Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 review: better than console performance - but not enough VRAM

If you're on a desktop browser that gets the full video embeds for each game we tested, you may have noticed that we've selected four graphics cards that we feel offer the most interesting comparison to be shown by default. However, you can use the tick boxes to the right of the video to make your own selections too. Why not select your own graphics card if we've tested it, or swap out the resolution to match the monitor on your desk? The choice is yours.

Our final trio of RT games includes two titles that require ray tracing to even run: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, one of our best game graphics of 2024 winners, and Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, the first game to make an RT-capable graphics card a requirement. We round out the selection with A Plague Tale: Requiem, which is tested with RT engaged here but doesn't require it.

A quick word on the Indiana Jones benchmark - for 12GB cards and higher, we benchmark with the texture pool setting maxed. This won't even boot on 8GB cards, however! For those GPUs, we set the texture pool preset to low.

Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition

A Plague Tale: Requiem

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Analysis

• Introduction and test rig
• RT benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora, Cyberpunk 2077
• RT benchmarks: Dying Light 2, F1 24, Hitman: World of Assassination
• RT benchmarks: Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, Metro Exodus Enhanced Edition, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• Game benchmarks: Alan Wake 2, Black Myth: Wukong, Cyberpunk 2077 [This Page]
• Game benchmarks: F1 24, Forza Horizon 5, Senua's Saga: Hellblade 2
• Game benchmarks: Hitman: World of Assassination, A Plague Tale: Requiem
• PCIe 3.0 vs PCIe 5.0: Black Myth: Wukong, F1 24, Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
• PlayStation 5 comparisons and DLSS 4 multi frame generation
• Conclusions, value and recommendations