NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 GPU Preview: Blackwell At Simply $299

	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 8GB: MSRP $299 The mainstream GeForce RTX 5060 brings NVIDIA’s newest Blackwell GPU structure right down to a $300 worth level and targets mainstream 1080p players, however DLSS4 with multi-frame technology is a should to attain peak efficiency.
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NVIDIA is utilizing the backdrop of the Computex commerce present, at present underway in Taipei, Taiwan to launch the newest and lowest worth member of the GeForce RTX 50 collection but, the GeForce RTX 5060. We’ve identified the GeForce RTX 5060’s specs for some time now, since they had been formally disclosed simply earlier than the launch of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti a couple of weeks again, however we’ve only in the near past gotten our palms on a card.

Not like most launch articles, nevertheless, the place NVIDIA sometimes units reviewers up with drivers prematurely of availability, NVIDIA is taking a unique strategy this time round. Drivers for the playing cards ought to hit the online right now, so it’ll be a few days earlier than we are able to share any benchmark scores. A ton of tech journalists are on the highway this week – us included – for the myriad of occasions at present underway, together with Computex, Dell World, Google IO, or Microsoft Construct. At any price, we’ll be benchmarking the cardboard and updating this piece with numbers publish haste.

For now, let’s check out some particulars and take a look at the MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming OC we’ll be evaluating…

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Specs

We’ve acquired two units of specs outlined above, for each the bottom mannequin GeForce RTX 5060 and the up-market GeForce RTX 5060 Ti. It’s the bottom 5060 numbers which can be related for this preview, however figured we’d cowl the specs for all the household. 

All the GeForce RTX 5060 household is constructed across the GB206 GPU. The upper-end GeForce RTX 5060 Ti is the total implementation of the chip, whereas the RTX 5060 is scaled again considerably. The GPU is comprised of roughly 21.9B transistors and is manufactured on TSMC’s 4N node. It’s organized into 3 GPCs, with a most of 4,608 CUDA cores, 144 Tensor cores, and 36 RT cores – the scaled again RTX 5060 clearly has fewer cores enabled total, with a complete of three,840 CUDA, 120 Tensor, and 30 RT cores enabled. The GPU linked to 8GB of GDDR7 reminiscence over a 128-bit interface on the RTX 5060, working at a 28GBps knowledge price. At that velocity, with a 128-bit interface, GeForce RTX 5060 / 5060 Ti playing cards provide peak reminiscence bandwidth of 448GB/s.

GeForce “xx60” Sequence Multi-Era Comparability

After all, for the reason that GB206 is predicated on NVIDIA’s newest Blackwell GPU structure, the RTX 5060 household presents the entire identical options as its higher-end counterparts, together with up to date CUDA, Tensor and RT cores, DLSS 4, RTX Neural Rendering, and the newest media encoders / decoders, with assist for {hardware} accelerated 4:2:2 video. Nearly each a part of the GPU has been up to date or enhanced indirectly. For a deeper dive on the whole lot Blackwell has to supply, we advise studying this text the place we cowl the entire nitty gritty.

The MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming OC

We acquired our palms on a MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming OC for testing, that borrows many styling queues from its higher-powered siblings, however is in the end considerably smaller total. We must also level out that NVIDIA received’t offer Founders Version boards with the RTX 5060 and is as an alternative leaving this household of GPUs as much as its companions to convey to market.

The MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming OC dual-fan, two-slot design, that’s solely about 9.5” lengthy and 5” excessive . The cardboard incorporates a comparatively giant thin-fin heatsink array beneath its shroud, with a number of heat-pipes and a nickel-plated copper baseplate. The baseplate makes direct contact with the GPU and reminiscence, and the heat-pipes are what MSI manufacturers “core pipes”; which principally means the pipes are squared off to maximise contact with the baseplate. The heatsink fins are additionally fashioned into wavy ‘V’ shapes in a couple of sections to optimize air circulate by way of the fins and reduce turbulence, which in flip lowers noise.

The followers on the cardboard function twin ball bearings for elevated longevity, together with 7, textured fan blades to maximise air circulate and assist reduce noise. It is also a partial pass-through design, with a bit on the again that extends properly previous the precise PCB — you’ll be able to see it within the shot of the again of the cardboard above with stylized dragon. The precise PCB ends in-line with the gold-fingers on the cardboard edge.

Along with the baseplate that’s affixed to the GPU and reminiscence, a number of thermal pads are used across the card as properly to make sure further warmth dissipation for different vital parts that make contact with the heatsink. A metallic backplate on the cardboard, that provides some rigidity, additionally options thermal pads beneath to assist in cooling.

We haven’t had an opportunity to measure precise frequencies but, however the based on NVIDIA’s reference specs, the GeForce RTX 5060 presents a default GPU increase clock is 2,280MHz, and it packs 8GB of GDDR7 reminiscence working at 28Gbps. Included with the MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming OC is a fundamental lit pack, and that’s it. The cardboard doesn’t use a 12HPWR connection and as an alternative depends on an ordinary 8-pin PCIe energy feed.

Outputs on the MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming OC mirror different GeForce RTX 50 collection playing cards and embody three DisplayPorts (2.1b) and a single HDMI port (2.1b). These ports are nestled into a stainless-steel backplate that options venting, to permit some heat air to flee a system.

We’ll be placing the placing the MSI GeForce RTX 5060 Gaming OC by way of its paces as shortly as we are able to, so keep tuned for benchmarks numbers within the coming days…