Nvidia is announcing its RTX 5060 household of GPUs immediately, only a day earlier than it releases the RTX 5060 Ti on April sixteenth. Two variants of the RTX 5060 Ti are launching, the $379 8GB of VRAM mannequin and the $429 16GB model. The $299 RTX 5060 will launch sooner or later in Could with 8GB of VRAM.
The RTX 5060 Ti will ship with 4,608 CUDA cores, a 2.4GHz base clock, 2.57GHz increase clock, and a 128-bit reminiscence bus with both 8GB or 16GB of GDDR7. Nvidia says the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is launching on April sixteenth, however that the 8GB mannequin will comply with “shortly afterwards.” The cheaper RTX 5060 options 3,840 CUDA cores and makes use of a 128-bit reminiscence bus with 8GB of GDDR7 reminiscence.
Each the RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 will help DLSS 4 and Multi Body Technology (as much as 4x), in addition to PCI Specific Gen 5 and DisplayPort 2.1b. The RTX 5060 Ti may have a complete graphics energy of 180 watts, whereas the RTX 5060 will devour as much as 145 watts.
Nvidia is promising excessive RTX 5060 body charges in a wide range of video games, thanks primarily to Multi Body Technology. The GPU maker has examined video games at 1080p with max Body Gen ranges, AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, and 1080p max settings:
- Half-Life 2 RTX – 130fps
- Hogwarts Legacy – 234fps
- Alan Wake II – 114fps
- Black Delusion: Wukong – 130fps
- Cyberpunk 2077 – 148fps
- Stalker 2 – 208fps
- Star Wars Outlaws – 105fps
- Marvel Rivals – 330fps
- Avowed – 220fps
Whereas Nvidia is clearly pushing 4x Body Gen with these new RTX 5060 playing cards, there may even be efficiency enhancements to rasterization. “In a recreation that doesn’t help Multi Body Gen, you’ll see a few 20-25 % efficiency enchancment gen over gen on the RTX 5060,” says Justin Walker, Nvidia’s senior director director of GeForce product administration, in a press briefing. “You’ll see about 20 % on the RTX 5060 Ti.“
Nvidia isn’t making Founders Version variations of the RTX 5060 playing cards, so it received’t have the ability to straight impression the pricing its board companions set this time round with its personal playing cards. Which means it could be very troublesome to search out an RTX 5060 at $299, particularly with the uncertainty round Trump’s tariff scenario that modifications nearly each day.
That mentioned, the pricing won’t be the one unsure side of those new playing cards. The selection to supply 8GB of VRAM can be controversial, I’m positive. “We try to optimize worth and efficiency,” says Walker. “If you get to a GPU just like the RTX 5060, you must look actually onerous at commerce offs.”
Nvidia argues that VRAM doesn’t have a huge impact on GPU efficiency, and that it has optimized for pricing with the RTX 5060 collection. However we’re nonetheless often seeing video games devour a variety of reminiscence, which actually impacts 8GB playing cards. “The RTX 2060 was $349, and that was years in the past,” says Walker. “The RTX 3060 was $329, and I guess even if you happen to regarded again and did the inflation math of the RTX 1660 and RTX 1060, I believe you’ll discover that $299 for a GPU is a reasonably good worth.”
Pricing and VRAM debates apart, the RTX 5060 may even be out there in laptops in Could. With costs beginning at $1,099, Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and Razer will all have fashions with Nvidia’s newest RTX 5060 laptop computer GPUs.