NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB

[W1zzard]

We review NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB, the card that NVIDIA doesn't want tested. Especially in VRAM-heavy titles the performance drops, but many games are running fine, especially if you focus on 1080p, and disable ray tracing. But is that the way it's meant to be played in 2025?

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[dtoxic]

most pointless release in 2025,what is this designed for candy crush deluxe edition with rtx on?

 

[Hugis]

Cheers for another great review W1z, bit of a damp squib this one....
Not much uplift at all from previous 4060Ti 8 GB.

 

[boppingXQWB]

The 5060 Ti that Nvidia refused to sample for launch reviews.
The 5060 Ti that your friend Joe Gamer will likely get because it's the cheapest available.

(1080P RT)

 

[ZeroFM]

DOA, RT performance hit is astronomical

 

[oxrufiioxo]

Nvidia at it again with their Esports grand champion 3.0 it just blows my mind that you could get an 8GB card in 2016 almost 9 years ago for $239..... #Progress....

 

[dartuil]

Its crazy how 8gb is something else.

 

[_mockingbird]

Why is page 38 on DLSS missing?

 

[Chrispy_]

That conclusion has so many caveats and workarounds for the lack of VRAM, in games that were already launched months or even years before this GPU came out.

The 60-series are GPUs for the masses, many of whom don't understand exactly how to tweak settings and choose which of the RTX features they want enabled at once. You have enough VRAM for DLSS, FG, or RT, maybe even two of those at once if you mess about with custom graphics presets on a per-game basis. What the 8GB model doesn't do is deliver Jensen's promises of 50-series features without having to wade through an entire swamp of asterisks and caveats.

It's not the total disaster I expected, though with 1-in-6 games struggling at this GPUs launch, it's only going to get much worse over the card's lifespan.

The real trainwreck is going to be the vanilla 5060. It's going to be weak enough that it'll really need to lean quite heavily on DLSS and FG, both of which eat a lot of VRAM when used together. It'll be fine for esports, but you don't need a 50-series with RT or MFG to play esports either.

 

[Cheeseball]

That conclusion has so many caveats and workarounds for the lack of VRAM, in games that were already launched months or even years before this GPU came out.

The 60-series are GPUs for the masses, many of whom don't understand exactly how to tweak settings and choose which of the RTX features they want enabled at once. You have enough VRAM for DLSS, FG, or RT, maybe even two of those at once if you mess about with custom graphics presets on a per-game basis. What the 8GB model doesn't do is deliver Jensen's promises of 50-series features without having to wade through an entire swamp of asterisks and caveats.

It's not the total disaster I expected, though with 1-in-6 games struggling at this GPUs launch, it's only going to get much worse over the card's lifespan.

The real trainwreck is going to be the vanilla 5060. It's going to be weak enough that it'll really need to lean quite heavily on DLSS and FG, both of which eat a lot of VRAM when used together. It'll be fine for esports, but you don't need a 50-series with RT or MFG to play esports either.

Like I've been saying, this should've been the normal RTX 5060 with the 16GB version being the Ti (although probably with higher stock clocks as at 1080p we can see this 8GB beating the 16GB slightly sometimes). Just like how AMD did it with the RX 7600 and 7600 XT. Same (or extremely similar) GPU but with just more VRAM.

That incoming RTX 5060 is going to be weak again. Looking at the peak power consumption charts (~217W) shows that the RTX 5060 Ti could be used for half-height SFF cards, like how the RTX 4060 non-Ti was for those Gigabyte and ASUS SKUs:

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

Thanks for going out and getting one from the market. These are the types of products that really need to be tested, because there are compromises involved, AND there’s a “this or that” decision to make. In the past, the higher VRAM GPU variants were often overkill, but not this time.

In the end, they just want too much money for it, but they’ll likely sell every one of them because of the state of the market.

 

[danbert2000]

God, this just makes me hope AMD cancels the 9060 XT 8 GB, or renames it to 9060. I think we all agree an 8 GB card can exist in the market right now. It just has to be a low end card, because that's what it is. I sold my 3080 ASAP once I realized Indiana Jones was limited even with DLSS enabled. VRAM is king again, even the Switch 2 will have better times with some games than this mess of a card. Sub $300 card, go ahead with 8 GB.

 

[_roman_]

thanks for the test.

650gramm of excellence

well for myself i will not care anymore about the relative performance chart. the game selection may have showed how many games still only need 8gib vram. this test paints a better picture than i personally expected. close to my radeon 7800xt. 2 years later and still no progress on the cheap 400€ purchase store front.

we discussed what game should be in the test. older games ruin the charts. anyway i also play older titles.

 

[akaloith]

dlss tests?

 

[Outback Bronze]

Nvidia at it again with their Esports grand champion 3.0 it just blows my mind that you could get an 8GB card in 2016 almost 9 years ago for $239..... #Progress....

I didnt even look at the benchmark results. I just came here for the comments

 

[oxrufiioxo]

I didnt even look at the benchmark result. I just came here for the comments

I mean it is what it is honestly, people can do their own research and decide if buying a nearly 400 usd 8GB card in 2025 is right for them.

I think it's silly but thankfully they ain't spending my $$$. My only annoyance is the lack of progress in the sub 500 usd market the one that drives future game engines the most.

