In-Game Benchmarks
Now we finally get into the in game performance and that is the main reason people pick up a new video card. To test things out I ran through our new benchmark suite that tests 8 games at three different resolutions (1080p, 1440p, and 4k). Most of the games tested have been run at the highest detail setting and a mid-range detail setting to get a look at how turning things up hurts performance and to give an idea of whether turning detail down from max will be beneficial for frame rates. Cyberpunk 2077 is also tested with Super Sampling (DLSS/FSR/XeSS). In total, each video card is tested 60 times and that makes for a huge mess of results when you put them all together. To help with that I like to start with these overall playability graphs that take all of the results and give an easier-to-read result. I have one for each of the three resolutions and each is broken up into four FPS ranges. Under 30 FPS is considered unplayable, over 30 is playable but not ideal, over 60 is the sweet spot, over 120 FPS is for high refresh rate monitors, and 240 helps show the performance ideal for the latest higher refresh displays.
So how did the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan do? At 1080p all of the results were at or over 60 FPS with just two results in that 60-119 FPS range. At 1440p everything was over 60 FPS as well, but at that resolution 7 results were in that 60-119 FPS range but a majority were still in the 120 FPS and more with 3 over 240 FPS and 8 below that but over 120 FPS. At 4K the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan runs into a wall. 11 of the 18 results were still over 60 FPS, but this is the first resolution that we see results under 60 FPS with 7 results in that range. 9 are between 60 and 119 FPS and 3 were over 120 FPS.
To get a better look at some of the cards that are the closest competition to the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan I have averaged out the results for a range of cards at each of the resolutions tested. Where the graphs above give a very general look at performance, this gives us a more detailed look at performance. The PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan is just a hair under 200 for its 1080p results which puts it above the RTX 4070 FE which was 6 FPS behind it. At 1440p the gap between the 5060 Ti and the 4070 was tighter with just 2 FPS between them. Then at 4k, the gap gets a little wider again with 5 FPS keeping the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan ahead. The new card up was the RX 7800 XT but it wasn’t close at any of the resolutions and the RX 9070 was in its own category compared to the RTX 5060 Ti.
Just to touch on it, I did also take the results and removed our two Cyberpunk tests that test using DLSS. With the 5060 Ti using DLSS 4 and the 4070 only supporting DLSS 3 there is a big performance difference there. Without those results at all we get a different picture. The 5060 Ti comes in below the RTX 4070 and the RX 7700 XT and the improvement from the RTX 4060 Ti to the RTX 5060 Ti is 16% where it was 28% before.
Of course, I have all of the actual in game results as well for anyone who wants to sort through the wall of graphs below. The averages above already paint the picture for the most part though. The PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan does sit ahead of the RX 7700 XT in 8 of the 14 tests but they do trade blows.
Another new addition to my testing was a few additional tests using Cyberpunk 2077. This is one of only a few games that support most of the tech from all three of the GPU companies. So I did tests at medium and ultra detail while having Super Sampling on for all of the cards. Using whatever the latest and greatest is supported. In this case, I tested with DLSS 4. Just a note here, the AMD cards only allowed FSR when running windowed mode whereas Nvidia only performed well in fullscreen mode which does affect the numbers somewhat. For the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan, you can see in both the medium and ultra detail tests that without DLSS it is in the bottom half of the chart and moves up in the chart with DLSS 4. Without DLSS it is just below the RTX 4070 and ahead of the 7700 XT with medium detail and at ultra detail it is behind the 6800 XT and ahead of the 7700 XT once again. At least at 1080p and 1440p, that story changes significantly at 4k. With DLSS 4 the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan is sitting below the RTX 4090 FE at ultra detail, showing how much DLSS 4 helps over DLSS 3 which the 4090 supports. At 1440 and ultra detail the PNY RTX 5060 Ti Overclocked Dual Fan goes from 81 FPS up to 267, a 230% increase. More importantly, it makes the high frame rates needed for a high refresh display possible.
