The RTX 5060 officially arrives on May 19 in desktop and laptop formats, starting at 9 a.m. PT at your favorite PC retailer. According to Nvidia, the graphics card will start at $299, while the most affordable laptop equipped with this GPU begins at $1,099. The RTX 5060 is the most affordable desktop and laptop 50-series GPU the company has announced, although we've seen rumors of a more affordable RTX 5050 surface in various documents and filings.
Nvidia's mainstream offering will launch for consumers just a day before Computex and about a day after the AMD RX 9060 XT is reportedly set to go on sale. It's also priced somewhat competitively, retaining the $299 launch price of the previous generation 4060. This will make it $70 cheaper than the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB and $130 more affordable than the RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB. However, it's still $50 more than the Intel Arc B580, which has 12GB of GDDR6 VRAM, and we're unsure if it will be widely available at MSRP. After all, we've had some difficulty finding other RTX 50-series GPUs at MSRP, so why would this be any different?
