For the RTX 5060, Nvidia solely supplied to ship out the cardboard if we agreed to stipulations round which video games we’d benchmark, which options we’d allow, and which different GPUs we might examine it to. That may’ve appeared lots higher for Nvidia than the fact of the state of affairs, placing an emphasis on multiframe-generation options solely out there on the latest playing cards, somewhat than straight evaluating conventional rendering benchmarks.
All this to say, I personally went out and acquired the RTX 5060 for this assessment, which wasn’t as robust as it’s with the higher-end choices. I’ve expressed in earlier opinions that offer could be a problem, and having now lived it first-hand, it wasn’t nice, however it was doable. Playing cards can be found, however you’ll have to leap by way of some hoops to get them into your cart, particularly if there are reductions concerned.
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None of this impacts the efficiency or my assessment, however I do assume it is a sign of how assured Nvidia is about what would traditionally be its hottest providing. The GPU makers could not wish to admit it, however the benchmarks do not lie: PC gaming is formally getting dearer, and $300 simply will not purchase you a similar efficiency it might have even a number of years in the past.
Efficiency right here is missing, however it’s solely going to worsen as time goes on and extra builders begin taking 16 GB with no consideration. Whereas most avid gamers nonetheless play at 1080p, that quantity is at all times dropping, and I’ve mentioned a number of occasions that you need to a minimum of goal 1440p for a brand new construct.
In any other case, each the RTX 5060 Ti and RX 9060 XT provide a lot better worth, and as I write this there are OC fashions for the latter at simply over $300. The one causes you need to go for the RTX 5060 as a substitute is that if you’ll find an distinctive deal, you actually solely play Curler Coaster Tycoon 2 (2002), otherwise you occur to have a 550W PSU you may’t or will not improve.