Nvidia Swears You’ll Be Able to Buy an RTX 5060 at $300, but Good Luck Finding One

Nvidia’s RTX 50-series GPUs launch has been fraught, to say the least. Even beyond performance and drivers issues, the most enduring issue is it’s too damn hard to buy any of these GPUs for their base price. After launching all its top-end and mid-range GPUs, Nvidia pinky swears that with the $300 Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, this time will be different. The GPU is launching today, May 19, but it lacks any pre-release drivers that would help reviewers determine if it’s worth beating the scalpers to buy it first. The RTX 5060 is the card based on the Blackwell microarchitecture that Nvidia said is made for 1080p gaming first and foremost. While Nvidia announced the cards would hit the scene today, it finally released its drivers at 12 p.m. ET. The card should start populating at online retailers in the afternoon. The company told Gizmodo that it was continuing to work with AIC (add-in card) manufacturers to list prices at or close to the initial $300 asking price. Nvidia’s director of publ ... Read full article.