Today, sales of GeForce RTX 5060 Ti video cards with 16 and 8 GB of memory begin. Both new products are based on the same GB206-300 graphics processor with 4608 CUDA cores, 144 texture units, 48 rasterization units, and 36 RT cores. The specialized press has published reviews and test results of the older GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 16 GB of memory.
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In the version with 16 GB of memory, the card received a recommended price of $429, which is $70 lower than the starting price of its predecessor, the 16-GB version of the RTX 4060 Ti. In turn, the manufacturer priced the younger GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with 8 GB at $379 – $20 cheaper than its predecessor.
The Asus GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Prime OC with 16 GB of memory and factory overclocked GPU has been tested by TechPowerUp and Tom’s Hardware. According to the former, in games with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels, this RTX 5060 Ti is 13% faster than its predecessor, the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, without using scaling and frame generation technologies. The RTX 5060 Ti version with a reference frequency of 2497 MHz is 10% faster than the previous generation model. The new product from Nvidia is also 4% faster than the Radeon RX 7700 XT and 12% faster than the RTX 3070. At the same time, it is 6% slower than the Radeon RX 6800 XT and 10% slower than the RTX 3080.
At 1440p, the new card is on average 15% faster than the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti (12% if we’re talking about the RTX 5060 Ti’s reference frequency of 2497 MHz). It’s also 4% faster than the Radeon RX 7700 XT and 12% faster than the GeForce RTX 3070. The Radeon RX 6800 XT beats the RTX 5060 Ti by 8% and the RTX 3080 by 13%.
At 4K, the new card is 19% faster than its predecessor (17% faster than the reference versions). The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is also 5% faster than the Radeon RX 7700 XT and 16% faster than the RTX 3070. The new card is 9% slower than the Radeon RX 6800 XT and 20% slower than the RTX 3080.
The RTX 5060 Ti lags behind the new Radeon RX 9070 by 41% in Full HD, 45% in 1440p, and 50% in 4K. In practice, this is about 15-20 frames per second, as shown by the combined test data from the Tom’s Hardware portal.
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti has improved its ray tracing performance, but not by much. Compared to its predecessor, the RTX 4060 Ti with 16 GB of memory, the new card delivers a 10% increase in games with RT enabled. However, the difference with the RTX 4060 Ti with 8 GB of memory reaches an impressive 56%.
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, like all other RTX 50-series cards, supports MultiFrame Generation (MFG), which significantly improves gaming performance, but at the cost of increased input lag. So even if a card without MFG outputs 20 “real” frames, and with MFG – up to 150 (and it can), these 150 frames will still not feel like a real 150 FPS.
Energy consumption
As for the power consumption of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, there are no surprises. In idle mode, the new product consumes 11 W (14 W in multi-monitor mode). In games, its power consumption is 164-166 W. When using ray tracing, it is about 175 W.
Temperatures and noise levels
The card doesn’t heat up much in games. Of course, everything depends on the manufacturer, as well as on the cooling system used, but in general, the RTX 5060 Ti GPU heats up to about 60-65 degrees Celsius, and the memory chips – up to 60-76. According to TechPowerUp, the least efficient models in terms of cooling were the Palit RTX 5060 Ti Infinity 3 and Zotac RTX 5060 Ti AMP.
Tom’s Hardware also praised the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, noting that it “delivers a decent balance of performance for Nvidia’s $429 MSRP. However, as we’ve seen with every other GPU launch over the past five months, real-world retail prices for graphics cards can be significantly higher.” The site suggests that the RTX 5060 Ti’s real-world price will be around $500. The RTX 5070, at least in the US, has been priced around $550–$600 in recent weeks. That card is faster than the RTX 5060 Ti by an average of 30%.