Nvidia expected to announce RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti next week, launch in April
Rumor mill: Can Nvidia redeem itself and the Blackwell consumer line with the RTX 5060? Probably not, but it might not be too long before we find out. According to new reports, the RTX 5060 series, consisting of three cards, will be announced next week, though they might not be available to buy (assuming they’re actually in stock) until a month later.
According to VideoCardz, Nvidia has just informed its board partners that the RTX 5060 series will be announced on March 13, which is next Thursday.
The same report claims that there will be three variants of the RTX 5060: the standard version, the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB, and the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. The latter two cards appeared in a Eurasian Economic Union database in January, strengthening the report’s credibility.
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While Nvidia has not revealed when it plans on releasing these cards, Zed Wang, better known as his X handle/pseudonym MEGAsizeGPU, wrote in a post that they wouldn’t be on the shelves until a month later. This lines up with previous rumors pointing to an April launch, though it’s unclear if Nvidia will release all three cards simultaneously or stagger their launch.
The RTX5060 family will be released in about 10 days but will be on the shelf a month later.
– MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) March 7, 2025
Whenever the RTX 5060 series get here, it’ll be surprising if we don’t see a repeat of what happened – and is still happening – with the other Blackwell cards: low or zero stock levels and retailers having almost no availability.
As for the cards themselves, the RTX 5060 Ti is believed to have a 180W TDP, though we don’t know if this is for the 8GB or 16GB models, or both. For comparison, the 8GB RTX 4060 Ti has a 160W TGP while the 16GB version of that card has a 165W TGP.
It’s possible that AMD will release the Radeon RX 9060 is April, too. Team Red is also rumored to launch 8GB and 16GB versions of the RX 9060 XT, mirroring what Nvidia is doing with the RTX 5060 Ti.
Ultimately, though, a lot of people will likely be apathetic about the RTX 5060 and its variants. Blackwell has drawn a slew of criticism for its underwhelming generational uplifts, pricing, dishonest marketing, and technical issues such as missing ROPs. The latest entry in the series, the RTX 5070, scored a lowly 60 in our review, where we called it overpromised, underdelivered, and ultimately pointless.
Nvidia’s xx60 series has long been a favorite among mainstream gamers: the RTX 3060 recently lost its long-held position at the top of the Steam survey to the RTX 4060, and the RTX 4060 Ti is in third place. Even the RTX 2060 remains in the top ten. We’ll have to wait and see if the RTX 5060 (eventually) proves to be as popular.