Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti review - arguably a better gaming GPU than the 5070

Nvidia doesn’t often admit when it has made mistakes, but it looks like there’s a hidden acknowledgement in the launch of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti. Maybe, just maybe, Nvidia has realized that its GPUs should be kitted out with more VRAM as standard. There was a massive $100 difference between the 8GB and 16GB versions of the 4060 Ti, and Nvidia didn’t send samples of the latter to reviewers when they came out several weeks later. This time, that difference has shrunk to just $50 and Nvidia has switched its review samples around, with them only sending me a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti card to test. As we’ll see in this review, that extra memory has a profound impact on some games, particularly when you’re piling on ray tracing effects, and this decision helps elevate the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB out of the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB’s pool of mediocrity. It’s not all plain sailing, of course. The GPU itself is only slightly more powerful than the 4060 Ti, which was only a smidgen in front of the 3060 Ti in terms of basic rendering power. Meanwhile, stock problems have made it very difficult to buy this new GPU at its actual MSRP in the US. Even so, given that there’s currently no sign of the AMD Radeon RX 9060 yet, and that the RTX 4060 Ti is now impossible to find anywhere, the RTX 5060 Ti is still basically the best graphics card you can buy right now in this price range. It’s worth waiting for the stock and pricing situation to settle down before purchasing a card in the US, but in the UK the 5060 Ti is going for its MSRP, where it represents decent value for money. [site_jumplinks] Continue reading Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti review - arguably a better gaming GPU than the 5070 MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090 review, Nvidia GeForce RTX 5080 review, Best graphics cards

Apr 24, 2025 - 12:23

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti review - arguably a better gaming GPU than the 5070

Nvidia doesn’t often admit when it has made mistakes, but it looks like there’s a hidden acknowledgement in the launch of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti. Maybe, just maybe, Nvidia has realized that its GPUs should be kitted out with more VRAM as standard. There was a massive $100 difference between the 8GB and 16GB versions of the 4060 Ti, and Nvidia didn’t send samples of the latter to reviewers when they came out several weeks later. This time, that difference has shrunk to just $50 and Nvidia has switched its review samples around, with them only sending me a 16GB RTX 5060 Ti card to test.

As we’ll see in this review, that extra memory has a profound impact on some games, particularly when you’re piling on ray tracing effects, and this decision helps elevate the Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti 16GB out of the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB’s pool of mediocrity. It’s not all plain sailing, of course. The GPU itself is only slightly more powerful than the 4060 Ti, which was only a smidgen in front of the 3060 Ti in terms of basic rendering power. Meanwhile, stock problems have made it very difficult to buy this new GPU at its actual MSRP in the US.

Even so, given that there’s currently no sign of the AMD Radeon RX 9060 yet, and that the RTX 4060 Ti is now impossible to find anywhere, the RTX 5060 Ti is still basically the best graphics card you can buy right now in this price range. It’s worth waiting for the stock and pricing situation to settle down before purchasing a card in the US, but in the UK the 5060 Ti is going for its MSRP, where it represents decent value for money. [site_jumplinks]

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