Nvidia’s next-gen desktop graphics playing cards have been the topic of a flood of leaks these days, however this time we’re listening to in regards to the RTX 5060 fashions that’ll sit on the backside of the Blackwell GeForce stack (assuming there’s no RTX 5050, as there wasn’t a desktop 4050 after all).

Wccftech has phrase from the same old nameless sources – be cautious round this rumor, naturally, as with something from the grapevine – offering some specs of the RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060.

Probably the most fascinating rivalry is that relating to the on-board video reminiscence, Nvidia’s RTX 5060 Ti goes to run with 16GB of VRAM, the identical because the higher-end taste of the 4060 Ti – however the dangerous information is the RTX 5060 can also be going to stay on 8GB.

Apparently each graphics playing cards will use the identical board (PG152) and the GB206 Blackwell chip (as beforehand rumored), with a 128-bit reminiscence bus. With GDDR7 video RAM operating at 28Gbps, each of those graphics playing cards are a reminiscence bandwidth of 448GB/s in concept.

We’re informed to anticipate these GPUs to launch in late February to March of 2025, which backs up one other current rumor on the discharge timeframe.

Evaluation: Video RAM confusion

The concept the RTX 5060 may keep on an 8GB loadout for VRAM has not gone down properly with the followers of GPU rumors, as you may think. The RTX 4060 having this reminiscence configuration was controversial, so for a brand new technology of Nvidia graphics playing cards to stay at this degree will likely be gas to the flames (fairly actually – Crew Inexperienced higher don its best fire-retardant swimsuit). If this seems to be true, after all.

Capability isn’t the one ingredient of the reminiscence equation right here, although, and that GDDR7 VRAM is a giant improve in itself. That rumored reminiscence bandwidth of 448GB/s for the RTX 5060 and its Ti sibling will likely be a substantial step up from the RTX 4060 flavors. Actually, it’s 55% quicker and 65% quicker than the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti respectively, as Wccftech factors out.

The fear is that 8GB may actually hamstring the RTX 5060 for future-proofing, and consign the cardboard extra to 1080p duties, as going ahead, 1440p would possibly show to be extra of a wrestle for a skinny allocation of video reminiscence similar to this – even now that’s true to an extent.

Extra positively, the RTX 5060 Ti may have a wholesome 16GB of VRAM, though that doesn’t make a complete lot of sense when you think about the RTX 5070 has been rumored to have 12GB. Now, Nvidia has been recognized to equip a lower-tier GPU with extra VRAM than a higher-up mannequin previously, however that may typically be a case of a beefier mannequin launching down the road – and it doesn’t really feel probably Nvidia would push out an RTX 5070 12GB and really rapidly observe that with an RTX 5060 Ti 16GB. Notably when the RTX 5080 theoretically runs with 16GB, too.

In brief, we’d regard this leaked data with extra skepticism than regular – though it is also learn as an indication that the RTX 5070 12GB data is off the mark (right here’s relying on that rating).