STEAM conducts monthly surveys on players' computer hardware and releases comprehensive reports. In the graphics card category, the most popular models are often not the high-end 90 or 80 series, but rather the mid-range 60 series. For instance, in April's hardware survey, the top three were the RTX 4060 Mobile, RTX 3060, and RTX 4060. If expectations hold, the next card to dominate these spots will be NVIDIA's recently released RTX 5060.

Today, the Hotspot Tech editorial team has obtained the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB graphics card from Colorful's high-end gaming brand, iGame. We have also prepared an RTX 4060 Ti (8GB) and an RTX 4060 for comparative testing to determine if it outperforms its predecessor.

Appearance Introduction

Colorful's iGame Ultra series graphics cards have always been a favorite among players who prefer a white-themed build, and the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB is no exception. It adopts the same pink-and-white hip-hop design style as the RTX 5080, RTX 5070, and RTX 5060 Ti, with a white embossed shell complemented by bright peach-pink lines, making it highly personalized.

Thanks to the RTX 5060's high energy efficiency, the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB has been reduced from three fans to two, further compacting the graphics card and enhancing case compatibility. The two 90mm, 9-blade ring fans on the front can intake airflow quietly and efficiently. Surrounding the fans are transparent acrylic decorative pieces and embossed shells, offering a sleek yet sophisticated design.

On the side of the graphics card, Colorful has designed a transparent acrylic light strip that supports adjusting lighting effects using Colorful's official software, iGame Freedom Planet. When paired with Colorful's full suite of accessories, it achieves better lighting consistency and avoids "light pollution".

The solid backplate on the rear of the graphics card ensures that the "iGame" graffiti pattern is fully visible, providing greater comfort for players with OCD. Additionally, the tail of the graphics card is hollowed out to facilitate airflow and heat dissipation from the heat sink fins.

In terms of the cooling module, this iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB is equipped with dual 6mm heat pipes, a nickel-plated copper base, and reflow soldered fins. The connection between the aluminum reflow soldered fins and the heat pipes uses reflow soldering, providing a superior cooling effect compared to the through-fin process, making it easy to handle the RTX 5060.

In terms of interfaces, it is equipped with 3 DisplayPort 2.1b interfaces and 1 HDMI 2.1b interface. Colorful's iconic one-click overclocking button is also present, factory-set to the overclocked state, offering stronger performance than the standard design.

In terms of dimensions, the actual measured length of the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB is 23.2cm, with a thickness of 49.68mm including the backplate and 45.56mm excluding the backplate, making it very compact.

Architecture and Configuration Overview

The RTX 50 series graphics cards are renowned for their new features. For ordinary players, the most practical features are the DLSS 4 multi-frame generation technology and the new Transformer model. There are also improvements in productivity, notably the new hardware codec support for 4:2:2 chroma subsampling videos, breaking Intel's monopoly on hardware decoding of this format.

The GeForce RTX 5060 is the entry-level model in the RTX 50 series, also known as the sweet spot card. It adopts the GB206-250 core, featuring 3840 CUDA streaming processors, 120 fifth-generation Tensor Cores, and 30 fourth-generation RT Cores. The standard core frequency is 2280MHz～2497MHz, while the Colorful iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB is an overclocked model with a core frequency of 2280MHz～2580MHz.

In terms of video memory, although the RTX 5060 still has a capacity of 8GB and a bit width of 128bit, it has been upgraded from the previous generation's GDDR6 to the faster GDDR7, with bandwidth increased from 272GB/s to 448GB/s.

PCIe support has also been upgraded from 4.0 to 5.0, but the rate remains at x8. This offers better compatibility for players who frequently split PCIe lanes for SSD and other devices. Even for players on older platforms, PCIe 4.0 x8 is sufficient for the RTX 5060 to run at full capacity.

In terms of power consumption, NVIDIA's given TDP is 145W, so almost all AIC manufacturers have adopted a single 8Pin power supply, and high-end flagship models are no exception. This is very convenient for players upgrading from older platforms.

Test Platform Description

To maximize the performance of the RTX 5060, this test uses an AMD platform, with specific models shown in the figure below.

This platform was also used in our previous RTX 5060 Ti review. You can read that article alongside this one to understand the difference between the RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060. The image quality settings for some test items may differ.

Since the RTX 5060 is positioned as a 1080P sweet spot graphics card, this test only includes tests at 1080P resolution, with the previous generation RTX 4060 Ti (8GB) and RTX 4060 serving as the control group.

