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In a nutshell: Nvidia looks set to unveil the RTX 5060 Ti next week, with prices ranging around $400. Will the 8GB and 16GB versions of the card be as disappointing as the other Blackwell series? Based on new benchmarks, probably: the 16GB RTX 5060 Ti has a 13% – 14% lead over over the RTX 4060 Ti.
Nvidia is expected to announce both 8GB and 16GB versions of the RTX 5060 Ti on April 15 and launch the card on April 16.
With their arrival so close, Geekbench entries highlighting the 16GB’s Vulkan and OpenCL synthetic performance have surfaced.
The entry confirms the card’s 36 compute units (4,608 CUDA cores), as well as the model’s 2,647 MHz boost clock and 16GB of GDDR7 VRAM across a 128-bit memory bus.
In the OpenCL test, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB scores 146,234 points, which gives it a 13% lead over the RTX 4060 Ti. The result of the Vulkan test was roughly the same: 140,147 points for the Blackwell card, 14% more than its Lovelace predecessor.
The test was carried out using an X870E motherboard and Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU.
Like the rest of the RTX 5000 series, this isn’t exactly the stunning generational uplift people were expecting before Blackwell arrived. We found in our review that the RTX 5080 was just 9% faster than the RTX 4080 Super, for example. The RTX 5070 fared even worse. And while synthetic benchmarks don’t tell the whole story, the results don’t bode well.
According to reports from earlier this week, the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB model will cost $379, while the 16GB variant is set to land at $429. But card prices are obscene right now, and finding one in stock, especially an MSRP model, can be a near impossibility at times.
Also on the way is AMD’s Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card. Like the RTX 5060 Ti, it comes in 8GB and 16GB flavors.
AMD hasn’t said much about its mainstream RX 9060 series other than confirming they’ll arrive in the second quarter of 2025. It’s expected that Team Red will price the RX 9060 XT to undercut the RTX 5060 Ti – it priced the RX 9070 XT cheaper than the RTX 5070 Ti.
Again, though, we’re expecting the RX 9060 XT cards to face stock shortage problems and inflated prices. The fact there have been only a few RX 9060 XT cards spotted to date and quite a lot of RTX 5060 Ti cards compounds those concerns.
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