset in the very near the future.

 

[PLAfiller]

Does not change the fact that this card should be a 30€ card, like the nivida 710 and nvidia 730 which i put many in desktop computers at work.
Looks the same

Believe me I also critise low 16GIB Vram on the 9070 / XT which others heavily disagree. I'm not in the mood to buy low 16GiB VRAM 9070 or 9070XT also. Soon its 2026. Especially after my buy decision and than hunting for a good deal or amd cashback or amd bonus game reward

You are right. I forgot to criticise that the nvidia 5060 something does not have 24GiB VRAM. you are 100% total correct. That card has not 24Gib VRAM which I want and need. And all the problems with the not open binary drivers for any operating system available as of now.

Show me a launch of a spanking brand new GPU you can get off the shell with two year warranty that was 30 EUR in the past two decades. I challenge you.

24gig are a NEED? What average Joe with a budget of 300 bucks would do to utilize 24 GB VRAM? AI Copilot in Windows? I wholeheartedly agree 8GB is not enough. Anything above is better ->10, 12, 16. But we are targeting a price point. That's how it works. You sacrifice some stuff, so you can fit the profit margin. The GTX 4060TI 8gb vs 16gb gains were what?? 2-7 FPS depending on the game on average.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Gigabyte 5060 LP will be selling soon
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I'm going for one of those, or at least one like it. I have a SFF system needing a GPU upgrade. It's currently got a GTX1050 in it.

 

[Fourstaff]

All things considered, $300 for a xx60 card is not too bad. I remember 1660 being the best bang for buck choice, but wiz's database says it was priced $230 precovid so $300 tracks inflation pretty well. But it doesn't look like it has enough power to run 1080p at max (and need to turn off RT for some games), so lets see if the TI version is going to be any better.

 

[lexluthermiester]

All things considered, $300 for a xx60 card is not too bad.

It really isn't. People complaining about prices are simply not paying attention to the market reality.

 

[chrcoluk]

At least this one has a more reasonable price gap to the 16g 5060ti.

 

[_roman_]

#93

I bought lots of 710 and 730 cards for work for ~35€ a piece several years ago

You are right the price has increased to 45 to 50€ for any nvidia 710 and 730.
link: https://geizhals.at/?cat=gra16_512&...plz=&dist=&mail=&sort=p&bl1_id=30#productlist

24gig are a NEED?

I made a point that i already critise 16GiB VRAM sometines on amd cards.

Other people pay 100€ for a single game. They write sometimes even in this forum that some games want more than 16GiB VRAM. Fact.

I do not see much use in 16GiB cards for 2026 + at least 4 years extra. I wrote about the buy decission period and the price hunting period. In my case it most likely will be very late 2025 or early 2026.

It does not help that some review paint a picture where 8GiB VRAM is enough. In the long run or as a generic graphic card I disagree. I had it myself in certain games that some textures were missing or just not shown. It's hard to proof when the hardware was already sold.

edit: fixed text a bit

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Lessons learnt: Pay attention which graphic cards are included in the game performance charts.

It paints a wrong picture when page game a and page game b have different cards included.
I would also prefer when any available graphic cards which make sense would be included. I think I did not saw in those charts: nivida 5080 / 4090 / 5090
not sure if 9070 / 9070XT and such are included.

 

[gridracedriver]

PRO

• $300—low price point

Are you kidding me @W1zzard ?

 

[Bomby569]

i think it's a good review, things are put into context (2025 chaos) and the review explains everything. If someone wants a new card for 1080p now, the pricings of the past aren't very relevant to them, seems like a good option.
I read some comments that would prefer the "ambulance chaser" approach, but just ignore them.