Amazon has an outstanding GPU deal right now, enabling you to pick up an MSI RTX 5060 Ti Ventus 2X OC 8GB graphics card for its lowest ever price, saving you a good £70 on the £350 launch cost. It might not have 16GB of VRAM, but that hardly matters when you can pick up an RTX 5060 Ti for just £279.99, particularly in these times of outlandish component prices.
MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Ti Ventus 2X OC
£349.99 £279.99
“Provides a solid upgrade path to those still rocking GeForce RTX 30 Series SKUs such as RTX 3060 Ti. The fresh face on the scene respectively pushes past what came before by 29% on average.” – Read our review.
That’s a genuinely excellent deal for this GPU, giving you 4,608 CUDA cores for the price you’d usually pay for an RTX 5060. There isn’t a big performance jump between the last-gen RTX 4060 Ti and this latest GPU, but if you’re still using an Ampere card, such as a 3060 Ti, then it provides a decent upgrade.
It’s also a solid choice for anyone looking to build a budget gaming PC for 1920×1080 play, offering faster performance than an 8GB Radeon RX 9060 XT or GeForce RTX 5060. Not only are you getting a powerful piece of Nvidia Blackwell silicon here, but you also gain access to all the fun of Nvidia’s latest DLSS 4.5 suite.
That means you now get up to 6x multi-frame-gen to smooth out motion, which is great if your monitor has a high refresh rate, as long as your starting frame rate is high enough in the first place. Nvidia’s latest DLSS transformer also does a great job of upscaling with minimal impact on visuals, meaning you can squeeze even more performance out of your card.
The main downer is that it only has 8GB of VRAM, rather than 16GB, and that’s all down to the current turmoil surrounding RAM prices. In our own testing, we’ve found that several of the latest demanding games readily push past that 8GB frame buffer if you like to enable all the eye candy.
As such, just bear in mind that you might not be able to max out the settings in all your games with this card (Forza Motorsport, Assassin’s Creed Shadows, and Indiana Jones and the Great Circle are prime examples). However, that’s the compromise you have to make in the middle of a memory supply crisis, and at just £279.99, we’d argue it’s a sacrifice worth making.
Unsurprisingly, Amazon says this deal is selling fast, so we advise picking up this card sooner rather than later. For more detail on our current graphics card recommendations, check out our full guide to buying the best GPU, where we take you through our favourite graphics tech right now.
