- NVIDIA announced that its RTX 5060 arrives on May 19
- The GPU has a PDSF of $ 299 and comes with 8 GB of VRAM (which remains controversial)
- According to AMD, he would reveal his rival RX 9060 XT on May 21, the following week could be huge for players looking for a more affordable GPU
Nvidia has announced that its RTX 5060 Desktop graphics card will be on sale on May 19, as is the laptop version of this GPU.
Videocardz was on the date of the date announced on X (formerly Twitter). It was a launching day that had previously been rumored, with the price of the office GPU being $ 299, and the specifications already revealed by Nvidia (when his brother, the RTX 5060 Ti, was launched).
From May 19 at 9 a.m., Pacific time, GeForce RTX 5060 graphics cards, office computers and GPUs from GeForce RTX 5060 will be available from our partners and retailers around the world.May 6, 2025
The RTX 5060 TI has arrived in the flavors of 16 GB and 8 GB, but the RTX 5060 will only make its debut with this last load of RAM Video (VRAM), and this has already been controversial among PC players.
Again, like the RTX 5060 TI, there will only be third -party versions of this graphics card, which means that Nvidia does not produce its own Founders editing model.
To summarize the specifications (already revealed), the RTX 5060 has 3,840 cuda cores, which is a decrease of 17% compared to the nucleus number of RTX 5060 Ti. Clock speeds and other specifications are in the same stage, but as mentioned, there is no 16 GB rotation on RTX 5060 vanilla.
Energy consumption is also lower with the RTX 5060 to 145 W compared to 180W, which could be a consideration for people who have a lower diet and not much room for maneuver with regard to the overall power that their playing PC can face.
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Not knocking on this subject, but the obvious problem with the RTX 5060, as I discussed at length yesterday, is Nvidia’s choice to run with 8 GB of VRAM. I will not go on the same reason that I have already covered (see yesterday for the full cash register), but there are other points to consider now that the launch date is started and ready to leave.
The arguments in favor of the acceptance of 8 GB (as a price compromise) could include “it is for the 1080p game”, which means that those that operate in full HD resolution should be more or less agree with this VRAM aid. However, various third -party tests have shown that with certain graphic games and parameters, 8 GB is a bottle of strangulation at 1080p now, considerably slowing down image frequencies.
Yes, Nvidia has her tower bags in the form of RTX neuronal texture compression as revealed with the Blackwell generation, which helps VRAM to go much further. But the problem is that nothing happens to provide support with games for this technology. This could be far on the road before the compression of texture has a significant impact (although it could indeed be a large piece of the puzzle for Nvidia possibly).
While things are here and now, this 8 GB load looks clear. The central tempting factor for the RTX 5060, it is then that it will be a much more affordable expense – we hope. With this PDSF of $ 299, if third -party graphics cards are available at this price level, this GPU could be considered a decent shot on an affordable game card with certain limitations with which you will have to live.
At least for those who have a motherboard that supports PCIe 5.0, because if you have a PCIE 4.0 motherboard, you will feel an additional slowdown in the scenarios where the 8 GB of memory are not sufficient, as evidenced by the RTX 5060 Ti. For what? Because when the embedded VRAM cannot face, the graphics card draws the RAM of the main system, using this PCIe 4.0 interface to reach it – and it is much slower than PCIe 5.0.
It becomes a bit complicated because it is aggravated by the decision taken by NVIDIA that all the RTX 5060 models, the IT versions included, only support half of the available PCIe tracks, and therefore half of the bandwidth. Now, PCIe 5.0 is very good because it is so fast, halving its bandwidth still leaves a lot of space to kill the data. However, it becomes a real stumbling block with the PCIE 4.0 standard, more slow, and even more a problem with PCIe 3.0 if you have an executed motherboard than even more, it has taken the interface.
I should note that the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB is correct, because it has a much more important help of VRAM, and therefore does not need to run away to enter an additional RAM. And the RTX 5070 above is also good – even if it only works with 12 GB of video RAM, which is undoubtedly always lit on memory – because Nvidia has not isolated this GPU by closing half of the PCIe tracks. The RTX 5070 has the 16 full lanes, rather than eight as with the RTX 5060 models.
The long and short is that those without new PCIe 5.0 motherboard will suffer the most scandalous slots and arrows with any RTX 5060 8 GB graphics card (Ti or not Ti). Prices could also be higher than the PDSF, as we have seen with the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB, which is currently sold for something like 10% more than its recommended price (this is the cheapest model at the time of writing the United States).
Thus, we could end up looking at $ 330 (around £ 250 / $ 510 in) for the RTX 5060 in the United States realistically, or $ 350 up for more robust models of this graphics card (and in accordance with this elsewhere). At that time, given the trembling mentioned around performance, potential buyers may have more break to think.
Traditionally, the XX60 series has been a big seller for Nvidia, but it may not be as clear this time-especially given the irony you need a cutting-edge motherboard to execute your affordable Blackwell GPU.
In addition, we must also see what will be the RX 9060 XT of AMD – although it can also have an 8 GB turn (as well as a 16 GB model), we do not yet know this, or how the complete specifications will take place. Many eyes look at this lower battle of the average range, for sure, with the 9060 XT which should be revealed just after the sale of the RTX 5060.
