Nvidia nudges mainstream gaming PCs ahead with RTX 5060 collection, beginning at $299

As with its different 50-series bulletins, Nvidia is leaning on its DLSS Multi-Body Technology know-how to make lofty efficiency claims—the GPUs can insert as much as three AI-interpolated frames in between every pair of frames that the GPU really renders. The 40 collection might solely generate a single body, and 30-series and older GPUs do not assist DLSS Body Technology in any respect. This makes apples-to-apples efficiency comparisons tough.

Typically, the corporate says the 5060 Ti and 5060 supply double the efficiency of the 4060 Ti and 4060, however all of its benchmarks are made utilizing the “max Body Gen stage supported by every GPU.” The small snippets of native efficiency info we do have—Hogwarts Legacy runs on a 5060 Ti at 61 FPS 1440p, in comparison with 34 FPS for the 3060 Ti—means that it is barely lower than twice as quick as that two-generation-old card. This is able to nonetheless be fairly spectacular, given the underwhelming 4060 Ti refresh. However we’ll want to attend for third-party testing earlier than we actually have a good suggestion of how efficiency will stack up with out Body Technology enabled.

As we and others have noticed for the reason that launch of the 40-series a couple of years in the past, Body Technology offers the most effective outcomes when your base body price is already fairly excessive; the know-how is finest used to make a very good body price higher and is much less helpful should you’re making an attempt to make a nasty body price good. That is much more related for the slower 50-series than for the opposite GPUs within the lineup, which makes Nvidia’s reticence to supply native efficiency comparisons particularly irritating.

Rumors from earlier this yr that accurately reported the specs of the 5060 collection additionally indicated that Nvidia was planning to launch a low-end RTX 5050 GPU sooner or later, its first new entry-level GPU since launching the RTX 3050 in January 2022. The 5050 might nonetheless be coming, however whether it is, it wasn’t a part of Nvidia’s bulletins at the moment.