We’re finally about to hit the RTX 5060 Ti release date. Nvidia is launching two new cards on April 16th, with 8GB and 16GB models of the 5060 Ti on the way. We’ll be able to see reviews for these cards tomorrow as they launch, and first-party performance charts show some impressive gains of over 50x the performance. The 5060 (non-Ti) will have to wait until May.

In a pre-brief meeting, Nvidia called the performance upgrade for anyone coming from an older generation card “mind-blowing,” specifically if you’re upgrading from a GTX graphics card (such as the 1060 or 1660). Much of this comes from advancements in DLSS, while the native performance uplift for the 5060 family compared to the 40-series equivalent is around 15-20%.

RTX 5060 family offers 50x performance for “10s of millions of gamers”

For Nvidia fans on generations-old hardware, the RTX 5060 series is a massive upgrade, with Nvidia claiming over 50x the performance when you directly compare the GTX 1060 and RTX 5060 Ti. This is with DLSS turned on (the 1060, of course, doesn’t have access to DLSS, as this arrived with the advent of RTX). The performance chart below displays just under 10x performance gains when comparing these two cards natively.

Nvidia also confirmed that “50+ million gamers” are using Pascal, Turning, and Ampere graphics cards at the xx60 or xx50 tier. This is evident in any recent Steam Hardware Survey, which still features the RTX 3060 in the top spot, with the GTX 1650 and 2060 within the top 10 cards (and the GTX 1060 just outside of it).

Just like we’ve seen with previous RTX 50 series cards, the introduction of DLSS 4 and series-exclusive Multi Frame Generation technology is the biggest driver of the large performance gap between the 40 series and 50 series with DLSS On. Further benchmarks show excellent improvements in latency on the newer cards, though we’re still waiting for a Reflex 2 release date.

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