NVIDIA Announces the GeForce RTX 5060 Family

8GB is still alive in 2025 – but the RTX 5060 Ti cards cost less than last gen

Is there anything more subject to enthusiast scorn and ridicule than a perceived shortage of VRAM? Based on the reaction to last generation’s GeForce RTX 4060 Ti launch, the safe answer is no. And NVIDIA is at it again, with the new RTX 5060 Ti available with just 8GB of VRAM, though a 16GB version should theoretically cost you less than the 16GB variants of the RTX 4060 Ti did. Or not. Who knows what things actually cost from day to day anymore.

As the RTX 5060 family is based on the current Blackwell architecture, you can enjoy all of the same features of previous RTX 50 Series cards, including 4x Frame Generation. Another interesting aspect of the RTX 5060 family is the use of high bandwidth GDDR7 memory for all versions, even the $299 RTX 5060. Here’s NVIDIA’s table with some basic specs:

NVIDIA is positioning the RTX 5060 at the same $299 starting MSRP as last generation’s RTX 4060, though the memory bandwidth will be much higher, and of course it supports 4x Frame Gen. Why mention that again? Well, to say that NVIDIA is stressing Frame Generation technology with this launch would be a bit of an understatement.

In fact, all performance charts shown on NVIDIA’s blog post about these new cards uses “max frame gen level supported by each game/GPU”:

In the end, the fact that these cards are better than last gen and have lower MSRPs could be exciting news for the midrange GPU segment, but the very existence of an 8GB RTX 5060 Ti will surely result in some of the same reactions that we saw last time around. Plus, nothing is ever available at MSRP after launch – outside of the 38% of states in the U.S. with a Micro Center, that is.