TECH NEWS – The RTX 5060 has also been leaked, and it seems that Nvidia is a bit stingy when it comes to VRAM…
We recently reported on two other cards from Nvidia, the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti and the RTX 5050. With the latter, we can understand if it’s a bit low on VRAM, as it will be the lowest-end card after years of not making either XX10 or XX30 graphics cards. We also understand the type of VRAM, that it will be only GDDR6 and not GDDR7… but the specs of the RTX 5060 seem a bit worrying.
Also this time @kopite7kimi shared them on Twitter. It uses the GB206-250-A1 GPU on the PG152-SKU25 board, gets 8 gigabytes of GDDR7 VRMA on a 128-bit memory bus (28 Gbps speed, 448 GB/s bandwidth; 65% more than the RTX 4060’s 272 GB/s), 3840 CUDA cores, and all this at 150W power consumption. So similar specs to its predecessor… with a few differences: 25% more CUDA cores but the same amount of memory, faster GDDR7 VRAM, higher bandwidth (+64%) but 30% higher power consumption. The RTX 5050 is 130W and the RTX 5060 Ti is 180W.
And this makes the situation quite interesting. More powerful than its predecessor in many ways, but still 8GB of VRAM? Games need more and more these days, and 10-12GB is starting to become the minimum, and if you were to play at a higher resolution, 8GB just wouldn’t be enough for anything. If we stay at 1080p, this card might be able to hold its own, but above that it will fail.
The price will also be very important in this category. Nvidia’s previous card, the GeForce RTX 4060, was available for $300 in the US, and the expectation would be that the RTX 5060 would be available for the same price. If Nvidia prices it above $300, the company will shoot itself in the foot, no question about it.
Source: WCCFTech
