RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Can Only Beat RTX 4070 After An Overclock

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RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Offers Decent But Not Amazing Results!

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  • The RTX 5060 Ti is around 5-10% slower than the RTX 4070 at stock speeds.
  • A small overclock can push it beyond the RTX 4070’s rasterization performance.
  • This makes the RTX 5060 Ti somewhat disappointing compared to fan favorite predecessors like the RTX 3060 Ti.

The RTX 5060 lineup is now out in the wild, and reviews indicate that the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is the best of the bunch. Sporting plenty of VRAM and decent performance for up to 1440p gaming, this GPU gets a lot right.

However, it fails to measure up to the last-gen RTX 4070, at least when looking at stock results. According to recent reviews, the RTX 5060 Ti can only beat the RTX 4070 after a modest overclock.

Why it matters: In the past, Nvidia offered GPUs that offered performance better than those in the next tier of the last-generation lineup. For instance, the RTX 3060 Ti was much more capable than the RTX 2070.

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The RTX 5060 Ti 16GB Is Priced At $429

Reviews via outlets like Digital Foundry indicate a nearly 15% performance uplift for the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB compared to its predecessor. This results in approximately 5-10% worse performance compared to the RTX 4070.

However, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB can be pushed beyond 3GHz for interesting results. This overclock enables the card to perform slightly faster than the RTX 4070 in games like Black Myth: Wukong, bringing it close to the RTX 5070’s performance level, which was barely better than that of the RTX 4070.

Forza Horizon 5 exhibits a similar trend, but ray tracing performance remains superior on the last-generation RTX 4070. Anyhow, a 350Mhz core OC goes a long way to unlocking the RTX 5060 Ti’s full potential.

Although the performance itself is far from terrible, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB ultimately proves to be slower than both the RTX 3080 and RTX 4070 without overclocking. Therefore, RTX 3080 levels of performance are still not readily available to those willing to spend less than $550 on a shiny new GPU, five years after the RTX 3080 made its initial debut.

There is also the question of availability and pricing. Going by Nvidia’s recent releases, the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is unlikely to be readily available at MSRP just yet, so it wil be interesting to see how gamers and PC enthusiasts respond to the latest in a long line of xx60-tier graphics cards.

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