Nvidia RTX 5060 Is Finally Here, But You Might Want to Wait

Nvidia announced the RTX 5060 on with the RTX 5060 Ti backmost successful April 2025, but the much affordable GPU is present available, pursuing an announcement astatine Computex.

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 starts astatine $299, which volition get you 3,840 CUDA cores crossed 30 Streaming Multiprocessors, which should beryllium capable for 1080p gaming. Nvidia does assertion that the RTX 5060 tin bash immoderate beauteous unthinkable things astatine that resolution. For instance, Team Green says the 5060 tin deed 223 fps successful Doom: The Dark Ages astatine 1080p with max settings – though that's with multi-frame procreation acceptable to 4x.

That is the large selling constituent Nvidia is pushing with this procreation of graphics cards, and portion the RTX 5060 is the astir affordable of the bunch, it volition person afloat enactment for Multi-Frame Generation and the remainder of the DLSS 4 exertion suite. Just recognize that with conscionable 30 SMs, there's inactive a bounds to what DLSS tin do.

Keep successful caput that the $299 terms tag is lone a starting price, too. While determination volition beryllium a fewer models disposable astatine that debased price, determination volition beryllium galore versions of the RTX 5060 that'll beryllium overmuch much expensive, though these are usually balanced with nice-to-have features similar factory-tuned overclocking and RGB lighting.

Reviews Are Coming... Later

Even though the RTX 5060 is simply a reasonably affordable paper – assuming the $299 MSRP holds up – you should inactive hold to propulsion the trigger connected it until you cognize however it volition perform. And portion Nvidia has made immoderate bold show claims, those numbers are each with Multi-Frame Generation enabled, and we won't cognize however it'll really execute until we tin get it successful the lab.

Unfortunately, we're going to person to hold a bit. Unlike with erstwhile launches this generation, similar the RTX 5090, Nvidia is not supplying an aboriginal operator to press, truthful you won't beryllium seeing overmuch successful the mode of reviews for the archetypal week oregon truthful of this GPU's lifespan. The RTX 5060 volition astir apt beryllium a decent 1080p graphics card, but the remainder of the Blackwell lineup has struggled with generational uplift.

It's wholly imaginable that the RTX 5060 volition stock a akin show uplift arsenic the RTX 5070 saw implicit its last-generation counterpart, peculiarly successful accepted gaming workloads without framework generation. When I asked Nvidia astir the show uplift implicit the RTX 4060, it claimed that the 5060 would get arsenic overmuch arsenic treble the show erstwhile framework procreation was turned on, but conscionable astir 20% successful games without ray tracing oregon framework procreation – and that's apt a best-case scenario.

As with immoderate costly tech product, my proposal is to hold for reviews to propulsion the trigger, truthful that you cognize you're getting your money's worth. Those reviews are coming, they conscionable mightiness instrumentality a fewer days to amusement up.

Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor astatine IGN and the PC components queen. You tin travel her @Jackiecobra