If you’re looking for a budget graphics card for 1080p gaming, the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti should be one of your top choices. Right now Amazon is offering the PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB OC Graphics Card for only $429.99 with free delivery. This is the 16GB variant, which is the one you should be getting (avoid the 8GB). Prices on Nvidia GPUs have finally started trending downwards, and it’s great to see entry level cards hitting the price that was originally intended.
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU for $429.99
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU Review by Jacqueline Thomas
“The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is a solid little 1080p graphics card, even compared to its last-generation counterpart. There are very few games that it can’t max out at that resolution, and even in games where it struggles – looking at you Assassins Creed Shadows – you can just turn down the ray tracing a bit to get much better performance. However, there’s a huge caveat here, and it’s the 8GB version of the card. While it’s easy to recommend the 16GB version of the card, especially if you have something older than the 3060 Ti, the 8GB card is going to run into more trouble as games get more demanding. It is a shame that both the 8GB and 16GB version share the same name, because it’s going to make shopping for a 1080p graphics card all the more confusing.”
The RTX 5060 Ti is an excellent GPU for 1080p gaming. It outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by about 20% and the RTX 3060 Ti by about 40%. Like the other Blackwell cards, the RTX 5060 Ti pulls away even further in games that support DLSS 4. However, make sure that you pick a model with 16GB of VRAM. The 8GB models are a bit less expensive, but the smaller amount of VRAM noticeably bottlenecks the GPU’s performance in more graphics intensive games and at higher resolutions like 1440p. The least expensive RTX 5070 GPU currently available is $579.99 . Generally if you plan on playing games in 1080p, that extra $150 is not worth the approximately 20%-25% increase in performance. However, if you’re aiming for high (144fps or higher) framerates or gaming in 1440p resolution, then the purchase might be more justified.
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