NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti GPU "Full Specification" Leaks Out

[Chrispy_]

To be fair, Nvidia blew it out of the water with the 2060 though. There was a huge gaping hole between a 1060 and a 2060, and the Super made that hole even bigger.

That was partly because the 2060 was the most egregious price bump the x60 series has ever had. The x60 series had been hovering a little north of $200 for a while and then BOOM, $349.

$199 GTX 460 (768MB)
$199 GTX 560 (1GB)
$229 GTX 660 (1.5GB)
$249 GTX 760 (2GB)
$229 GTX 960 (2GB*)
$249 GTX 1060 (6GB)

We were hoping for $249, expecting $279, and not ready for $349. Also, this was the near the beginning of the miserly VRAM allocations. Nvidia were ahead of the curve with VRAM until the 2060, which was the first card I've ever sold prematurely for running out of VRAM in new games whilst it was still basically brand new. Yes, I was playing on maximum settings at 1440p, but that's no excuse for a graphics card that was aleady 40% more expensive than expected, and no 60-series GPU had ever failed to meet VRAM requirements of current-gen games before. It was truly a landmark failure in my eyes.

As disappointed as many people were with the 3060, I thought it was a great card. It brought the price back down from the 2060's $349, it solved the VRAM issues of the 2060, and it was just well-rounded, or at least a more rounded, balanced GPU than the alternatives at the time.

 

[Roboyt0]

That's a pretty substantial memory bandwidth bump over the 4060 Ti

That was the theory 4070/5070...and the 5070 barely manages to outpace the 4070 Super.

With the way 9070/XT perform, the 9060 could end up more exciting...

 

[RandallFlagg]

That was partly because the 2060 was the most egregious price bump the x60 series has ever had. The x60 series had been hovering a little north of $200 for a while and then BOOM, $349.

$199 GTX 460 (768MB)
$199 GTX 560 (1GB)
$229 GTX 660 (1.5GB)
$249 GTX 760 (2GB)
$229 GTX 960 (2GB*)
$249 GTX 1060 (6GB)

We were hoping for $249, expecting $279, and not ready for $349. Also, this was the near the beginning of the miserly VRAM allocations. Nvidia were ahead of the curve with VRAM until the 2060, which was the first card I've ever sold prematurely for running out of VRAM in new games whilst it was still basically brand new. Yes, I was playing on maximum settings at 1440p, but that's no excuse for a graphics card that was aleady 40% more expensive than expected, and no 60-series GPU had ever failed to meet VRAM requirements of current-gen games before. It was truly a landmark failure in my eyes.

As disappointed as many people were with the 3060, I thought it was a great card. It brought the price back down from the 2060's $349, it solved the VRAM issues of the 2060, and it was just well-rounded, or at least a more rounded, balanced GPU than the alternatives at the time.

2060 was a $300 card.

A $300 price was right in line with what the x60 series commanded just a couple of generations prior. It was also competitive with the 1080, which really tells just how good the 20x0 series was.

The anomaly was the 960, which was both cheap and provided virtually nothing vs the 760 (literally it was +10%). So sure, Nvidia could sell those for $220 since it was basically the same as a 4 year old card. So the 960 was cheaper than the 760, but only provided the mildest of performance bumps. $300 was back to normal for the card that defines the midrange.

You're also talking about the march of time and inflation here, going from the release of the 660->760->960->1060->2060 is 10 years. The price of this card going up 10-15% in 10 years is not the negative you seem to think it is.

 

[JustBenching]

Youre really holding a company with 9% marketshare to equal responsibility with a company with 90% marketshare for the current state of the market?

The company with 9% has more responsibility, that's how they ended up dropping to 9%, they had bad offerings apparently.

 

[Chrispy_]

2060 was a $300 card.

Pretty sure the answer to that is a resounding "no". The 2060 never officially dropped from it's $349 lanch price, or if it did that wasn't until very late into the 20-series shelf-life.

