- Nvidia has announced its RTX 5060 arrives on May 19
- The GPU has an MSRP of $ 299 and comes with 8 GB VRAM (which remains controversial)
- With AMD rumored to reveal his rival
Nvidia has announced that its RTX 5060 Desktop graphics card will be sold on May 19, as well as the portable version of this GPU.
Videocardz caught wind of the date announced on X (formerly Twitter). It was a launch day that had previously been rumored that the price tag at Desktop GPU was $ 299, and the specifications already revealed by Nvidia earlier (when its siblings, RTX 5060 TI, were launched).
From May 19 at 1 p.m. 9 Pacific Time Will GeForce RTX 5060 Graphics Cards, Desktops and GeForce RTX 5060 Laptop GPUs be available from our partners and retailers worldwide.#GeForcertx50 pic.twitter.com/vla9bzuWrw6 May 2025
RTX 5060 TI arrived in both 16 GB and 8 GB of flavor, but the RTX 5060 will only debut with the latter load of video RAM (VRAM), and it has already proven to be 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 Founder’s Edition model.
To summarize on the (already revealed) specifications, the RTX 5060 has 3,840 cuda kernels, which is a 17% decrease compared to the core number of RTX 5060 TI. Ur speeds and other specifications are in the same ballpark, but as mentioned there are no 16 GB spin on Vanilla RTX 5060.
Power consumption is also lower with the RTX 5060 at 145W compared to 180W, which can be a consideration for people who have a smaller power supply and not much space to maneuver when it comes to the overall wattage that their game -PC can handle.
Analysis: track drains and other VRAM complications
Not to hit it, but the obvious problem with the RTX 5060, which I discussed in the long run yesterday, is Nvidia’s choice to run with 8 GB of Vram. I will not go over the same reason I have already covered (see yesterday’s piece for the full lowdown), but there are some additional points to consider, now the launch date is due to and ready to go.
The arguments in favor of accepting 8 GB (as a pricing) may include ‘it’s fine for 1080p games’, which means those running in full HD resolution should be more or less okay with this help with VRAM. However, different third -party tests have illustrated that 8 GB now with some games and graphics settings is now a bottleneck of 1080p now, which is significantly slowing down image speeds.
Yes, Nvidia has its bag-of-ai tricks in the form of RTX neural texture compression as revealed with the Blackwell generation, which helps VRAM go much further. But the problem is that nothing happens quickly to bring support with games to that technique. It can be far down the road before texture compression has a meaningful influence (although it can actually be a large piece of the puzzle for Nvidia in the end).
As things stand in here and now, 8 GB of loads looks plain shaking. The central tempting factor for the RTX 5060 is therefore that it will be a much more affordable outlay – we hope. With the $ 299 MSRP, whose third -party graphics card is available at this price level, this GPU could be seen as a decent shot on an affordable game card with some restrictions that you just have to live with.
At least for those with a motherboard that supports PCIE 5.0, because if you have a PCIE 4.0 bottom card, you will experience further slowdown in scenarios where 8 GB of memory is not enough, as shown in RTX 5060 TI. Why? Because when Vram on board can’t handle, the graphics card is tapping the main system’s RAM, using this PCIE 4.0 interface to reach it-and it is much slower than PCIe 5.0.
This is a bit complicated because it worsens by the decision made by Nvidia, that all RTX 5060 models, ten versions included, only supports half of the available PCIe pitches, and then half the bandwidth. Now PCIE 5.0 is fine because it is so fast that halving its bandwidth still leaves plenty of room for pipe data through. However, this will be a real tripping block with the slower PCIE 4.0 standard, and even more a problem with PCIe 3.0 if you have a motherboard running that is even older taking on the interface.
I should note that the RTX 5060 TI 16GB is okay because it has so much greater help with VRAM and that it does not have to run out to get further system RAM. And the RTX 5070 above is also fine – even though it only runs with 12 GB of video RAM, which is undoubtedly still light on memory – because Nvidia is not hamstring of the GPU by closing half of the PCIe lanes. The RTX 5070 has the full 16 lanes instead of only eight as with the RTX 5060 models.
The long and short of it is that without a new PCIe 5.0-Toting Motherboard, they will suffer the more scandalous sling and arrows that spoil performance with any RTX 5060 8GB (ten or non-ten) graphics card. Pricing can also end up being higher than MSRP, which we have seen with the RTX 5060 TI 8GB, which currently sells for something as 10% more than the recommended price (it is the cheapest model at the time of writing in the US).
So we could end up looking at $ 330 (about £ 250 / AU $ 510) for RTX 5060 in the US realistic, or $ 350 upward for Boefier models of this graphics card (and in line with it elsewhere). At what time, given the said shaking of performance, the buyers may have more break for thought.
Traditionally, the XX60 series has been a big seller for NVIDIA, but maybe it won’t be as clear this time-ice-ice-lovering of the irony that you need a groundbreaking motherboard to most effectively run your affordable level Blackwell GPU.
Furthermore, we also need to see what competition AMDS RX 9060 XT will be -although it may also have an 8 GB spin (as well as a 16 GB model), we do not know for sure yet or how the full specifications will pan. A lot of eyes see this lower mid-row battle, that’s for sure, with 9060 XT that is expected to be revealed right after the RTX 5060 is sold.
