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Can I run Grand Theft Auto V with a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?

With 16 GB against the 8 GB Grand Theft Auto V asks for at ultra, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB carries more than twice the video memory this game will ever want, and clears every tier it defines.

The GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB arrived 10 years after Grand Theft Auto V shipped, so the game was never designed with it in mind: 29 of the 47 cards we track stop at the same point in Grand Theft Auto V. It sits 19 of 47 on our index.

estimated index 25 · 16 GB · 2025
Ceiling with a Ryzen 7 9800X3D and 32 GB

Runs at ultra

Clears every tier this game defines.

Headroom
39% clear on GPU
Bottleneck
none
Confidence
estimated

Tier ladder

  1. minimum cleared
  2. recommended cleared
  3. high cleared
  4. ultra cleared

That readout is the best this card can do in Grand Theft Auto V: it assumes nothing else in the machine holds it back. Your own processor and memory can only lower it, never raise it.

The same card with three different processors

In Grand Theft Auto V the processor beside a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB changes the answer, which is why a card-only verdict is not worth much here. Each row assumes 16 GB of system memory.

Processor Index Verdict Bottleneck
Ryzen 5 1600 30 Will not run processor
Ryzen 9 5900X 70 Runs at ultra nothing
Ryzen 7 9800X3D 95 Runs at ultra nothing

Thresholds, against this card

Green means the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB clears that number, red means it does not. The processor and memory columns are yours to fill in with the checker below.

System requirement thresholds for Grand Theft Auto V, by tier
Requirement minimum recommended high ultra your rig
GPU index 2 6 12 18 25
CPU index 42 45 50 62 0
Video memory 1 GB 2 GB 6 GB 8 GB 16 GB
System memory 4 GB 8 GB 16 GB 16 GB 0 GB
Storage 125 GB 125 GB 125 GB 125 GB -

The CPU and system memory rows show zero because this page knows the card and nothing else.

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GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB

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Questions

Will a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB run Grand Theft Auto V?
With 16 GB against the 8 GB Grand Theft Auto V asks for at ultra, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB carries more than twice the video memory this game will ever want, and clears every tier it defines.
Is 16 GB of video memory enough for Grand Theft Auto V?
Yes for the tiers this card can reach anyway - its core speed runs out before its 16 GB of video memory does in Grand Theft Auto V.

More on this card: what the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16GB runs across every game we track.