The Deal of a Lifetime: RTX 5060 Ti Rings Up at $80 at Walmart
PC builders dream of finding high-end hardware at bargain prices, but for one lucky Redditor, that dream became a reality. In a post on the r/pcmasterrace subreddit, user EgoistHut shared a receipt showing they purchased a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti for just $80 at a Walmart store.
The card, an MSI Ventus 2X model, was sitting in a store cabinet. When scanned at checkout, it rang up at the astonishingly low price of $80. The buyer noted they were upgrading from a GeForce GTX 1060 6GB —meaning this represents a generational leap of roughly six GPU architectures (Pascal to Blackwell) at a fraction of the usual cost.
What’s the Catch?
NVIDIA launched the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8GB at $379. Current Walmart listings for comparable MSI RTX 5060 Ti models range from $359.99 to $419.99, depending on the specific variant and retailer. At $80, the card sold for roughly 80% below its market value.
Commenters on the post offered theories about how such a price could occur. One noted that a nearby store showed the same card as “$80 off,” suggesting a shelf label may have been misread or entered incorrectly during inventory. Another speculated it was a store-level clearance mistake—perhaps a manager trying to move old stock without realizing the value of what they were selling.
For the buyer, the reason mattered less than the result. “I saw it in the cabinet, asked to see it, and when it rang up $80 I nearly lost it,” the post read.
A Monumental Upgrade
The RTX 5060 Ti features 4,608 CUDA cores, a 128-bit memory interface, support for up to 16GB GDDR7 memory, and boost clocks up to 2.57 GHz. For a user coming from a GTX 1060—a card released in 2016—the performance uplift is astronomical. The 1060 lacked ray tracing hardware entirely, while the 5060 Ti supports full hardware ray tracing, DLSS 4.5, and the latest Blackwell architecture features.
Even at its intended $379 price, the 5060 Ti represents a solid 1080p and entry-level 1440p gaming card. At $80, it’s arguably the best value hardware purchase documented in recent memory.
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The Verdict: Don’t Expect to Replicate This
As with all such stories, the key takeaway is that this was almost certainly a one-off mistake. Walmart does not list the RTX 5060 Ti at $80 online, and clearance pricing of this magnitude is not standard. The buyer got lucky—perhaps due to a shelf label error, a mismanaged inventory system, or a store employee entering the wrong price.
For anyone else hoping to find such a deal, the advice is simple: check your local Walmart’s electronics clearance section, but don’t expect to walk out with a $400 GPU for $80. For this Redditor, however, the upgrade from a GTX 1060 to an RTX 5060 Ti for pocket change will be a story told for years.
Source: Reddit