My sense for PC hardware prices has been thrown so far out of whack I can't really say if $300-400 is fair for a 5060 so I'll let Hardware Unboxed tell me that.
The one thing I know for sure is I'm not buying a 8GB card because no amount of DLSS and MFG can make 8GB handle (to my satisfaction) the unoptimized UE5 crap that's getting released nowadays.

AGlezBMy sense for PC hardware prices has been thrown so far out of whack I can't really say if $300-400 is fair for a 5060 so I'll let Hardware Unboxed tell me that.
The one thing I know for sure is I'm not buying a 8GB card because no amount of DLSS and MFG can make 8GB handle (to my satisfaction) the unoptimized UE5 crap that's getting released nowadays.

UE5 games don't use much VRAM, 8GB is generally enough for 1440p with UE5
Oh and this year GOTY will definitely be Expedition 33, which is an UE5 game.

Not sure why you would base your purchase decision purely on someone's opinion, just use the data that every reviewer provide, like TPU

nguyenUE5 games don't use much VRAM, 8GB is generally enough for 1440p with UE5

My 3070 8gb really struggles with VRAM at 1440p and UE5 on more demanding titles like wukong, senua 2 and stalker 2. Whenever the VRAM runs out i get a slideshow of around 2fps.

So another doa card from Ngreedia. With only 8 gb vram, i see rtx 5060 as DOA from the beginning.

nguyenUE5 games don't use much VRAM, 8GB is generally enough for 1440p with UE5
Oh and this year GOTY will definitely be Expedition 33, which is an UE5 game.

Not sure why you would base your purchase decision purely on someone's opinion, just use the data that every reviewer provide, like TPU

I'll have to disagree on that. At least for stalker 2. I've tried playing on my rtx 4060 with has 8 gb vram.

It was a miserablely gaming experience do to lag og vram. I had to go as low as 1080P medium settings bofore it could be called fully playable. Else i had lag spikes and it took for ever to go between menu or map and back to the game. All cause by lag of vram. Not gpu power.

Also we can just see how rtx 5060 ti 8 gb vs. 16 gb vram performance. It was a lagbustet in difference in some games.

I said it before and i say it again. Dont buy a 8 gb vram cards no matter if its Nvidia, intel or amd. It is not sufficient for all games and specially future games. I'll recommend to for al least 12 gb vram and preferred 16 gb is money allows it. Off cause also depends on what resolution you game at.

nguyenUE5 games don't use much VRAM

Compared to what? UE4?

nguyen8GB is generally enough for 1440p with UE5

Low to mid settings with DLSS, sure. Try running 1440p native and see what happens as soon as you try to get some decent shadows in UE5.

nguyenOh and this year GOTY will definitely be Expedition 33, which is an UE5 game.

Good for them. Also, please don't consider E33 the "norm" for UE5 games, because it isn't.

nguyenNot sure why you would base your purchase decision purely on someone's opinion, just use the data that every reviewer provide, like TPU

I base my purchasing choices on my opinion. No idea why you'd believe otherwise. What sources I consider trustworthy when gathering data to form my opinion and make my choices is s different matter and I did not, at any point, said or implied Hardware Unboxed was the only one.

8GB is not enough while saying that I wouldn't buy a 16GB 5060TI either. Would rather go for the 5070 12GB.

TomgangAlso we can just see how rtx 5060 ti 8 gb vs. 16 gb vram performance. It was a lagbustet in difference in a few games.

FTFY. There are only a few games were the difference is significant.

AGlezBCompared to what? UE4?


Low to mid settings with DLSS, sure. Try running 1440p native and see what happens as soon as you try to get some decent shadows in UE5.


Good for them. Also, please don't consider E33 the "norm" for UE5 games, because it isn't.


I base my purchasing choices on my opinion. No idea why you'd believe otherwise. What sources I consider trustworthy when gathering data to form my opinion and make my choices is s different matter and I did not, at any point, said or implied Hardware Unboxed was the only one.

