Synthetic Benchmarks
As always I like to start my testing with a few synthetic benchmarks. 3DMark especially is one of my favorites because it is very optimized in both Nvidia and AMD drivers. It's nice to not have to worry about it being favored too much either way and the repeatability of the results makes it a nice chance to compare from card to card, especially when comparing with the same GPU. In this case, I want to see how it compares to the previous generations of xx60 Ti GPUs, The RX 7800 XT and RX 7700 XT from AMD, and the RTX 4070 FE.
The first round of tests were done in the older Fire Strike benchmark which is a DX11 test. There are three detail levels, performance, extreme, and ultra. The PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan scored a 41427 in the base Fire Strike which put it in below the RTX 3080 and ahead of the RTX 4070. It was below the RX 7700 XT and 7800 XT and a 24% improvement from the previous generation RTX 4060 Ti. In Fire Strike Extreme it scored a 21102 which put it right with the RX 7700 XT and the RTX 4070 while still below the RTX 3080. It came in 31% over the 4060 Ti. Then for Fire Strike Ultra, it scored a 9318 which was just over the RTX 3070 Ti but behind the RTX 4070 as well as the RX 7700 XT putting it 27% over the 4060 Ti.
The next two were both based on the Time Spy benchmark. One is the standard test and then there is the extreme detail level. For base Time Spy the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan scored a 16343 which was behind the 77000 XT and the 4070 and ahead of the 3070 Ti. In Time Spy the improvement over the RTX 4060 Ti shrank down to 20%. That same percentage was seen in Time Spy Extreme as well with it scoring a 7547 and sitting below the RX 7700 XT once again.
I did also test using the new 3DMark Speed Way which is one of their latest benchmarks and Port Royal as well. Speed Way is DX12 as well but combines more future-focused tech like Ray Tracing which up until its release where only used in feature tests, not full benchmarks. The PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan scored a 4178 in the Speed Way benchmark sitting behind the RX 7900 GRE and ahead of the RX 7800 XT. It is still behind the RTX 4070 but improved on the performance of the RTX 4060 Ti by 29%. In Port Royal, it scored a 10549 and is sitting behind the RTX 4070 once again but ahead of the RX 7800 XT. It’s a 28% improvement over the RTX 4060 Ti.
The last test is the newer 3Dmark Steel Nomad benchmark. Officially this is the replacement for the Time Spy benchmark. It is a DX12 benchmark and doesn’t include ray tracing but is updated to better take advantage of modern cards. The PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan scored a 3657 and sits 23% over the previous RTX 4060 Ti. It sits below the R 6800 XT this time around as well as the RTX 4070 and is ahead of the RTX 3070 Ti.
I did also slip in our 3DMark DLSS comparison as well. For this test, I run all of the available DLSS tests on 3DMark at 4K. This gives us a peak at the performance improvements between each generation of DLSS in an ideal situation. For the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan, it started at just 22.4 FPS with DLSS turned off. DLSS 1 improved on that up to 41.2 FPS. DLSS 2 improved on that again up to 56.93 FPS. Then DLSS 3 was 81.04. The biggest jump was with Multi Frame generation with DLSS 4 where it averaged 141.75 FPS. The improvements from generation to generation are impressive, but the most impressive part is when we look at the base no-DLSS result compared to with DLSS 4 it’s a staggering 532% improvement. Like I said before, this is as perfect of a situation as you can get. DLSS already knows exactly what each frame is going to be in a synthetic benchmark like this, but even still it’s a crazy improvement.
