For the RTX 5060, Nvidia solely supplied to ship out the cardboard if we agreed to stipulations round which video games we might benchmark, which options we might allow, and which different GPUs we would evaluate it to. That might’ve seemed rather a lot higher for Nvidia than the truth of the scenario, placing an emphasis on multiframe-generation options solely obtainable on the latest playing cards, somewhat than instantly evaluating conventional rendering benchmarks.
All this to say, I personally went out and purchased the RTX 5060 for this evaluate, which wasn’t as powerful as it’s with the higher-end choices. I’ve expressed in earlier critiques that provide could be a difficulty, and having now lived it first-hand, it wasn’t nice, however it was attainable. 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.
{Photograph}: Brad Bourque
None of this impacts the efficiency or my evaluate, 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 need 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 could have even just a few 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 as a right. Whereas most avid gamers nonetheless play at 1080p, that quantity is all the time dropping, and I’ve mentioned a number of instances that it’s best to at the least 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 it’s best to go for the RTX 5060 as an alternative 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 possibly can’t or will not improve.
