Nothing to say. 8GB no, I know. Not everyone playing at high resolution with full high video settings. This is the global lowest price, be content.
Yeah, it should have 10 or 12GB VRAM but this is oligopoly, this is the capitalism. We can't have both. Even the retailers were f-d up.
Excludes Northern Territory, WA Remote
Good deal vs what they usually go for is very different to being a good buy. Would not touch these above $350 and then only if I had a clear understanding of my use case. If you are a previous xx60 class buyer from a few generations ago you cannot expect a similar experience relative to the higher tier cards. Hardware Unboxed did a piece on this, the 5060 should really be called a 5050 relative to the power of the flagship, and even then, not a very good xx50 class.
If your only ever going to play old games that dont need more then 8Gbs of ram you can can get a RX9060XT's for $499 "going price" that has PCIe 5.0 x16 lanes and is faster.
It really depends on what games you're playing
9060 XT will beat this in 99% of games
Yep, the only reason to get the RTX 5060 over the faster RX9060XT is for CUDA or some other specific Nvidia only application or emulator.
We gamers need to stop buying 8gb vram cards over $400 or both amd and nvidia will think its still ok to continue to sell it at over $400 at 2025 and onwards. Get the messge across to them it not mmkay!
Pretty sure the main market for these is prebuilt machines. Very few would select this card for their own PC at this price.
that doesnt make it okay though.
the not so tech savvy people who bought those prebuilt PCs are getting screwed over without realising.
They're also likely not paying this price as a component of the prebuilt. I don't think if the price is right buyers are getting "screwed over" as you might say, as long as expectations are realistic.
Look at the Techfast $688 system, sold like hotcakes with a 4060 8G last month.
However, if this card was crap at any price, why did you upvote the deal?
Don't be trapped by NVIDIA. They threatened game makers not to optimize VRAM usage in their games, or NVIDIA would stop the technical supports for future. It's NVIDIA forcing us to buy overpriced high VRAM model and not making a higher VRAM 5060.
Buy a used card then, don't give them money.
8gb in 2025. Madness.
geeee ddrrrrrrrrrrr rrrrr seven
Better off getting a 9060 XT
Potentially a great deal for a video editor.
The 50 series cards have Nvidia's latest decoding engine for H264/H265 10bit 4:2:2. This could skip the transcode step if you regularly acquire footage in those codecs.
8GB VRAM is enough for the average 4k edit.
I'm just here to observe and see what price this has to hit before people say it's acceptable value.
nvidia is being quite greedy with their products, they are more or less mirroring the mobile phone industry (apple circa 'iphone craze' era and samsung recently).
luckily we have a new player coming into the market showing us the actual value of these cards, similar to what motorola is doing to the phone market.
will be interesting to see where we are at by xmas time.
unless you're desperate, maybe wait for battlemage cards as we should see further price drops
old article explaining price impacts:
https://thinglabs.io/intel-battlemage-gpu-price-expectations…
new article with recent updates on release:
https://computercity.com/hardware/video-cards/intel-arc-b770