That card will only run a tiny model though, no?
In fact I'm running qwen3.8-flash-next with a Playwright-mcp docker and it is far better for scraping than my ChatGPT or Claude subscription, for the simple reason that sites aren't lying to Playwright.
Not to invalidate your point, just saying it's a bit of a straw man.
The 5060 wasn't the fastest/$, it just provided the most VRAM / $ as of yesterday.
Im installing it in a box with a 4070 Ti to run 2 different models simultaneously. Coder + MoE via paperclip or multica.
That probably is the cheapest per 1 GB vram right now. However, the R9700 a few months ago was only $1350/32GB or $42/1GB VRAM. And everyone knew it, because the card is now $1800 or so with supply issues.
I think the market discovered the reasonable min is 32GB. That runs Qwen3.8 Q6 with 100k+ context all in vram. 24GB does not.