News Nvidia's RTX 5060 will launch without reviews since chipmaker opts not to supply press drivers to reviewers

[Admin]

Nvidia confirmed that it will only release drivers for the RTX 5060 on May 19 and that reviewers won’t get access to a pre-release driver for testing.

Nvidia's RTX 5060 will launch without reviews since chipmaker opts not to supply press drivers to reviewers : Read more

 

[warezme]

Smells like a dog they are to embarrassed to show.

 

[2Be_or_Not2Be]

Yeah, this reeks of likely underwhelming performance, especially against its pricing. Which, if so, is really bad for gamers as it likely will be the volume seller for most.

 

[King_V]

I agree, it COULD be something simple, like they want to finalize the drivers. Or, it COULD be that they have something to hide. Admittedly, it's not a great look for Nvidia, considering the mess that drivers have been with the 5000-series release.

The solution is simple: don't buy any of these until reviews are up. It's unfortunate that people will ignore that advice.

 

[Notton]

Like I said in the other thread, Just look at 4060Ti/8GB benchmarks to gauge the 5060.
The results are most likely the same.

 

[VizzieTheViz]

Well that’s not suggestive of this being a crappy card at all.

I don’t buy the drivers but, they haven’t been able to get their driver right for months, no reason to think the drivers will magically be fixed may 19th.

 

[Eximo]

RTX 4060 in the US is $340 right now, no stock it seems. It is a decent replacement. It should be cheaper, but we all know that isn't happening. MSRP is supposed to be $300... and there will probably be a small number of those at launch.

Still, decent gain in CUDA cores and a huge jump in memory bandwidth, even gained a little cache.

3072 -> 3840 cores
272 -> 448 GB/s (Same as a 3060 Ti/3070)
24 -> 32 MB cache

Clock speed is about the same, so it should fall right behind the 4060 Ti?

 

[DS426]

*Popping more popcorn*. This is just funny.

nVidia almost needs to run two different branches of their drivers -- one just for Blackwell and one for Ada and everything else that's still in support.

 

[Eximo]

The real question is what will the price of a 5060 Super with 12GB of memory cost a year from now.

Or will the next thing from Nvidia be a 5060 9GB card or something.

 

[thestryker]

This goes hand in hand with the 8GB VRAM 5060 Ti in my opinion. Not a bad product per se but it's going to be another overpriced 8GB card.

They know they're going to sell no matter what so this way they think the negative press won't hit until after launch. Of course I've already seen some YT folks calling it out so I'm not sure this strategy is going to pay off. The uninformed would never see all the negative press in the first place so all this really does is allow everyone to run wild.

My problem with all of these 8GB cards has been the pricing and that there isn't anything truly entry level anymore. Telling someone who's looking at building a gaming PC coming from say consoles and having the price of entry for a non compromised experience being a $430 MSRP video card (really +$50 in the US right now) is awful. Intel is still at least a generation away from being a universal recommendation, but if someone was only playing newer games they are an option though the cheapest B580 when I looked was $310 which obviously isn't great.

 

[jlake3]

Nvidia just confirmed that it’s withholding pre-release drivers from reviewers for the RTX 5060, which will rival the best graphics cards.

I know you've gotta get your SEO in, but them blocking reviews suggests it's maybe not gonna be one of the best graphics cards.

 

[micheal_15]

Finally. A card slower than a 3070 for a higher price.

PLUS the famous "this will burn your house to the ground AND kill your kids/pets" power cable system!

Whats not to love?