GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Review: $429 Blackwell For Gamers And Creators
Our Test System Configuration:
| Hardware Used: AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (4.7GHz - 5.2GHz, 8-Core) MSI X870E Carbon WiFi 32GB G.SKILL DDR5-6000 Samsung SSD 990 Integrated Audio / Network Radeon RX 7700 XT Radeon RX 9070 GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GeForce RTX 4070 GeFoce RTX 5070 MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Relevant Software: Windows 11 Pro 24H2 AMD Radeon v24.12.1 NVIDIA Drivers v572.50 / v575.94 |
Benchmarks Used: MLPerf Client Geekbench AI Procyon AI Text Generation Procyon AI Stable Diffusion XL Blender v4.3 Blackmagic RAW Speed Test v4.3.1 V-Ray UL 3DMark UL VRMark Unigine Superposition Games Tested: Assassin's Creed Mirage Black Myth Wukon Homeworld 3 Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Cyberpunk 2077 (press beta) The Talos Principle II F1 24 |
MLPerf Client Benchmarks
The MLPerf Client benchmark was designed by MLCommons to evaluate machine learning inference tasks on PCs. It focuses on client form factors and aims to measure how well different hardware and software configurations handle four different AI workloads using a single model. It supports DirectML via ONNX Runtime for a wide range of hardware, but Intel also gets a specialized OpenVINO path for now. Participants in MLCommons are also able to optimize the models for their hardware, but must meet strict guidelines for accuracy.
The MLPerf Client benchmark has the new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti slotting in between the RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 4070 as it related to time to first token. Token generation thereafter shows the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti landing right on top of the RTX 3070 Ti, but well behind the RTX 4070. The RTX 5060 Ti, however, leaves the 8GB GeForce RTX 4060 Ti in the dust.
Geekbench AI Testing
Geekbench AI is a cross-platform benchmark tool designed to evaluate the performance of AI workloads on a wide range devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, and desktops. It measures the performance of CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs (Neural Processing Units) across different operating systems like Android, iOS, Windows, macOS, and Linux with an array of machine learning tasks.
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti's performance in Geekbench AI is mixed. Here, it pulls ahead of the RTX 4070 in the half precision test, but trails in the single precision and quantized tests. The new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti outpaces the previous-gen RTX 4060 Ti and Radeon RX 7000 series cards easily, though.
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti's performance in Geekbench AI is mixed. Here, it pulls ahead of the RTX 4070 in the half precision test, but trails in the single precision and quantized tests. The new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti outpaces the previous-gen RTX 4060 Ti and Radeon RX 7000 series cards easily, though.
UL Procyon AI Text Generation Benchmarks
The Procyon AI Text Generation Benchmark is a tool developed by UL Solutions to evaluate the performance of large language models (LLMs) on Windows PCs. It features real-world use cases and uses seven prompts with both Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) and non-RAG queries. It tests various AI models like Phi-3.5-mini, Mistral-7B, Llama-3.1-8B, and Llama-2-13B. These tests were run using ONNX with DirectML, not TensorRT, which is optimal for NVIDIA's RTX series discrete GPUs, but unavailable in this test at this time with this particular test.
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti handles the various models in Procyon AI's LLM benchmarks well, and typically slots in just behind the GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 5070, but well ahead of the RTX 4060 Ti. Note that the RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 4060 fail the final LLAMA 2 benchmark due to insufficient memory, hence their removal from that final chart.
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti handles the various models in Procyon AI's LLM benchmarks well, and typically slots in just behind the GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 5070, but well ahead of the RTX 4060 Ti. Note that the RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 4060 fail the final LLAMA 2 benchmark due to insufficient memory, hence their removal from that final chart.
UL Procying Stable Diffusion XL AI Image Generation
The Procyon AI Image Generation Benchmark measures inference performance for image generation tasks. It includes several tests, with the Stable Diffusion XL (FP16) test we used here being the most demanding. The test is designed to evaluate a wide range of hardware from low power NPUs to high-end discrete GPUs and it can be configured to use different inference engines like NVIDIA TensorRT, Intel OpenVINO, and ONNX with DirectML. Unfortunately, the TensorRT engine hasn’t been updated for Blackwell just yet, but we tested it with ONNX to provide a point of reference versus the RTX 40 series cards.
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti also performs well in the FP16 Procyon AI Stable Diffusion image generation benchmark. Once again we see the new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti outpacing its previous-gen counterpart and landing just behind the GeForce RTX 4070.
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti also performs well in the FP16 Procyon AI Stable Diffusion image generation benchmark. Once again we see the new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti outpacing its previous-gen counterpart and landing just behind the GeForce RTX 4070.
Blender v4.3 GPU Rendering Benchmarks
Blender is a free and open source 3D creation suite that can handle everything from modeling, rigging, and animation, through simulation, rendering, compositing, motion tracking, and even video editing or game creation. The developers offer a standalone benchmark tool that will track performance while rendering a handful of models. We used all three of the default models for these tests...
The Blender benchmark's various models show the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti performing right about on par with the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, but well ahead of the newer Radeon RX 9070, and it blows the doors off the Radeon RX 7700 XT. The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti also has no trouble outpacing the RTX 3070 or RTX 4060 Ti, though the RTX 4070 finishes well ahead.
V-Ray Rendering
The V-Ray Benchmark is a free tool that measures rendering performance on CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs, or a combination of both. The GPU benchmark in particular features a complex scene designed to evaluate the capabilities of both the RTX and CUDA-based V-Ray 6 render engines.
We tested V-Ray using the higher-performing RTX render engine, which leverages the RT cores in NVIDIA GPUs and means no support for Radeons here. The new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti card sandwich the RTX 4070, and smoke the older RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 4060 Ti, but the GeForce RTX 5070 and higher-end cards finish well out in front.
Blackmagic RAW Speed Test Results
The Blackmagic RAW Speed Test is a CPU and GPU benchmarking tool that determines the speed of decoding full-resolution Blackmagic RAW video frames. The tool can be used to evaluate performance at various resolutions and bitrates on the CPU or using OpenCL or CUDA on a GPU. We're reporting four results here, at 8K and 4K resolutions, but at differing bitrates and compression levels.
At both resolutions and compression levels, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti card slot in just behind the GeForce RTX 4070 and RTX 5070. In the more taxing / less compressed 3:1 tests, the deltas are small, but the additional decoder in the RTX 5070 allows it to pull further ahead in the 12:1 test. The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti significantly outpaces the RTX 4060 Ti and all of the Radeons, however.
