Nvidia has announced a Could nineteenth launch date for its $299 RTX 5060 graphics card and the primary laptops, which begin at $1,099, that may characteristic it. The corporate says they’ll be available for purchase from retail companions beginning at 9AM PT / 12PM ET.
At 3,840 CUDA cores, the RTX 5060 has almost 800 fewer cores than the 5060 Ti Nvidia released last month and is probably the most primary of the RTX 50-series. However just like the Ti model, the 5060 has GDDR7 reminiscence, helps DLSS 4 with Multi Body Technology, and will get the newest ray tracing and tensor cores. The corporate says extra video games are being up to date with help for DLSS 4 with Multi Body Technology earlier than the 5060 launches, together with MechWarrior 5: Clans on Could seventh and New World: Aeternum on Could thirteenth.
Whether or not the cardboard is value choosing up, although, is one other story. The RTX 5060 is proscribed to simply 8GB of VRAM, and chances are high good it’ll price greater than its prompt $299 retail value. Retailers began promoting GPUs, together with the opposite RTX 50-series playing cards, at a premium even before President Trump’s tariffs took hold. And as The Verge’s Sean Hollister famous just lately, Trump’s elimination of the de minimus exemption final week may additionally impression pricing by way of additional import taxes on shipments valued at or beneath $800.