NVIDIA’s entry-level GPU, the RTX 5060, has quietly dropped to a record-low price of ¥75,000, sparking discussion on 5ch’s “Hardware/Industry (Geha)” board. Rather than the price itself, the thread’s debate centered on where to draw the line between entry-level, mid-range, and high-end GPUs — with some arguing the RTX 5060 Ti and above should count as mid-range, and others pointing out the problem that NVIDIA’s only model below the 5060 is the 5050. The discussion also expanded into comparisons with home game consoles, contrasting the PS5’s GPU performance and the unreleased PS6’s projected specs against AMD GPUs.
You guys are spending way too much money on gaming.
That just means we're past the phase where gamers are the ones buying them.
The ones over ¥1 million are honestly just sitting unsold most of the time.
But every once in a while Dospara drops one for like ¥890,000 and it sells out instantly.
The 5090 really is on a different level.
doesn't it run most games fine?
Sure it runs them, but it's not the kind of performance you'd buy new right now.
Once you get into WQHD or heavy 4K titles, the price jumps way up.
The 5090's crazy pricing is because AI folks are buying them up, not gamers.
Recent demanding games want 12GB of VRAM even for the minimum 1080p spec.
Even on the Steam hardware survey it ranks below the 3060 and 4060 — total trash.
The 5060's performance-per-watt is actually good,
so if you power-limit it, it ends up both more powerful and more efficient than the 4060 — a straight upgrade across the board.
How much are you planning to undervolt from 150W exactly? Are you trying to send it into stutter hell and break it? LOL
I can tell from the post alone whether someone's never touched one or is just an AMD fanboy (lit. "red believer").
It's NVIDIA's fault for not making a real entry-level card.
Seriously, the only thing below this is the 5050.
It's got 12GB of VRAM, so if you push it you can still do a lot with it.
Isn't it just that the older one is out of stock so it's pricier?
And then there are people who get suckered into buying it.
In my head, the 5060 Ti counts as mid-range
and the plain 5060 is entry-level.
Only AMD even bothers making true entry-level cards anymore, lol.
Wait, explain that?
Can use every RTX feature, runs AAA titles smoothly at max settings in 4K → high-end → 5080 and up
Can use every RTX feature, runs AAA titles smoothly at max settings, but 4K is a struggle → upper-mid-range → 5070 to just under 5080
Can use every RTX feature, runs AAA titles smoothly at max settings, but only at 1080p → mid-range → 5060 to just under 5070
Can technically play games, it runs → entry-level → whatever junk is left
The PS5 can't even run Forza Horizon 6, so it's below "whatever junk is left," lol.
That's because it includes developing countries too.
If you limit it to developed countries, WQHD and up is the norm.
The 5060's VRAM is garbage though.
Not worth buying.
5060: entry-level
5060 Ti: lower mid-range
5070: mid-range
5070 Ti: upper mid-range
5080: mid-to-high-end
5090: high-end
That's how it is.
The 5090's already been discontinued.
The 5080 is the high-end now.
I wish the last one had a name like a Final Fantasy attack.
Of course it's a pathetic little slug then, lol.
Though I won't deny plenty of titles still run fine on a 2060 at 1080p.
It was settled ages ago that the PS5's "Oberon" chip is a custom RX 5700 — junk that maxes out at WQHD.
Why do people keep insisting on converting it into RTX terms when it can't use a single RTX feature?
If it comes in under ¥200,000, it'll probably be seen as better value than a PC.
Didn't the leaks say the PS6 is junk capped at around 40 TFLOPS at best?
If they slapped a 5070 Ti, memory, a 1TB drive, and a console-customized CPU together and sold it for ¥200,000, they'd go into the red just like with the PS3, lol.
AMD's own RX 9070 XT does 48.7 TFLOPS.
The PS6 should come in just a bit below the 9070 XT, so it's clearly above the 5060 but probably in the same league as the 5070 or 5070 Ti.
Sorry, that's the Xbox "Helix" with the RX 9070 XT.
The PS6's ideal target is 40 TFLOPS, which puts it closer to an RX 7800 XT.
Microsoft and Sony just haven't announced it yet for their own reasons — the deal's probably long since been signed.
Sony announced their AMD partnership for the next-gen console a good while back, remember?
I'm fine with just 1080p though.
It depends more on the quality settings than the resolution.
With 8GB you can even run Wilds at 4K with ray tracing on and high settings.
Even that still performs better than the PS5 Pro.
Take Resident Evil 4's PC version as an example.
It's not even that demanding a game by PC standards.
But even RE4 eats up over 10GB of VRAM at max quality in 1080p.
And that's with ray tracing turned off, by the way.
Of course, it's PC, so you don't have to run max quality — you can always tune settings down…
But personally, I'd want at least 12GB to play comfortably, ideally 16.
With a 5060 you'd be running medium settings anyway, so it's fine.
Besides, RAM prices are the biggest driver of cost increases right now,
so this isn't really the time to pick "more RAM, just in case" as a nice-to-have bonus — just think of it as: paying the price difference gets you better visuals, and that's enough.
Background and Key Points of This Discussion
The GPU categories “entry-level,” “mid-range,” and “high-end” aren’t official designations from NVIDIA — they’re just convenient labels users apply based on performance and price. Because of this, the actual performance range behind the same label shifts with every generation, which is why debates like this one keep recurring. The TFLOPS (theoretical compute performance) figures used for comparison in the thread also aren’t a metric that allows simple comparisons between GPUs of different architectures, and this caveat tends to get overlooked when people line up the PS5 or the unreleased PS6 against the RTX series. As for the soaring prices of flagship models, that’s largely attributed to demand from generative AI, which is creating a pricing dynamic separate from gaming demand — a factor worth considering separately from trends in gamer demand.
*This article is compiled as an excerpt and summary of the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “[Sad News] Entry-level GPU RTX 5060 Quietly Drops to a Record-Low ¥75,000 😰.”
