Nvidia lifts the veil on the availability of its RTX 5060. This graphics card is the least expensive to include the latest technologies from the Greens, but could be limited by its amount of memory.
Nvidia today announced a release date for its RTX 5060. Leaks had seen The entry-level graphics card will be available from May 19, 2025. The manufacturer specifies that resellers, custom graphics card manufacturers, and laptop builders will open sales at 6 p.m. in metropolitan France.
As for pricing, the press release for the French market still indicates prices in USD. “Graphics cards will be offered at $299 and laptops at $1,099,” says Nvidia. We also do not yet have pricing information in euros on the French website. These are, of course, Nvidia's recommended prices, and it's likely that during the first few weeks of launch, it will be difficult to find products at the indicated prices.
An RTX 5060 limited by its 8 GB of VRAM?
The RTX 5060 joins the RTX 50 family, which is currently unpopular due to availability, price, and even performance or driver issues, depending on the case. The newcomer is also based on a Blackwell architecture and features DLSS 4 technology with Multi Frame Generation to improve the frame rate in games without sacrificing the graphics.
From a technical point of view, we have 3,840 CUDA cores on this model, compared to 4,608 on the RTX 5060 Ti, which we tested. There are also 614 Tensor cores for AI and 58 TFLOPS for ray tracing, compared to 759 and 72 respectively on the RTX 5060 Ti. The base clock frequency of the GPU reaches 2.28 GHz and 2.50 GHz in turbo, a little below the 2.41 and 2.57 GHz of the higher model.
The RTX 5060 has 8 GB of GDDR7 VRAM for a 128-bit bus, as on the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB. When we compare the two references, we see that they are very close technically, and both are limited by their low memory. If you can afford it, opting for an RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB seems to be a better long-term solution.
0 Comments