NVIDIA Announces GeForce RTX 5060 Availability Date and Specifications

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NVIDIA today announced that the GeForce RTX 5060 (non-Ti) graphics card will be available from May 19, 2025. This includes availability of graphics cards from NVIDIA's board partners, and pre-built desktops with RTX 5060. The RTX 5060 was announced by NVIDIA alongside the RTX 5060 Ti in April, however, availability of the RTX 5060 was pushed to sometime in mid-May. With the 2025 Computex Taipei getting underway on May 20, and the press expected to start their coverage of the expo by May 16 at least; it's highly likely that launch of the RTX 5060 will get obscured by the deluge of Computex content.

NVIDIA also confirmed the specifications of the GeForce RTX 5060. The card is based on the same GB206 silicon as the RTX 5060 Ti, but is configured with 30 streaming multiprocessors (SM) out of the 36 present on the silicon. This works out to 3,840 CUDA cores, 120 Tensor cores, 30 RT cores, 120 TMUs, and 48 ROPs. The GPU is clocked at 2.50 GHz max boost. The RTX 5060 only gets an 8 GB memory option, there's no 16 GB. The 8 GB of GDDR7 memory runs across the GPU's 128-bit wide memory interface. The company didn't mention the memory speed. NVIDIA configured the TGP of the RTX 5060 to be 145 W, a significant reduction from the 180 W of the RTX 5060 Ti, which means most partner cards should make do with a single 8-pin PCIe power connector; it wouldn't surprise us if some cards even come with 6-pin.



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[Chaitanya]

Overpriced and will make another case for buying Intel's B580 for entry level gamers.

 

[_roman_]

Suddenly the "review" ban for the 8GiB VRAM Nvidia Geforce RTX 5060 TI makes sense.

The card will sell. It will sell a lot.

 

[bug]

x60 used to be the sweet spot. 5060 is so weak on paper, it will be in the same league as the better IGPs

 

[wNotyarD]

It's highly likely that launch of the RTX 5060 will get obscured by the deluge of Computex content.

Not to mention everyone in the industry will be busy covering Computex, so only late reviews will be there giving NV leeway to sell the 5060 before word-of-mouth kicks in.

 

[outlw6669]

Suddenly the "review" ban for the 8GiB VRAM Nvidia Geforce RTX 5060 TI makes sense.

Yeah, I would tend to agree.
At lower resolutions, where the 8GB VRAM is still somewhat relevant, the vanilla 5060 will probably end up uncomfortably close to the Ti, especially when overclocked.

At least, with the much lower board power, it has a good chance at being a top efficiency card!

I do wonder, though, how far it could be pushed.
Especially if 8-pin connectors, with their massive safety margens, are used, a shunt modded 5060 could probably stand toe to toe with an 8GB Ti.

 

[Red Hood]

 

[dparis1977]

yeah does anyone care at this point, i mean we have a 5060ti with 16gb vram and a 5070 with 12, doesnt take rocket science to see nvidia just sucks this series of launch

 

[tussinman]

Can't wait for a $350 card that's slower than a 2020 era 3070

 

[Mrgravia]

Only interesting cards are the single fan and low profile 5060, and really only because there is nothing else really available for that format these days.

 

[Cheeseball]

x60 used to be the sweet spot. 5060 is so weak on paper, it will be in the same league as the better IGPs

Unfortunately, there are no better IGPs aside from the Radeon 8050S and 8060S and the console (albeit old) APUs. Currently Arc 140V and Radeon 890M with their APUs set at 30W+ TDP can't keep up with the RTX 4060M at 45W TGP (found in the MSI Cyborg 15, I do not recommend this budget gaming laptop).

 

[sLowEnd]

x60 used to be the sweet spot. 5060 is so weak on paper, it will be in the same league as the better IGPs

Barring maybe Strix Halo, most iGPUs are not in the same league as a card like this.

Something relatively powerful (that isn't Strix Halo) like an 890M is more akin to something like a GTX 1060. It's much better than how iGPUs were back in the day, but let's not lose perspective here.

 

[avidgamer121]

Can't wait for a $350 card that's slower than a 2020 era 3070

nvidia greed is astounding

 

[Filozofons]

Just buy B580, same performance with more vram.

 

[Mrgravia]

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Honestly, they could have called it a 5050 and priced it as such and we'd all be having a completely different conversation now.