It’s a nasty time to be out there for a brand new graphics card. (“When is it not?” shouts a heckler from the again row.) When the wonderful RTX 5090 and the considerably-less-amazing RTX 5080 launched final week, it took lower than an hour for Nvidia’s latest GPUs to promote out. However a extra reasonably priced possibility, the RTX 5060, is likely to be on the best way quickly.
KitGuru stories {that a} China-based part provider, Chaintech, has printed a monetary presentation with an estimate for when each the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti will arrive: March 2025.
The data was leaked to social media. Technically, Nvidia itself hasn’t confirmed the existence of those playing cards, however given the truth that this degree has been made since earlier than the beginning of the GTX-to-RTX change, it appears inevitable that an RTX 5060 might be made in some unspecified time in the future. And sooner would undoubtedly be higher, as each AMD and Intel are pushing out extra reasonably priced alternate options to these high-end playing cards.
Chaintech is a provider for Colourful, a well known Nvidia associate for card gross sales in China, so there’s no motive to consider they’d be mendacity to their traders in a monetary presentation. However observe that that is simply a sign of when components will head to card producers, not essentially when the playing cards themselves will hit cabinets. March is a particular risk for retailers — in China, anyway — nevertheless it may simply be April or Might earlier than they work by the method of lastly happening sale.
We do not know what the worth might be, nevertheless it’ll actually be lower than $550 (the confirmed base value for the RTX 5070). Although it’s price declaring that the 5060’s {hardware} is likely to be underwhelming no matter Nvidia asks for it. For the reason that laptop computer model of the discrete RTX 5070 is getting solely 8GB of video RAM, and the older desktop RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti obtained the identical quantity on the bottom mannequin, it appears seemingly that that’s all we’ll get from the brand new model, at the very least as a base.
