A recent rumor about the amount of memory in the Geforce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti leaves us with mixed feelings.
The announcement of new graphics cards from Nvidia is probably imminent (keynote address at CES 2025 on January 7), and the rumor mill is accordingly buzzing.
The latest information comes from our colleagues at the US tech magazine Wccftech and concerns the two mid-range GPUs RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti. According to this, Nvidia is at least not making the same mistake that many believe the company made with the direct predecessor models. However, another potential decision raises questions.
What is it about? As Wccftech reports, the RTX 5060 Ti will no longer be released in two variants with different memory configurations – the RTX 4060 Ti was available with eight and 16 GB – but only in the form of a 16 GB model.
The RTX 5060, on the other hand, is said to be equipped with only eight GB of graphics memory.
What is good and bad about that?
The fact that the RTX 5060 Ti is to be equipped with 16 GByte VRAM is welcome. Especially for gaming in QHD(WQHD) resolution, eight GBytes are no longer sufficient in many cases. A current example is Indiana Jones and the Great Circle, which requires a GPU with twelve GB of VRAM for 2560 x 1440 pixels.
And even for Full HD resolution, eight GB may not be enough, as the latest Indiana Jones game also shows.
If you want to enjoy the much-praised action adventure with particularly high texture quality and possibly even path tracing or full ray tracing, eight GB is not enough.
But other games are also known to use up more than eight gigabytes of graphics memory even in Full HD. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2, for example, or Hogwarts Legacy.
What does this mean for the RTX 5060?If the direct successor to the RTX 4060 is indeed equipped with eight GB of VRAM, this could lead to problems in some games, such as reload jerking and frame rate drops.
It can be assumed that the vast majority of games will work well with eight gigabytes of graphics memory in Full HD resolution, but an increase in the amount of memory to ten or twelve gigabytes would still be desirable and, above all, future-proof.
What do we know about the performance of the cards?
In addition to the possible size of the graphics memory, it has only been leaked that Nvidia probably wants to use the new and faster GDDR7 VRAM in the mid-range models as well.
Faster graphics memory is advantageous, among other things, to avoid bottlenecks, because data can be processed faster overall.
This means that for the same capacity, GDDR7 experiences fewer reload jerks and performance drops than GDDR6(X) when the memory is fully utilized.
How well the RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti ultimately perform depends primarily on factors such as the number of cores and the clock rate, for which there is currently no information.
The RTX 50 series at a glance
The following information is based on previous rumors and only represents the current state of knowledge:
| Cores | Clock speed | memory | bandwidth | power consumption | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX 5090* | 21,760 | not known | 32 GByte GDDR7 (28 Gbps) | 1,792 GB/s | 600W |
| RTX 5080* | 10,752 | not known | 16 GByte GDDR7 (32 Gbps) | 1,024 GB/s | 400W |
| RTX 5070 Ti* | 8,960 | not known | 16 GByte GDDR7 (28 Gbps) | 896 GB/s | 350W |
| RTX 5070* | 6,400 | not known | 12 GByte GDDR7 (28 Gbps) | 672 GB/s | 250W |
| RTX 5060 Ti* | not known | not known | 16 GByte GDDR7 (28 Gbps) | 448 GB/s | not known |
| RTX 5060* | not known | not known | 8 GByte GDDR7 (28 Gbps) | 448 GB/s | not known |
*Information not confirmed
When will RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti be released?
If the previous rumors regarding the market launch prove to be correct, we can expect the two cards in March 2025:
- RTX 5090 and RTX 5080: January 2025
- RTX 5070 (Ti):; February 2025
- RTX 5060 (Ti):March
How much will RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti cost?
Unfortunately, we don’t have any details on this at the moment either.However, it is to be feared that the two mid-range models will be somewhat more expensive than their predecessors Reasons for this may be inflation and increased production costs.
The RTX 4060 was launched a year and a half ago in the Founders Edition with an MSRP of 329 euros. The RTX 4060 Ti 8GB cost 439 euros at launch in mid-2023, with the 16 GB VRAM model following shortly thereafter at a price of 549 euros.
It therefore does not seem unrealistic that the RTX 5060 will cost over 350 euros and that the RTX 5060 Ti may even reach the 600-euro mark. However, we are all too happy to be proven wrong.
