RTX 5060 Reddit Verdict: Great Features, Wrong VRAM

In the year of Our Lord 2025, 8GB simply doesn't cut it.

Always cool when a new xx60 product doesn't even consistently beat the previous gen xx60ti let alone the xx70.

So it's basically an Arc B580 with less vram and more money. Anyone with a little bit of thinking capability should see this garbage and total waste of sand called 5060.

This generation of consoles got 16 GB of unified memory, so usually 12 GB of memory dedicated to video. Developers work with that in mind, too.

It's a minimum viable product for uninformed purchasers. It's going to be in every 'gaming' pre-built at Walmart or Best Buy that's under $1500. People that are well informed would get the 5060ti 16gb at a minimum.

It's a 3070 with frame gen. Imagine if you got a 3070 at msrp 5 years ago, you coulda saved yourself 200$ just by waiting until the 5060 dropped.

It's literally a 4060Ti for $100 less, 2 years later. lol

e waste

Synopsis: It can't even match the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti 8GB

It'll be because of System Integrators/Pre-builts, not necessarily due to consumer choice.

This should have been called RTX 5050 and sold at $200 max for 8 GB. Completely worthless at any higher price when the B570 and B580 exist.

The 1060 matched the 980. The 2060 matched the 1080. The 3060 matched the 2070. The 4060 barely edged out the 3060. The 5060 might actually lose to the 3060 in similar VRAM-limited situations. The 1060 was the last great x60 product, IMO.

From 74 base fps to 48 after enabling frame generation. It's too heavy for this card.

Seems like an unforced own-goal. The surprising thing to me was that when not limited by VRAM or its lack of PCIE lanes it had a much bigger uplift over previous cards than other entries this generation. Seems like if NVIDIA hadn't gotten greedy and put 12GB of RAM and x16 PCIE lanes it could have been a slam dunk at that level for them.

55% of Steam users still game at 1080p. Clearly this card wasn't meant for you. It was meant as an upgrade path for people still running 1080; which seems to be a sizable group. Would it be nice to have a 12gb card for 300? Yes. Is it required for that 55% of the Steam user base? Absolutely not.

Yay more overpriced e-waste with crappy 128-bit memory bus!

8 GB vram in this day and age

Shame. I've been wanting to upgrade my girlfriend's RTX 3060 TI that is nearly 5 years old. But even after all this time, the upgrade path is to spend more on a higher tier. That is a sad state considering 5 years should be nearly an eternity in gaming tech time.

I am still playing on an 8gb 2070 Super, but I bought it almost 6 years ago. If you are buying a new GPU in 2025 with the inflated GPU prices these days, going for an 8gb model is like setting your money on fire.

Nvidia really propping up the value of used RTX 2080 Ti and 3070 cards.

You've had a few years already out of your GPU and will get a few more. Now imagine buying today, for more money and only getting 1 or 2 years. That's the context. You will be making sacrifices for those 2 years instead of double that almost care free.

It's frustrating to see continued releases of 8GB GPUs. I wouldn't invest in one in 2025, but as someone with an 8GB RTX 3070, I wonder if some complaints are exaggerated. I played Indiana Jones without issues with appreciable settings. I generally have a great experience at 1440P in modern games, mostly hitting 60. While it's not ideal, I see it as only really being an issue in the next 1-2 years.

The 5060 is basically this generation's equivalent to the 1060 3GB. Cut down too much and will age poorly. It may be 'just' 310€, but you'll have to significantly sacrifice visual quality much sooner than with more VRAM. It's not a good upgrade, it's repeating the same mistake.

IMO 10GB should be STANDARD for budget, 12GB for low end, 16GB mid tier, 24GB high end, 32gb top end for 2025

The performance of the card is not bad at all when you're not running out of VRAM. The issue is if the card is hitting the VRAM buffer limit at launch, it will be useless in say 2 years time. The lack of VRAM is making this thing e-waste.

Been in the video card market since Radeon 7000 (no, not the RX). Can't remember a worse generational leap than the RTX 50 series.

Yes, 5060 is not fast enough to upgrade from my 3060 ti

So when is ray tracing actually going to come to native 1080p? Doesn't seem like it will be anytime soon. The technology is transformative in some implementations, but a lot of PC gamers play at 1080p and they are not looking to spend north of 500 dollars on GPU.

16GB 5060ti is a sweet spot.

They are doing this because they expect you to replace your GPU every 2 years. Outside reddit, the $300 range is the most popular market for GPUs. So they don't want to release new products at an affordable price with decent VRAM because if they did, people wouldn't upgrade. It's all by design to make you want to buy the next GPU every gen.

In Europe the 5060 is available widely at 320€, and people are selling their used 4060 Ti for 350€ just because it used to be 500-600€ during the shortage. The 50 Series is actually quite attractive in Europe.

So as far as I can tell the 'mid-range' card worth getting is probably the 5070 or 5070 Ti correct? 12 gb of VRAM or 16, with 12 probably being the minimum to keep playing at decent settings for the next few years.

Crazy how much the 60 class cards have stagnated for 5 years now. If you bought a 3060ti, you'd basically have the same power as the new 5060. This is a 1080p card at best, but ray tracing and ultra settings are out of the question for a lot of newer titles.

To be fair I can find the 5060 for 310 euro in my country. It's not the best but it's a good upgrade from a 1060 3gb

I wouldn't go as far as to say e-waste. Primary reason why I think Nvidia gets away with still putting 8 gigs on their cards is just that most people play esports games, where it isn't an issue. GTA VI might be a breaking point if 8GB VRAM will only get minimum settings.

Nvidia insisting on 8 gb RT cards... Look how far the 4060ti 8 gb is falling behind the 16 gb. Even the 7700xt is ahead at 1080p, and miles clear at 1440p. What a fucking scam.

Got a Zotac Gaming GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Twin Edge 16Gb with two fans. Very happy with price/performance, but fans are quite loud at heavy loads. No coil whine though.

When raytracing was an optional setting that was acceptable, but as this technology becomes more ingrained in the development workflow and not able to be turned off, saying a card can't pull off raytracing even at 1080p is a problem.

So that's the 5050. Sad what happened to the 60 models and I always bought them but now it's a joke. 3060 Ti was also disappointing because of the 8GB of VRAM and this is the first time I sold GPU after two years lol. Crazy how NVIDIA still releases a 60 model with 8GB and it's not even that much of upgrade in terms of raw power.

After looking at actual gameplay benches, this 5060 is not so bad after all. You get what you paid for.

3070Ti here - can still run everything at high settings at 1440p so don't really see the point in upgrading

One came in my pre built, new to PC gaming. I've had easily over 60fps in everything I've tried with ultra settings at 1080p. Haven't tried many AAA to be fair, but it was playing BF6 beta at 80fps ultra settings 1080p.

5060 is the only card available at MSRP in the US ($299). Way better deal than the 4060, used 3070 and 4060ti are.

Its actually going really well! I dont play games that need really high textures so I can still achieve getting very high frames while the game looks nice.