A Closer Look
Speaking of numbers, let’s talk specs, because the 5060 Ti comes in with 4608 CUDA cores, 144 Texture Mapping Units, 48 ROPS, 36 streaming multi processors, 144 Tensor Cores, 36 RT cores, and 32MB of L2 cache meaning that we generally see a 5.88% uplift in specs over the 4060 Ti on most specs, excluding the ROP count and L2 cache which come in identical.
5.88% doesn’t sound a whole lot impressive but reserving judgement as different architectures work differently, I’m going to give NVIDIA the benefit of the doubt on this one because other key factors, like the all-important GDDR7 could make a bigger difference than just increasing core counts. There’s also other factors in play because compared to the 4060 Ti, the 5060 Ti comes in with a similar die size of 181mm² compared to 188mm² and transistor count of 21 Billion which is a slight reduction in count, though again, comparing architectures to each other is kind of redundant as you can’t draw any clear lines between them in cases like that.
Now, one key thing about the 5060 Ti, is that there is no Founders Edition, and instead, NVIDIA are relying on AIB partners, which in all honesty, does make things a little trickier. We’ve spoken before about pricing and how typically, even with the cost of GPUs rising and MSRP’s not really being worth the paper they’re written on, at least with an FE, NVIDIA would sell them for that price, whereas AIB’s have it harder than ever now to make money, and we’ve seen huge markups on GPUs including pre-orders at some retailers far exceeding the pricing that consumers are expecting, though with any launch day review, we do have to speculate about pricing based on what history has taught us.
For us, we have the ASUS PRIME model, which is a triple fan solution that is “meant” to be hitting the $429 MSRP price point, which for a triple fan card is pretty decent, but again, I’ll reserve some judgement until we see actual street pricing, because that, especially in these situations where we’ve not seen huge uplifts on the 50 series in terms of rasterisation and raytracing performance, can make all of the difference.
We will be looking at the card itself in terms of cooling performance and overclocking in a feature shortly, while today is all about the GPU, and less about the AIB model card, so for now, let’s get onto testing and for that, we used our GPU benchmark system with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D with 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB 6000MHz CL30 memory on a Gigabyte B650E AORUS Master motherboard. All testing was done on the latest version of Windows with the latest updates and for our testing, we used the NVIDIA 575.94 GameReady driver.
We’ll be mainly comparing the 4060 Ti 8GB, because we never had a 16GB model, and the 3060 Ti to see what kind of generational uplift we see, along with looking at other similar cards in terms of performance or pricing along the way. Due to the specs and pricing of this card, we’ll be putting our focus on 1080 and 1440p here today, but we do also have 4K results, which we’ll be sharing on our Patreon if you want to check them out while also supporting the channel with everything that we do.
So with that out of the way, let’s get into those glorious benchmarks.
