Nvidia Sets Release Date for its Mid-Tier GeForce RTX 5060

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- Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5060 GPUs both PC and laptop versions will be available for purchase worldwide starting May 19, 2025.
- The GeForce RTX 5060 is bringing the Blackwell architecture with a focus on high-efficiency 1080p and entry-level 1440p gaming.
- The GPU supports DLSS 4, including features like Multi-Frame Generation, DLAA, and Ray Reconstruction.
Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5060 GPUs, both PC and laptop versions, will be available for purchase worldwide starting May 19, 2025, according to the company’s official announcement.
The GeForce RTX 5060 is bringing the Blackwell architecture with a focus on high-efficiency 1080p and entry-level 1440p gaming.
Equipped with 3840 CUDA cores and a boost clock speed of 2.50 GHz, the RTX 5060 offers 58 TFLOPs of ray tracing performance and 614 AI TOPS thanks to its 5th-generation Tensor Cores. It is operating at a base clock of 2.28 GHz. Memory-wise, it features 8 GB of GDDR7 VRAM on a 128-bit bus.
The GPU supports DLSS 4, including features like Multi-Frame Generation, DLAA, and Ray Reconstruction, all of which are powered by Nvidia’s latest transformer-based AI model.
RTX 5060 has a total graphics power of 145 watts and requires a 550-watt system power supply. It connects via PCIe Gen5 and includes a single PCIe 8-pin power connector (or a compatible 300W+ Gen5 cable via the included adapter). It’s also VR Ready, supports AV1 encoding and decoding, and offers display outputs capable of up to 4K at 480Hz or 8K at 165Hz using Display Stream Compression.
With broad support for Nvidia’s software ecosystem, including Ansel, ShadowPlay, Omniverse, RTX Remix, and Game Ready drivers, the RTX 5060 is positioned by Nvidia as a capable, AI-enhanced GPU for gamers.