- NVIDIA RTX 5060 will be launched on May 19 to $ 299 according to Videcardz
- It will use 8 GB of VRM and it is expected to be the RTX 5000 lower level GPU
- Inflation could drastically affect the potential success of the GPU
Nvidia is about to complete its launch of the RTX 5000 Desktop GPU series, with the RTX 5060 on the horizon after its counterpart of you launched in early April, and it is good news for the budget players … well, more or less.
According to Videocardz, the RTX 5060 will be launched on May 19 to $ 299 (around £ 220 / AU $ 470), at the same price as its predecessor, the RTX 4060. It will use 8GB of VRM, but it is anticipated that it will take a decent performance jump on the last GDDR7 card instead of GDDR6.
His older brother, the RTX 5060 TI, has 8 GB and 16 GB models, the latter being an easy option for most PC builders in terms of game performance: 8 GB of VRM is much less desirable to run modern games, since many triple-A titles require more vram. While vram is not always the element par excellence when it comes to performance, it becomes a larger factor for low -end GPUs.
This may be a reason why potential consumers to buy RTX 5060, but its price could be the main reason. The rumored launch price of $ 299 is certainly attractive to a budget GPU, but the GPU market trend suggests that the associated cards sold by retailers will probably cost more.
Like the 5060 TI (and the RTX 5070 TI), if the RTX 5060 does not have a founding editing option, consumers will be left to retailers with third -party cards, and if you have monitored GPU prices immediately, that is not good at all.
If prices are inflated for couple cards, then forget it …
It is quite bad that the GPUs such as the RTX 5070 TI or the RTX 5080 have inflated prices in multiple retailers, but at least, these are powerful cards capable of 4K games. The RTX 5060, as expected, it’s not A power GPU: it is expected to be the lowest NVIDIA GPU if RTX 5050 rumors are not legitimate (at least for the space of the desktop PC, anyway), so it has no business that costs more than the supposed $ 299.
However, the GPU market status gives us a clear answer: the RTX 5060 third -party cards will probably cost more than $ 299, and I think that will instantly destroy anything good that could have in favor of it. Players are no longer willing to pay more for a more powerful hardware, so I find it difficult to imagine that budget players accept any price inflation with this GPU.
Let’s not forget that it only has 8 GB of VRM, which I must emphasize again is no longer acceptable for games in 2025. The games become more demanding, and we continually have PC ports that are poorly optimized, so it is sure to say that 8GB will no longer reduce it.
The only hope I have for the RTX 5060 is that in reality is An edition of founders, and that there is a good level of availability (particularly because rumors suggest that Nvidia is reinforcing the stock). If not, it’s hard to see where it will succeed …
