Like Bigfoot or the chupacabra, the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 is being spotted in the wild by ravenous GPU buyers ready to believe any hint of a footprint indicates how powerful a beast they are. If anything, the latest leaks suggest we may be on track for a full reveal as soon as this week. The first hints of the card found in a pre-built desktop tower indicate the next Blackwell GPU could be relatively cheap, but that may not matter much if Team Green’s next graphics card is limited on VRAM.
French retailers are already promoting pre-configured desktop towers sporting a Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060. As first spotted by the sleuths at Videocardz, there’s an Acer Nitro 50 tower containing a 14th-gen Intel Core i7-14700F CPU alongside Nvidia’s new lower-end graphics card (it’s listed as a PCIe x16 card, which may be incorrect but we’ll find out soon enough). The French seller EvoPC is selling the tower for 1,590 euros, or a little more than $1,737. The jury is still out on whether that config is worth it, even with 32 GB of RAM.
A similar config with the Acer Nitro 60 on Amazon containing a last-gen RTX 4060 may go for between $1,520 and $1,541 from various sellers. That may not mean much, considering the Nitro 50 and 60 configs have been around since 2022. Since it’s a French seller, those prices may not reflect Acer’s commitment to a 10% markup for U.S. customers due to Trump tariffs.
The other element the listing potentially confirms is the 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM. Earlier this week, the usually accurate Nvidia leaker that goes by kopite7kimi posted supposed specs for an RTX 5050, RTX 5060, and RTX 5060 Ti. The RTX 5060 may hold 3,840 CUDA cores and a 150 W power draw. That’s a 25% uptick from the Ada Lovelace architecture at the same level from 2022. That sounds good until you notice the 8 GB of VRAM. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5070 was already relatively limited at higher resolutions, and the squeezed memory didn’t help it.
As for the 5060 Ti, the core counts are less dramatic, going from 4,352 on the 4060 Ti to 4,608. Just remember that core counts don’t offer more than a small window into the full picture of the GPU’s capabilities. The general fear is that the 5060 Ti won’t be a major uplift in gen-on-gen performance, similar to the RTX 4070 Ti Super compared to the RTX 5070 Ti. At the very least, according to the leaks, you can get the RTX 5060 Ti in both 8 GB and 16 GB GDDR7 RAM variants. It will have a 180W power draw.
Like the RTX 5070 Ti, Nvidia doesn’t seem willing to wait to share its “titanium” edition GPUs. If we believe the leaks, other changes will come to Nvidia’s desktop GPU slate. Those leaks indicate the RTX 5050 could come in desktop form, where it was relegated to laptops on the RTX 40-series. That, too, will sit at a mere 8 GB VRAM and 2,560 of the Blackwell CUDA cores. What this means for the low-end GPU is still in flux. Each of these GPUs should be able to use DLSS 4 and multi-frame gen, so we’ll see if that can push the envelope more than it did while trying to eek 4K performance from the 5070.
Meanwhile, AMD seems to have a plan to stick 16GB of GDDR6 VRAM into all its cards. Rumors reported by Videocardz indicate the 9060 wants to compete at the 60-level just as well as it did against the 70s. None of this really changes the landscape until we get an idea about the price. Nvidia still has its work cut out for itself, trying to make sure there’s enough supply for this launch.
