Ultimate Guide To GeForce RTX 5060 & 5060 Ti Graphics Cards | NVIDIA

If you’re looking to upgrade your PC with a new GPU (also called a graphics card, or video card), the GeForce RTX 5060 or GeForce RTX 5060 Ti are popular options that support the latest NVIDIA technologies and AI features.

Play the latest and greatest games and apps with the beautiful graphics. Use AI-powered NVIDIA DLSS 4 to accelerate performance and enhance graphics quality. Make gameplay snappier and more responsive with NVIDIA Reflex. Take immersion to the next level with full ray tracing. And get frequent Game Ready Driver updates to keep your PC running smoothly.

Below, you’ll find information to help compare GPUs, determine which graphics card model to buy for gaming and creating, and checklists for upgrading your system.

A graphics card (also called a video card, VGA, or GPU) runs a game’s graphics and displays it on your monitor or TV. It plugs into your computer’s motherboard and is powered by cables from your power supply (PSU).

Some CPUs include limited graphics processing capabilities, but if you want to play popular and recent games and apps, you will need a dedicated GPU such as a RTX 5060 or RTX 5060 Ti. These graphics cards in your PC will give you great HD graphics at the most popular gaming resolutions.

Graphics cards can output to multiple displays simultaneously, and at smoother refresh rates, like 144Hz or 120Hz, which is supported by many monitors and TVs.

You can buy NVIDIA video cards from ASUS, Colorful, Gainward, GALAX, GIGABYTE, INNO3D, KFA2, MSI, Palit, PNY, and ZOTAC.

Fully-assembled systems with GeForce graphics cards inside are also available from major brands including HP Omen, Lenovo Legion, Dell, Alienware, Acer, ASUS, and MSI, or from leading system builders including CyberPower PC, Digital Storm, Falcon NW, IBUYPOWER, Maingear, Origin, NZXT, Puget, and many more.

GeForce RTX 5060 graphics cards were first released in May 2025. The GeForce RTX 5060’s specifications include:

• MSRP is $299
• 3840 CUDA Cores
• 2.50 GHz Boost Clock
• 8 GB GDDR7 VRAM

With the launch of the GeForce RTX 5060 Family, DLSS 4 Multi Frame Generation, neural rendering and Blackwell innovations arrive for every gamer and creator. Get the speedy frame rates, experience immersive ray-traced graphics, enhance image quality with DLSS transformer models, make controls more responsive using NVIDIA Reflex technologies, add fast and efficient AV1 video encoding to your system, and much more.

These GPUs follow in the footsteps of prior generation 60-class cards, being accessible and popular, and powering high-frame rate 1080p gaming.

The GeForce RTX 5060 is available from a range of well known, trusted manufacturers and retailers worldwide.

If you’re almost ready to buy a new graphics card to upgrade your PC, quickly run down this checklist to ensure your system is ready, and it’s the right class of card for you:

• Check your system’s power supply and case compatibility. For example:
  • If the GPU requires a “550W power supply”, you need to check the power rating of the PSU in your current PC. This is usually displayed in big bold letters on the power supply itself (the boxy device typically located at the bottom right of a case, with lots of wires coming out of it, and your plug from the wall going into it)
  • Many GeForce RTX 5060 GPUs require 1x PCIe 8-pin cable from your power supply. But some may require more, or come with an adapter for a 12-pin cable (12v-2x6). Check the specifications and requirements of the graphics card, then refer to the manual of your power supply to see which cables to install where, and if you have enough cables to power the GPU. 

• What resolution is your monitor? If your monitor’s resolution is 2560x1440 or higher, we recommend selecting an even faster GeForce RTX 50 Series GPU. If you’re at 1920x1080, you’re golden. You can play at 2560x1440, but frame rates will be lower. If you then opt to play at 1080p on your 1440p display, you’ll be upscaling graphics to 1440p, which on some monitors can be less sharp looking, so it’s always recommended to play at your monitor’s native resolution.

Manufacturers offer a wide variety of designs, with various colors, different sized coolers, factory overclocking, RGB lighting, and exclusive features.

Find one that matches your specific needs here. The cheapest are typically the smallest dual-fan cards, with no frills, but the same great baseline GeForce RTX 5060 performance offered by our Blackwell GPUs.

There are plenty of RTX 5060 graphics cards available, so be sure to check out the available options to find the perfect card for your system.

If instead you want a pre-built system containing an RTX 5060, look here.

• Versus the RTX 4060, the RTX 5060 graphics card is substantially faster, enabling frame rates over 100 FPS in your favorite games. For example, the GeForce RTX 5060 with the power of DLSS 4 can give you more than double the performance in Hogwarts Legacy, making it a great choice for enjoying the critically acclaimed game at its best with ray tracing and DLSS Ray Reconstruction.

• RTX 5060 GPUs can use DLSS Multi Frame Generation, which multiplies performance 
• RTX 5060 has the latest Ray Tracing Cores and Tensor Cores which are faster than those on previous generation graphics cards
• RTX 5060 cards support AV1 video encoding, improving the quality of your streams