For the RTX 5060, NVIDIA is only willing to send cards if we agree to be benchmarking games around which features we will enable and what other GPUs we compare to test. This looks much better than the reality for NVIDIA, with the point being only available on the latest cards, rather than directly comparing traditional rendering benchmarks.
It can be said that I personally went out and bought the RTX 5060 for this review, which is not as difficult as a high-end product. I showed in my previous comment that supply would be a problem and now seeing it firsthand is not pleasant, but it is possible. Cards are available, but you may have to skip some basketballs to bring them into the cart, especially if discounts are involved.
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None of these affects performance or my reviews, but I do think it shows how confident Nvidia is about the most popular products in history. GPU manufacturers may not want to admit this, but the benchmark won’t lie: PC gaming has officially become more expensive, and the $300 price tag won’t buy the same performance as you did a few years ago.
There is a lack of performance here, but it only gets worse over time, and more developers are starting to take 16 GB for granted. Although most gamers still play at 1080p, this number is always falling, and I have said many times that you should target at least 1440p.
Otherwise, both the RTX 5060 TI and the RX 9060 XT offer higher value, and the latter has an OC model of over $300 at the time of writing. The only reason you should choose the RTX 5060 is that if you can find great deals, you will only play Roller Coaster Tycoon 2 (2002)or you happen to have a 550W PSU that can’t or won’t upgrade.
