Nvidia announced the RTX 5060 along with the RTX 5060 Ti back in April 2025, but the more affordable GPU is now available, following an announcement at Computex.
The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 starts at $299, which will get you 3,840 CUDA cores across 30 Streaming Multiprocessors, which should be enough for 1080p gaming. Nvidia does claim that the RTX 5060 can do some pretty incredible things at that resolution. For instance, Team Green says the 5060 can hit 223 fps in Doom: The Dark Ages at 1080p with max settings – although that’s with multi-frame generation set to 4x.
That is the big selling point Nvidia is pushing with this generation of graphics cards, and while the RTX 5060 is the most affordable of the bunch, it will have full support for Multi-Frame Generation and the rest of the DLSS 4 technology suite. Just realize that with just 30 SMs, there’s still a limit to what DLSS can do.
Keep in mind that the $299 price tag is only a starting price, too. While there will be a few models available at that low price, there will be many versions of the RTX 5060 that’ll be much more expensive, though these are usually balanced with nice-to-have features like factory-tuned overclocking and RGB lighting.
Reviews Are Coming… Later
Even though the RTX 5060 is a reasonably affordable card – assuming the $299 MSRP holds up – you should still wait to pull the trigger on it until you know how it will perform. And while Nvidia has made some bold performance claims, those numbers are all with Multi-Frame Generation enabled, and we won’t know how it’ll actually perform until we can get it in the lab.
Unfortunately, we’re going to have to wait a bit. Unlike with previous launches this generation, like the RTX 5090, Nvidia is not supplying an early driver to press, so you won’t be seeing much in the way of reviews for the first week or so of this GPU’s lifespan. The RTX 5060 will probably be a decent 1080p graphics card, but the rest of the Blackwell lineup has struggled with generational uplift.
It’s entirely possible that the RTX 5060 will share a similar performance uplift as the RTX 5070 saw over its last-generation counterpart, particularly in traditional gaming workloads without frame generation. When I asked Nvidia about the performance uplift over the RTX 4060, it claimed that the 5060 would get as much as double the performance when frame generation was turned on, but just around 20% in games without ray tracing or frame generation – and that’s likely a best-case scenario.
As with any expensive tech product, my advice is to wait for reviews to pull the trigger, so that you know you’re getting your money’s worth. Those reviews are coming, they just might take a few days to show up.
Jackie Thomas is the Hardware and Buying Guides Editor at IGN and the PC components queen. You can follow her @Jackiecobra