Texture quality should be astronomically better in 2025 but with developers forced to target 8GB for almost a decade now it's pathetic how much the needle has moved in most games.

 

[lexluthermiester]

most pointless release in 2025,what is this designed for candy crush deluxe edition with rtx on?

Clearly you didn't read the review.

The rest of the cherry-picker critical comments are most amusing.

To those who have been arguing at length about the 8GB question, here we are. And gee, who called it, eh? What a shocker, right?
I will admit, this card did unexpectedly better in some areas, but somewhat worse in others. Perhaps that is just down to arch differences between Ada and Blackwell. Weird.

Regardless, this card and this review proves two things.
1. That HUB is completely full moose muffins.
2. That 8GB is still enough to do solid gaming at the two most popular resolutions being used today.

Now let the flaming and back-handed nonsense commence.

God, this just makes me hope AMD cancels the 9060 XT 8 GB, or renames it to 9060.

No. Just no.

I didnt even look at the benchmark results. I just came here for the comments

You really should! Even I was a bit surprised by the results.

 

[BigMack70]

So many people buying prebuilts are going to get scammed by this card. Nvidia should be embarrassed, though they appear to have no shame. I hope AMD sells a truckload of their cards this gen and gets Nvidia to wake up.

 

[Cheeseball]

God, this just makes me hope AMD cancels the 9060 XT 8 GB, or renames it to 9060. I think we all agree an 8 GB card can exist in the market right now. It just has to be a low end card, because that's what it is. I sold my 3080 ASAP once I realized Indiana Jones was limited even with DLSS enabled. VRAM is king again, even the Switch 2 will have better times with some games than this mess of a card. Sub $300 card, go ahead with 8 GB.

I think AMD will still have the RX 9600 be an 8 GB card and the RX 9600 XT be 16 GB but with the same GPU, just like how they did the RX 7600 and RX 7600 XT.

I also think that 9070 GRE is supposed to be the "RX 7700 XT/RX 6700 XT" of the new generation, considering the 192-bit/12GB rumors, but the naming convention got skewed as we all know.

 

[_roman_]

HUB = hardware unboxed claimed in the video - missing textures. are people aware of that flaw? are such effects caught in the testing procedures on all of those reviewers?

 

[TSiAhmat]

I think in the conclusion Monster Hunter World should be Wilds

 

[Sol_Badguy]

God, this just makes me hope AMD cancels the 9060 XT 8 GB, or renames it to 9060.

It would be next level if AMD learns from this lesson.
So far this year nVidia gave AMD a crash course in bad product launches (it's like they had a special department conceiving ideas on how to fail), AMD managed to capitalize on this with the 9070 series cards but will it continue to do so?

It's actually plausible that nVidia makes so much money that it can afford to throw this show where apparently it trips over itself in the arena and everyone is rooting for AMD to deliver the finishing strike. But nVidia is actually faking vulnerability.
Yeah rich people do that, we see it in movies, they create all sorts of games/challenges to escape boredom.

Actually wait, Jacket Man probably used an AI-model to create those how-to-fail ideas, yeah why pay people when you can ask the locally installed Genie?

Anyway one VERY positive aspect about this card is that it was actually available at MSRP. Who would've thought? It sucks that the 16GB version is being scalped.
Too bad that 3GB chips were not used on this series it would've helped product segmentation tremendously and likely helped to avoid situations like this and also improve the VRAM buffer of the 5070. Oh well...

 

[theglaze]

though with 1-in-6 games struggling at this GPUs launch, it's only going to get much worse over the card's lifespan.

Great way to look at it.

8GB is usually not a problem. But when it is, it's falls waaaaay behind

 

[Ruru]

Too bad that 3GB chips were not used on this series it would've helped product segmentation tremendously and likely helped to avoid situations like this and also improve the VRAM buffer of the 5070. Oh well...

I was actually surprised that they didn't cut the memory bus to 96-bit to have a 12GB card.

 

[Lew Zealand]

tl;dr: 6 out of 24 games have a compromised game experience at 8GB with good performance at 16GB in the 5060 Ti:

Doom Eternal 1440p
Dragon Age Veilguard 1440p
Hogwarts Legacy 1080p
Monster Hunter Wilds 1080p
Spider Man 2 1080p
Last of Us, Part 1 1080p

Is a lower quality experience in 1/4 of your newer games worth saving $60-70 or 15-20%? Some of this may be mitigated with settings changes and some may not, it's up to everyone to assess the cost benefit.

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4K % reduction numbers are irrelevant if the FPS are too low to game on. Same for 1440p in many games but this card is capable of 1440p in some games.

Performance near or above 60fps in the 16GB model but falls behind in the 8GB model:

1080p
Monster Hunter Wilds
Spider Man 2
Last of Us, Part 1

1440p
Doom Eternal

How about 1% lows:

1080p:
Monster Hunter Wilds
Spider Man 2
Last of Us, Part 1

1440p:
Dragon Age Veilguard
Doom Eternal

There are texture pop-in problems in some games which are not assessed in fps charts, though some are mentioned in the notes. I have experienced this at 8GB (4060 ti and 3070) in one tested game: Hogwarts Legacy