Nvidia will release the GeForce RTX 5060 on May 19 starting at $299, the company announced via press release today.
The new card, a successor to popular past GPUs like the GTX 1060 and RTX 3060, will bring Nvidia's DLSS 4 and Multi Frame-Generation technology to budget-to-mainstream gaming buildsat least, it wouldif every single GPU launched by any company at any price wasn't instantly selling out these days.Nvidia announced a May release for the 5060 last month when it released the RTX 5060 Ti for $379 (8GB) and $429 (16GB).
Prices for that card so far haven't beenasinflated as they have been for the RTX 5070 on up, but the cheapest ones you can currently get are still between $50 and $100 over that MSRP.
Unless Nvidia and its partners have made dramatically more RTX 5060 cards than they've made of any other model so far, expect this card to carry a similar pricing premium for a while.RTX 5060 TiRTX 4060 TiRTX 5060RTX 4060RTX 5050 (leaked)RTX 3050CUDA Cores4,6084,3523,8403,0722,5602,560Boost Clock2,572 MHz2,535 MHz2,497 MHz2,460 MHzUnknown1,777 MHzMemory Bus Width128-bit128-bit128-bit128-bit128-bit128-bitMemory bandwidth448GB/s288GB/s448GB/s272GB/sUnknown224GB/sMemory size8GB or 16GB GDDR78GB or 16GB GDDR68GB GDDR78GB GDDR68GB GDDR68GB GDDR6TGP180 W160 W145 W115 W130 W130 WCompared to the RTX 4060, the RTX 5060 adds a few hundred extra CUDA cores and gets a big memory bandwidth increase thanks to the move from GDDR6 to GDDR7.
But its utility at higher resolutions will continue to be limited by its 8GB of RAM, which is already becoming a problem for a handful of high-end games at 1440p and 4K.Regardless of its performance, the RTX 5060 will likely become a popular mainstream graphics card, just like its predecessors.
Of the Steam Hardware Survey's top 10 GPUs, three are RTX xx60-series desktop GPUs (the 3060, 4060, and 2060); the laptop versions of the 4060 and 3060 are two of the others.
If supply of the RTX 5060 is adequate and pricing isn't out of control, we'd expect it to shoot up these charts pretty quickly over the next few months.