RTX 5060 cooled off, and the RTX 5050 lost the plot

Today clears the ad hoc gate on one clean move alone: the tracked RTX 5060 fell from $509.99 on September 13 to $459.99 today on the exact Amazon page this site tracks. That is a 9.8% one-day drop, and it matters because the tracked RTX 4060 still sits at $536.00. If you were already choosing between those two tiers, the RTX 5060 vs. RTX 4060 comparison looks a lot less complicated today.

The lower midrange now has a sharper split than it did yesterday. The tracked Arc B580 stayed at $369.99, so the RTX 5060 vs. Arc B580 comparison is still about whether you want to spend the extra money for NVIDIA’s newer card, not whether the gap vanished. The tracked Radeon RX 7600 also held at $329.99, which keeps real pressure on any sub-$500 NVIDIA card that is not meaningfully faster or easier to buy.

The weirdest result of the day is the tracked RTX 5050. Its exact Amazon page jumped to $1,246.40 and showed currently unavailable status, which effectively takes it out of the conversation for sane buyer advice. That leaves the RTX 5050 vs. RTX 5060 comparison looking almost comical right now: the better story is not a bargain 5050, it is that the 5060 finally moved back toward a price that looks defendable.