NVIDIA RTX 5060

The RTX 5060 brings NVIDIA's Blackwell architecture and GDDR7 memory to the mid-range mobile tier, pairing 3072 cores with 8GB of GDDR7 on a 128-bit bus that still delivers 448GB/s of bandwidth - more than double what the previous-generation RTX 4060 managed from a similarly sized bus. That bandwidth boost, along with newer DLSS features, makes it a strong pick for 1080p and even 1440p gaming at high settings.

With a 115W typical power draw, it's aimed at mainstream-to-upper gaming laptops rather than ultraportables. NVIDIA again allows laptop makers to tune the TGP across a range, so actual performance between two laptops carrying this GPU can differ noticeably depending on how each one is configured and cooled.

Beyond the bandwidth increase over the RTX 4060, this chip's DLSS 4 support brings Multi Frame Generation - multiple AI-generated frames per rendered frame instead of DLSS 3's single frame - along with a newer transformer-based model that improves upscaling and Ray Reconstruction quality across the board. Hardware ray tracing cores round it out, making ray-traced effects genuinely usable at this tier.