A summary table of the RTX 5000 is circulating on Reddit, which only certifies eight gigabytes of VRAM for the two entry-level GPUs. Outraged comments are the result.
Next month, CES 2025 will take place in Las Vegas. The Consumer Electronics Show traditionally serves as the annual kick-off to the coming year of technology. CES 2025 will be officially opened by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in this issue; in view of this, there has been speculation for weeks about a launch of the RTX 5000 series.
A screenshot of this upcoming Blackwell generation is now circulating on the PCMR subreddit, which, in addition to the chips, also summarizes the amount of memory and the interface of the respective models, causing outrage in numerous comments:
i REALLY hope that these are wrong
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The listing comes from the GPU database of the portal TechPowerUp. For the RTX 5050 and RTX 5060, no leaks about memory size have been found so far, but there are for the memory interface of the respective graphics chip.
- In the meantime, it is clear that the 24 Gb GDDR7 modules for RTX 5000 are too late and that it will remain at least in the first new Nvidia GPUs at 16 Gb per module From this, in turn, the total size can be realistically determined – as with all other graphics cards.
- A graphics card with a 128-bit interface ultimately means nothing more than the “addition” of the existing 32-bit memory controllers. With 128 bits, there are a total of four memory chips
- Since both the GB206 chip for RTX 5060 and the GB207 chip for RTX 5050 with 128-bit interface were listed in the aforementioned leak, it can be calculated that the two graphics cards only have 8 GB VRAM , in combination with the 16 GB (= 2 GB) that are considered certain.
In particular, these two graphics cards are the focus of criticism in view of the presumably high prices that Nvidia will charge for the models. As a reminder, the RTX 4060 came onto the market in June 2023 for an MSRP of 329 euros; an RTX 4050 has only appeared in a laptop version.
- At this point, comparisons are drawn in the Reddit comments: The AMD Radeon RX 580, released more than seven (!) Years ago, was already equipped with eight GB.
- The lack of progress in this aspect, especially in view of growing system requirements like in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, is no longer acceptable.
- Especially Nvidia’s competitors know how to be more generous with VRAM: AMD’s Radeon RX 7600 XT as one of the RDNA-3 budget solutions already has 16 GB of video memory; also Intel’s latest Battlemage concept is in the double-digit VRAM range in both cases.
However: “Nvidia would get away with it” is one of the scenarios painted in the comments, because the average customer buys GPUs primarily based on the Nvidia brand. Hardware surveys like on Steam at least partially support this assessment, although such results are of course not necessarily representative.
Incidentally, you also expressed similar criticism in the context of the RTX 5070 leaks: 12 GB VRAM is simply not enough for this GPU model in your eyes.
Since things don’t look any better with the RTX 5050 and 5060: What expectations do you now have of the upcoming Blackwell generation? In view of raytracing, DLSS 3 & Co., are you still only considering Nvidia or are you now on the verge of switching to AMD and Intel? Which new GPUs have you set your sights on? Let us know in the comments!
