The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Graphics Card with 16GB of VRAM Is Available From $490 on Amazon

A great budget card for 1080p gaming, but don't confuse the 16GB model with the 8GB one.

May 8, 2025 - 21:30

The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Graphics Card with 16GB of VRAM Is Available From $490 on Amazon

If you're looking for a budget Blackwell graphics card for 1080p gaming, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is as good as it gets. Just make sure to get the 16gb variant and not the 8GB. Right now Amazon and Walmart have GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB GPUs starting at $489.99. That's still higher than the launch price of $429.99 for a reference model, but the price markup isn't nearly as egregious as the other RTX 50 series cards.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU Starting From $489.99

The RTX 5060 Ti is an excellent GPU for 1080p gaming. It outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by about 20% and the RTX 3060 Ti by about 40%. Like the other Blackwell cards, the RTX 5060 Ti pulls away even further in games that support DLSS 4.

The least expensive RTX 5070 GPU currently available is $609.99 and if you plan to stick to 1080p, that extra $120-$130 is probably not worth it unless you're aiming for super high frame rates. Make sure, however, that you pick a model with 16GB of VRAM like the ones above. The 8GB models are priced lower, but the smaller amount of VRAM significantly bottlenecks the GPU's performance in newer, more graphics intensive games and playing at higher resolutions like 1440p.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU Review by Jacqueline Thomas

"The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is a solid little 1080p graphics card, even compared to its last-generation counterpart. There are very few games that it can’t max out at that resolution, and even in games where it struggles – looking at you Assassins Creed Shadows – you can just turn down the ray tracing a bit to get much better performance. However, there’s a huge caveat here, and it’s the 8GB version of the card. While it’s easy to recommend the 16GB version of the card, especially if you have something older than the 3060 Ti, the 8GB card is going to run into more trouble as games get more demanding. It is a shame that both the 8GB and 16GB version share the same name, because it’s going to make shopping for a 1080p graphics card all the more confusing."

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Windforce OC GPU for $609.99

If you're planning to game at higher resolutions like 1440p, then you should step up to the GeForce RTX 5070 GPU. Amazon currently has the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 5070 Windforce OC 12GB Graphics Card exclusively for Amazon Prime members for $609.99 with free shipping. It also includes a voucher for the upcoming Doom: The Dark Ages game.

Compared to the previous generation GPUs, the RTX 5070 performs comparably with the RTX 4070 Super. We wish there was a bigger generation improvement in raw performance, but the RTX 4070 Super was already an excellent card for 1440p gaming. It also came in at a launch price of $599.99, which is only $10 less than the price of this Gigabyte 5070 model. None of this even matters anymore because it's impossible to find an RTX 4070 Super GPU for sale (at least at this price). The RTX 5070 does look and perform better than the RTX 4070 Super in games that support DLSS 4 and multi-frame generation, and it's a more future-proof card that will improve with driver optimizations.

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