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The 5070 is actually worse than a 4070 Super, what will a 5060 Ti 16GB being to table? Spoilers.. NOTHING. And at what price again? Oh right.. close enough to a $550 Radeon 9070 which will drop to $499 soon enough and already obliterates the failure 5070? Yep. RIP Ngreed

The 5060 will compete with the 9060 XT that will actually match the 5070 for much less, I wonder who the duck is going to buy these duck failure of cards really
 
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I remember the GTX 1050 ti being a 75W card, with no extra PCIe cables, and now the RTX 5050 ti uses up double that. I get it that power is cheap an do are PSUs, but I kind of wished that power constraints remained more mundane. Some computers are using energy equivalent to a microwave oven just to play games.
 
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salgado18 said:
I remember the GTX 1050 ti being a 75W card, with no extra PCIe cables, and now the RTX 5050 ti uses up double that. I get it that power is cheap an do are PSUs, but I kind of wished that power constraints remained more mundane. Some computers are using energy equivalent to a microwave oven just to play games.
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Those that are building desktops are generally not power conscious compared to mobile users, and since the mobile variants use the same silicon, they just take the good quality ones and underclock them to meet power limits. You can basically do the same.
 
oofdragon said:
The 5070 is actually worse than a 4070 Super, what will a 5060 Ti 16GB being to table? Spoilers.. NOTHING. And at what price again? Oh right.. close enough to a $550 Radeon 9070 which will drop to $499 soon enough and already obliterates the failure 5070? Yep. RIP Ngreed

The 5060 will compete with the 9060 XT that will actually match the 5070 for much less, I wonder who the duck is going to buy these duck failure of cards really
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A 5060ti 16gb is for people running chatgpt or stable diffusion locally on their pc.
 
magbarn said:
5060 is getting probably a 30% uplift, which other than the 5090, seems to be a larger generational uplift than the rest of the meh Blackwells.
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If the 5060 gets a 30% uplift, then it would cannibalized both the 5060 Ti and the 5070. Ngreedier would never allow that. They would artificially downclock or voltage limit the card just to prevent that and binned the chip so they leave room for the 5060 Ti Super(basically a higher-binned GB-206, slightly overclocked chip above the non-limited GB-206) in Q4 2025 and drop the price of 5060 Ti. Creating a 1000 tiers to maximize each iteration in order to maximize profits is the new tactics for all monopolistic companies. They'll make you pay through your nose for every SINGLE percentage uplift you get.
 
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So, the 5050 is supposed to struggle against the 4060, yet use more power to do so?

Not a good look.

EDIT: and I missed mentioning this, regarding the 5050:
In any case, we'd love to see this GPU hit shelves for under $200, but let's not get ahead of ourselves.
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I could well be just imagining it, but given how the 3050 and 3050 6GB remained overpriced, I got the feeling that Nvidia resented feeling the need to release something less than a 60-series card. It's not quite as bad of an insult as the GTX 1630, but it's not that far off.

That quote about the pricing? Yeah, that's definitely feeling like "but let's not get ahead of ourselves" translates to "but you know what Nvidia is going to here."
 
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I'm looking forward to the 5080 Ti, 5080 Ti Super, 5080 Ti Super X and 5080 Ti Super X2 coming to a scalper near you in Q2, Q3 and Q4 2025. They left lots of room between the 5080 and 5090 for this infinite model train to choo-choo your money away to match your infinitely deep pockets, don't worry Team Green!
 
The only thing wrong with the 4060/Ti was the price.
If the 5050, 5060, 5060, 5060Ti are priced correctly...
ah, who am I kidding, Nvidia will price it as the market will tolerate.
My guess:
5050 $300
5060 $380
5060Ti 8GB $420
5060Ti 16GB $500
Besides, it's a paper launch so that price is gonna get marked up by 100% by scalpers.
 
Multi Frame Generation is a nice feature and all, but not nice enough to make someone pick any of these pathetic cards.
 
According to my accordings, the 50 series will only produce 2 more cards so expect prices to increase 10 percent until 60 series launches.
 
salgado18 said:
I remember the GTX 1050 ti being a 75W card, with no extra PCIe cables, and now the RTX 5050 ti uses up double that. I get it that power is cheap an do are PSUs, but I kind of wished that power constraints remained more mundane. Some computers are using energy equivalent to a microwave oven just to play games.
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I expect AMD's 9050 to copy Nvidia and follow the 6500 XT, which was pushed to ~110W to make it look a little better. Only the 9040 could revitalize this segment, or a B380 from Intel if they bother making one.
Eximo said:
Those that are building desktops are generally not power conscious compared to mobile users, and since the mobile variants use the same silicon, they just take the good quality ones and underclock them to meet power limits. You can basically do the same.
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I believe if you plug one of these >100W cards into the PCIe slot with no extra power connector expecting it to use only the 75W and underclock itself, it just won't turn on at all. I could be wrong, haven't tried it myself, just an anecdote I heard. That would be a pretty easy way to handle the situation if it did work.