You're thinking of the late-gen addition of the EVGA 2060KO which I think was a one-AIB special and as far as I know the only variant of the 2060 to ever launch at a lower price than the $349 MSRP. It was launched in limited number, to select regions only and used the relatively small stockpile of extremely-broken, harvested Tu104 dies that weren't even functional enough to make a 2070Super. I remember people wanting them here in the UK and availability could not match demand.

Look at launch reviews of the 2060 and find a single $300 MSRP and I'll happily accept I'm wrong, but I pre-ordered my 2060 for £329 ($349) and was lucky enough to get one of the limited-quantity FE cards because when the AIB variants dropped, most of them had higher MSRPs of $380+

TL;DR - I stand by my original point that the 2060 was crazy expensive for a x60 card.

The anomaly was the 960, which was both cheap and provided virtually nothing vs the 760 (literally it was +10%).

Yeah, that's why I put an asterisk on it, and only it.

It was stagnation that covered the transition from mixed architecture 700-series (part Kepler, part Pascal) to the 900-series (full Pascal) and all it really did was replace the retired Kepler 760 with an equivalent Pascal 960.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Look at launch reviews of the 2060 and find a single $300 MSRP and I'll happily accept I'm wrong, but I pre-ordered my 2060 for £329 ($349) and was lucky

I bought a 2060 KO for $299, this was just before Covid. It was 350 at launch (2019) but looks like they lowered it by or before Jan 2020.

 

[Chrispy_]

I bought a 2060 KO for $299, this was just before Covid. It was 350 at launch (2019) but looks like they lowered it by or before Jan 2020.

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Read TPUs 2060KO review, it was to compete against the impending 5600XT launch.
I'm unaware of any other $300 RTX 2060 cards, and this single, limited-run SKU isn't representative of the 2060's first year on the market, which is what we're talking about (launch pricing and availability).



With regard to the topic at hand - launch pricing and spec of x60 series cards - the 2060KO is neither relevant, nor a widely-available product. Price cuts towards the end of a generation's shelf life are neither unique to this one card, nor relevant to a GPU generation's launch.

 

[Nostras]

4060/5060 isn't great if your on 2060Super or better gpu. I'm considering a second hand 3080 since that's close to 4070 performance. 5060 will cost more and will be worse.

5060Ti 16GB needs to be close to 4070 to not to be doa. 5060 will be doa unless it's under 200usd

The 5060 will sell like hotcakes if it sells for 300$. If you expect Nvidia to sell it for under 200$ "or else it will be doa" you're delusional.

 

[Chrispy_]

The 5060 will sell like hotcakes if it sells for 300$. If you expect Nvidia to sell it for under 200$ "or else it will be doa" you're delusional.

5070Ti and 5070 were "last gen minus $50", so even the most wildly optimistic $299 minus $50 is still $249.

The combination of tariffs, GDDR7 and core count increases means that it's highly unlikely to cost less than the 4060. I'd be surprised if Nvidia even matched the $299 to be honest - I'm expecting $319-$349 because it's closed the performance gap to the 5060Ti which I'm guessing will stay at $399 for the (useless) 8GB variant.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Read TPUs 2060KO review, it was to compete against the impending 5600XT launch.
I'm unaware of any other $300 RTX 2060 cards, and this single, limited-run SKU isn't representative of the 2060's first year on the market, which is what we're talking about (launch pricing and availability).

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With regard to the topic at hand - launch pricing and spec of x60 series cards - the 2060KO is neither relevant, nor a widely-available product. Price cuts towards the end of a generation's shelf life are neither unique to this one card, nor relevant to a GPU generation's launch.

Well, here's a receipt. Also the KO was a higher end 2060. I bought this as part of a complete build, and looking back it was mid 2020 when supply was in the dirt and prices were skyrocketing.

The 2060 was launched in July 2019, so this is less than 1 year after the 2000 series launch. 11 months, to be precise. The 3060 was announced in Feb 2021, 8 months later. So this is not end of lifecycle by the dates.

 

[Chrispy_]

Well, here's a receipt. Also the KO was a higher end 2060. I bought this as part of a complete build, and looking back it was mid 2020 when supply was in the dirt and prices were skyrocketing.

