Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 review - Gigabyte Gaming OC graphics card benchmarks

I almost feel a bit sorry for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060. My review has been delayed because Nvidia decided not to release a press driver so I could test it before release, and there’s now a very obvious reason why. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 still only has 8GB of VRAM, and that's proving to be a major restriction on its capabilities. It’s a baffling decision that means the RTX 5060 falls over in one of our test games if you run it above the Medium graphics preset, even at 1,920 x 1,080.

All of which is a shame because, as a GPU, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 isn’t actually bad, with a decent step up in rendering power over its predecessor, the RTX 4060. With a wider memory interface and 12GB of VRAM, it could easily justify its $299 asking price, even if Nvidia decided to use older GDDR6 memory to keep down the price. As it is, the RTX 5060 has an uphill battle to justify itself as the best graphics card in this price range, particularly with the aggressively priced AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT release date on the horizon.

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