Theoretical Performance Testing

3DMARK

First up is the benchmark testing software 3DMARK, which is currently the most popular hardware evaluation tool.

In the DX12 performance test Time Spy, the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by about 3.6% and the RTX 4060 by about 32.18%. In Time Spy Extreme, with a further increase in resolution, the RTX 5060 outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by about 5.7% and the RTX 4060 by about 32.6%.

Since Fire Strike primarily tests the DX11 performance of graphics cards, and the graphical pressure of Fire Strike is relatively low, we only tested Fire Strike Ultra and Fire Strike Extreme, which have higher performance requirements.

In Fire Strike Extreme, the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB graphics card outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by about 10.98% and the RTX 4060 by about 37.73%. In Fire Strike Ultra, the RTX 5060 outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by about 15.76% and the RTX 4060 by about 47.86%.

In Port Royal, which tests ray tracing performance, the RTX 5060 outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by about 7.13% and the RTX 4060 by about 44.28%.

It is evident that the theoretical performance of the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB graphics card has seen a significant generational improvement, with an average increase of 30～40% compared to the RTX 4060, and a slight edge over the RTX 4060 Ti.

V-Ray

The V-Ray test is used to evaluate the rendering performance of computer hardware and can test the rendering capabilities of CPUs, GPUs, or CPU+GPU combinations. This time, we used the RTX engine for single-GPU testing.

The results show that the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB graphics card outperforms the RTX 4060 Ti by about 14% and the RTX 4060 by about 29.44%. The performance of the three forms a very clear hierarchy, showcasing NVIDIA's precise "scalpel technique".

Blender

Blender is an open-source and free 3D modeling software that has released a tool for testing the performance of different computer hardware running Blender. It includes three scenarios: Monster, Junkshop, and Classroom.

In the Monster scenario, the RTX 5060 bucks the trend, trailing the RTX 4060 Ti by about 8.8% but outperforming the RTX 4060 by about 16.97%. In the Junkshop scenario, the performance of the RTX 5060 and RTX 4060 Ti is almost identical, with the former leading by only about 0.8%, which can be considered an error. However, compared to the RTX 4060, it still has an advantage, outperforming by about 37.73%. In the Classroom scenario, the RTX 5060 trails the RTX 4060 Ti by about 4.1% but outperforms the RTX 4060 by about 17%.

Procyon

In addition to conventional graphics performance testing and 3D productivity testing, we also used Procyon to test the AI computing performance of the RTX 5060, specifically testing AI text generation and AI image generation.

Due to the limitation of 8GB video memory capacity, this test did not run all models but instead ran three smaller models. On Phi-3.5-mini, the iGame RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB graphics card outperformed the RTX 4060 Ti by approximately 3.3% and the RTX 4060 by approximately 22%. On Mistral-7B, the RTX 5060 outperformed the RTX 4060 Ti by about 7.4% and the RTX 4060 by about 30%. On Llama-3.1-8B, the RTX 5060 outperformed the RTX 4060 Ti by about 5.15% and the RTX 4060 by about 16.4%.

Procyon's AI image generation test is based on Stable Diffusion 1.5 and XL. Due to the limitation of video memory capacity, we only tested the performance of three graphics cards under two precision levels of Stable Diffusion 1.5.

In FP16 half-precision, the scores of the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB graphics card and the RTX 4060 Ti were basically the same, with the difference within the error range. The RTX 5060 outperformed the RTX 4060 by about 39.25%. In INT8 quantized precision, the RTX 5060 lagged behind the RTX 4060 Ti by about 8.6% but outperformed the RTX 4060 by about 28.19%.

Gaming Performance Test

A total of 8 games were tested this time. The games that support DLSS 4 are "Black Myth: Wukong", "Cyberpunk 2077", "Marvel's Midnight Suns", "Alan Wake 2", and "Hogwarts Legacy". Although some of the other games support older versions of DLSS and frame generation technology, they were only tested with pure rasterization due to their limited reference value. These games include "Red Dead Redemption 2", "Monster Hunter: World", and "Tomb Raider: Shadow of the Tomb Raider". In terms of graphics quality, unless otherwise specified, all tests were conducted at 1080P with the highest settings supported by the game (please do not confuse this with preset graphics naming). The DLSS quality mode was set with an oversampling ratio of 75%.