Compare to every other engines out there, UE5 will run out of GPU performance first before VRAM. You are not going to get some decent shadows in UE5 games @1440p Native with budget GPU either way LOL, just look at Expedition 33 benchmark


Expedition 33 is pretty much the norm for every UE5 games I have seen so far: BM Wukong, STALKER 2, Remnant 2, etc...

Quicks8GB is not enough while saying that I wouldn't even buy a 16GB 5060TI. Would rather go for the 5070 12GB.

There are rumours floating around about a 24GB 5080 Super/TI which'd be kind of ideal for me because where I live the cheapest 5090 right now is about USD 3,200.

IF you want a cheap GPU, I can only recommend to buy at least a 5060Ti 16GB or 7600XT with 16GB.
No GPU with 8GB, since you can't play ALL games with it. They may only be a few that actually don't work with 8GB, but who knows how many will release like that in the next few years.

AGlezBThere are rumours floating around about a 24GB 5080 Super/TI which'd be kind of ideal for me because where I live the cheapest 5090 right now is about USD 3,200.

There were only 2 cases (so far, but I play a lot) where 16GB was not enough:
Indiana Jones, where I JUST had to change the texture pool size to medium.
And MHW where the HD Texture pack introduced loading stutter.
Both in 4k with maxed settings.

A 5080 24GB would be nice, but I'll probably don't switch when it comes out. Too much of a hassle.

"Your favorite games smeared across the screen with FG and DLSS."

There, i fixed it.

So what we talking about here 3070 performance? If so then yeah it will do ok tbh I know a lot of people still using them and happily gaming, yeah some games eat the VRam but that's the exception not the rule.
The price is not good and by the time AIB's are done even worse but price apathy has set in with most I've talked to so if they need a card they will buy but in my opinion there are better options than most of Blackwell it's been a laughable launch.

nguyenYou are not going to get some decent shadows in UE5 games @1440p Native with budget GPU either way LOL

And neither will you get them with mid-range GPUs. The best you'll get is a black smear every time you move the camera.

All of which is besides the point I made, which to remind you, was that 8GB just isn't enough any more. And yes, if you lower the settings as far as they'll go you might be able to run a UE5 game in a potato but that's simply not what I consider satisfactory.

Bullshitting people is an art invented out of necessity by governments to keep peasants in line, a technique used by corporations today to sell us even air if they could.
It's clear RTX 5060 8gb is a very low end card, using it with DLSS at 1080p to make it usable, but, the peasants will fight and argue with other peasants who will say it's crap, they will say DLSS4 is a miracle from god, frame generation x 4 is actually good.
There is a famous quote that fits this situation - "The best slaves are the ones who believe they are free" the slaves here are the peasants defending corporations with nothing to gain from it, no money, nothing, doing it for free.

LuminescentBullshitting people is an art invented out of necessity by governments to keep peasants in line, a technique used by corporations today to sell us even air if they could.
It's clear RTX 5060 8gb is a very low end card, using it with DLSS at 1080p to make it usable, but, the peasants will fight and argue with other peasants who will say it's crap, they will say DLSS4 is a miracle from god, frame generation x 4 is actually good.
There is a famous quote that fits this situation - "The best slaves are the ones who believe they are free" the slaves here are the peasants defending corporations with nothing to gain from it, no money, nothing, doing it for free.

Add to that: "the best slaves are one who think they are better than other slaves :roll:".

AGlezBAnd neither will you get them with mid-range GPUs. The best you'll get is a black smear every time you move the camera.

All of which is besides the point I made, which to remind you, was that 8GB just isn't enough any more. And yes, if you lower the settings as far as they'll go you might be able to run a UE5 game in a potato but that's simply not what I consider satisfactory.

I don't get it, you don't consider any card is satisfactory, so?
Best solution would be stop playing new games I guess.

I want to upgrade my 2020 G14 to the new 2025 G14 but it's unlikely that the RTX 5060 and Zen4 refresh CPU is going to be worth the $700 price increase once the RTX4060 2024 G14 goes on sale....

