Initial Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance For The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti
When taking the geometric mean of all the graphics benchmarks completed for this initial round of GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Linux testing, here's the outcome:
Most often the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti was performing similar to the Radeon RX 7700 XT on Linux. The RTX 5060 Ti performs much better than the AMD competition for Vulkan ray-tracing especially. At the suggested price of $429 USD the RTX 5060 Ti would present better value than the Radeon RX 7700 XT that can be found in-stock at around $450~499 USD, but with current in-stock RTX 5060 Ti 16GB prices going for $480~549, for now at least it does present better value to the RX 7700 XT -- unless you care a lot about ray-tracing, CUDA / official compute support, and other exceptions.
The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB did provide much better power efficiency though compared to the Radeon RX 7700 XT. On average across these graphics benchmarks under Ubuntu 25.04 the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB was consuming 138 Watts on average and a peak of 183 Watts, well below the RX 7700 XT with a 175 Watt average and 220 Watt peak. In some benchmarks the RTX 5060 Ti was also close to the GeForce RTX 4070 in performance, which saw a 155 Watt average and 200 Watt peak.
The PNY GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB graphics card on average had a core temperature around 67 degrees across all the benchmarks with a peak of 77 degrees.
Overall the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti has been working out well in my testing this week under Ubuntu 25.04 with the NVIDIA 575.51.02 driver. Stay tuned for more NVIDIA Blackwell Linux benchmarks on Phoronix and thanks to NVIDIA for providing this review sample for today's testing.
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