The GeForce RTX 5060 from Nvidia saw the release of two different models, the 8 GB and 16 GB configurations, and it seems that Team Green should have published the model with less VRAM with a warning.
The RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB variant of NVIDIA is simply not suitable for 2K / 4K games, a low VRAM capacity puts the model in the rear seat
Interestingly, the launch of the NVIDIA RTX 5060 range marked the entry of RTX Blackwell GPUs in the largest public market segment, and it was planned that Team Green would fight against existing counterparts. The launch of the double truum configuration meant that we expected a little performance difference between the two variants, and to our surprise, Nvidia decided to provide a majority of criticisms with the 16 GB model, including usThis made the performance of the 8 GB model a mystery. However, Hardwareunboxed (HU) has acquired a unit, and it is sure to say that the Benchmarks they made He turned out to be a disaster.
It is simply an injustice to give a modern GPU an 8 GB competition of VRAM, and taking into account the capacities of the Silicon RTX Blackwell in general, the benchmarks we will discuss in advance reveal that the 8 GB model is seriously retained. It is to the point that Hu called the model as an “obsolete” game of game, which shows that modern consumers should not opt for this variant unless they have any other choice. Well, let’s go back to benchmarks, Hu has tested several titles, but we will go through some of the most public to give an idea of how the GPU works in modern AAA scenarios.
Starting with the last part of US, the 16 GB variant saw an FPS performance at 1% higher of 120% compared to the 8 GB model, guaranteeing an average of around 35 IPS and 70 IPS respectively. This was recorded on very high quality 4K settings and with variable qualities, the FPS performance difference at 1% has reached 320%, which is shocking. Likewise, in titles like Final Fantasy XIV and Hogwarts Legacy, the performance difference was recorded to be an average of about 30% to 40%, which shows that the VRAM difference has contributed to a massive difference.
Hu’s references cover the 8 GB model in many more details, so we suggest that you check it for an idea of how Nvidia was spoiling. There was certainly an optimism around the GPUs of 60 classes of Nvidia, since we expected the company to make up for competition from the RX 9070 series of AMD, but things turned out to be different. Although we will not call the 8 GB model something completely “dead”, there is little hope for that, and it does not make sense for consumers to go there at all.