NVIDIA Launches GeForce RTX 5060 Series, Beginning with RTX 5060 Ti This Week

[btarunr]

NVIDIA today announced the GeForce RTX 5060 series, with a combined announcement of the GeForce RTX 5060, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB, and the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. The latter two will be available from tomorrow, 16th April, which is also when media reviews of the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB and 8 GB go live. The RTX 5060, meanwhile, is expected to be launched in May. The RTX 5060 Ti introduces the new 5 nm "GB206" silicon, which the SKU maxes out. This chip features 36 streaming multiprocessors (SM) across 3 GPCs. These work out to 4,608 CUDA cores, 144 Tensor cores, 36 RT cores, 144 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. The chip features a 128-bit GDDR7 memory interface driving 8 GB of 16 GB of 28 Gbps (GDDR7-effective) memory for 448 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which is a 55% increase over the RTX 4060 Ti.

NVIDIA recommends the RTX 5060 Ti for maxed out 1080p gameplay, including with ray tracing, although we expect it to be unofficially capable of 1440p gameplay with fairly high settings and ray tracing. You get new features being introduced with the RTX 50-series, including Neural Rendering, and DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation. NVIDIA is pricing the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB at $375, and the 16 GB sibling about $50 higher, at $425, although these could be fairy tale pricing given the unpredictable world trade environment and scarcity profiteering by scalpers.



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[Legacy-ZA]

I would rather be more happy if they launch all the features that are still missing, and with working drivers. >.>

 

[Tomorrow]

 

[Chrispy_]

There's something very sinister about review embargos being in effect until the product is actually on sale. Not even 24 hours?

The 5060Ti 16GB is likely the most important card this generation, in that it's in the price segment where the highest volume of sales have traditionally been, and it's also avaiable with enough VRAM to not be a problem. To stealth launch it with this unprecedented review delay is extremely odd. Here's hoping that AMD can capitalise on this. I'd hope for Intel too, but they don't seem willing or capable to match anything in this performance tier.

 

[Kohl Baas]

There's something very sinister about review embargos being in effect until the product is actually on sale. Not even 24 hours?

The 5060Ti 16GB is likely the most important card this generation, in that it's in the price segment where the highest volume of sales have traditionally been, and it's also avaiable with enough VRAM to not be a problem. To stealth launch it with this unprecedented review delay is extremely odd. Here's hoping that AMD can capitalise on this. I'd hope for Intel too, but they don't seem willing or capable to match anything in this performance tier.

FOMO

 

[Legacy-ZA]

There's something very sinister about review embargos being in effect until the product is actually on sale. Not even 24 hours?

The 5060Ti 16GB is likely the most important card this generation, in that it's in the price segment where the highest volume of sales have traditionally been, and it's also avaiable with enough VRAM to not be a problem. To stealth launch it with this unprecedented review delay is extremely odd. Here's hoping that AMD can capitalise on this. I'd hope for Intel too, but they don't seem willing or capable to match anything in this performance tier.

Yes, I blame TPU for doing such in-depth reviews.

We used to be able to gauge well in advance if we are getting a turd or not. It's also something that greatly contributes to the FOMO/shortages.

 

[Hecate91]

"NVIDIA is pricing the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB at $375, and the 16 GB sibling about $50 higher, at $425, although these could be fairy tale pricing given the unpredictable world trade environment and scarcity profiteering by scalpers."

The prices were fake well before trade issues or scalping, mainly because Nvidia is holding back gaming gpu supply.

 

[morn14150]

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spent 300usd on a RX 6800 XT instead of a RTX 4060 Ti 8GB january this year, i did not regret at all lmao

 

[Chrispy_]

spent 300usd on a RX 6800 XT instead of a RTX 4060 Ti 8GB january this year, i did not regret at all lmao

Bargain.

Also the 6800XT is a fantastic card, period. The 5060Ti might only match it in heavy raytracing, which will still be bad since both the 6800XT and 5060Ti will be too slow to really use heavy raytracing, so I don't see that as a significant loss for the 6800XT.

 

[AusWolf]

Those prices... Ouch.

 

[john_]

Considering the market situation, prices look good, but let's see. Is MSRP real this time? I believe it's supposed that Nvidia fixed their availability problems by now.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

spent 300usd on a RX 6800 XT instead of a RTX 4060 Ti 8GB january this year, i did not regret at all lmao

The problem is finding even used cards at a good price without taking bigger chances. Newegg actually sells refurbished makes and models, but they sell out almost immediately. You could get a 6700XT for $250, for example, or a 7600 for $200, but you have to watch the site like a hawk for when stock arrives.