The 2060 was launched in July 2019, so this is less than 1 year after the 2000 series launch. 11 months, to be precise. The 3060 was announced in Feb 2021, 8 months later. So this is not end of lifecycle by the dates.

Why are you posts so full of factually-incorrect and easily disproven statements? It completely undermines your credibility!

The KO was not a higher-end 2060. From Wizzard's review on TPU:
"The RTX 2060 KO from EVGA has the exact same specs as the RTX 2060, and you neither miss out on nor gain any features from the card being TU104-based."
"It uses the [lower-end] GeForce GTX 1660 Super SC PCB, which brings tremendous cost savings"

The 2060 was not launched in July 2019.
Techpowerup's RTX 2060 review, January 8th, 2019

As for the skyrocketing prices, I kinda already showed that with the price-history graphs, which also mention the ETH mining that caused the shortages and that still has nothing to do with MSRPs or launch prices set by Nvidia.

 

[lexluthermiester]

The KO was not a higher-end 2060.

That is not relevant to what's being discussed. It's a 2060 that cost $300+ well after it's release date.

 

[RandallFlagg]

Why are you posts so full of factually-incorrect and easily disproven statements? It completely undermines your credibility!

The KO was not a higher-end 2060. From Wizzard's review on TPU:
"The RTX 2060 KO from EVGA has the exact same specs as the RTX 2060, and you neither miss out on nor gain any features from the card being TU104-based."
"It uses the [lower-end] GeForce GTX 1660 Super SC PCB, which brings tremendous cost savings"

Performance wise, it was one of the fastest 2060s.

Yeah, 3% ain't a lot, but it's rare to get even that :

The 2060 was not launched in July 2019.
Techpowerup's RTX 2060 review, January 8th, 2019

As for the skyrocketing prices, I kinda already showed that with the price-history graphs, which also mention the ETH mining that caused the shortages and that still has nothing to do with MSRPs or launch prices set by Nvidia.

All you've shown is that if you tried hard, you could pay $350+ for an RTX 2060 in 2020.

And the 2060 was not even discontinued until November of 2022:

NVIDIA reportedly discontinues GeForce RTX 2060 and GTX 1660 series - VideoCardz.com

NVIDIA RTX 2060/GTX1660 are no longer produced According to BoardChannels’ sources, NVIDIA has announced a discontinuation of RTX 2060/GTX 1660 series. This is actually the second time the same source is claiming the end of the mid-range Turing series. Both reportedly discontinued products are...

videocardz.com

 

[Chrispy_]

That is not relevant to what's being discussed. It's a 2060 that cost $300+ well after it's release date.

exactly. I don't know why he's on about a version that is completely outside the "launch price" time window. The KO was a late-stage refresh to the 20-series lineup to use up leftover TU104 dies even after the "Super" cards were already out on the market for 6 months already.

 

[tussinman]

Pretty sure the answer to that is a resounding "no". The 2060 never officially dropped from it's $349 lanch price, or if it did that wasn't until very late into the 20-series shelf-life.

You're thinking of the late-gen addition of the EVGA 2060KO

This is correct. I still have the RTX 2060 KO in my main rig, have been trying to upgrade it for 2 years now. The original 2060 was $350 and the 2060 Super which came out that same summer was $400. Early 2020 they had the 2060 KO which used a cost savings PCB and was left actually left over 104 dies from the 2080/2070 Super. I ended up getting it open box for $265 during the original covid lockdown which to me at the time well worth it at that price.

TL;DR - I stand by my original point that the 2060 was crazy expensive for a x60 card.

Yes, the 2060 was a fairly well received card at launch but the only complaint was indeed the launch price. The 1070 Ti which at the time had similar performance, similar power draw, and 2 more GB of Vram had already dropped to the price of the third party 2060's. Obviously the 2060 was still the better purchase of the two but it did negate some of the launch value wow factor.

 

[eidairaman1]

AMD does the same, eg. the 7600 has 8GB and 16GB versions (more than the 7700 12GB). also the upcoming 9060.

Between RX 7600 and 7600XT they did not chop Shaders/TMUs/Rops off though. See my 1060 comment above.