- RTX 5050 and RTX 5060 Refused to be launched in April 2025
- It is assumed that MSRP for the former could be $ 299, which matches RTX 3050
- Allegations circulate that there will be three variants of RTX 5060 available
The NVIDIA RTX 5050 and RTX 5060 are joined to launch next month, based on the latest rumors circulating online.
According to WCCF Tech, the two mainstream blackwell RTX 50 -series graphics cards are released soon after midrange RTX 5070, launched earlier this week.
It is assumed that the RTX 5050 will use PG162 PCB with 8 GB GDDR7 VRAM and a 145W TDP. Its pricing is expected to fall within the range $ 199 to $ 249, depending on the manufacturer. This would place it along with other graphics cards on the entry-level on the market, such as Intel Arc B580 from December 2024, which we praised with a five-star score in our review.
April could also see the launches of both RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 TI, with the former launch at the end of the month, and the latter claimed to come earlier. It was rumored that both GPUs will use 8 GB GDDR7 VRAM (with ten allegedly having a 16 GB option), with RTX 5060 is expected to sell from $ 299, but this has not been confirmed at this time, and so far there are few specific details known about hardware inside the two budget offers.
In addition, the alleged industrial insider Megasizegu has claimed that the RTX 5060 family could be announced 10 days from now to hit the shelves “a month later”. This backs up WCCFTech’s information about a launch that comes before rather than later, and it is certainly credible in view of the track we have typically seen in Nvidia’s graphics card launches. Historically, the 90 and 80 class cards come first, with 70-class and mainstream offers that follow closely at the back.
While not confirmed, Techpowerup claims that the RTX 5060 will be built on the GB206 graphics processor with 4,608 cores, 144 texture mapping units and a 128-bit memory bus combined with its 8 GB GDDR7 VRAM. In contrast, this source claims that the RTX 5060 Tis 16 GB variant will otherwise be identical, with the exception of double Vram. It is probably a placeholder until an official disclosure and tech specifications are announced, but it gives us a gross idea of how they could be stacked up to the company’s best graphics card on the market.
A return for Nvidia’s dedicated graphics card of 50 classes
Should these rumors be true, we will see the return of 50-class graphics card for the first time since January 2022 with Desktop RTX 3050. While far from game power houses, these affordable maps (traditionally) have given wallet-conscious players a way to quit today’s demanding game of 1080p, even with some light beams) that track functionality.
While there was technically an RTX 4050 GPU, it was used exclusively as a graphics resolution inside cheap game -bearable computers and never saw a release as a dedicated graphics card. The RTX 4060 was the mainstream leader of NVIDIA’s previous gene, which started at $ 299. Depending on the MSRPs for the RTX 5050 and RTX 5060 we could see a difference in price similar to the difference between AMDS RX 9070 ($ 549) and 9070 XT ($ 599).
At a time when it seems that Nvidia is focused solely on pushing the target posts with regard to both price and performance, the addition of a 50-class and three 60-class versions of Blackwell could make DLSS 4 (and multi-frame generation) much easier to access for those who do not want to pay $ 600 or more at least.
The execution of these cards is unlikely to be groundbreaking, but if upscaling from 720p to 1080p for RTX 5050 and 1080p to 1440p with MFG, we could see the multi -year popular RTX 3060 12 GB and RTX 4060 finally reduced from their top seats in Steam hardware.
