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Nvidia’s RTX 4060 is the most popular graphics card as of April 2025, according to Steam’s Hardware Survey. Now there’s finally a successor, the RTX 5060, rounding out the 50-series graphics cards that the company has been releasing since their debut at CES 2025. The 5060 was announced at Computex, a trade show in Taiwan, alongside the laptop version, which are immediately available to purchase today.
All of that should be reason to be excited, especially since we've been waiting years for midrange gaming laptops to receive a meaningful bump in GPU performance. The only problem? Nvidia apparently wants you to buy this new GPU and laptops without letting reviewers test them first.
The RTX 5060 Arrives
It's been around a month since the RTX 5060 Ti launched, and now Nvidia has followed it up with the RTX 5060, rounding out the lineup on the low-end graphics cards.
There's a lot we still don't know about the RTX 5060, including specs like clock speed or the actual CUDA core counts. All of that will have to wait, along with real testing, even though you can buy this cards starting today.
| RTX 5060 Ti | RTX 5060 | RTX 4060 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Shader Cores | 24 TFLOPS | 19 TFLOPS | 15 TFLOPS |
| Tensor Cores | 5th-Gen 759 AI TOPS | 5th-Gen 614 AI TOPS | 4th-Gen 242 AI TOPS |
| RT Cores | 4th-Gen 72 FLOPS | 4th-Gen 58 TFLOPS | 3rd-Gen 35 TFLOPS |
| DLSS | DLSS 4 | DLSS 4 | DLSS 3.5 |
| VRAM | 8 GB / 16 GB | 8 GB | 8 GB |
| PCIe | 5th-Gen | 5th-Gen | 4th-Gen |
| DisplayPort | 2.1b up to UHBR20 | 2.1b up to UHBR20 | 1.4a |
| Price | $379 / $429 | $299 | $299 |
The RTX 5060 keeps the same pricing as last generation's RTX 4060. There was a price decrease for the RTX 5060 Ti, but Nvidia has kept things steady here, as well as the 8 GB of VRAM. Video random-access memory stores graphics data for the graphics card and boosts performance, and is increasingly an important spec for playing modern AAA games.
Maintaining supply has been a consistent problem for the rest of the RTX 50-series, inflating prices way beyond where they should be. For the RTX 5060, Nvidia says it’s expecting a “good supply” of these cards, but we'll have to wait and see how that plays out. In general, these lower-tier cards aren't affected as much by the scalper market, so they should be easier to get hold of.
Like with the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070, and 5060 Ti, the primary selling points of the RTX 5060 is the DLSS 4 and a feature called Multi-Frame Generation. Standard frame generation lets AI create an artificial frame between other frames, allowing for much higher frame rates, which was introduced in DLSS 3.5. With DLSS 4, though, that's expanded to 2X, 3X, or 4X frame generation, pushing frame rates even higher. As you'll notice in the table above, the RTX 5060 includes a lot more AI power in the form of Tensor Cores to power these AI capabilities.
Multi-Frame Generation, however, is not a feature I've been particularly impressed with, though, as the implementation has been sloppy. Nvidia has been overriding the feature into games through the Nvidia app, and relatively very few games support the feature natively. While the higher frame rates are impressive on paper, the larger problem is that the more artificial frames you add, the more input lag becomes an issue.
None of that is exclusive to the RTX 5060. As for this GPU in particular, Nvidia says you’ll see a 20 percent performance improvement over the RTX 4060 without the aid of AI trickery. If that turns out to be true, that’ll be a decent uplift over the popular GPU from 2023, especially since there isn't much competition on the market outside of Intel's Arc B580.
New Gaming Laptops
Along with the new desktop card, several other companies have launched new gaming laptops with the RTX 5060. Most notably, Razer announced the refreshed Blade 14, the company’s hybrid laptop aimed at MacBook owners and content creators, plus gamers.
The new model is thinner than before, at 0.62 inch thick and 3.59 pounds, which is 11 percent more portable than its predecessor. It has an upgraded 3K OLED display with a 120-Hz refresh rate, as well as a new six-speaker audio system. The RTX 5060 configurations start at $2,299 and will be available this month, also packing the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365.
Nvidia says laptops with the RTX 5060 will start at $1,099, though I haven't seen any laptops yet that hit that price just yet. But again, no reviews were provided for any of these new GPUs or laptops, meaning for now we're just going to have to take Nvidia's word for it.
