GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Review: $429 Blackwell For Gamers And Creators
Homeworld 3 Benchmarks
Homeworld 3
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti lands in the familiar position just behind the RTX 4070 at 1440p, but well ahead of the RTX 3070 Ti and RTX 4060 Ti. At 1080p all of the cards put up triple digit framerates, but the rankings remain the same -- the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti outruns the previous-gen GeForces and easily beats the Radeon RX 7700 XT.
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered Benchmarks
Next up, we’ve got some benchmarks from Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered. The original Horizon Zero Dawn was initially released as an exclusive on the PlayStation 4, but was ported to the PC a couple of years back. A few months ago, however, a remastered version of the game was released, with upgraded visuals and support for more advanced graphics technologies. For those unfamiliar with the game, it follows a character named Aloy, who is on a quest to unravel mysteries of a future Earth ruled by machines. She is outcast from her tribe and fights to uncover her past and stop an impending threat.
Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered
With DLSS or FSR enabed, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti trails only the higher-end GeForce RTX 5070. In fact, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti with DLSS resolution scaling alone is still faster then the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti when DLSS and Frame Generation are enabled.
The Talos Principle II Testing
Croteam’s The Talos Principle II is a sequel to the original first-person, puzzle-based adventure game that features philosophical themes and expansive environments with increasingly more difficult challenges as the game progresses. It was originally released for multiple platforms, but has been continually updated on the PC.
The Talos Principle II
The Talos Principle II has the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti performing right on par with the GeForce RTX 4070 at 1440p, with the higher-end, current-gen cards taking a clear lead. At 1080p, though, we see more of the same, with the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti clearly ourtunning the older GeForces and outperforming the Radeon RX 7700 XT as well.
Turn on DLSS or FRS (in balanced mode) and the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti framerates nearly double, but this ultimately doesn't change its position relative to the other GeForces. The Radeon RX 7700 XT, however, shows a more significant uplift with Frame Generation enabled, which pushes it up a notch.
Assassin's Creed Mirage Benchmarks
Ubisoft’s Assassin's Creed Mirage is an action-adventure game set in 9th century Baghdad, Iraq. It is the thirteenth major installment in the storied Assassin's Creed franchise and the successor to 2020's Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
There's not much new to report with Assassin's Creed. The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti once again slots in just behind the RTX 4070 at 1440p, but well ahead of the older GeForces and Radeon RX 7700 XT. And at 1080p, it's only the higher-end cards that are faster.
Enabling DLSS or FSR in Assassin's Creed Mirage significantly boosts framerates, but we still see the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti finishing in its familiar position. It is much faster than the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, but obviously isn't going to catch the GeForce RTX 5070.
Black Myth: Wukong Benchmarks
Black Myth: Wukong is a title with a storied history. It began development way back in 2018, and was first showed to the public with an incredible trailer in 2020, but the pandemic and other internal struggles delayed the game's development and it wasn't released until last year. Black Myth: Wukong supports a variety of upscalers, including NVIDIA's DLSS, AMD's FSR3, Intel's XeSS, and Epic's own TSR. Using DLSS, FSR3, or TSR gives you the option of enabling frame generation too, which you'll need if you want to crank up the visuals in this stunning title to maintain smooth animation.
Black Myth: Wukong
Black Myth: Wukong's Cinematic image quality preset with full ray tracing enabled (at medium quality) is a GPU crusher and the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti can't quite hit 40FPS at 1080p. At 1440p, however, it still lands just behind the GeForce RTX 4070.
If you want to play Black Myth: Wukong with the highest image quality settings, resolution scaling with DLSS or FSR are essentially required. As you can see, with DLSS and Frame Generation enabled, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is perfectly playable, with 5% low framerates above the 60 FPS mark.
Black Myth: Wukong
If you want to play Black Myth: Wukong with the highest image quality settings, resolution scaling with DLSS or FSR are essentially required. As you can see, with DLSS and Frame Generation enabled, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is perfectly playable, with 5% low framerates above the 60 FPS mark.
F1 24 Racing Sim Benchmarks
F1 24 is Codemaster’s latest Formula One racing simulation, and like previous version of the game, it sports impressive visuals. This latest addition to the franchise supports DirectX 12 with ray tracing, and it incorporates support for a number of AMD's FidelityFX Super Resolution (FSR) features and NVIDIA technologies, like DLSS with frame generation. We tested the games with its Ultra High graphics preset, with ray tracing and TAA enabled at a couple of resolutions to see what these graphics cards could do.
F1 24
With DLSS or FSR 2 (Balanced) enabled in F1 24, all of the framerates obviously increase, but the Radeon RX 7700 XT sees a more significant boost with FG enabled, pushing it to the top of the chart. The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti, however, still outruns its previous-gen counterpart and slots in just behind the GeForce RTX 5070, as you'd expect.
Cyberpunk 2077 Benchmarks
Cyberpunk 2077 is based on the Cyberpunk tabletop role-playing game franchise. The tabletop game was published for the first time all the way back in 1988, and the intervening 30-odd years has not changed the game world all that much. As a result, Cyberpunk 2077 looks somewhat retro-futuristic, as this is how people in the '80s imagined what the future would look like.The PC game make use of virtually every advanced DirectX graphics technology and features support for DLSS, FSR and XeSS, and after a somewhat rocky release, it has been significantly updated and optimized for a multitude of hardware configurations. Although it is no longer considered a new title, Cyberpunk 2077 remains a showcase for many advanced graphics technologies.
We tested a pre-release version of Cyberpunk 2077 that's been updated with support for DLSS 4's transformer model and multi-frame generation. This is an important note because Cyberpunk foreshadows how future games, that are optimized for the Blackwell GPU architecture and the RTX 50 series, may perform relative to previous-gen GPUs.
Cyberpunk 2077
As you can see, with each successive level of DLSS with multi-frame generation enabled, the new GeForce RTX 5060 Ti moves up the stack and puts up triple digit framerates at 1440p. Injecting those additional frames smooths out the on-screen animation significantly, and the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti finishes behind only the RTX 5070. The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti's frame rates increases nearly 5.5X here, when using the multi-frame gen, but even with only a single frame injected, its framerate jumps to triple digit territory.
Because this game also supports NVIDIA Reflex technology, latency is also low enough that you still feel engaged while playing with frame generation enabled, and image quality is also improved, thanks to the use of NVIDIA's updated transformer model. You can see some of the ways the new transformer model helps DLSS, here.
