News RTX 5060 reviews are reportedly in jeopardy — Nvidia allegedly withholding pre-release drivers from reviewers

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Nvidia is reportedly withholding pre-release drivers for the RTX 5060 until launch on May 19th, leaving reviewers with no lead time for testing before they head to Computex.

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[magbarn]

Ah, the old taking time to "polish the turd" routine. It's not like it's the first Blackwell release.

 

[Amdlova]

Can't wait to see how bad will be

 

[Notton]

It's not like we can't predict the results.
5060 is going to be slightly faster than a 4060, or equal a 4060Ti/8GB at best.
So all you have to do is look at the 4060Ti/8GB benchmarks... and oh man does that card ever suck in 2025.

 

[atomicWAR]

Let's be real Ngreedia is shorting its gaming consumers. Firsts off this card should have never been a 60 class card, ever. This should be a 50 class card. But this is true of most of the stack. The 60ti class should be the 60 class, the 70 should be the 60ti class the 70ti should be the 70...the 80 class should be the 70ti and we should have got a heavily cut down GB202 with 24 GB of vram for the 80 series that was on par with an rtx 4090.

I may well be done with Nvidia when ever my 4090 become irrelevant in the future and jump ship to AMD or god forbid Intel should they get their proverbial crap together in the high end. This is just a sad statement to how far Nvidia's product stack as fallen for gamers.

 

[bigdragon]

This behavior by a company usually means they changed something in a negative way. Companies always want to delay bad news. I have to wonder what we don't already know about the new 5060.

 

[Jagar123]

This is a shame. It's also a shame that these cards will still top the Steam hardware survey.

 

[hwertz]

I wasn't sure if Nvidia was even going to try releasing any cards under like $600,. So at least there's that. But, when it's time to replace my GTX1650 (which is doing fine so far...) I suppose I'll suck it up with losing CUDA support (who knows if rocm willl work given AMDs strategy of supporting datacenter cards plus a few others almost at random...) and go AMD. I'm a full time Ubuntu Linux user so other than no CUDA the AMD kit needless to say has excellent driver support.

 

[Krieger-San]

Just a reminder to all the 'gamers' out there (me included): Nvidia is a corporation. They do not care (at all) about their gaming division anymore because their AI/Enterprise divisions are significantly, ungodly profitable in comparison.

Do yourself a favour and ask yourself how much you really need Nvidia's product over AMD's or Intel's. Make sure you are looking at every use case for your GPU (gaming, video encoding, 3d rendering, AI, etc.), then select based upon this criteria. AMD's latest cards to make up a lot of the gap between the two competitors; video encoding/transcoding quality was a big one for me, and I know that I will be looking closely at AMD cards when it comes time to replace my aging RTX 2080 Ti.

 

[hannibal]

25% increase toward 4060 is not too shabby for bottom part gpus.
Interesting to see the real price.. not the msrp…msrp $300…. Retail $380?

 

[mac_angel]

not surprising. NVidia probably knows that the reviews are going to be bad, so they'll cut them off for as long as possible and try to get as many as possible day 1 sales as they can.

 

[beyondlogic]

It's not like we can't predict the results.
5060 is going to be slightly faster than a 4060, or equal a 4060Ti/8GB at best.
So all you have to do is look at the 4060Ti/8GB benchmarks... and oh man does that card ever suck in 2025.

lets not kid ourselves that the 4060ti was really a 4060 and 4060 was a 4050

5060 series would have been good if they went to 192 bit bus and stuck to 12gb only cards.

if 8gb cards have to exist it should be in the 100-220 segment.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

At its suggested $299 MSRP

Meanwhile at its real world price of "Basically the cost of an entire gaming console" it should sit on shelves until the end of time.

 

[CelicaGT]

Ah yes, Jensen keeping it classy as always. Honestly at this point I think I'd be happy if they just abandoned the consumer market.

 

[das_stig]

Looking more and more line the RTX 5060 is a doa gaming or 4k movie card and buyers just stay away, unless you get it dirt cheap for AI ?

 

[dalek1234]

The most baffling thing about all this isn't that Nvidia is screwing people over, but the fact that these people, despite complaining about Nvidia, keep giving Nvidia money. Wake up, and vote with your wallet, or you'll be getting played by Nvidia forever!

BTW, there are reports coming in from people who jumped ship, that issues they used to live with with with Nvidia hardware, are now gone on AMD hardware.

 

[das_stig]

Yeh, my next card will be AMD, I don't need the top end model when my 4070 runs out of steam.