Following a rumor that NVIDIA plans to launch its next round of Blackwell-based RTX 50 series GPUs next month comes another regarding MSRP. Manufacturer-suggested recommended pricing has become a bit of a controversial topic with the latest round of graphics cards from both AMD and NVIDIA. Board partners for both GPU manufacturers have had limited product availability, selling out in seconds or less in NVIDIA’s case with AMD managing to at least last close to a week. In particular, board partners have offered minimal models for each product stack and have also been spotted raising prices or removing MSRP models shortly after their launch. This has led those seeking a new graphics card to pay as much as two to three times more than MSRP for a new model if they can get one without sourcing through a scalper.
According to embargo documents obtained by VideoCardz NVIDIA is changing things up for the upcoming GeForce RTX 5060 series launch. It’s already been confirmed that the RTX 5060 Ti will launch in two variants featuring either 8 GB or 16 GB GDDR7 memory. The RTX 5060 is expected to launch in only one SKU with 8 GB of GDDR7 VRAM.
Latest Rumored Details for RTX 5060 Series launch:
- Official announcement to happen on April 15. This aligns with the previous rumor that the RTX 5060 Ti will launch on April 16.
- GeForce RTX 5060 will reportedly launch in May and feature 8 GB of GDDR7.
- NVIDIA no longer requires separate MSRP and non-MSRP review embargo days. Both can reportedly posted on the same day now. This had been a bit of a strange requirement with Founders Edition embargo reviews lifting the day before partner cards. If true all review embargos would lift the same day moving forward.
- Last but not least, NVIDIA is reportedly now requiring all of its board partners to offer at least one MSRP model. It will be interesting to see if, or how NVIDIA will enforce this and if so, if it can continue to influence graphics card manufacturers to offer them after their initial launch. Board partners have previously lamented that NVIDIA’s MSRP is more like charity resulting in a very low gross profit. It’s been suggested that NVIDIA could leverage this requirement by limiting GPU supplies to partners who do not choose to conform to the requirement.
Per VideoCardz:
“The embargo documents we have confirm that NVIDIA is enforcing a rule that all AICs (Add-inChannel partners) need to have at least one model at MSRP which will be available on the launch date (on-shelf).”
Pricing for the RTX 5060 series, MSRP or otherwise, has yet to be revealed. NVIDIA is facing significant competition in the low-to-mid GPU gaming segment this time around with AMD’s 9070 featuring 16 GB of GDDR6 offered at $549 and then Intel’s Arc B580 featuring 12 GB GDDR6 at $249 or Arc B570 with 10 GB GDDR6 at $219, we have a review of the $229 ASRock Intel Arc B570 Challenger here. While NVIDIA continues to add hardware-based features to its RTX lineup, and all three RTX 5060 series models should perform at varying levels at 1440p, pricing and memory configurations could play a significant factor in which graphics cards gravitate towards this time around.
Discussion (19 replies)
Join Discussion →So they are reportedly taking a page from the AMD playbook? Interesting.
So they will have a card at MSRP than won't be available anywhere... :rolleyes: :rolleyes:
Isn't that the FE model?
nope, that's not reference design
Was thinking the same thing. Create a page for it on the website, just never make a single one.
It's not clear to me if there will be FE versions of the 5060/5060Ti I've read rumors both ways.
Oh that's probably true.
Who knew all AMD had to do was release a good mid range card properly priced with functional drivers, and Nvidia is showing all kinds of weaknesses. If AMD can keep it together for a bit maybe they will gain a point or five in marketshare.
Still counting down to 'Nvidia will just price cut'
I suspect Nvidia cant price cut squat.
If Nvidia wants to win they need to release a 5080 TI with 24 gigs of vram and nearly the in game performance of the 5090, with true multiple powder feeds so they can skip the issues with the power connectors melting and properly error report conditions outside of the norm on power delivery.
I don't see them doing this. Because they don't care right now about the gamer market. They've lost all consoles, other than the Switch 2. And lets be real Nintendo are freaking programming dynamo's when it comes to extracting the most possible out of the hardware they use whatever it is.
They are squarely focused on the enterprise market. And AI... sure gaming led them down the path with their cuda cores and such. But now they just don't see the profits outside of enterprise level hardware markup.
Though they are in a sweet spot right now as far as product stack and being able to bully their AIB partners. Because they literally don't care if they reduce profit for anyone else. All they have to do is promise some chips to make those sweet sweet enterprise grade GPU/AIPU's and board partners will fall all over themselves and promise the world to get them.
Honestly if a AIB can figure out how to NOT let multiple of their consumer cards work on a single motherboard it would be a huge win for Nvidia. Because currently populating a bunch of 'servers' with Gamer GPU's to do AI processing with some software settings to span the GPU's, and they don't need to buy the enterprise grade hardware.
I think this could happen. To some extend that is what the laptop 5090 is. No rumors of it happening though, at this point that I know of.
Yep, I haven't heard anything concrete regarding FE models for the 5060 series either which is a little odd for this product stack. The x60s are usually bread and butter for them although not all Ti versions don't always get an FE. I expect they will though, at least for the 5060 anyway.
Not a Ti but who knows https://wccftech.com/msi-rumored-to-prepare-rtx-5080-with-24-gb-vram-capacity/
That is interesting.. time shall tell.
Kinda funny nVidia is forcing the AIBs make a card that they are choosing to not make a FE edition of themselves...
Really thinking EVGA made the right call
I agree with that also. Knowing Nvidia was not concentrating on the gaming market kind of forced EVGA's hand IMO. Their GPU manufacturing was their bread and butter.
Yep, and I think one of the reasons EVGA didn't try to continue with AMD is uncertainty with their GPU division and ability to produce large inventory. A bummer because this time around could've been good for EVGA but even then all three GPU manufacturers seem unable to sustain inventory so it probably would've still been a loss for EVGA.
A little more back on topic. Not going to post this one today because there's a limit to how many times I want to repeat on the same subject but Zotac looks to be making some less-than-consumer-friendly choices. A bummer as I really like my 4080 SUPER that I got from them and have known more than a few folks over the years who've been really happy with their products.
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Key take aways:
1. No longer offering an MSRP model.
2. Cheapest 5090 is $700 over at $2700
3. Their lottery/raffle system reportedly involved a "secret" lottery/raffle for select members
At this point, MSI, ASUS, and Zotac are no longer offering any 5090 MSRP models.
On the flip side of availability, I was looking up laptops with the mobile 5090 (a cutdown 5080 but with 24 GB GDDR7) and an AMD CPU (firestrike X3D 16c/32t) and came across multiple releases that are supposed to happen next week. I am only mentioning this because it might mean other inventory could appear as well.