Today is a big day for Nvidia, with the RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards being officially announced. Here, we break down everything we know about specs and pricing, ahead of reviews coming later in the week.
The RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards are the latest in Nvidia's Blackwell GPU line-up. With the Blackwell architecture at the centre, users will get the latest generation Tensor Cores and RT Cores, which are more performant than previous generations, bringing big boosts to AI and Float Point performance.
In terms of gaming, Nvidia has released its internal benchmark results for several games. In the case of Cyberpunk 2077, the RTX 5060 Ti is capable of 108FPS at 1440p with max settings, but that is the figure with DLSS Quality mode and 4x Frame Generation active. The RTX 4060 Ti with standard Frame Gen achieves 52FPS in the same test.
Hogwarts Legacy is another big game tested in Nvidia's benchmarks. According to Nvidia, the RTX 4060 Ti was capable of 87FPS at 1440p with max settings, in addition to DLSS Quality and Frame Generation. On the RTX 5060 Ti with Frame Generation 4x, the frame rate jumps up to over 170FPS.
In this graph above you can see Nvidia's results for Hogwarts Legacy, Alan Wake 2, Black Myth: Wukong, Cyberpunk 2077, STALKER 2, Frostpunk 2, A Plague Tale: Requiem and Delta Force, all tested at 1440p with max settings, along with DLSS Quality Mode and the highest version of Frame Generation supported.
In these charts we see RTX 5060 results in those same games but tested at 1080p instead of 1440p. Every other setting remains the same.
You can see the specs and comparison to previous GPUs below:
GPU | RTX 3060 | RTX 4060 | RTX 5060 | RTX 5060 Ti |
Shader Cores | Ampere SM
13 TFLOPS |
Ada SM
15 TFLOPS |
Blackwell SM
19 TFLOPS |
Blackwell SM
24 TFLOPS |
Tensor Cores | 3rd Gen FP16
102 AI TOPS |
4th Gen FP8/FP16
242 AI TOPS |
5th Gen FP4/FP8/FP16
614 AI TOPS |
5th Gen FP4/FP8/FP16
759 AI TOPS |
RT Cores | 2nd Gen
25 TFLOPS |
3rd Gen
35 TFLOPS |
4th Gen
58 TFLOPS |
4th Gen
72 TFLOPS |
Memory Subsystem | 12GB
GDDR6 |
8GB
GDDR6 |
8GB
GDDR7 |
8GB / 16GB
GDDR7 |
Launch Pricing | $329 | $299 | $299 | $379 (8GB) / $429 (16GB) |
Here in the UK, we have confirmed pricing for the RTX 5060 Ti, set at £349 for the 8GB version and £399 for the 16GB version. We do not have confirmed UK pricing for the RTX 5060 just yet but considering the RTX 4060 hit the market at £289, we would expect pricing to be similar for the RTX 5060 at launch.
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