Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Review: Better Than PS5 GPU Perf - But 8GB Is Not Enough

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Published on May 24, 2025 4:22:58 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Acn0pbbCA

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Nvidia didn't want reviewers to look at this product until launch - and it's clear there are problems with it. Put the RTX 5060 into a modern system supporting PCIe 4.0 or better and you can get performance that handily beats a PlayStation 5. However, this card is badly balanced - compute power is OK for the budget gamer but the lack of VRAM is problematic and the pared back PCIe interface spells trouble for those on the older system the card is most likely to be used with. Here is Rich's review.

Note: RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and RTX 3060 12GB are used in the main benchmark sections. There's a small error in the Forza section - the label reads 5060 Ti, but it is the 5060 benched there.

Eurogamer review with all the numbers: https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundry-2025-nvidia-geforce-rtx-5060-review

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00:00 Introduction
00:32 The 8GB VRAM Problem
02:18 Specs: A Cut-Down RTX 5060 Ti
03:23 Benchmarking Introduction
03:58 RT Benchmark: Alan Wake 2
04:39 RT Benchmark: Hitman World of Assassination
05:07 RT Benchmark: Avatar Frontiers of Pandora
05:52 RT Benchmark: F1 24
06:30 RT Benchmark: Dying Light 2
07:04 Raster Benchmark: Black Myth Wukong
07:44 Raster Benchmark: Forza Horizon 5
08:10 Raster Benchmark: Hellblade 2
09:02 PCI Express 5.0 vs PCI Express 3.0 Performance
12:36 RTX 5060 vs PlayStation 5 GPU Performance
15:19 DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation
16:55 RTX 5060 Summary
18:16 And Now, The Conclusion