Nvidia Geforce RTX 5060 Review: Not Quite There Leave a comment

For the RTX 5060, Nvidia only offered to send out the card if we agreed to stipulations round which video games we’d benchmark, which options we’d allow, and which different GPUs we might evaluate it to. That will’ve seemed loads higher for Nvidia than the truth of the scenario, placing an emphasis on multiframe-generation options solely obtainable on the latest playing cards, moderately than immediately evaluating conventional rendering benchmarks.

All this to say, I personally went out and acquired the RTX 5060 for this evaluation, which wasn’t as powerful as it’s with the higher-end choices. I’ve expressed in earlier evaluations that offer can be a problem, and having now lived it first-hand, it wasn’t nice, nevertheless it was potential. Playing cards can be found, however you could have to leap by means of some hoops to get them into your cart, particularly if there are reductions concerned.

None of this impacts the efficiency or my evaluation, however I do suppose it is a sign of how assured Nvidia is about what would traditionally be its hottest providing. The GPU makers might not wish to admit it, however the benchmarks do not lie: PC gaming is formally getting costlier, and $300 simply will not purchase you an identical efficiency it could have even just a few years in the past.

Efficiency right here is missing, nevertheless it’s solely going to worsen as time goes on and extra builders begin taking 16 GB with no consideration. Whereas most players nonetheless play at 1080p, that quantity is all the time dropping, and I’ve mentioned a number of occasions that you must at least target 1440p for a new build.

In any other case, each the RTX 5060 Ti and RX 9060 XT supply significantly better worth, and as I write this there are OC fashions for the latter at simply over $300. The one causes you must go for the RTX 5060 as a substitute is that if you could find an distinctive deal, you actually solely play Curler Coaster Tycoon 2 (2002), otherwise you occur to have a 550W PSU you’ll be able to’t or will not improve.