The power is not much, but if you want to shove a card in some cheap OEM PC with a proprietary or weak PSU, 75W max is what you want.
 
As greedy nvidia is I don't suspect the pricing will change much. The leak indicates 25% more cores in the 5060 over 4060, ~65% more memory bandwidth, and ~30% higher power target so it stands to reason it will likely be 30% faster.

The 5060 Ti seems like it will be less of an improvement over existing given that it's only 6% more cores with 12.5% higher power target to go with the memory bandwidth increase.

I'm not sure the 5050 would be able to match the 4060, but it should be close.

I could see MSRP pricing being something like this:
5050: $230-260
5060: $300-330
5060 Ti: $400-480 (wider range due to supposed 8GB and 16GB variants)
 
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Until last week I was running an 8gb RX 5700, and while I haven't been playing the most demanding games, it held up pretty well at 1440p with a bit of settings tweaking and FSR Quality... except that VRAM usage was always reporting real, real close to the limit, and certain games were reporting that turning up specific settings was "Not advised".

TechPowerUp puts the RTX 4060Ti at about 60% more performance than my RX 5700, and presumably the 5060Ti would be some amount better than that. I'm not sure I see the appeal of a card that's >60% more powerful, but with the same VRAM limits? Especially at a guesstimated $400+ MSRP (which we know will turn into an even higher street price)? I'm sure there's some niche, but feels like they should use those 3GB GDDR7 modules and just make one 5060Ti that's good for as wide of a use case as possible.
 
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baboma said:
>>Yeah, the only sticking points are the VRAM and the price.

As with every GPU launched in 2025, the real sticking point will be availability. Perf & features won't matter, or even brand.


>I could see MSRP pricing being something like this:
>5050: $230-260
>5060: $300-330
>5060 Ti: $400-480 (wider range due to supposed 8GB and 16GB variants)

The xx50 tier is Nvidia/AMD's response to Intel's B580. My guess is that initial pricing would be $250 to match B580. But given B580's paltry availability, plus the general supply/demand imbalance, I expect $300 for 5050 MSRP. AMD's 9050 would probably be a bit lower, in keeping with its (slightly) better bang/buck strategy.

The $300 reference price for 5060 won't likely stand even if there were no shortage, and accounting for the inflationary climate alone. I see MSRP bumped to $350. AMD's again will be a few dollars less.

5060 Ti 16GB will likely slot in at $450, or $50 less than last gen. 8GB will probably land at $375-400. AMD's 9060/XT, with same VRAM, will as above be priced somewhat lower.

For US, add in 20% tariff, so we have:
. 5050 = $360
. 5060 = $420
. 5070Ti 8GB = $450, 16GB = $540

I expect Nvidia's lack of supply to continue, and all these models will be OOS soon after launch.

Calc street (scalped) pricing: The primary scalping outlet is eBay, which has a 13.6% final value fee + ancillary fees = ~15%. For scalping to be worthwhile, scalpers would need to get at least 15% ROI, so median scalp pricing would likely be 30-50% of retail pricing + tariff (above). We'll take the middle and call it +40%. Then,

. 5050 = 360 * 1.4 = $504
. 5060 = $588
. 5070 8GB = $630, 16GB = $756

The numbers are likely to be smaller for the lower tiers, since buyers are more price-sensitive there, and ROI margins will be more compressed.

Checking above against real-life scalp prices: 5070 Ti has median scalped price of ~$1200. Compared to $750 MSRP, that's a 60% markup. Subtract eBay's 15% and we have 45% net markup. 5070Ti's supply to date would take into account the 10% tariff from Feb.4, but not the extra 10% tariff from Mar.4. So, take away 10% tariff, and we arrive at a 35% ROI.

Above calcs are simplified and don't take into account OC model pricing above MSRP. AIBs & retailers will compete with scalpers for the excess margins, so net result should be roughly the same.

Takeaway: Don't get fixated on MSRP. It's not a meaningful metric of "value" in 2025.
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actually the worse thing about this is the die on these chips will be worse quality. or a step down from previous i doubt there will be a huge jump in performance.
 
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