This brief advance notice is aimed at all those who were perhaps looking forward to a detailed launch article on the GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB on May 19 and who I may now have to leave in the fog in disappointment. To avoid misunderstandings and unnecessary waiting: I will not (be able to) publish a review of the GeForce RTX 5060 here at the official launch. Not because the sample is missing – it’s already on the table – but because NVIDIA has decided not to provide any press drivers until the launch.
However, a new GPU cannot be thoroughly tested without a functioning, final driver. Especially with a new architecture or a changed memory configuration – the GeForce RTX 5060 is known to come with a gigantic 8 GB of VRAM – clean and reproducible measurements are simply not possible without an official software basis. In an environment that is increasingly characterized by pre-filtered PR communication anyway, I cannot and do not want to engage in pure data rate or leak recycling, even if you could get evaluation drivers that at least allow a rough performance estimate.
There is also a very practical problem: I am not in the lab at the time of the driver release, but in Taipei at Computex. According to NVIDIA, the public driver will not be released together with the card until May 19, which is exactly the day I will be away and unable to return to the test environment until May 26. In plain language, this means: no early access, no pre-tests, no benchmarking for the sales launch.
So all that remains is this explanatory interim and preliminary report. So that no one waits in vain for a review that cannot exist under these circumstances. And perhaps also as a small indication that NVIDIA is apparently not currently making much effort to enable independent analyses at launch. Everyone can find out for themselves why. But as soon as I’m back in the lab and the driver is officially available, I’ll follow up with a full, properly conducted test. And then the RTX 5060 can look forward to an appropriately sober, technically sound classification – without a PR filter, but with everything that goes with it. Until then, I ask for a little patience and thank you for your understanding.
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