I spent my first few hours with the RTX 5060 playing Doom: The Dark Ages, and it feels pretty slick for under $300


Not everyone’s going to find the RTX 5060 riveting, especially from a specs point of view. But, as someone who was born in the fires of entry-level PC gaming, I’m always keen to see what the most affordable graphics cards can actually do for under $300. It’d be an understatement to say that budget GPUs are hard to find in 2025, so when Nvidia asked if I wanted to try out the cheaper Blackwell GPU ahead of its official launch, I was extremely keen to dive in.

Naturally, I won’t be able to share any RTX 5060 benchmarks or figures ahead of the launch with you. You’ll have to wait for my full review for those vital performance bits, and they will ultimately dictate whether the GeForce card deserves a place at the best graphics card table. I like to spend at least a week testing GPUs across a variety of demanding games to get a proper feel for whether they provide real value. But before I get to that, I want to chat about the few hours I’ve spent with the Blackwell card playing DOOM: The Dark Ages.

Bethesda’s shooter is admittedly living in my head rent-free since ray tracing is baked into its idTech engine. You’d perhaps think that such settings would hold back maximum frame rates dramatically, but the fact that I was able to play Doom the Dark Ages at over 500fps at launch using an RTX 5080 quashes that idea completely. The RTX 5060 is a bit of a different beast since it only boasts 8GB VRAM and is a much more modest GPU, but I can confirm that it does feel pretty nice on my current best gaming monitor pick, the LG UltraGear 32GS95UE-B.

DOOM: The Dark Ages gameplay featuring burning building in back of items leading way.

(Image credit: Future)

Again, I’ll be sharing plenty of figures in my eventual RTX 5060 review, but since I’m about to sign off for the weekend, allow me to chat about my first few hours with the card. I will eventually be testing the GPU at 1440p and 4K, but since we’re talking about an entry-level model, I’ve kicked things off at 1080p for now. Since I’ve still got high refresh rate monitors on my mind, I’ve also been playing with DLSS 4 Quality Mode and x4 Multi Frame Generation on with Ultra Nightmare settings enabled.



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