So you know how sometimes things just don’t add up? Well, NVIDIA is doing this thing – supposedly, they’re holding back the driver for the RTX 5060 until May 19, the day this shiny GPU hits the shelves. I mean, isn’t that kind of odd? Anyway, back to the actual topic. The delayed driver is kind of dragging eyebrows and whispers, like, what are they hiding about the card’s performance?
We’re talking just 11 days till this GeForce RTX 5060 8GB launches – announced alongside the RTX 5060 Ti last month. Now, something feels fishy about this GPU’s performance because, frankly, NVIDIA seems a bit spooked about folks knowing its true prowess too soon. Super weird, right?
So, like I said, no driver till May 19, the official release day. Basically, if you’re impatient – and let’s admit, aren’t we all sometimes? – and want to buy it the day it drops, you’ll be flying blind without those juicy reviews backing you. Igor’s Lab dropped the news that NVIDIA won’t spill those public drivers until, boom, the launch day at Computex.
To quote them, yeah, apparently the driver is a no-show until May 19, and ironically, that’s exactly when I’ll be somewhere else and not hugging my test environment until, ugh, May 26.
Now, imagine everyone’s at Computex, probably munching on night market snacks, not rushing back since new hardware’s being showcased. Even Hardware Unboxed chimed in – they’ve got the RTX 5060 samples but, on account of missing those darn new drivers, reviews are basically on ice.
Here’s a snippet from Twitter, kind of dishing on NVIDIA’s sneaky ways. They’re like, hiding the RTX 5060 just like they did with the 5060 Ti. The idea? Drop it during Computex week when tech journalists sip boba in Taiwan. Oh, and no early driver access for reviewers, so they can’t do those deep dives and benchmarks.
Now here’s where it hits gamers in the feels. People lean on reviews before dropping cash, right? But now, you gotta trust NVIDIA’s numbers, and let’s face it, those can be a bit, um, massaged. There’s talk of a 25% raster performance boost over the last model, but who knows until independent outlets play with early versions.
Oh, and even though it holds 8GB VRAM like the old one, games in 2025 laugh at that. Thinking about how the RTX 5060 Ti with 8GB kind of bombed – maybe a reason NVIDIA’s tiptoeing around the release and keeping things tight-lipped. Intensive games demand more, and apparently, the 8GB can’t keep up.
Source? Well, Igor’s Lab spilled the tea on this one.
