Summary

  • Nvidia's RTX 5060 arrives on May 19 for $299.
  • Nvidia hasn't released specs yet, but rumors point to 3,840 CUDA cores.
  • AMD and Intel could have GPU plans around a similar timeframe.

Nvidia's much-anticipated RTX 5060 is coming soon. Team Green revealed on Tuesday that the RTX 5060 will launch on May 19 across both laptops and desktops, and that listings will go live starting at 9am Pacific. Nvidia originally announced the RTX 5060 just a few weeks ago alongside the RTX 5060 Ti, but it originally left the release date nebulous. The card is releasing just a day before the doors of Computex open, and just two days before Nvidia's CEO Jensen Huang takes the stage for his Computex keynote.

The RTX 5060 is set to arrive on May 19 for $299

Expect a similar rush as previous Nvidia launches

It's been somewhat of an open secret that Nvidia would release the RTX 5060 during Computex. When the company originally revealed the card, it had said it would launch in May. Given that Computex takes place in the middle of May, there's no other better venue to launch a new GPU. As it stands now, the RTX 5060 is set to become the lowest-end card in Nvidia's Blackwell lineup. The card has a recommended list price of $299, and it'll be available exclusively through Nvidia's board partners; there won't be a Founders Edition design.

Some listings have already gone live, though you can't purchase the RTX 5060 yet. At Best Buy, for example, the PNY RTX 5060 is listed for $299.99. That's a positive sign for pricing. The RTX 5060 Ti released with prices above MSRP out of the gate to account for new tariff policies. It never sold for list price. The fact that an RTX 5060 is already listed at MSRP hopefully points to a less aggressive rollout on the pricing front.

Although Nvidia has revealed the release date of the RTX 5060, it still hasn't detailed the specs of the card. We know that the GPU will pack 8GB of GDDR7 memory across a 128-bit bus, similar to the 8GB RTX 5060 Ti. The card uses the same GB206 GPU as the RTX 5060 Ti, but rumors suggest it'll only come with 3,840 CUDA cores. That's about 17% fewer cores than the RTX 5060 Ti, and if Nvidia's other cards this generation are anything to go by, that difference in core count should line up with real-world performance differences.

Nvidia isn't the only one cooking up GPU plans for Computex, though. Leaks point to Intel launching a new GPU at the event, as well, which looks to be a more powerful card leveraging its Battlemage architecture. We've also heard several rumors of an RX 9060 XT from AMD over the past several months, which it could announce at the show.