Nvidia confirms on-sale date for RTX 5060 GPU, putting in place a conceivable showdown with AMD’s rumored RX 9060 XT

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Nvidia has introduced its RTX 5060 arrives on May 19
The GPU has an MSRP of $299 and is derived with 8GB of VRAM (which stays debatable)
With AMD rumored to show its rival RX 9060 XT on May 21, the week after subsequent generally is a large one for avid gamers in search of a extra reasonably priced GPU

Nvidia has introduced that its RTX 5060 desktop graphics card will pass on sale on May 19, as will the computer model of this GPU.

VideoCardz stuck wind of the date being introduced on X (previously Twitter). It used to be a release day that have been prior to now rumored, with the associated fee tag at the desktop GPU being $299, and the specifications already published via Nvidia prior to now (when its sibling, the RTX 5060 Ti, used to be introduced).

Starting May 19 at 9 a.m. Pacific Time, GeForce RTX 5060 graphics playing cards, desktops, and GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPUs can be to be had from our companions and shops international.#GeForceRTX50 percent.twitter.com/VLA9bZUWRWMay 6, 2025

The RTX 5060 Ti arrived in each 16GB and 8GB flavors, however the RTX 5060 will best debut with the latter loadout of video RAM (VRAM), and that has already proved debatable amongst PC avid gamers.

Again, just like the RTX 5060 Ti, there’ll best be third-party variations of this graphics card, which means Nvidia isn’t generating its personal Founders Edition fashion.

To recap at the (already published) specifications, the RTX 5060 has 3,840 CUDA Cores which is a 17% drop in comparison to the core depend of the RTX 5060 Ti. Clock speeds and different specifications are in the similar ballpark, however as discussed, there’s no 16GB spin at the vanilla RTX 5060.

Power utilization could also be decrease with the RTX 5060 at 145W in comparison to 180W, which generally is a attention for other folks who’ve a lesser energy provide and no longer a lot room to move in terms of the full wattage that their gaming PC can deal with.

Analysis: Lane drain and different VRAM headaches

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Not to bang on about it, however the most obvious downside with the RTX 5060, as I mentioned at period the previous day, is Nvidia’s option to run with 8GB of VRAM. I received’t pass over the similar floor I’ve already lined (see the previous day’s piece for the total lowdown), however there are some additional issues to believe now the release date is primed and in a position to head.

The arguments in desire of accepting 8GB (as a pricing compromise) may come with ‘it’s high-quality for 1080p gaming’ which means the ones working at Full HD solution must be roughly k with this serving to of VRAM. However, quite a lot of third-party exams have illustrated that with some video games and graphics settings, 8GB is a bottleneck at 1080p now, slowing down body charges considerably.

Yes, Nvidia does have its bag-of-AI-tricks within the type of RTX Neural Texture Compression as published with the Blackwell technology, which is helping VRAM pass a lot additional. But the difficulty is, not anything’s taking place temporarily to convey strengthen in with video games for that tech. It generally is a good distance down the street sooner than texture compression makes a significant affect (regardless that it’ll certainly be a large piece of the puzzle for Nvidia in the end).

As issues stand within the right here and now, that 8GB loadout is having a look simple shaky. The central tempting issue for the RTX 5060, then, is that it’ll be a a lot more reasonably priced outlay – we are hoping. With that MSRP of $299, if third-party graphics playing cards are to be had at that value point, this GPU might be noticed as a good shot at an reasonably priced gaming card with some boundaries that you just’ll simply need to are living with.

At least for the ones with a motherboard that helps PCIe 5.0, as a result of when you’ve got a PCIe 4.0 motherboard, you’ll revel in further slowdown in situations the place the 8GB of reminiscence isn’t sufficient, as evidenced with the RTX 5060 Ti. Why? Because when the on-board VRAM can’t cope, the graphics card faucets the primary device RAM, the use of that PCIe 4.0 interface to succeed in it – and it’s so much slower than PCIe 5.0.

This will get a bit of sophisticated as it’s worsened via the verdict made via Nvidia that every one RTX 5060 fashions, Ti variations incorporated, best strengthen part the to be had PCIe lanes, and so part the bandwidth. Now, PCIe 5.0 is ok as it’s so rapid, halving its bandwidth nonetheless leaves quite a lot of room to pipe knowledge via. However, this turns into an actual stumbling block with the slower PCIe 4.0 same old, and much more of an issue with PCIe 3.0 must you’ve gotten a motherboard working that even older take at the interface.

I must word that the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is ok, as it has that a lot higher serving to of VRAM, and so doesn’t wish to run off to take hold of further device RAM. And the RTX 5070 above it’s high-quality, too – despite the fact that it best runs with 12GB of video RAM, which is arguably nonetheless gentle at the reminiscence – as a result of Nvidia didn’t hamstring that GPU via last off part the PCIe lanes. The RTX 5070 has the total 16 lanes, relatively than simply 8 as with the RTX 5060 fashions.

The lengthy and wanting it’s that the ones and not using a new PCIe 5.0-toting motherboard will undergo the extra outrageous slings and arrows bogging down efficiency with any RTX 5060 8GB (Ti, or non-Ti) graphics card. Pricing may additionally finally end up being upper than MSRP, too, as we’ve noticed with the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB, which is these days promoting for one thing like 10% greater than its advisable value (that’s the most cost effective fashion on the time of writing in the USA).

So, shall we finally end up having a look at $330 (round £250 / AU$510) for the RTX 5060 in the USA realistically, or $350 upwards for beefier fashions of this graphics card (and consistent with that somewhere else). At which level, given the discussed shakiness round efficiency, would-be consumers can have extra pause for idea.

Traditionally, the xx60 sequence has been a large dealer for Nvidia, however perhaps that received’t be moderately as transparent minimize this time round – particularly given the irony that you want a state-of-the-art motherboard to maximum successfully run your affordable-level Blackwell GPU.

Furthermore, we additionally wish to see what pageant AMD’s RX 9060 XT can be – despite the fact that that might also have an 8GB spin (in addition to a 16GB fashion), we don’t know that needless to say but, or how the total specifications will pan out. A large number of eyes are observing this lower-mid-range combat, that’s needless to say, with the 9060 XT anticipated to be published simply after the RTX 5060 is going on sale.