By this point, you’re probably not surprised that Nvidia is working on cheaper RTX 50-series GPUs. Even if you haven’t seen the various leaks, the fact that the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti exist (along with equivalents from previous generations) sets up a fairly obvious precedent. Even so, we’re grateful to Lenovo for dropping all pretense and showing off the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti graphics cards in a brand-new desktop.
The Legion Tower 5i Gen 10 is an upcoming desktop PC in Lenovo’s Legion gaming sub-brand, pre-assembled with “up to Intel Core Ultra i9” processors. It’s a fairly straightforward design with a small-ish, transparent case and an air CPU cooler in the promo photos, though liquid cooling is also mentioned. The rest of the specs are typical, with what appears to be an X870 micro-ATX motherboard, 32GB of DDR5 RAM (up to a maximum of 128GB), and up to 2TB of PCIe Gen4 storage in the pre-configured version. (The hardware itself supports Gen5 speeds and up to three M.2 drives at once, though.)
It’s nice, but nothing spectacular. It looks like a mid-range desktop build for those who don’t want to sully their hands with a screwdriver. What caught the eye of VideoCardz.com, however, is that the graphics card options include the Nvidia RTX 5070 Ti, the RTX 5060 Ti, and the RTX 5060. The last two on that list don’t officially exist yet, even though they’ve been popping up in regulatory listings for the last few weeks. It’s also weird that Lenovo would offer the 5070 Ti without the 5070 as another option, but whatever. Supplier stuff can get weird.
Lenovo isn’t forthcoming on the specs for those cards, indicating that perhaps the marketing copy was written up with the intention of being published after a yet-to-surface Nvidia announcement. We had heard that the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti were headed to add-in-board and OEM partners last month. There’s no price or release date for the Legion Tower 5i Gen 10, only that it’s “coming soon.”
With the RTX 5070 using 12GB of video memory, it seems unlikely that the RTX 5060 Ti would use any more than that, and I’d be shocked to see the RTX 5060 at anything but 8GB. The retail prices of both would obviously come below the RTX 5070’s $550, but who knows by how much… especially with the Trump regime’s tariffs causing price chaos in the US and beyond, not to mention the usual AIB pump-ups. It’s possible these cheaper cards will only be “affordable” in a purely relative sense.
Author: Michael Crider, Staff Writer, PCWorld
Michael is a 10-year veteran of technology journalism, covering everything from Apple to ZTE. On PCWorld he's the resident keyboard nut, always using a new one for a review and building a new mechanical board or expanding his desktop "battlestation" in his off hours. Michael's previous bylines include Android Police, Digital Trends, Wired, Lifehacker, and How-To Geek, and he's covered events like CES and Mobile World Congress live. Michael lives in Pennsylvania where he's always looking forward to his next kayaking trip.