Is it worth upgrading?
A newer card winning every row of a comparison table does not make it worth buying. This works out how much faster it actually is at your resolution, what that improvement costs per percentage point, and whether a cheaper card would get you most of the way there.
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Arc B570 → RTX 5060 at 1440p
Worth considering
Marginal- Performance gain
- +31.8%
- Estimated, native
- Measured cross-check
- Not tested
- Upgrade cost
- $502
- Price of the new card
- Cost per 1% gained
- $16
What you gain
- In favour: Estimated 31.8% more performance at 1440p.
- In favour: Estimated frame rate moves from roughly 40-55 FPS to 50-75 FPS.
- In favour: 40% stronger in ray-traced workloads.
- In favour: Adds DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, DLSS 4 Super Resolution, DLSS Ray Reconstruction.
- In favour: Works out at about $15.8 per percentage point of performance gained.
What it costs you
- Caution: You would lose 2 GB of memory, going from 10 GB to 8 GB.
The two cards side by side
| Measure | Arc B570 | RTX 5060 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Estimated FPS at 1440p | 40-55 | 50-75 | +31.8% |
| VRAM | 10 GB | 8 GB | -2 GB |
| Board power | 150 W | 145 W | -5 W |
| Ray tracing index | 20 | 28 | +40% |
| Price on record | $352 | $502 | +$150 |
| Launched | January 16, 2025 | May 19, 2025 | Same generation |
Where these numbers come from
- Performance gain: CompareYourGPU estimated index, native resolution, no upscaling.
- VRAM, board power and features: manufacturer specifications.
- Prices: verified current street prices.
- The cost of the upgrade is the price of the new card. CompareYourGPU does not model what your current card might sell for.