Nvidia nudges mainstream gaming PCs forward with RTX 5060 series, starting at $299

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As with its other 50-series announcements, Nvidia is leaning on its DLSS Multi-Frame Generation technology to make lofty performance
The 40 series could only generate a single frame, and 30-series and older GPUs don't support DLSS Frame Generation at all
This makes apples-to-apples performance comparisons difficult.Generally, the company says the 5060 Ti and 5060 offer double the performance
of the 4060 Ti and 4060, but all of its benchmarks are made using the "max Frame Gen level supported by each GPU." The small snippets of
that it's slightly less than twice as fast as that two-generation-old card
This would still be reasonably impressive, given the underwhelming 4060 Ti refresh
But we'll need to wait for third-party testing before we really have a good idea of how performance will stack up without Frame Generation
enabled. Nvidia is making lofty performance claims about both the 5060 Ti and the 5060, but all of these numbers enable Multi-Frame
Generation for the 50-series cards and not for the older ones (since they don't support the feature).
Nvidia Nvidia is making lofty performance claims about both the 5060 Ti and the 5060, but all of these numbers enable
Multi-Frame Generation for the 50-series cards and not for the older ones (since they don't support the feature).
Nvidia Similar numbers for the 5060
Nvidia is claiming doubled performance compared to the 4060, but take that with a brick of salt.
Nvidia Similar numbers for the 5060
Nvidia is claiming doubled performance compared to the 4060, but take that with a brick of salt. Nvidia
Nvidia is making lofty performance claims about both the 5060 Ti and the 5060, but all of these numbers enable Multi-Frame Generation for
the 50-series cards and not for the older ones (since they don't support the feature). Nvidia
Similar numbers for the 5060
Nvidia is claiming doubled performance compared to the 4060, but take that with a brick of salt. Nvidia
The frame-gen-enabled performance numbers here make apples-to-apples generational comparisons difficult to make.
Nvidia The frame-gen-enabled performance numbers here make apples-to-apples generational comparisons
difficult to make. Nvidia One of the only concrete references to the 5060 Ti's native frame
rate
This suggests the 5060 Ti will be something slightly less than twice as fast as the 3060 Ti
Nvidia One of the only concrete references to the 5060 Ti's native frame rate
This suggests the 5060 Ti will be something slightly less than twice as fast as the 3060 Ti
Nvidia The frame-gen-enabled performance numbers here make apples-to-apples generational
comparisons difficult to make. Nvidia One of the only concrete references to the 5060 Ti's native
frame rate
This suggests the 5060 Ti will be something slightly less than twice as fast as the 3060 Ti
Nvidia As we and others have observed since the launch of the 40-series a few years ago, Frame
Generation gives the best results when your base frame rate is already reasonably high; the technology is best used to make a good frame
rate better and is less useful if you're trying to make a bad frame rate good
That's even more relevant for the slower 50-series than for the other GPUs in the lineup, which makes Nvidia's reticence to provide native
performance comparisons especially frustrating.Rumors from earlier this year that correctly reported the specs of the 5060 series also
indicated that Nvidia was planning to launch a low-end RTX 5050 GPU at some point, its first new entry-level GPU since launching the RTX
3050 in January 2022
The 5050 could still be coming, but if it is, it wasn't part of Nvidia's announcements today.