So desperately I would like to review graphics cards without a coincidence of wider controversy (or collected market conditions), but the RTX 50 series was not particularly cooperating, so why should RTX 5060 be different? This time the cloud of sadness comes from Nvidia themselves, among the accusations of the RTX 5060 preview engineering and Access trading attempt for a greater range of ability to generate many frames (MFG).
Such diagrams, if they are true and purposeful, suggests an unusual lack of faith in the RTX 5060 core, non-ram. However, now, when I spent some time with the card-not as remotely from the Tit-For-Tat preview, of course-it’s really not so bad, in tidy hardware conditions. It is not equipped with a cut price of 1440p, but as an inexpensive 1080p pusher it is fine. Right. Reasonable. Almost a disaster that requires an offensive PR offensive to hide the MFG figurines.
However, drivers? Now Is catastrophe. And not because of the breakthrough lack of software for an early review for press hats-I said access to update to the RTX 5060 576.52 game reader at the same time when everyone else, when IT and GPU was issued on May 19. The real problem is that this is the latest in the series of updates of GeForce controllers, which invited all kinds of unforced errors in elderly and fresh games, including several of my regular regulars.
Some, like Horizon forbidden West and Dragon Age: The Veilguard, began to suffer indefinite declines, which they had never staged before. Meanwhile, Metro Exodus will hang at the start and F1 24 will perform worse With valuable generation of DLSS NVIDII frames than without. Even if they are not the fault of RTX 5060 equipment, these problems with the controllers are even more bad vibrations around the graphics card, which should be – like RTX 3060, and after some time RTX 4060 in front of it – a master of people.
It is after all a more affordable RTX 50 GPU, and thus the least taxation (literally, if you are at the pond in the tariff area) to support the full spectrum DLSS 4. In fact, the model itself you see here, nice compact zotac geforce RTX 5060 solo, is one of several that actually sell in RRP/MSRP, or 270 £ / USD 299. This is SNIP, according to 2025 standards, especially when most RTX 5060 Ti models have already gained several quids. If nothing more, it’s at least worth it looking for some states.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Review: 1440p Benchmarks
It is true that 1440p may not be the best place to start searching. After various re -activation and reloading, I finally received several useful data from 576.52 drivers, and in the Native Resolution RTX 5060 creates clearly smoother framework than RTX 4060 in most games – Metro Exodus and a total war: Warhammer III. But then he only produced a single additional frame in the forbidden West, forcing it to fall for older and cheaper Intel Arc B580. This is a weaker graphics processor that RTX 5060 can also maintain only a draw in both Cyberpunk 2077 and F1 24.
Points for getting closer to Radeon RX 7700 XT, a potential pretender from the used market, but if I indicated the budget for the 1440p platform, I would continue to save the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. Partly because the difference of VRAM becomes noticeable in this kind of rez, especially in the forbidden West, which had some shaken quality, which is not fully explained by the very amount of output of the lower frame. Playable evidence suggests that 8 GB is fine with most 1080p games, despite the recent complaints of technology enthusiasts, but an additional 8 GB will probably assist to cope with the Quad HD rigors.
You will also have to invest more if you want to take part in tracking the path. Even in the case of high quality DLSS, none of my test games traced by Path can reach 30 frames per second on RTX 5060, again arguing RTX 5060 TI. MFG can augment the numbers, but only Cyberpunk 2077 at 2x seemed remotely reproduced: with 4x input delay disappeared from the charts, and Alan Wake II had a similarly inhabited feeling (along with noticeable blur of movements in front of the camera).
DLSS 4 is still the best general upscaler/frame generation package, but as I think it is every time it appears, it just doesn’t work as a way of smoothing low performance. It is great to take quite rapid games and make them look even more skillful, but it really needs the basis of usually rendered RAM for DLS, from which fresh ones can be generated; Without this, it is the equivalent of equipment for games sitting in a rusty wheel with ferrari. You will raise good speeds on the right hill, but you won’t like the sensation.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Review: 1080p benchmarks
Life is much better at 1080p. The B580 is still beating RTX 5060 in the horizon, but only a few frames, and it is practically on a par with RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB in the subway and cyberpunk. Nearby in Warhammer III or Assassin’s Creed Mirage.
The most significant is – more often – a decent improvement of RTX 4060, especially in the subway and cyberpunk. It is also maintained when using ordinary rays. The addition of ultra -quality RT effects to the metro reduced only RTX 5060 to 77 frames per second, while RTX 4060 managed 62 FPS.
Will it consistently fill the 165 Hz monitor on maximum quality? No, but for less than 300 pounds does not have to. All right. Right. Reasonable, I remember that someone said. In terms of VRAM, you should probably think about whether you can update to 1440p as part of the durability of this card, but for now it looks like you can escape from 8 GB at 1080p. First of all, I didn’t see anymore this shaken in the forbidden West and side in Doom: The Dark Eges-Z his always following the ray and Ultra Nightmare-created glossy, stuttering 73FP, once again satisfying RTX 4060 at 60 fps.
The path remains a dubious undertaking, mind. Although RTX 5060 can crawl into allegedly playable playback in both games in both games in this lower rez, it was not enough to avoid the withdrawal reservoir of the input delay when the MFG tried to come up with the difference. Alan Wake 2 was not as blurred as in 1440p, but he still felt sharper to just trace the ultra -quality ray at 44 fps.
To be candid, I found the case of the exploit of MFG at Dragon Age: The Veilguard. Thanks to the ultra setting, DLS on the quality and all radii tracking effects, NVIDIA technology turned 53 frames per second in 88 frames per second for 2x and 150 FPS with 4x replacement. Most importantly, none of the increased results brought excessive delay, mainly due to the fact that RTX 5060 was already working without them.
It is simply unfortunate that in order to get these numbers, I had to re -conduct the test every time one of the newly discovered ones took place, in addition to re -starting the game after changing each setting, because otherwise they would kill the performance for no clear reason. This does not happen because of the last bad patch from the part of BioWare and certainly is not a problem with how RTX 5060 itself is designed, and a single ZOTAC fan maintains the peak GPU temperatures to a reasonable 68 ° C. No, it was my fault throughout the last two days: 576.52 drivers.
It is possible that they will be repaired and may not even be replaced with something worse, but at this point there were enough defective drivers ready to play – whose defects are usually specific for the RTX 50 series – that it became a problem for the whole GPU family. Unfortunately, this must include RTX 5060. According to its own hand, NVIDIA puts it in an inexplicable position of being the most powerful and pliant graphics card 1080p in its price range yet One that makes the words “yes, you should buy this” disproportionately challenging to say aloud. Why, should he or should invest in a component when his demanded drivers have such a good chance of breaking their games?
This review is based on a retail unit provided by the manufacturer.
