NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060
8 GB · 448 GB/s · 145 W
In short
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 has 8 GB of GDDR7 memory with 448 GB/s of bandwidth, which sets how fast it generates text. At 8k context it runs 38 of the 129 open models we track fully in memory; the most capable is gpt-oss 20B at MXFP4, at about 63 tok/s (estimated). The best new price for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 in Canada is $660 at Amazon; used, it starts at $575 (asking price).
Updated . Speeds are estimates; how they are worked out.
Prices
Every retailer we track in Canada, cheapest first. Buy links may earn us a commission.
| Retailer | Condition | Price | Stock | Checked | Buy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| eBayZOTAC GAMING GeForce RTX 5060 Twin Edge OC DLSS 4 8GB GDDR7 128-bit 28 Gbps PCIE | used, asking price | $575 | In stock | 3 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5060 8GB GDDR7 OC Edition | New | $660 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonMSI Gaming RTX 5060 8G Shadow 2X OC Graphics Card | New | $690 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonGIGABYTE GeForce RTX 5060 WINDFORCE OC 8G Graphics Card | New | $710 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonASUS Dual GeForce RTX 5060 8GB GDDR7 White OC Edition Gaming Graphics Card | New | $720 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonZOTAC Gaming GeForce RTX 5060 Twin Edge OC DLSS 4 8GB GDDR7 128-bit 28 Gbps… | New | $728 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonASUS PRIME GeForce RTX 5060 8GB GDDR7 Gaming Graphics Card | New | $740 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonASUS The SFF-Ready Prime GeForce RTX 5060 8GB GDDR7 OC Edition Graphics Card | New | $740 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonMSI Gaming RTX 5060 8G Ventus 2X OC Graphics Card | New | $745 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonASUS GeForce RTX 5060 LP BRK 8GB GDDR7 OC Edition Graphics Card | New | $752 | In stock | 11 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonMSI Gaming RTX 5060 8G Ventus 3X OC Graphics Card | New | $770 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonMSI Gaming RTX 5060 8G Gaming Trio OC Graphics Card | New | $775 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonMSI Gaming RTX 5060 8G Gaming OC Graphics Card | New | $780 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| AmazonASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX 5060 8GB GDDR7 OC Edition Gaming Graphics Card | New | $800 | In stock | 5 h ago | Buy |
| eBayMSI GeForce RTX 5060 8G VENTUS 2X OC 8GB GDDR7 Graphics Card | New | $975 | In stock | 3 h ago | Buy |
Price history
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What two of them run
Every model in the catalogue, with the best quant for this hardware. Estimates, not measurements.
| Model | Quant | Fits | Memory | Max context | Decode @8k | Prefill | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gpt-oss 20B OpenAI | MXFP4 | fits | 12.6 GB | 82k128k with q8 cache | 63tok/sest. | 936 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Gemma 4 12B | Q8_0 | fits | 13.4 GB | 73k122k with q8 cache | 21tok/sest. | 343 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.5 9B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 10.3 GB | 128k212k with q8 cache | 28tok/sest. | 435 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Ministral 3 14B Mistral AI | Q6_K | fits | 12.7 GB | 20k37k with q8 cache | 22tok/sest. | 282 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen3 14B Alibaba Qwen | Q6_K | fits | 13.7 GB | 14k27k with q8 cache | 21tok/sest. | 262 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 Qwen3 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 10.4 GB | 38k69k with q8 cache | 28tok/sest. | 459 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 10.4 GB | 38k40k with q8 cache | 28tok/sest. | 459 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Phi-4 14B Microsoft | Q6_K | fits | 13.9 GB | 12k16k with q8 cache | 20tok/sest. | 264 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.5 4B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 5.6 GB | 255k256k with q8 cache | 58tok/sest. | 876 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Ministral 3 8B Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 10.6 GB | 38k69k with q8 cache | 27tok/sest. | 429 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Granite 4.2 8B IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 11.1 GB | 30k56k with q8 cache | 26tok/sest. | 426 tok/s | chat |
| Gemma 4 E4B | Q8_0 | fits | 9.0 GB | 128k | 33tok/sest. | 527 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| LFM2.5 8B-A1B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 9.9 GB | 100k125k with q8 cache | 114tok/sest. | 3076 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Llama 3.1 8B Meta | Q6_K | fits | 8.3 GB | 57k104k with q8 cache | 36tok/sest. | 474 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen2.5 0.5B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 1.7 GB | 32k | 440tok/sest. | 6438 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 0.8B Alibaba Qwen | Q8_0 | fits | 2.0 GB | 256k | 298tok/sest. | 4430 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Qwen3.5 2B Alibaba Qwen | Q5_K_M | fits | 2.6 GB | 256k | 179tok/sest. | 1817 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM3 1.7B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 3.0 GB | 256k | 142tok/sest. | 2334 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 1.5B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 3.1 GB | 128k | 130tok/sest. | 2026 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| MiniCPM5 2B openbmb | Q8_0 | fits | 4.0 GB | 128k | 92tok/sest. | 1339 