Nvidia has launched all the GeForce RTX 50-series GPUs that it introduced at CES, at the very least technically—whether or not you are shopping for from Nvidia, AMD, or Intel, it is practically unimaginable to seek out any of those new playing cards at their marketed costs proper now.

However hope springs everlasting, and newly leaked specs for GeForce RTX 5060 and 5050-series playing cards counsel that Nvidia could also be saying these lower-end playing cards quickly. These sorts of playing cards are not often thrilling, however Steam {Hardware} Survey knowledge exhibits that these xx60 and xx50 playing cards are what the overwhelming majority of PC avid gamers are placing of their methods.

The specs, posted by a dependable leaker named Kopite and reported by Tom’s Hardware and others, counsel a refresh that is in keeping with what Nvidia has performed with many of the 50-series up to now. Together with a transfer to the next-generation Blackwell structure, the 5060 GPUs every include a small improve to the variety of CUDA cores, a bounce from GDDR6 to GDDR7, and a rise in energy consumption, however no adjustments to the quantity of reminiscence or the width of the reminiscence bus. The 8GB variations, specifically, will in all probability proceed to be marketed primarily as 1080p playing cards.

As with the 4060 Ti, the 5060 Ti is alleged to return in two variations, one with 8GB of RAM and one with 16GB. One of many 4060 Ti’s issues was that its comparatively slender 128-bit reminiscence bus restricted its efficiency at 1440p and 4K resolutions even with 16GB of RAM—the bandwidth improve from GDDR7 might assist with this, however we’ll want to check to see for positive.