RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB suffers up to 30% lower 1% lows and 18% slower Frame Generation vs 16 GB model

The RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB is a disappointing card in many respects. The existence of a $300+ GPU with 8 GB of VRAM in 2025 is arguably bad. On top of this, there are no reviews of the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB, neither from us nor from premier tech YouTubers like Linus Tech Tips and Hardware Unboxed.

It seems Nvidia doesn’t want the media to cover the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB. Why is that? The answer might lie in the performance of the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB in relation to the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB.

Per some testing done by a Chinese reviewer and posted on blibili, the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB doesn’t just have half the VRAM of the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB; the GPU is also slower in some crucial scenarios.

Starting with the DLSS 4 performance comparison in Cyberpunk 2077, the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB managed around 18.5 and 9.1 FPS, respectively, at 2K resolution with ray tracing and other settings turned to max. The DLSS was set to “Quality” here without any Frame Generation.

Turning 2x Frame Generations allegedly eliminates this massive 200% performance difference, as the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB and RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB clock in 61 and 62 FPS, respectively. However, things change drastically with 4x Frame Generation.

With 4x Frame Generation, the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB leads the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB by 22% with frame rates of 113 vs 92.4, respectively. This makes sense since generating three additional frames for every “real” frame requires the GPU to store considerably more information in the VRAM buffer.

In other words, the 4X Frame Generation, which Nvidia has been pushing hard, seemingly produces less performance when the VRAM is limited to 8 GB. This puts another asterisk in front of the existence of the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB.

The RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB also appears to fall behind in games that are heavy on VRAM usage. One such game is Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered (HZD Remastered). According to official system requirements, HZD Remastered ideally requires 16 GB of VRAM.

Keeping this in mind, it is not surprising that the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB is seemingly 29% faster in average FPS at 1080p and 16% faster at 1440p. What’s more important to note here, however, is that the 1% Lows at 1080p for the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB are 30% lower. So, the HZW Remastered should be noticeably smoother on the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB.

That said, the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB should present no problems in games where 8 GB of VRAM is not an issue. For instance, in Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB is practically on par with the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. For 1080p/60 FPS, Ubisoft lists the RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB under “Recommended” in the official Assassin’s Creed: Shadows system requirements. So, it is no wonder that the game runs equally fast on the 8 GB and 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti SKUs.

All in all, the story is largely similar to last-gen: Games that need more VRAM will run notably slower on the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB than the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. The performance difference is also there when using 4x Frame Generation. We don’t know why there are still mid-range cards with 8 GB of VRAM in 2025, as the latest AAA games are quite resource-intensive and future games will continue on this path.

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