I've been getting so tempted lately, it's been hard trying to keep my wallet shut.
I have been watching lots of videos on the RTX 5060 8GB. From everything I've read, yes the VRAM is low, but at this moment I think I will be okay staying at 1080p for at least a few more years. 1440p is slowly growing in popularity, and in a few years or so I can see it outpacing 1080p, but for now this is what I use.
With that being said, the 5060 would be a pretty substantial upgrade from my 2060 6GB... Most games at 1080p don't hit the full 8GB unless you're running high RT settings which I almost never will. I don't care about ray tracing, I will keep it off if it means I can hit a stable 60FPS than not.
Not every game is the same, and as new games come out that 8GB may be stressed harder, but I am not too worried about it. As of now, it seems perfectly adequate at 1080p. Maybe not very future-proof, but nothing is these days. I got 6 whole years (7 this upcoming January) off this exact same Zotac RTX 2060, so I bet I can run the 5060 for at minimum 3 years, which to me makes the $300 very valuable.
DLSS 4 and Frame Gen are also huge selling points at this price point. As much as I'd rather get great frames without the upscaling tech, it's free frames at the end of the day. Doom Dark Ages was running at full ultra with Frame Gen on at 220FPS 1080p in one video, my RTX 2060 probably would struggle to hit 60FPS with DLSS and full ultra turned on. That right there is a massive selling point. Of course it all depends on how well the game runs without those turned on, but you can always adjust some settings so that Frame Gen works better.
$299 for the 5060 8GB... it's so so so tempting. I believe I paid the exact same if not a bit less for the 2060 in 2019. Over 6 years of the same card... how much longer can I wait to upgrade??? DLSS and Frame Gen will prove extremely useful in extending the longevity of this cards life. Plus, if I buy this now, later down the line I can upgrade everything else but keep this card a bit longer, so it's not such a huge hit to the wallet all at once. AM5 keeps getting cheaper year after year, so it's only inevitable that I do a full platform upgrade.