The GeForce RTX 5060 OC edition will be officially available later this month, but has already appeared on a major retailer.
Big NA Retailer Lists PNY GeForce RTX 5060 8GB OC for $299.99: Features up to 2.54 GHz of Boost Clock
Looks like NVIDIA and its board partners are ready to deliver the second 60-class card in the Blackwell lineup. NVIDIA announced its RTX 5060 series GPUs in mid-April, even though only the RTX 5060 Ti made it to the shelves. The GeForce RTX 5060 non-Ti card is expected to arrive later this month, but the exact date hasn’t been disclosed yet.
Since there are hardly two weeks remaining for the GPU to see a retail launch, NVIDIA’s board partners have started listing their own editions on some retailers. One of the first is from PNY, which has listed its PNY GeForce RTX 5060 8GB OC edition on Best Buy. The GPU boasts an all-black color theme with a dual-fan cooling solution. The price mentioned is $299.99, which is what NVIDIA announced the previous month.
However, you can’t buy the GPU yet due to an embargo on the launch. Also, it’s unlikely that it will stay at this price at the time of launch, as we have seen previous RTX 50 GPUs getting listed ahead of launch at MSRP, only to increase in price just after launch. Nonetheless, NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 5060 is the successor to the RTX 4060 from the Ada family and brings some noticeable changes to the specs.
The first being the CUDA cores, with the RTX 5060 bringing 3840 cores compared to 3072 cores on the predecessor. This is about a 25% increase in cores, and this is what NVIDIA promises in raster performance over the RTX 4060. The GPU will, however, retain the same 8 GB memory capacity but will be much faster due to being GDDR7. This will increase the memory bandwidth from 272 GB/s on the RTX 4060 to about 448 GB/s on the RTX 5060, ensuring noticeable performance uplifts.
At the time of unveiling, NVIDIA revealed most of its specs, but some were unclear, like the core clocks. The specs page on Best Buy reveals that the PNY RTX 5060 is an OC edition and will feature a base and boost clock of 2.28 GHz and 2.54 GHz, respectively. So, it’s pretty close to the RTX 5060 Ti in core clocks, but the boost clock on the Founders Edition/Reference card should be somewhat lower.
The GPU will also be slightly more power-hungry than the RTX 4060 with a TBP of 145W. Not a huge difference, but if it comes out to be 25% faster overall, then this should be no problem. Keep in mind that while the base editions will ship with a $299 price tag, the premium editions can cost noticeably higher and may touch $400, considering how pricey other RTX 50 series GPUs are currently.