I'd expect the GDDR7 memory to give the 5060 a pretty good boost alone but maybe not worth the blackwell power hungry generation....

Nvidia just up to no good again.

www.techspot.com/news/107962-nvidia-rtx-5060-launch-erosion-independent-gpu-reviews.html

nguyenI don't get it, you don't consider any card is satisfactory, so?
Best solution would be stop playing new games I guess.

I don't consider any 8GB card satisfactory, which just happens to be what I've been saying from comment #1.
Is this a language barrier issue? :wtf:

AGlezBI don't consider any 8GB card satisfactory, which just happens to be what I've been saying from comment #1.
Is this a language barrier issue? :wtf:

Weird that you mention mid-range GPUs with > 8GB are not doing any better than 8GB GPU with UE5 games, is that a language barrier issue? :confused: .

BTW Intel is going to release GPUs with 24GB VRAM, go get them :D

we have been over this in different (37 pages long(?) ) thread
buying a brand new 8gb card for $350 or more is just really not a good idea in 2025
(for 8gb cards i would recommend looking at a second hand market places to save some money if you are on a budget)
and if you want to try to use modern features like frame gen or RT they consume even more VRAM ...

if you don´t need to upgrade right now i would personally wait untill 3gb gddr7 memory modules are introduced into mainstream to replace 2gb ones -
then things may move in the right direction maybe
we should get 18gb 5070 super and 24gb 5080 super and maybe also 5060(ti) super with 12gb of vram)

the only users that may find rtx 5060 8gb appealing are the ones still using 6gb gtx 1060/rtx 2060 cards or 3/4gb cards like gtx 1060/970/980
and also the owners of old radeons with 4gb of VRAM ...

even for those users the 7700xt with 12gb of VRAM (and with the rasterization performance of rtx 5060Ti)
or 10gb rtx 3080 with 320 bit memory bus and a great bandwith (and with the rasterization performance of rtx 4070)
which can both be found for €350 or less on a second hand market places
(at least in my country) are better deals for the money ...

5060 is too slow and also too low on VRAM and modern features won´t save it ...
nvidia waiting until all the legit reviewers leave for computex
and only allowing "friendly" media "partners" to do a "controlled environment" benchamark previews ,
not releasing the driver and not supplying the card samples for legit reviews tells it all ...
the amount of shenanigans they went through to hide realistic previews on their bad product are just ridiculous ...

nguyenWeird that you mention mid-range GPUs with > 8GB are not doing any better than 8GB GPU with UE5 games, is that a language barrier issue? :confused: .

Ahh, I see. You got fixated on the UE5 part. My bad, so let me rephrase:

[...] no amount of DLSS and MFG can make 8GB cards handle (to my satisfaction) the unoptimized UE5 crap that's getting released nowadays.

UE5 is just the posterboy for NVIDIA's "RTX 5070; 4090 performance at $549" BS.

It's a waste of time trying to argue the value of basically a worthless/substandard product on a tech forum where most people wouldn't be caught dead buying a 5060, best example is nguyen, rocking a 4090.
I could see 5060 in a laptop, but on a desktop PC where you have so many choices, no way, at least not here on techpowerup.
They will sell, prebuilt PC's, clueless people that don't know much about PC's, slap some GAMING OC AI MULTIFRAME and favorite one BATTLESTATION words on boxes and you have a winner.

Well at least clueless people have friends whom they play online games with :roll:, Steam is full of them.

Man some people really get elitist with the amount of VRAM their GPU has. They should definitely buy the new Intel GPU with 48GB VRAM

LuminescentIt's clear RTX 5060 8gb is a very low end card

LuminescentIt's a waste of time trying to argue the value of basically a worthless/substandard product on a tech forum where most people wouldn't be caught dead buying a 5060

It's silly nonsense like this that shows just how lacking consumer understanding of reality and the big picture of tech life and market conditions really is. :rolleyes:

Is a decent clue really that difficult to grasp onto?

I will just either go for 9070 or wait for UDNA at this point...