(Nvidia)
As dwindling supplies and Trump’s tariffs drive up GPU prices, Nvidia at least intends on selling its lower-end GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and 5060 graphics cards at the $300 to $400 price range.
The RTX 5060 Ti launches on April 16 in two versions: A 16GB model that starts at $429 and an 8GB model that’ll go for $379. In May, Nvidia will release its most affordable budget graphics card yet in the RTX 5060, which will start at $299. Unfortunately, the company isn’t releasing Founders Editions for either card.
(Credit: Nvidia )The pricing is in line with 2023’s RTX 4060 and the 8GB 4060 Ti, which started at $299 and $399, respectively. But, of course, third-party vendors and retailers might demand more for the RTX 5000 models, especially since Trump’s 20% tariff on Chinese imports kicked in back in March. (That said, the president has spared GPUs from the 125% tariff, at least for now.)
In the meantime, Nvidia says the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti models will offer a monumental performance increase—but only if you enable its DLSS 4 frame-generation tool. Otherwise, the performance jump is much smaller compared to the last generation, as Nvidia’s benchmark shows.
(Credit: Nvidia)In another example, Nvidia showed the RTX 5060 Ti can run Hogwarts Legacy at 171 frames per second when DLSS 4 had been activated. If not, the FPS falls to 61.
The company also provided benchmarks for an array of games to underscore that both cards can maintain a low latency while squeezing more frames per second, thanks to DLSS.
(Credit: Nvidia)
(Nvidia)In addition, Nvidia is promising to deliver 100+ FPS rates for top PC titles, although you’ll probably need to game at a lower 1080p resolution rather than 1440p.
Both cards feature the newer GDDR7 memory. But in some bad news, Nvidia is indicating the 5060 Ti uses a 128-bit bus instead of a 192-bit bus like the RTX 5070, which risks limiting its ability to run games at higher resolutions, such as 1440p and 4K.
In 2023, Nvidia also released a 16GB model of the RTX 4060 Ti starting at $499. However, the extra memory did little to improve the performance over the regular 8GB RTX 4060 Ti, with reviewers blaming its 128-bit memory bandwidth for holding back the product's performance.
We'll have to see if GDDR7 makes any difference. Stay tuned for our review.