I'm sure this will be a good enough card for the target task, but prices might be a bit much considering other 1080P cards exist for less. These companies have built a market where there's no point spending more because the specs basically limit you to a resolution. If you can live with 60Hz at 1080P, then why spend any more than you have to?

 

[Dahita]

"these could be fairy tale pricing given the unpredictable world trade environment and scarcity profiteering by scalpers"

I really don't get why you still point the finger at "scalpers" profiteering from scarcity, or unpredictable taxes. They aren't responsible for the rise in price, nor is the taxes mayhem. The 5060's price won't be inflated because of scalpers.

Nvidia's supply shortage and store price inflation are the only culprit. The rest is second hand sellers on after-markets using common sense.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

"these could be fairy tale pricing given the unpredictable world trade environment and scarcity profiteering by scalpers"

I really don't get why you still point the finger at "scalpers" profiteering from scarcity, or unpredictable taxes. They aren't responsible for the rise in price, nor is the taxes mayhem. The 5060's price won't be inflated because of scalpers.

Nvidia's supply shortage and store price inflation are the only culprit. The rest is second hand sellers on after-markets using common sense.

Yeah, if the supply was sufficient, there would be no secondary market. GPU fab space is going to AI datacenters. Scaplers just get to be the perfect boogeyman.

 

[Chrispy_]

The problem is finding even used cards at a good price without taking bigger chances. Newegg actually sells refurbished makes and models, but they sell out almost immediately. You could get a 6700XT for $250, for example, or a 7600 for $200, but you have to watch the site like a hawk for when stock arrives.

You write that as if 50-series were readily-available at launch, or for a good price.

Judging on availability and good pricing, even the difficulty in finding a good price on a used GPU isn't the drawback it used to be, because available, reasonably-priced new cards are nowhere to be seen. The 5070 12GB is starting to stabilise at it's MSRP in some regions now, but it's a ridiculously low-value offering that no reviewer has had kind words about, and $550 for a 12GB GPU wasn't even a great idea back in 2023.

 

[Chaitanya]

There are used Radeon 6000 and 4070 series card available for cheaper than this overpriced turd and should be better value for money.

 

[Scattergrunt]

The problem is finding even used cards at a good price without taking bigger chances. Newegg actually sells refurbished makes and models, but they sell out almost immediately. You could get a 6700XT for $250, for example, or a 7600 for $200, but you have to watch the site like a hawk for when stock arrives.

I don't trust 'refurbished' cards because most of the time they aren't actually touched at all and they just sell them as is. At least with stuff like Ebay and FB Marketplace I can sus out that stuff, in my experience. I buy most of my products used off Ebay and have no trouble where as on online retailers such as Newegg when I buy 'refurbished' products I usually ran into trouble.

I dunno, I think I just got unlucky all the times I've tried to buy 'refurbished' products..

It isn't hard to find used cards for good prices on places like Ebay. You can still find RDNA2 cards for good prices. 2080Ti's still go for good prices for the VRAM you get, 6700XT's too.
I think the best deal I've seen that wasn't really sus was a 2080Ti for like, 250 USD.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

You write that as if 50-series were readily-available at launch, or for a good price.

Judging on availability and good pricing, even the difficulty in finding a good price on a used GPU isn't the drawback it used to be, because available, reasonably-priced new cards are nowhere to be seen. The 5070 12GB is starting to stabilise at it's MSRP in some regions now, but it's a ridiculously low-value offering that no reviewer has had kind words about, and $550 for a 12GB GPU wasn't even a great idea back in 2023.

I don't know what I wrote that had anything to do with 50-series.

I don't trust 'refurbished' cards because most of the time they aren't actually touched at all and they just sell them as is. At least with stuff like Ebay and FB Marketplace I can sus out that stuff, in my experience. I buy most of my products used off Ebay and have no trouble where as on online retailers such as Newegg when I buy 'refurbished' products I usually ran into trouble.

I dunno, I think I just got unlucky all the times I've tried to buy 'refurbished' products..

It isn't hard to find used cards for good prices on places like Ebay. You can still find RDNA2 cards for good prices. 2080Ti's still go for good prices for the VRAM you get, 6700XT's too.
I think the best deal I've seen that wasn't really sus was a 2080Ti for like, 250 USD.

I've tried a couple from Newegg (sold by Newegg), and they were clean, like-new-looking cards that were stable. They get a 90 day warranty and 30 day returns. Sure, there are certainly risks, but if you're going used, that's better than what you'd get off eBay where you may have no assurances at all unless it's DOA.

