Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti arrives on April 16th starting at $379

Nvidia is announcing its RTX 5060 household of GPUs today, conscionable a time earlier it releases the RTX 5060 Ti connected April 16th. Two variants of the RTX 5060 Ti are launching, the $379 8GB of VRAM exemplary and the $429 16GB version. The $299 RTX 5060 volition motorboat astatine immoderate constituent successful May with 8GB of VRAM.

The RTX 5060 Ti volition vessel with 4,608 CUDA cores, a 2.4GHz basal clock, 2.57GHz boost clock, and a 128-bit representation autobus with either 8GB oregon 16GB of GDDR7. Nvidia says the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB is launching connected April 16th, but that the 8GB exemplary volition travel “shortly afterwards.” The cheaper RTX 5060 features 3,840 CUDA cores and uses a 128-bit representation autobus with 8GB of GDDR7 memory.

Both the RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 volition enactment DLSS 4 and Multi Frame Generation (up to 4x), arsenic good arsenic PCI Express Gen 5 and DisplayPort 2.1b. The RTX 5060 Ti volition person a full graphics powerfulness of 180 watts, portion the RTX 5060 volition devour up to 145 watts.

Nvidia is promising precocious RTX 5060 framework rates successful a assortment of games, acknowledgment chiefly to Multi Frame Generation. The GPU shaper has tested games astatine 1080p with max Frame Gen levels, AMD’s Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, and 1080p max settings:

• Half-Life 2 RTX – 130fps
• Hogwarts Legacy – 234fps
• Alan Wake II – 114fps
• Black Myth: Wukong – 130fps
• Cyberpunk 2077 – 148fps
• Stalker 2 – 208fps
• Star Wars Outlaws – 105fps
• Marvel Rivals – 330fps
• Avowed – 220fps

While Nvidia is evidently pushing 4x Frame Gen with these caller RTX 5060 cards, determination volition besides beryllium show improvements to rasterization. “In a crippled that doesn’t enactment Multi Frame Gen, you’ll spot astir a 20-25 percent show betterment gen implicit gen connected the RTX 5060,” says Justin Walker, Nvidia’s elder manager director of GeForce merchandise management, successful a property briefing. “You’ll spot astir 20 percent connected the RTX 5060 Ti.“

Nvidia isn’t making Founders Edition versions of the RTX 5060 cards, truthful it won’t beryllium capable to straight interaction the pricing its committee partners acceptable this clip astir with its ain cards. That means it mightiness beryllium precise hard to find an RTX 5060 astatine $299, particularly with the uncertainty astir Trump’s tariff situation that changes astir daily.

That said, the pricing mightiness not beryllium the lone uncertain facet of these caller cards. The prime to connection 8GB of VRAM volition beryllium controversial, I’m sure. “We are trying to optimize terms and performance,” says Walker. “When you get to a GPU similar the RTX 5060, you person to look truly hard astatine commercialized offs.”

Nvidia argues that VRAM doesn’t person a large interaction connected GPU performance, and that it has optimized for pricing with the RTX 5060 series. But we’re inactive regularly seeing games devour a batch of memory, which truly impacts 8GB cards. “The RTX 2060 was $349, and that was years ago,” says Walker. “The RTX 3060 was $329, and I stake adjacent if you looked backmost and did the ostentation mathematics of the RTX 1660 and RTX 1060, I deliberation you’ll find that $299 for a GPU is simply a beauteous bully price.”

Pricing and VRAM debates aside, the RTX 5060 volition besides beryllium disposable successful laptops successful May. With prices starting astatine $1,099, Acer, Asus, Dell, Gigabyte, HP, Lenovo, MSI, and Razer volition each person models with Nvidia’s latest RTX 5060 laptop GPUs.