Rumor mill: Over a month after launching the RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti, Nvidia remains silent regarding its upcoming next generation of budget-tier graphics cards. Most of the technical specs have leaked amid rumors of delays, but pricing and release dates remain unclear. Even less is known about the competition from AMD.
A tipster on Board Channels claims that Nvidia plans to launch the RTX 5060 Ti on April 16, aligning with prior rumors indicating a mid-April debut. The 8 GB and 16 GB variants might carry the same price tags as the 4060 Ti, $400 and $500.
Additionally, new listings for pre-built desktops featuring the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti support the claims and retail with minimal price hikes over their 4060 and 4060 Ti equivalents. The tipster stated that Nvidia is pursuing aggressive pricing, likely to get ahead of AMD's upcoming Radeon RX 9060 and 9060 XT GPUs.
The new desktop listings briefly appeared on Best Buy and remain visible on Newegg. Stormcraft's cheapest RTX 50 series model, featuring an unspecified 5060 Ti variant for $1,299, is the same price as one of the company's 4060-equipped systems and only $100-$150 more expensive than other models. It features a Core i5-14400F CPU on a B760 motherboard and 32 GB of 6,000 MHz DDR5 RAM. Best Buy's cheapest unit from CyberPowerPC, now removed, includes a standard 5060, a Ryzen 7 8700F, 16GB of memory, and a 2TB SSD for $1,149.
Prior reports indicated that the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti will feature only a few hundred more CUDA cores than their predecessors, indicating similar or slightly better performance. The two GPUs include 28 Gbps GDDR7 VRAM on a 128-bit bus and 448 GB/s of memory bandwidth. The 5060 Ti features 4,608 cores, a 180W TGP, and clocks between 2,407 and 2,572 MHz – less than 100 MHz more than the 4060 Ti. The standard 5060 has only 8 GB of VRAM, 3,840 cores, and draws 150W, but its clock speeds remain unknown. Nvidia might launch the cheaper variant in May.
AMD has only confirmed a Q2 2025 release window for the RX 9060 and 9060 XT. They should include GDDR6 VRAM pools identical to their Nvidia equivalents, but we know little else about their specs.
Team Red's recently released mid-range RX 9070 and 9070 XT compare favorably to Nvidia's RTX 5070 and 5070 Ti, suggesting that competition in the mainstream segment could be fierce. That said, they might arrive just in time for recently announced US tariffs to throw the entire industry into uncharted waters.
Nvidia RTX 5060 Ti launch rumored for April 16, pre-built desktops appear starting at $1,149
