NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti $379/429 MSRP may be right, but GPU stock might be awful and prices inflated

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NVIDIA's RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards theoretically launch tomorrow (and go on sale the following day), and there's further buzz that they'll be priced more competitively than expected - but there are some big old catches here.

Moore's Law is Dead (MLID) brings us a new pricing and supply leak in his latest video, and it's very much good (well, kind of) and bad news.

The positive facet of this leak is that those rumors of a $379 MSRP for the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB and $429 for the 16GB flavor are seemingly true, at least according to one source at a major online retailer that MLID spoke to.

Those prices were visible in that retailer's system briefly, and those MSRPs have seemingly been logged in a few systems of online retailers. That means it's looking on balance that these are the correct prices, but even if true right now, NVIDIA could always pull a last-minute switch - so we can't take that for granted.

Still, if it pans out this way, that is more competitive than a lot of people figured NVIDIA would come in with these RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards.

So, what about those catches? Well, firstly MLID reckons that stock levels are going to be nothing short of terrible, with even fewer GPUs initially available than was the case with the RTX 5070 (which had a poor supply when it debuted, as you likely recall).

Because of that - and the likely demand for these more affordable Blackwell GPUs (which will also be a better fit for a lot of lesser PCs in terms of their PSU asks) - the theory is you won't be able to buy the RTX 5060 Ti at $379, or $429 for the 16GB spin.

We're supposedly looking at a realistic street price of above $450 for the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB, and over $500 for the 16GB version, perhaps more towards $600 in the latter case (presumably for the top-end, fully overclocked graphics cards).

At those prices, MLID points out that the expected level of performance - around an RX 7700 XT - is hardly a compelling proposition.

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A source at a major online retailer spilled the pricing beans to MLID (Image Credit: Moore's Law is Dead / YouTube)

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Of course, heavily season that performance claim, although that really is the key to the value proposition. It doesn't seem unreasonable based on a recent 3DMark leak, though - aired by VideoCardz, via Neowin - which suggests that the RTX 5060 Ti (16GB) is 20% faster than its predecessor, and is indeed trading blows with AMD's 7700 XT. (Although the NVIDIA GPU outperforms it by some way for ray tracing, naturally).

In short, MLID believes that the RTX 5060 Ti would be okay if it's available at the purported MSRPs, but these GPUs won't be, quite simply - and the pricing inflation is seemingly going to ensure they make little sense.

Away from the YouTuber, other interesting claims that have recently emerged from VideoCardz include that NVIDIA won't be supplying many (or perhaps any) RTX 5060 Ti 8GB models for review, being shy about that due to the likely impact of the VRAM loadout, which remains controversially lightweight.

Also, we hear the RTX 5070 could be a third faster than the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB, which has surprised some. But we've said all along that NVIDIA needs to make the former, higher-tier GPU look attractive enough still, despite its 12GB video RAM configuration.

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