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 2.6B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 4.3 GB | 128k | 82tok/sest. | 1348 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| LFM2.5 VL 3B Liquid AI | Q8_0 | fits | 4.3 GB | 32k | 82tok/sest. | 1190 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Spark X2.5 4B XHToken | mlx-4bit | fits | 4.3 GB | 263k441k with q8 cache | 82tok/sest. | 953 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| Kimi VL A3B Thinking 2506 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | fits | 11.2 GB | 109k128k with q8 cache | 76tok/sest. | 1250 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| granite vision 4.1 4b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 5.1 GB | 122k128k with q8 cache | 65tok/sest. | 892 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Ministral 3 3B Instruct 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 5.4 GB | 95k172k with q8 cache | 61tok/sest. | 914 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| granite 4.2 3b IBM | Q8_0 | fits | 5.4 GB | 119k128k with q8 cache | 61tok/sest. | 959 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| Kimi VL A3B Moonshot AI | mlx-6bit | fits | 14.3 GB | 23k37k with q8 cache | 60tok/sest. | 1173 tok/s | chat, coding, agents |
| Mellum2.1 12B A2.5B Thinking JetBrains | Q8_0 | fits | 13.3 GB | 83k125k with q8 cache | 59tok/sest. | 1482 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| FrogNano 4B 2609 Microsoft | Q8_0 | fits | 5.7 GB | 251k256k with q8 cache | 56tok/sest. | 876 tok/s | chat, coding, agents, long documents |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 7B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 9.1 GB | 101k128k with q8 cache | 32tok/sest. | 511 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4 9B 0414 Z.ai | mlx-5bit | fits | 9.1 GB | 32k | 32tok/sest. | 402 tok/s | chat, coding |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 8B DeepSeek | Q8_0 | fits | 10.1 GB | 43k79k with q8 cache | 29tok/sest. | 474 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Ministral 3 8B Reasoning 2512 Mistral AI | Q8_0 | fits | 10.6 GB | 38k69k with q8 cache | 27tok/sest. | 429 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.6V Flash Z.ai | Q8_0 | fits | 10.8 GB | 97k128k with q8 cache | 27tok/sest. | 371 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.1V 9B Thinking Z.ai | mlx-8bit | fits | 12.4 GB | 60k64k with q8 cache | 23tok/sest. | 371 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Ministral 3 14B Reasoning 2512 Mistral AI | Q6_K | fits | 12.7 GB | 20k37k with q8 cache | 22tok/sest. | 282 tok/s | chat |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 14B DeepSeek | Q6_K | fits | 13.9 GB | 12k22k with q8 cache | 20tok/sest. | 257 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.8 27B Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q4_K_M | offload | 17.1 GB | – | 10tok/sest. | 138 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.5 122B-A10B Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q2_K_XL | offload | 40.4 GB | – | 12tok/sest. | 243 tok/s | – |
| Qwen 3.6 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 17.4 GB | – | 10tok/sest. | 136 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 31B | Q4_K_M | offload | 19.6 GB | – | 7tok/sest. | 111 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Small 4 119B Mistral AI | UD-Q2_K_XL | offload | 38.8 GB | – | 18tok/sest. | 322 tok/s | chat |
| Qwen 3.6 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | MXFP4 | offload | 21.6 GB | – | 34tok/sest. | 1036 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.5 27B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 17.4 GB | – | 10tok/sest. | 137 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 4 26B-A4B | MXFP4 | offload | 16.9 GB | – | 36tok/sest. | 906 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen 3.5 35B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 21.9 GB | – | 33tok/sest. | 1029 tok/s | chat, coding |
| GLM 4.7 Flash Z.ai | Q4_K_M | offload | 18.6 GB | – | 25tok/sest. | 629 tok/s | chat |
| Devstral Small 2 24B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 15.7 GB | 2k3k with q8 cache | 14tok/sest. | 164 tok/s | – |
| Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B-A3B NVIDIA | MXFP4 | offload | 22.9 GB | – | 28tok/sest. | 1048 tok/s | chat, coding, long documents |
| Qwen3 Coder 30B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 19.2 GB | – | 32tok/sest. | 800 tok/s | chat |
| Kimi Linear 48B-A3B Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 29.2 GB | – | 27tok/sest. | 850 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Qwen3 32B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | offload | 21.6 GB | – | 5tok/sest. | 93 tok/s | – |
| Mistral Small 3.2 24B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 15.7 GB | 2k3k with q8 cache | 14tok/sest. | 164 tok/s | – |
| Gemma 3 27B | Q4_K_M | offload | 17.6 GB | – | 9tok/sest. | 137 tok/s | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Qwen 32B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | offload | 21.6 GB | – | 5tok/sest. | 97 tok/s | – |
| LFM2.5 24B A2B Liquid AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 16.1 GB | – | 63tok/sest. | 1533 tok/s | chat, coding |
| Devstral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 15.7 GB | 2k3k with q8 cache | 14tok/sest. | 166 tok/s | – |
| Magistral Small 2506 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 15.7 GB | 2k3k with q8 cache | 14tok/sest. | 166 tok/s | – |
| Magistral Small 2507 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 15.7 GB | 2k3k with q8 cache | 14tok/sest. | 166 tok/s | – |
| Magistral Small 2509 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | offload | 15.7 GB | 2k3k with q8 cache | 14tok/sest. | 164 tok/s | – |
