The Sequel to Nvidia’s Most Popular GPU Hits Shelves Today—With No Reviews
Nvidia’s RTX 4060 is the most popular graphics card as of April 2025, according to Steam’s Hardware Survey. Now there’s finally a successor, the RTX 5060, rounding out the 50-series graphics cards that the company has been releasing since their debut at CES 2025. The 5060 was announced at Computex, a trade show in Taiwan, alongside the laptop version, which are immediately available to purchase today.
All of that should be reason to be excited, especially since we've been waiting years for midrange gaming laptops to receive a meaningful bump in GPU performance. The only problem? Nvidia apparently wants you to buy this new GPU and laptops without letting reviewers test them first.
The RTX 5060 Arrives
It's been around a month since the RTX 5060 Ti launched, and now Nvidia has followed it up with the RTX 5060, rounding out the lineup on the low-end graphics cards.
There's a lot we still don't know about the RTX 5060, including specs like clock speed or the actual CUDA core counts. All of that will have to wait, along with real testing, even though you can buy this cards starting today.
RTX 5060 TiRTX 5060RTX 4060Shader Cores24 TFLOPS19 TFLOPS15 TFLOPSTensor Cores5th-Gen 759 AI TOPS5th-Gen 614 AI TOPS4th-Gen 242 AI TOPSRT Cores4th-Gen 72 FLOPS4th-Gen 58 TFLOPS3rd-Gen 35 TFLOPSDLSSDLSS 4DLSS 4DLSS 3.5VRAM8 GB / 16 GB8 GB8 GBPCIe5th-Gen5th-Gen4th-GenDisplayPort2.1b up to UHBR202.1b up to UHBR201.4aPrice$379 / $429$299$299The RTX 5060 keeps the same pricing as last generation's RTX 4060. There was a price decrease for the RTX 5060 Ti, but Nvidia has kept things steady here, as well as the 8 GB of VRAM. Video random-access memory stores graphics data for the graphics card and boosts performance, and is increasingly an important spec for playing modern AAA games.
