Nvidia has introduced the GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti desktop graphics playing cards, which the corporate hopes will tempt homeowners of its earlier budget-friendly GPUs to improve. By way of specs, these are the least able to the still-tough-to-buy RTX 50-series graphics card lineup, though they need to nonetheless be fairly stable for 1080p gaming. That’s as a result of, along with boasting extra CUDA cores, ray tracing cores, and Tensor AI cores than earlier generations, they arrive with DLSS 4 enhancements, which embrace Multi Body Era to vastly enhance body charges in video games that help the characteristic.
Fortunately, their costs appear to be in keeping with their budget-minded capabilities. The RTX 5060 will launch in Could for $299, whereas the marginally extra highly effective RTX 5060 Ti is launching on April 16 in two configurations with completely different quantities of video reminiscence, 8 GB and 16 GB, which is able to price $379 and $429, respectively. Notably, there won’t be Founders Version variations of any RTX 5060 playing cards from Nvidia, solely ones made by third events.
The RTX 5060 will present a hefty efficiency enhance over the RTX 3060, in accordance with Nvidia. The RTX 3060 is the most well-liked graphics card amongst Steam customers, adopted by its successor, the RTX 4060. The brand new GPUs can be significantly better at operating video games that help the DLSS Transformer AI mannequin. Video games like Cyberpunk 2077, Black Fantasy: Wukong, Alan Wake 2, and Murderer’s Creed Shadows will look sharper, exhibit fewer visible artifacts, and run sooner. It’s value noting that the RTX 3060 doesn’t help DLSS 4 or body technology, although the RTX 4060 a minimum of helps body technology.
The RTX 5060 collection isn’t practically as flashy as Nvidia’s pricier playing cards, nevertheless it’s an necessary launch however. For one, as talked about earlier, it’s constructed to interchange a few of Nvidia’s hottest (and inexpensive) GPUs. Additionally, it comes after Nvidia’s launch of the $549 RTX 5070, which the corporate claimed at CES 2025 to be sooner than the RTX 4090. That was disproven by our buddies at The Verge. That GPU traded blows with AMD’s extra spectacular (but equally priced) Radeon RX 9070 graphics card, which The Verge mentioned in its evaluate “comfortably beats Nvidia’s RTX 5070 at each 4K and 1440p.” So, whereas Nvidia may rule the $299 GPU value level for now, we’ll have to attend and see if that’s the case for lengthy.
In case you’re questioning how the RTX 5060 Ti stacks as much as the 5070, maybe some specs may inform you all you could hear to make a shopping for resolution. The 5060 Ti has 26% fewer Tensor cores, 26% fewer ray tracing cores, and 28% fewer CUDA cores, plus decrease reminiscence bandwidth (192-bit vs. 128-bit). In comparison with the previous-generation RTX 4060 Ti, the 5060 Ti sports activities only a 5% improve in CUDA cores, however a whopping 73% extra Tensor cores, and a 34% improve in ray tracing cores.
