Nvidia’s launch of its entry-level RTX 5060-series GPUs is, unsurprisingly, off to a messy start. While we reviewed the 16GB version of the RTX 5060 Ti, reports and our own outreach to AIBs (add-in board partners) suggest that Nvidia is restricting access to the 8GB version of the card. Samples for 8GB cards weren't sent out, leaving reviewers scrambling to try to pick one up at retail — which is difficult when the cards all immediately sold out. Despite those difficulties, a review by the Carbon-based Technology Research Institute on Bilibili offers some insight into the kind of performance users can expect from the lower VRAM variant.
First spotted by @harukaze5719, the video includes test results of two Asus-branded triple-fan RTX 5060 Ti GPUs — one with 16GB and the other with 8GB of VRAM. Most synthetic benchmark results suggest that the increased VRAM doesn’t significantly impact performance. For instance, in the 3DMark Fire Strike suite of tests, the 8GB model delivered results nearly identical to the 16GB version. Notably, both GPUs show a 20–30% performance boost over the RTX 4060 Ti 8GB and are about 5% slower than the RTX 4070.
