Plenty of rumors about the new Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 are swirling right now, with the new gaming GPU expected to pick up from where the RTX 4060 left off. Nvidia hasn’t officially even announced this budget gaming GPU yet, but it’s already started appearing in several places, and we’re expecting it to offer a substantial upgrade over the existing RTX 4060.
We’ve already seen four new GPUs from the Nvidia Blackwell stable, including the RTX 5090 at the very top end. However, the cheapest option is currently the RTX 5070, which starts at an MSRP of $549.99, and realistically usually costs much more than this figure. It’s hoped that the RTX 5060 will finally offer a much more reasonably-priced entry in the series, making it the best graphics card for gamers on a tight budget.
RTX 5060 release date estimate
Our best estimate for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 release date is May 2025, based on rumor and speculation, as no official date has been announced. Previous rumors pointed to the RTX 5060 coming out as early as March 2025, but these rumors turned out to be false.
The latest RTX 5060 Ti release date rumors point to the Ti card releasing in April 2025, and if this is true, we expect the RTX 5060 to launch a month later. Meanwhile, RTX 5060 laptop rumors state that the laptop GPU will be coming out in May, and we don’t expect the desktop GPU to be released after the laptop version.
RTX 5060 specs rumors
Here is our best estimate for the RTX 5060 specs, based on rumor and speculation, as Nvidia hasn’t announced this GPU yet.
| Rumored RTX 5060 specs | |
| CUDA cores | 3,840 |
| RT cores | 30 |
| Tensor cores | 120 |
| SMs | 30 |
| VRAM | 8GB GDDR7 |
| Memory interface | 128-bit |
| TGP | 150W |
With the exception of the RTX 5090, Nvidia hasn’t boosted the power of its Blackwell GPUs compared to its last-gen Ada cards, with them having the same amount of VRAM and just a modest bump in specs. The specs in the table above come from a post on X (formerly Twitter) by regular (and often reliable) tech leaker kopite7kimi. The post seemingly revealed the number of FP32 (32-bit floating point) cores in the GPU, which Nvidia calls CUDA cores, as well as the amount of memory and the width of the memory interface.
From what we know about the structure of the Blackwell architecture, we can also use this information to work out that the 3,840 CUDA cores are likely to be split across 30 of Nvidia’s streaming multiprocessor units (SMs), giving it 30 RT cores for ray tracing and 120 Tensor cores for neural rendering and DLSS 4.
If the specs above are true, then the RTX 5060 has the same amount of VRAM (8GB) as the 4060, as well as the same 128-bit memory interface. However, as it’s rumored to be GDDR7 memory, the actual bandwidth of the card will be much higher, depending on the clock speed of the VRAM.
The rumored specs also show a decent increase in the number of CUDA cores compared to the RTX 4060. The latter has 3,072 CUDA cores and 24 RT cores, while the RTX 5060 is rumored to have 3,840 CUDA cores and 30 RT cores – that’s a substantial 25% increase in GPU processing power.
However, while that looks good in terms of GPU power, the rumored lack of VRAM will hurt this GPU. In our RTX 5070 review, we found that 12GB of VRAM wasn’t enough to run Indiana Jones and the Great Circle with path tracing, regardless of GPU power, and you have to run this game at the low preset to get a decent frame rate on an 8GB card at the moment.
RTX 5060 price estimate
Our best estimate for the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 price is $289, based on speculation and the price of the RTX 4060, as no official announcement has been made.
There’s been no word on the price of the RTX 5060 yet, but the $549 MSRP of the RTX 5070 is $50 under the RTX 4070’s launch price, and Nvidia looks likely to have some serious competition from the AMD Radeon RX 9060 in this price bracket too.
We’re not expecting Nvidia to be overly generous with the price of the RTX 5060, but given that the RTX 4060 MSRP is $299, we’re hoping that the RTX 5060 price will undercut it slightly at $289. This is pure speculation, however.
While you wait for more information on the RTX 5060, why not check out our full RTX 5090 review, where we see how the top-end GPU performs? You can also read our detailed tutorial on how to install a GPU, where we guide you through the whole graphics card upgrade process.