- Nvidia has announced that its RTX 5060 arrives on May 19
- The GPU has a MSRP of $ 299 and comes with 8 GB of VRM (which is still controversial)
- It is rumored that AMD reveals its rival RX 9060 XT on May 21, the following week it could be huge for players looking for a more affordable GPU
NVIDIA has announced that its RTX 5060 desktop graphics card will go on sale on May 19, as well as the portable computer version of this GPU.
Videocardz learned of the date it was announced in X (previously Twitter). It was a launch day that was previously rumored, with the price in the desktop GPU of $ 299, and the specifications already revealed by NVIDIA previously (when its brother, the RTX 5060 TI, was launched).
As of May 19 at 9 in the Pacific morning, GEFORCE RTX 5060 graphics cards, desktop computers and GPUs of the GEFORCE RTX 5060 laptop computer will be available in our partners and retailers worldwide.May 6, 2025
The RTX 5060 TI arrived in flavors of 16 GB and 8GB, but the RTX 5060 will only debut with the last video load RAM (VRM), and that has already proven to be controversial among the PC players.
Once again, like the RTX 5060 TI, there will only be versions of third parties of this graphics card, which means that Nvidia is not producing its own founding editing model.
To recapitulate the specifications (already revealed), the RTX 5060 has 3,840 CUDA nuclei, which is a 17% drop compared to the RTX 5060 TI nucleus count. The clock speeds and other specifications are in the same stadium, but as mentioned, there is no 16 GB turn in the Vanilla RTX 5060.
The use of power is also lower with the RTX 5060 to 145 W compared to 180W, which could be a consideration for people who have a lower power supply and not much space to maneuver when it comes to the general power with which its PC for games can face.
Analysis: lane drainage and other vram complications
Not to hit him, but the obvious problem with the RTX 5060, as I finally discussed yesterday, is Nvidia’s choice to execute with 8 GB of Vram. I will not survive the same land that I have already covered (see yesterday’s piece for the complete low point), but there are some more points to consider now that the launch date is prepared and ready to work.
The arguments in favor of accepting 8GB (as price commitment) could include ‘is fine for 1080p games’, which means that those who run in Full HD resolution should be more or less good with this VRM help. However, several third -party tests have illustrated that with some games and graphics configurations, 8GB is a 1080p bottleneck now, substantially reducing the frame speeds.
Yes, Nvidia has its bag of tricks in AI 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 quickly to contribute support with games for that technology. It could be a long way along the way before texture compression has a significant impact (although it can finally be a large piece of puzzle for Nvidia).
As things are in the here and now, that 8 GB load looks simply unstable. The central tempting factor for RTX 5060, so it will be a much more affordable outlay, we hope. With that MSRP of $ 299, if third -party graphics cards are available at that price level, this GPU could be seen as a decent shot on an affordable game card with some limitations with which you will only have to live.
At least for those with a motherboard that admits PCIE 5.0, because if it has a PCIE 4.0 motherboard, it will experience an additional slowdown in scenarios in which the 8 GB of memory is not enough, as evidenced by the RTX 5060 TI. Because? Because when the integrated vram cannot face, the graphics card takes advantage of the RAM of the main system, using that PCIE 4.0 interface to reach it, and is much slower than PCIE 5.0.
This becomes a bit complicated because the decision made by Nvidia worsens that all RTX 5060 models, the versions of IT included, only admit half of the available PCIe lanes and, therefore, half of the bandwidth. Now, PCIE 5.0 is fine because it is very fast, in the middle of its bandwidth still leaves a lot of space to overcome the data. However, this becomes a real obstacle with the most slow PCIE 4.0 standard, and even more a problem with PCIE 3.0 if you have a motherboard that is executed that even older takes the interface.
I must keep in mind that the RTX 5060 TI 16GB is fine, because it has much greater help of Vram, so you do not need to run to get a RAM of the additional system. And the previous RTX 5070 is also fine, even if it is only executed with 12 GB of video RAM, which could be said that it is still light in memory, because Nvidia does not have itchiotibial does not have GPU when closing half of the PCIe lanes. The RTX 5070 has the 16 complete lanes, instead of only eight as with the RTX 5060 models.
The length and short is that those without a new PCIE 5.0 motherboard in total will suffer the most scandalous sluts and arrows that bassure the performance with any RTX 5060 8GB graphics card (Ti or not you). Prices could also end up being higher than MSRP, as we have seen with the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB, which is currently sold for something like 10% more than its recommended price (that is the cheapest model when writing in the United States).
Therefore, we could end up looking at $ 330 (around £ 250 / au $ 510) for RTX 5060 in the USA. At that time, given the aforementioned demand around performance, possible buyers may have more thought pause.
Traditionally, the XX60 series has been a great seller for NVIDIA, but maybe that will not be so clear this time, especially given the irony that you need an avant -garde motherboard to run its Blackwell GPU level of affordable level level.
In addition, we also need to see what the RX 9060 XT of AMD will be, although that can also have an 8 GB turn (as well as a 16 GB model), we still do not know that with certainty, or how the complete specifications will be emitted. Many eyes are seeing this low -ranking battle, that is certain, with the 9060 xt that is expected to be revealed just after the RTX 5060 goes on sale.
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