RTX 5060 Ti: Reddit's Most Debated Mid-Range Buy

The 16GB variant is fine for gaming. It's the 8GB variant that is widely, and rightly, panned for gaming.

Coming to a scalper near you for $900.

Bad price to performance if everything was MSRP. But when they are the only ones you can get at MSRP and everything else is massively overpriced they suddenly look like decent options.

Could you just write t/s? (asking for tokens per second benchmark data for the 5060 Ti)

If you need 16gb vram this is a good price point.

Nothing new in this, still baffled by the existence of an 8GB 5060Ti though. Even Nvidia don't want people to buy it. Just kill it, doesn't have a reason to be.

8-16GB VRAM, in 2025 LOOOOOOOOOL. It's like offering everyone a Lambo for 10k with a 10L/3Gallon fuel tank.

Barely 15% faster than a 4060Ti isn't "decent", it's simply substandard. Depending on who you ask 20% would be decent and 25% good especially when you consider that its MSRP is $70 lower than the previous gen.

The 16GB version is "fine" near MSRP, and will likely age gracefully without Vram causing too many headaches when the new console generation begins.

Looks good for the price, if it stays close to the MSRP (which I doubt). Be aware - the 50 series seems to be not fully supported everywhere yet; especially, diffusion models seem to have troubles and need manual compiling of a few libraries.

But kind of embarrassing that it cannot even match the 4070.

If it was 100 less it'd be a good card lol

Dual 5060ti and you got 32gb — that's not bad and that doesn't look like a big card, could fit two in a decently sized case.

Now why on earth does the 5070 have less vram lmfao. The 5060ti 16g will one day be able to run games the 5070 cannot lmao.

If you want path tracing, minimum gpu would be rtx 5070ti even at 1080p. Performance with path tracing on cyberpunk isn't really playable unless you go with dlss balanced/performance with framegen x2 as well. If the 5070 price is close to that 5060ti 16gb, just go for the 5070.

You guys are impatient haha. Here I am thinking if it's finally time to upgrade my 970! 3060ti is still a more than solid card.

It's not actually that bad. It provided a typical generational upgrade compared to the 4060 Ti and the MSRP was slightly lower. IMHO, there's nothing at the same price that is better.

NEVER get the 8gb 5060ti. Ever. 8GB VRAM doesn't cut it for modern Ray-Traced games, even at 1440p with DLSS set to balanced/performance, or sometimes even 1080p with DLSS set to quality for path-traced RT settings.

According to techpowerup the 5060 Ti 16GB is 12% slower than the 3080. Of course the 5060 ti 16gb has more vram and can use dlss fg and mfg.

Basic to medium range 3D modeling and rendering — 100% the 5060 Ti 16GB handles it fine.

16GB 5060ti is a sweet spot.

This is actually Nvidias best uplift in performance gen to gen out of the 50 series but they throw away the positive review because of how they tried to bury the 8gb variant.

Only a 30% performance gain over the 3060 Ti after 4.5 years. I've become bearish on meaningful value gains in newer generations of hardware going forward.

I have one since 2 days, and it's much better than my poor 4060. Paid €450 and I'm happy. The bad sentiments are mostly about the 8gb version and the ridiculous pricing of some of these custom models. When you get one for MSRP, take it.

If you can get the 16GB variant at MSRP, it's perfectly fine. Don't buy the 8GB variant.

More than enough I think — 16GB VRAM great headroom. As long as nothing crazy.

The 5060 ti 16 gb is actually a pretty good value at msrp, especially compared to the real world prices of basically every other card in existence, but most of the bad sentiment comes from the fact that nvidia hid the 5060 ti 8gb from reviewers entirely.

It's not really good for gaming though — it doesn't even match the 4070 in performance, so it doesn't match a 3080 either from 5 years ago. For LLMs it will be better than those 2 thanks to VRAM though.

