The RTX 5060 is right here, lastly finishing the 50-series lineup that debuted 5 months in the past with the 5090. The brand new “mainstream” graphics card is much from low cost at $299/£270, however ought to supply cheap efficiency and effectivity whereas including the multi body era function that is unique to this era of GPUs. Nonetheless, the 5060 additionally ships with simply 8GB of VRAM, which may very well be a giant limitation for these trying to play the most recent graphics showcases.
Earlier than we get into our outcomes, it is value mentioning why this assessment is a bit later than regular, coming just a few days after the playing cards formally went on sale on Could nineteenth. Usually, Nvidia or their companions ship a graphics card and the mandatory drivers anyplace from a few days to per week earlier than the embargo date, which is usually a day earlier than the playing cards go on sale. That is good for us, as a result of it permits us to do the in-depth evaluation that we choose and nonetheless publish similtaneously different retailers, and it is good for potential patrons, as they’ll get a way of worth and efficiency and due to this fact make an knowledgeable resolution about whether or not to purchase a card or not – from what is usually a restricted provide at launch.
For the RTX 5060 launch, Nvidia – through Asus – delivered a card in good time forward of its launch, however the drivers weren’t launched to reviewers till the cardboard went on sale on Could nineteenth, coinciding with Nvidia’s Computex presentation. With out the drivers, the cardboard is a paperweight, so any launch day protection is essentially restricted – and in lots of circumstances, graphics playing cards went out of inventory earlier than the standard tranche of evaluations went dwell from the tech press. It is a irritating state of affairs throughout, and I doubt that even Nvidia’s PR division will probably be thrilled that almost all evaluations begin with the identical grievance.
Following the general public launch of the drivers, we have been benchmarking across the clock to determine simply how performant the brand new RTX 5060 is, the place its strengths and weaknesses lie, and the place it falls in comparison with the remainder of the 50-series line-up, prior era RTX playing cards and competing AMD fashions.
Trying on the specs, you may see that the RTX 5060 relies round a cut-down model of the identical GB206 die that powered the RTX 5060 Ti. The 5060 has 83 p.c of the core depend and rated energy of the full-fat 5060 Ti design, with an innocuous three p.c drop to spice up clocks and the identical 448GB/s of reminiscence bandwidth.
In contrast to the 5060 Ti, nonetheless, which debuted in 8GB and 16GB fashions, the 5060 is just out there with 8GB of body buffer reminiscence – a limitation we’ll talk about in some depth later. In your 16.6 p.c discount to core depend and TGP versus the 5060 Ti, you pay round 20 p.c much less – so the 5060 must be barely higher worth.
RTX 5070 Ti
RTX 5070
RTX 5060 Ti
RTX 5060
Processor
GB203
GB205
GB206
GB206
Cores
8,960
6,144
4,608
3,840
Increase Clock
2.45GHz
2.51GHz
2.57GHz
2.50GHz
Reminiscence
16GB GDDR7
12GB GDDR7
16GB GDDR78GB GDDR7
8GB GDDR7
Reminiscence Bus Width
256-bit
192-bit
128-bit
128-bit
Reminiscence Bandwidth
896GB/s
672GB/s
448GB/s
448GB/s
Complete Graphics Energy
300W
250W
180W
150W
PSU Suggestion
750W
650W
450W
450W
Value
$749/£729
$549/£539
$429/£399$379/£349
$299
Launch Date
February twentieth
March fifth
April sixteenth
Could nineteenth
There isn’t any RTX 5060 Founders Version, as you’d maybe anticipate for a mainstream mannequin, with numerous third-party playing cards out there in a spread of sizes. The RTX 5060 mannequin we obtained is the Asus Prime mannequin, an over-engineered 2.5-slot, tri-fan design that’s nonetheless described as “SFF-ready” because of its comparatively modest 268mm size. On high of the sturdy industrial design, the cardboard incorporates a twin BIOS with “quiet” and “efficiency” choices – at all times helpful. On this case nonetheless, the cooler is so giant that even the “efficiency” choice may be very, very quiet. The cardboard ships with this preset and we advocate it stays there.
Hilariously, the producer product web page recommends a 750W or 850W Asus energy provide, although the specs web page for a similar mannequin makes a extra sane 550W suggestion. Regardless, you may be good to go along with a single eight-pin energy connector. When it comes to ports, we’re trying on the RTX 50-series customary assortment, together with one HDMI 2.1b and three DisplayPort 2.1b.
Just like the RTX 5060 Ti – however not AMD’s just-announced Radeon RX 9060 XT – the RTX 5060 makes use of a PCIe 8x connection. That is completely superb on a contemporary PCIe 5.0 or 4.0 slot, however doubtlessly problematic on earlier motherboards with PCIe 3.0 slots – one thing we’ll take a look at out in additional element on web page eight.
For our testing, we’ll be pairing the RTX 5060 with a bleeding-edge system primarily based across the quickest gaming CPU – the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D. We even have 32GB of Corsair DDR5-6000 CL30 reminiscence, a high-end Asus ROG Crosshair X870E Hero motherboard and a 1000W Corsair PSU.
With all that stated, let’s get into the benchmarks.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Evaluation
Introduction and take a look at rig [This Page]
RT benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Cyberpunk 2077
RT benchmarks: Dying Gentle 2, F1 24, Hitman: World of Assassination
RT benchmarks: Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle, Metro Exodus Enhanced Version, A Plague Story: Requiem
Recreation benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Black Delusion: Wukong, Cyberpunk 2077
Recreation benchmarks: F1 24, Forza Horizon 5, Senua’s Saga: Hellblade 2
Recreation benchmarks: Hitman: World of Assassination, A Plague Story: Requiem
PCIe 3.0 vs PCIe 5.0: Black Delusion: Wukong, F1 24, Indiana Jones and the Nice Circle
PlayStation 5 comparisons and DLSS 4 multi body era
Conclusions, worth and proposals
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