Nvidia will release its $299 RTX 5060 on May 19th

Nvidia has announced a May 19th merchandise day for its $299 RTX 5060 graphics paper and the archetypal laptops, which commencement astatine $1,099, that volition diagnostic it. The institution says they’ll beryllium disposable to bargain from retail partners starting astatine 9AM PT / 12PM ET.

At 3,840 CUDA cores, the RTX 5060 has astir 800 less cores than the 5060 Ti Nvidia released past month and is the astir basal of the RTX 50-series. But similar the Ti version, the 5060 has GDDR7 memory, supports DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation, and gets the latest ray tracing and tensor cores. The institution says much games are being updated with enactment for DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation earlier the 5060 launches, including MechWarrior 5: Clans on May 7th and New World: Aeternum connected May 13th. 

Whether the paper is worthy picking up, though, is different story. The RTX 5060 is constricted to conscionable 8GB of VRAM, and chances are bully it’ll outgo much than its suggested $299 retail price. Retailers started selling GPUs, including the different RTX 50-series cards, astatine a premium adjacent before President Trump’s tariffs took hold. And arsenic The Verge’s Sean Hollister noted recently, Trump’s removal of the de minimus exemption past week could besides interaction pricing via other import taxes connected shipments valued astatine oregon nether $800.