"Black Myth: Wukong"

"Hogwarts Legacy" boasts relatively low hardware demands, enabling all three graphics cards to run smoothly at native graphics quality. Notably, there was negligible difference in frame rates between the RTX 5060 and RTX 4060 Ti. However, upon activating DLSS 4 multi-frame generation, the performance gap between the two widened significantly, nearly doubling, highlighting the power of 4x frame generation.

"Red Dead Redemption 2"

The RTX 5060's 4x frame generation capability via DLSS 4 is so impressive that its final results were almost predictable without testing. Let's now delve into the pure rasterization performance of the other three games. In "Red Dead Redemption 2," the three graphics cards demonstrated a clear, stepped performance. The iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB led the RTX 4060 Ti by approximately 8.7% and the RTX 4060 by roughly 23%.

"Tomb Raider: Shadow of the Tomb Raider"

In "Tomb Raider: Shadow of the Tomb Raider," the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB outpaced the RTX 4060 Ti by about 5.6% and the RTX 4060 by approximately 31.7%.

"Monster Hunter: World"

Next up is the memory-intensive "Monster Hunter: World." Perhaps due to less-than-optimal optimization by Capcom, running the game's test tool at 1080P with the highest graphics settings and full ray tracing, without the HD texture pack, led to crashes. Consequently, we had to disable ray tracing, reducing video memory usage and allowing the test to proceed normally. For players considering the HD texture pack, 8GB of video memory might fall short.

The test results revealed nearly identical frame rates for the RTX 5060 and RTX 4060 Ti, both at 71 frames. This underscores that the RTX 5060 is essentially an RTX 4060 Ti with DLSS 4 support.

Temperature and Power Consumption Test

At a room temperature of 24°C, using an open test platform, we subjected the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB to a FurMark stress test for over 40 minutes. The graphics card's core temperature stabilized at 62°C, video memory temperature at 60°C, and onboard graphics card power consumption at 155W, 10W higher than NVIDIA's typical power consumption specification. This disparity could be attributed to the non-reference design employed.

However, the fan speed remained at around 57%, ensuring a quiet operation. Thus, there's no need to worry about the cooling performance of the dual-fan design, which is more than adequate for the RTX 5060, a sweet spot graphics card.

Special Features

Beyond hardware enhancements, Colorful has equipped its graphics cards with powerful software—iGame Freedom Planet.

This software offers real-time monitoring of the computer's running status, including CPU and graphics card usage, and integrates RGB lighting control. With a single click, it can uniformly manage the lighting effects of various Colorful products, eliminating light pollution.

Moreover, iGame Freedom Planet conceals an AI assistant named Xiao Xi, which assists in adjusting various computer parameters and interacts via mouse clicks, adding a cute and enjoyable element.

We assembled a Colorful full system to showcase the actual installation effect of the iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB.

It's worth noting that the Colorful iGame C25A Ultra W case, iGame LQ360 Ultra W 2025 water cooler, and iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB graphics card, all from the same series, exhibit a consistent style and blend seamlessly upon assembly. The system includes a Kunlun MU-850G Iceberg Edition power supply from Colorful's sister company Segotep, a Colorful iGame Z890 FLOW motherboard, and iGame Vulcan DDR5 8000 C40 24Gx2 RAM, all in a white design, ideal for those preferring a white build aesthetic.

Final Thoughts

NVIDIA's new RTX 5060 continues the classic positioning of a sweet spot graphics card. Leveraging DLSS 4 and a more efficient architecture, it surpasses the RTX 4060 Ti in pure rasterization performance. When DLSS 4 is enabled, the frame rate doubles. Additionally, it manages power consumption at a budget-friendly 150W, making it highly competitive in the sub-3000 yuan price segment and an excellent entry-level upgrade for mainstream gamers. Colorful's iGame GeForce RTX 5060 Ultra W DUO OC 8GB is a non-reference overclocked version of the RTX 5060, balancing aesthetics and practicality with performance. It retains the Ultra series' pure white style and employs a dual-fan design for enhanced compatibility in compact cases, ideal for white-themed build enthusiasts. Paired with other iGame family products, players can effortlessly create a cohesive and powerful overall configuration. With iGame Freedom Planet, one-click lighting synchronization, AI desktop pet interaction, and simplified overclocking experiences, the entire ecosystem becomes smarter and more enjoyable.

Currently, this graphics card is available on platforms such as Colorful's official website, Tmall, JD.com, Pinduoduo, and Douyin. Different series like Advanced and BattleAxe are also available to cater to the diverse needs of advanced users. If you're planning a PC build, consider this "white sweet spot graphics card" that harmonizes aesthetics and performance.