NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti GPU rumor causes disappointment, suggests it's just 15% faster than 4060 Ti

NVIDIA's RTX 5060 Ti GPU is supposedly ready to roll and be released next week, so it comes as no surprise that we're seeing a leaked benchmark.

As is typical for the initial leaks for a graphics card, this isn't one of the better metrics by which to judge gaming performance. Yes, you guessed it, this is a piece of spillage from Geekbench as flagged up by BenchLeaks on X (via Wccftech).

As ever, these are results from the Vulkan and OpenCL tests in Geekbench where the RTX 5060 Ti (with 16GB of VRAM) is shown achieving 140,147 and 146,234 respectively, as you can see in the above and below posts.

Compared to the RTX 4060 Ti, NVIDIA's successor is 14% and 13% faster respectively, so we're apparently looking at just shy of a 15% generational increase. But as mentioned, this is Geekbench, so chuck the salt around in plentiful quantities.

A 15% increase would be met with a lukewarm reception, shall we say, and indeed this leak has already caused some negative feeling across the usual online forums and social media outlets.

We'll reserve judgment for now - we need to see more benchmarks, and proper gaming efforts at that. Also bear in mind that if the latest price rumor is right, NVIDIA could be mulling a more attractive than expected MSRP here, too, for both the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB and 8GB spins.

The theory is that asking prices could be pitched at $429 and $379 for the 16GB and 8GB graphics cards respectively, a drop from the launch pricing of the RTX 4060 Ti models - but we'll believe it when we see it.

Still, the point remains: this isn't the best synthetic test to go off by a long shot, and any performance level can only be viewed clearly through the lens of pricing, anyway.

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