By Kyle Barr Published April 15, 2025 | Comments (0) | Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti will come from multiple brands, including Asus, PNY, Sapphire, and more © Nvidia Finally, after a supposed delay, Nvidia is ready to unveil the graphics cards the rest of us can afford, or at least we could if Trump tariffs don’t make them untenable. On Tuesday, Nvidia showed off the $300 GeForce RTX 5060 and $430 5060 Ti. They are supposed to offer many times the performance of the 4060, though they’re even more reliant fancy AI tricks like DLSS and “fake frames.” But their launch comes as a tricky tariff time which means those prices are “subject to change,” and you can thank Trump for the uncertainty. The RTX 5060 Ti is the real star of the show. The titanium-edition desktop-level graphics card has two versions, one at $380 with 8 GB of GDDR7 VRAM and another at 16 GB. What’s the difference? The one with more memory, or RAM, is going to work much better for higher resolutions. When asked why Nvidia didn’t offer a 12 GB VRAM option, company reps said they couldn’t offer that option with the current memory bus.  The cheaper Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 will launch sometime in May. In case you were wondering, no, there won’t be a Nvidia-made Founders’ Edition 5060 or 5060 Ti this time around. Also, these cards will either use one or two 8-pin power connectors, not the 12-pin used for all of the company’s other GPUs. So check your power supply cables before pulling the trigger. The 5060 Ti is working off a 2.57 GHz boost clock on a 128-bit memory bus. Nvidia did not provide clock speeds for the RTX 5060. The 5060 Ti will compete with Nvidia’s own RTX 5070 for best graphics card for 1440p. The 5060, on the other hand, will inevitably be relegated to 1080p resolutions though it may manage to hold its own in some less-demanding titles at 1440p. That’s mostly due to the limited VRAM which is necessary for processing higher-quality textures. Blackwell, Nvidia’s current GPU microarchitecture, is all about AI processing, as seen previously with the $550 RTX 5070, $750 RTX 5070 Ti, $1,000 RTX 5080, and $2,000 RTX 5090. The RTX 5060 can do 614 AI TOPS (trillions of operations per second, which is a derived value for determining AI performance) while the Ti will supposedly do 759 TOPS. The next step up with the 5070 is 988 AI TOPS. The 5060’s shader cores produce 19 TFLOPS (representing one trillion floating-point operations per second, a measure of how many calculations it can perform) while the 5060 Ti outputs 24 TFLOPS. The RTX 5070 hits 94 TFLOPS. All those TFLOPS and TOPS should be good for training AI models, but Nvidia also says it should make its game upscaling technology, DLSS 4, more capable too. One of the cool features of DLSS 4, and the Blackwell microarchitecture, is the ability to insert multiple AI-generated frames between rendered frames, effectively increasing in-game framerates. At CES earlier this year, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang promised the RTX 5070 could churn out similar framerates to the RTX 4090, the last-gen flagship. It was a big promise, and one that didn’t pan out when reviewers actually got their hands on those cards. Now, Nvidia claims that with DLSS 4 enabled, the 5060 Ti is able to output many times more frames than a base 4060, even if its native rendering performance isn’t nearly as dramatic. A 4060 Ti (which launched for $500 MSRP) may do 87 simulated FPS in Hogwarts Legacy at max settings with 1440p resolution, but the 5060 Ti should do 171 simulated FPS. Unfortunately, didn’t offer offer any real insight into the native rendering performance of both cards, and users will have to wait for reviews to find out more. Nvidia claims you only need to have around 40 FPS natively in order for frame generation to kick in and emulate a much higher framerate, but for truly smooth performance without any hint of awkward visual artifacts, you really need closer to 60 FPS. The company is essentially claiming that DLSS will go hand-in-hand with the lower-cost GPUs to truly push their performance. That may only hold true if these graphics cards remain at their lower prices. Nvidia’s GeForce desktop GPU product manager, Justin Walker, told reporters that the 5060 prices didn’t include “any regional BAT or Tariffs.” He added, that the company has no plans to delay release, but “it is reasonable to say that pricing is subject to change because of tariffs.” Nvidia has an effective monopoly on high-end GPUs, and that lack of competition is a big reason the RTX 5090 sells for $2,000 MSRP (though with stock woes most cards costs much more than that). For lower-end graphics cards, the competition has never been more fierce. Last year, Intel debuted its Battlemage series of graphics processors that competed in the $200 to $300 range. Just a few months ago, AMD rocked Nvidia’s price scaling with the $550 Radeon RX 9070 and $600 9070 XT. The base RX 9070 was solid for most 1440p and some 4K scenarios, but the XT was in a class of its own, offering solid 4K performance for far less than the 5070 Ti. There’s a fair few cards hovering in the midrange market, but the 5060 Ti seems to be competing directly for 1440p stardom with the RX 9070 and RTX 5070. It’s one to watch, especially if GPU stock issues persist. With tariffs being such a clusterfuck, it’s nearly impossible to guess how much these graphics cards will go for in a few weeks’ time. Both versions launch April 16. So its time to make sure you have comfy shoes for the line at Microcenter. 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