| Muse Glimmer 30B meta-models | Q4_K_M | offload | 17.4 GB | – | 10tok/sest. | 126 tok/s | – |
| granite 4.2 30b IBM | Q4_K_M | offload | 19.9 GB | – | 6tok/sest. | 115 tok/s | – |
| Qwen3.8 27B OBLITERATED OBLITERATUS | mlx-4bit | offload | 21.0 GB | – | 6tok/sest. | 123 tok/s | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 92.0 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Flash Z.ai | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 102.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Qwen 3.8 Flash Next Alibaba Qwen | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 74.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 73.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Nemotron 3 Super 120B-A12B NVIDIA | UD-Q2_K_XL | won't run | 52.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Qwen3 Coder Next Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | won't run | 46.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| gpt-oss 120B OpenAI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 59.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.5 Air Z.ai | Q2_K | won't run | 44.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Qwen3 Next 80B-A3B Alibaba Qwen | Q4_K_M | won't run | 46.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Llama 3.3 70B Meta | Q4_K_M | won't run | 43.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 378.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 0528 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 378.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 43.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek R1 Zero DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 378.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 378.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3 0324 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 378.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.1 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 379.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.1 Terminus DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 379.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek | Q4_K_M | won't run | 379.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 147.5 GB | – | – | – | – |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash Vision Exp DeepSeek | MXFP4 | won't run | 156.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Devstral 2 123B Instruct 2512 Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 73.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.5 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 205.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.5V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 61.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.6 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 204.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.6V Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 68.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 4.7 Z.ai | Q4_K_M | won't run | 205.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5 Z.ai | MXFP4 | won't run | 384.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.1 Z.ai | MXFP4 | won't run | 421.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.2 Z.ai | UD-Q4_K_M | won't run | 435.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
| GLM 5.3 Z.ai | Q8_0 | won't run | 748.2 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi Dev 72B Moonshot AI | Q6_K | won't run | 63.6 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 579.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Instruct 0905 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 580.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2 Thinking Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 580.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Kimi K2.5 Moonshot AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 580.3 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 131.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.1 MiniMax | Q4_K_M | won't run | 131.9 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M2.5 MiniMax | MXFP4 | won't run | 118.4 GB | – | – | – | – |
| MiniMax M3 MiniMax | MXFP4 | won't run | 241.8 GB | – | – | – | – |
| Mistral Medium 3.5 128B Mistral AI | Q4_K_M | won't run | 73.7 GB | – | – | – | – |
Specifications
From the manufacturer's published specifications; sources are linked where we have them.
- GPU
- GeForce RTX 5060
- Memory
- 8 GB GDDR7
- Memory bus
- 128-bit
- Memory bandwidth
- 448 GB/s
- FP16 compute
- 19.177 TFLOPS
- Software
- CUDA
- Board power
- 145 W
- PCIe generation
- Gen 5
- PCIe lanes
- x8
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Questions
- How much memory does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 have for AI models?
- The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 has 8 GB of GDDR7 memory with 448 GB/s of bandwidth, which sets how fast it generates text.
- What is the best model the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 can run locally?
- gpt-oss 20B (MXFP4) fits fully in its memory at 8k context and generates at about 63 tok/s, an estimate from its memory bandwidth. 38 of the 129 models we track fit at that context.
- Can the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 run DeepSeek V4 Flash?
- No: even at UD-Q2_K_XL, DeepSeek V4 Flash needs about 92 GB at 8k context, more than the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 and system RAM can hold.
- How much does the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 cost in Canada?
- The best new price for the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 in Canada is $660 at Amazon; used, it starts at $575 (asking price).
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