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The biggest unknown with the RTX 5060 Ti is pricing and availability. Traditionally, Nvidia (and AMD) have had more budget GPUs available at launch than mainstream cards, and more mainstream than high-end. Perhaps that has happened with Blackwell RTX, but whatever the total number of GPUs produced and sold so far, it has been woefully insufficient compared to the demand. The result has been higher prices across both new and old generation GPUs.
Nvidia’s MSRPs have looked good, but outside of a few RTX 5070 cards (which are out of stock for the time being), almost nothing has actually sold at MSRP. The going rate for RTX 5070 seems to be $650~$700, over $100 more than the base MSRP, and that’s the best of the recently launched GPUs. RTX 5070 Ti has been selling for $950~$1,050 (or more) since launch, $200 or more above MSRP. The RTX 5080 has been selling at $400~$500 above it’s MSRP, and the RTX 5090 is basically going for twice the MSRP set by Nvidia.
AMD and Intel GPUs are doing any better. The RX 9070 is selling for $850 and more right now, $300 above its $549 MSRP. The RX 9070 XT starts at about $950, $350 above MSRP. Intel’s Arc B580 has been regularly selling at $350–$400 since it launched last December, $100 or more above its supposed base price. Even the relatively ho-hum Arc B570 typically goes for $330, again $100 more than MSRP.
Naturally, Nvidia can’t directly control what its AIB (add-in board) partners do in terms of prices, though in the past there have been rumored incentives and encouragements. Right now, with the data center GPUs and infrastructure accounting for 89% of Nvidia’s staggering $130 billion in revenue from last year, and gaming GPUs accounting for just under 9% of the total, it’s no wonder the consumer GPUs are taking a back seat in terms of wafer allocations.
A quick check around the usual places shows the previous generation RTX 4060 Ti 8GB card starting at $525, with the 16GB card starting at nearly $700. Supply of those parts has basically dried up, but it doesn’t bode well for a newer, faster replacement to stay at MSRPs of $380 and $430, respectively. Time will tell where things end up, but if you’re interested in picking up an RTX 5060 Ti, and you find one at anything close to MSRP (meaning, $430–$450), we’d suggest buying now and then deciding whether or not you want to keep it later.
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