I just got a 5060ti 2 days ago and love it. I am running Cyberpunk at max settings with path tracing, dlss quality, and 3x frame gen, 1440p monitor getting ~80-100 fps. I'm getting no input lag and the game runs great.

The 5060 Ti 16GB is fine, but it has poor value compared to the marginally more expensive 5070. Everything about this lineup is geared toward upselling you.

Recent 5060ti 16gb owner and I just spent hours of simply driving in Night City with path tracing. Its insane, no way of going back to normal ray tracing. Frame gen is not that bad, besides UI elements you will barely notice other types of screen tearing. Expect your Cyberpunk path tracing base framerate to be between 20-30.

If you solely purpose is gaming at 1080p resolution, RTX 5070 it's much better, that card is as fast as the RTX 3090. If you want to do some sort of work, like rendering or running AI models, 5060Ti is better due to memory size limit, but that card is between 3070Ti and 3080 in terms of speed.

The 16GB version isn't the best product ever, but its a fine card, and a huge upgrade from a 1660 super. Just avoid the 8GB version.

No real surprises here. Just another 50 series card that will be under supplied, terrible value and scalped for its higher VRAM. Why on earth a 60 ti series card has a 16GB variant and the 70 series is stuck with 12GB is well beyond me.

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.

My 5060 ti has been genuinely amazing. I upgraded from a 1080 and I run every new game (indiana jones, Doom, and stalker 2) at 80+ fps at max settings with no dlss. It's a great card. I play at 1080p.

This is why I bought a 5060ti. I was running Plex, steam remote play, and Home Assistant with my 3060 12gb card and saw the 5060ti 16gb as the logical upgrade for offloading some AI tasks from my 3090ti machine. 50 series was made for AI tasks, has better decode, frame gen, dlss 4, runs cool, and the 60ti has a good power budget for the use case.

All 50xx series cards are good cards if you can find them at MSRP. Their inflated prices are not a good deal at all. But this is the reality we are living in now. There are no bad products, only bad prices.

Der8auer in his review pointed out it's the first XX60 TI to not beat the last gen XX70, not ideal gen-on-gen uplift.

I have the PNY 16gb that I just installed. I like the card. Has two fans that are pretty quiet.

MSI and Asus (and Galax) are the only nvidia manufacturers that use PTM, I would stick to them. Coil whine is a lottery, any model can have it, and even the ones people complain more about might be completely free of it.

I just upgraded from 4060 to 5060 TI and it's giving me over 60 fps on most games at 4k at high settings. For mainstream users this is a great card for the money. I can't justify paying 40% more for 5070 TI as it has the same VRAM, or paying 20% more for 5070 with even less VRAM.

With the prices being so close, there just isn't a reason to use the 8gb and 12gb GPUs. The 5060-16gb will work fine for those apps. They are not terribly GPU intensive and with 16gb of vram you can use many local AI models for both text and graphics.

A similar case to the RTX 4060 Ti in my opinion. The RTX 5060 Ti has been criticised for gaming, but it's a hidden gem for AI workloads. Because it has been criticised for gaming, the prices have been really good for this card.

Nvidia has lost the plot for gaming.

I upgraded my 1660ti to the 5060ti 16g and it works great. I run a ryzen 5 3600 and an older b450m-a with 32g ram and it honestly rips. I play bf6 on ultra with no problems. Photo rendering is about 10x-20x faster.

I have 5060ti 16gb and I play on 2k resolution all games on max settings without a problem. I even play sport games on my 4k tv all settings maxed out. This graphics card is a mid range beast.

I would not advise you to buy a 16GB 5060 Ti unless it is more than 25% cheaper than the ~25% more powerful 5070. Usually, they are too close in price for it to make sense to buy the less capable one.

I just got the 5060 ti 16gb and shocked how much it punches above its weight. Really underrated and possibly best value card within the $300s.

Went from a 2070S to a 5060TI 16GB, no complaints, great card. Only issue I've had is Monster Hunter Wilds randomly crashing in the Scarlet Forest, looks to be shader related.