Things didn’t get any easier for the RTX 5060 in Cyberpunk 2077. Though the RTX 5060 was still well ahead of the RTX 4060, it fell behind the RTX 4060 Ti while rendering the game at 1080p and 1440p. It outperformed the Intel Arc B580 at 1080p and 1440p but fell behind at 4K. The AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT beat the RTX 5060 across the board.
In F1 2024, the GeForce RTX 5060 lagged far behind the Radeon RX 9060 XT and the RTX 4060 Ti. This is a little surprising. The RTX 4060 Ti has a slightly higher core count, but the RTX 5060 has some big pluses—far faster vRAM and a newer architecture—and the two cards operate at similar clock speeds. On paper, the RTX 5060 looks like it might be better than the RTX 4060 Ti, but these F1 2024 scores suggest the RTX 4060 Ti could be the better card, at least in some games.
The Intel Arc B580 was slower overall than the RTX 5060 in F1 2024. The RTX 5060 was significantly faster at 1080p and 1440p, while the B580 was faster at 4K. It’s not clear why. Maybe the RTX 5060’s 128-bit memory interface is holding it back? At a glance, this seems to be the answer, since the Intel Arc B580 has a wider 192-bit memory interface.
But we also need to consider the total amount of bandwidth available to each GPU, and they’re nearly equal on that measure. The RTX 5060 sports 448GBps of available bandwidth, thanks to its speedy GDDR7 memory. The Arc B580’s memory interface is wider, but its GDDR6 memory is slower—hence, 456GBps of bandwidth, a negligible difference.
In Far Cry 6, the RTX 5060 held a potent lead over the Arc B580 and the RTX 4060 Ti. The Radeon RX 9060 XT performed much faster than the RTX 5060 at 1080p and 1440p resolutions, but the two oddly tied at 4K, likely because the RX 9060 XT has just 320GBps of bandwidth available.
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora brought in the strangest results for the RTX 5060, almost the opposite of what we observed in Far Cry 6. This time, the RTX 5060 tied with the Radeon RX 9060 XT at 1080p and 1440p before falling slightly behind at 4K. At the same time, the RTX 5060 was a sizable step behind the RTX 4060 Ti. The RTX 5060 still outpaced the Arc B580, though.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 showed the worst of both worlds in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III, trailing the RTX 4060 Ti and the AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT. Returnal split the difference, with the RTX 5060, the RX 9060 XT, and the RTX 4060 Ti all delivering relatively close results. The Intel Arc B580 wasn’t too far behind here, either, with its slightly better 4K performance compensating for its weaker 1080p showing.
