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NVIDIA RTX 50 SERIES - Technical/General Discussion

Seems like an adequate card. It's not going to blow anyone away but it's a fair replacement for the previous 4060, and on par with the 4060Ti 8GB.
For 1080P entry level gaming it's still fine.

$299 MSRP

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GeForce RTX 5060 8GB review (Page 32)

NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5060 series enters the market: an 8 GB base model priced at $299 USD with the RTX 5060 Ti available in 8 GB and 16 GB variants. Although the Ti version debuted in April, logistical considerations deferred the standard 5060 to mid-May. We tested and reviewed the MSI Gaming OC...
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And they are live https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pc-c...eforce-rtx-5060-graphics-cards?sort=price_asc

Pricing is better than I was expecting £270 for Palit model
 
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dmfg said:
It's a classic Prisoner's dilemma that Nvidia has set up for reviewers. "Sign up for the early preview, there's no downside since there's no other way to review the card and you wouldn't want to be one of those channels that doesn't sign up and misses out would you?"

Every reviewer knows that the end result is a dysfunctional and untrusted review environment where everyone loses, but it only works if enough reviewers take a stand. Otherwise the ones that cave to Nvidia get the short term benefit and the ones that take a stand get shafted
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Established sites will be big enough to call them out but they won't be around forever and and any new startups will have to make a hard choice either kiss the hand and be welcomed into the fold or stay forever on the sidelines. Nvidia don't want independent and most importantly critical reviews they want social media style "influencers" to sell you their product on a paid promotional.
 
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That's not how I read that review. I read that review as I can buy a used 3070 and get the same performance for £200, or I can pay a tad more but still slightly less than a 5060 8gb and get a Intel b580 for marginely better performance on average plus more vram. Intels drivers are still getting there, but at least they have an excuse for it unlike Nvidias tragic drivers recently.
 
Rawr said:
That's not how I read that review. I read that review as I can buy a used 3070 and get the same performance for £200,
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You could, but most people who are on a tight budget aren't going to spend £200 on a nearly 5 year old 3070, they would rather pay a little more and have a brand new warrantied product.

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or I can pay a tad more but still slightly less than a 5060 8gb and get a Intel b580 for marginely better performance on average plus more vram. Intels drivers are still getting there, but at least they have an excuse for it unlike Nvidias tragic drivers recently.
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B580 is £10 cheaper than the 5060. It's better in some games, worse in some games - it's not the easy "B580 is the winner" clean sweep that on paper a 12Gb card should have.
 
Armageus said:
You could, but most people who are on a tight budget aren't going to spend £200 on a nearly 5 year old 3070, they would rather pay a little more and have a brand new warrantied product.


B580 is £10 cheaper than the 5060. It's better in some games, worse in some games - it's not the easy "B580 is the winner" clean sweep that on paper a 12Gb card should have.
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Because of what I said though, Intel are up and coming with their drivers. They're a grower and have shown massive progress, unlike Nvidia who are if anything stepping further and further away from gaming with every moment which is becoming readily apparent with their drivers somehow getting worse in time.
 
"Sorry little Timmy, you can't play fortnite as you need to save up more of your pennies to buy the next tier up as although the price to performance ratio is actually pretty good the overall performance including RT isn't as good as a more expensive GPU"

But seriously, I'd never buy one but for that budget its fine, just "fine"
 
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Armageus said:
You could, but most people who are on a tight budget aren't going to spend £200 on a nearly 5 year old 3070, they would rather pay a little more and have a brand new warrantied product.
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I've just checked the sold listings elsewhere and there's a couple of 3070's sold close to £200 but they're many that have sold all the way up to £260 so there's clearly a market for this price range.

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B580 is £10 cheaper than the 5060. It's better in some games, worse in some games - it's not the easy "B580 is the winner" clean sweep that on paper a 12Gb card should have.
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The more choice the better and the door's wide open for either Intel or AMD to drop a better card and no I dont mean within 5-10% and a little cheeper...
 
Armageus said:
And as always comes up what do you do? Just not buy anything?
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The sensible option is not to buy am ass GPU just because it's cheap but instead wait a little longer to save some more money and buy something actually worth the money, or buy a better GPU in the used market from someone who has upgraded.
 
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mrk said:
The sensible option is not to buy am ass GPU just because it's cheap but instead wait a little longer to save some more money and buy something actually worth the money,
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Again sorry little Timmy you can't have a GPU for Christmas, maybe wait until next Christmas for a better one lol.

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or buy a better GPU in the used market from someone who has upgraded.
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And again not everyone wants a 3 year old GPU that could fail or have driver support discontinued at any point.
 
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