 

[Chrispy_]

I don't know what I wrote that had anything to do with 50-series.

True, but you can't really buy new 4060Ti cards any more and stocks of the 7700XT and 7800XT have been drying up too, since presumably TSMC wafer allocation went to 9000-series and killed off Navi32 and Navi32 production.

That leaves the 9000-series and 50-series as "new" offerings right now, both of which are low-stock, out of stock, and scalped.

 

[Scattergrunt]

I've tried a couple from Newegg (sold by Newegg), and they were clean, like-new-looking cards that were stable. They get a 90 day warranty and 30 day returns. Sure, there are certainly risks, but if you're going used, that's better than what you'd get off eBay where you may have no assurances at all unless it's DOA.

The warranty is the only benefit to me.. I don't trust anything I can't see a actual photo of. Or in person. Of course that doesn't prevent someone from just selling you a card with no GPU die for example but there's still protections in Ebay, just no warranties (at least officially provided by Ebay). FB Marketplace is the only place that really doesn't have any sort of protections for the buyer / seller

It's like stocks in a sense I guess, you just gotta buy / sell where your most comfortable risk wise. Newegg (and similar stores selling refurbished products) are the least risky but usually don't have as good as deals, and the more risk = better deal. Just depends on where your comfortable. For me I land dead middle with Ebay

I haven't heard good things about Newegg in regards to selling refurbished mobo's and stuff though. I will probably buy a refurbished mobo from Newegg someday to see what its like though.

Jawa is apparently rising up and becoming a rather popular option but I have never tried them personally. Was gonna buy a 1650 from them sometime ago to put into a living room computer for my household.

 

[Bwaze]

What's with the 8 GB models not being available for reviewers, but still launching at the same date, but maybe later?

 

[medi01]

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This time it seems to be different though. 9000 series really got the momentum.

FSR 4 and, to an extent, beefed up RT gimmick perf seem to have done the trick.
On top of 5000 series being hilariously underwhelming, yet expensive.

 

[Scattergrunt]

This time it seems to be different though. 9000 series really got the momentum.

AMD has got the railroad workers building the rails for UDNA to come in as a serious competitor. I don't think they were expecting 9000 series to do super well, but they also didn't expect the 5000 series to have possibly the worst launch in recent NVIDIA history.

AMD has the groundwork now to hit NVIDIA where it seriously hurts. I am.. carefully observing. Don't wanna get too hyped obviously.

FSR 4 and, to an extent, beefed up RT gimmick perf seem to have done the trick.
On top of 5000 series being hilariously underwhelming, yet expensive.

FSR4 is pretty impressive (still behind DLSS) but its being held back immensely by being stuck to RDNA4 cards.. the beefed up RT and general raster performance that AMD has always delivered w/ a compelling price AT LAUNCH (really need to highlight this) is what drives this generation.

It seems the sentiment among the more savvy consumers who aren't tech enthusiasts is that the RT performance of AMD w/ RDNA4 cards is 'good enough' for everything else they're getting in return. It makes sense.

 

[Bomby569]

so they are trying to launch the cards without reviews? that smells like a dumpster fire from here

This time it seems to be different though. 9000 series really got the momentum.

lol, the pricing is a tiny bit less stupid then nvidia, and that still makes for a hard pass. Cards are available everywhere, so people aren't buying them, at those prices.

 

[Scattergrunt]

so they are trying to launch the cards without reviews? that smells like a dumpster fire from here

It makes sense considering their products so far have been:
5090: 25% more power for 30% more performance, extremely roughly, but most people who are buying this card don't really mind and can probably afford it. Seems to have the most positive buzz surrounding it that is not the 5070Ti.
5080: Immediately pinned as '4080Ti' by some reviewers, worse than a 4090 seems to be the main talking point against it.
5070Ti: The most well received card seemingly besides the 5090, but its basically just a 4080 with a better MSRP (but its street price is basically the same, if not higher lol.). Its wattage, performance, everything is almost identical to a 4080. It's not super compelling outside of its supposed MSRP.
5070: Why.

So it makes sense. I have my own problems with 50 series but it seems these are some of the points reviewers are pointing out so I'm sure NVIDIA is worried that reviewers will slam the 5060Ti like they did the 5080 and 5070.

I mean they aren't inherently bad products (I personally don't believe that there is any 'bad' GPU, as its still better to have one than not at all arguably), they're just not compelling at all, and the scalping is also really not helping. I certainly am expecting the 5060Ti to be god awful.