News Nvidia RTX 5060 claimed to feature just 8GB of VRAM — the 5060 Ti may get 8GB and 16GB flavors

[Admin]

The RTX 5060 is claimed to feature just 8GB of memory, while Nvidia is prepping the RTX 5060 Ti in 8GB and 16GB versions, claims Benchlife.

Nvidia RTX 5060 claimed to feature just 8GB of VRAM — the 5060 Ti may get 8GB and 16GB flavors : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

8GB is still pretty limiting, even at 1080p if you crank the textures high enough.

can we please go past this and state actual downsides to 8 gb vram?


Nvidia wanst you to use their dlss & MFG.

STart treating it liek these are on.
MFG uses mroe vram by default.
Games are starting to need 8GB vram for min. (i.e. indy jones and great circle & heck even Monster Hunter wilds uses over 6gb vram on lowest of low settings) and as nvidia wants you to use MFG it'll need more.
If you are buying a 60 tier gpu you are on a budget...meaning you likely are using this gpu for 6yrs or more.

You are very likely going to go over 8GB vram in modern (and future) titles using the settings nvidia wants you to use.
Never buy a 8gb gpu in 2025 or after.
Do not reward corpo greed for treating consumer as stupid sheep they can rob blind.

 

[mac_angel]

of course not. NVidia doesn't want to give you GPUs that will last, they want you to keep needing to upgrade.

 

[P.Amini]

I really want to see a B770, soon.

 

[BlackHarold]

can we please go past this and state actual downsides to 8 gb vram?


Nvidia wanst you to use their dlss & MFG.

STart treating it liek these are on.
MFG uses mroe vram by default.
Games are starting to need 8GB vram for min. (i.e. indy jones and great circle & heck even Monster Hunter wilds uses over 6gb vram on lowest of low settings) and as nvidia wants you to use MFG it'll need more.
If you are buying a 60 tier gpu you are on a budget...meaning you likely are using this gpu for 6yrs or more.

You are very likely going to go over 8GB vram in modern (and future) titles using the settings nvidia wants you to use.
Never buy a 8gb gpu in 2025 or after.
Do not reward corpo greed for treating consumer as stupid sheep they can rob blind.

You're incorrect, the cards with the new mfg, multi frame Gen use less vram which has been a big selling point with even mention of it possibly being translated down to 40 series cards. As far as vram goes most of you seem to not realize that's not a factor at 1080p, at the lower resolution high resolution textures don't matter. It's like choosing to install 4k texture packs with 1080p, you don't have the resolution to make it worth the bump anyway which is why these cards are still releasing with 8gb. The practice has always been if you want you pc to last then save up longer and get better lasting parts. If you go with their low end it'll only get you by for so long with rare circumstances of great cards like the 1060. When I built my desktop I held off on buying a 3060 until I saved enough for a 3080 12gb variant. The only real issue with nvidia is prices being stupid compared to their competitors but at the same time many could argue you pay for the premium quality.

 

[thestryker]

You're incorrect, the cards with the new mfg, multi frame Gen use less vram which has been a big selling point with even mention of it possibly being translated down to 40 series cards.

No you're actually the incorrect one here because frame generation increases VRAM usage. DLSS upscaling can lower the amount of VRAM usage due to lowered input resolution though.

As far as vram goes most of you seem to not realize that's not a factor at 1080p, at the lower resolution high resolution textures don't matter. It's like choosing to install 4k texture packs with 1080p, you don't have the resolution to make it worth the bump anyway which is why these cards are still releasing with 8gb.

Seems you also don't understand what texture resolution refers to. This doesn't have anything to do with the resolution you're running your screen at but rather individual textures. While it's game dependent higher resolution textures can have a pretty big impact on overall image quality. Assuming you have enough VRAM increasing texture quality has virtually zero impact on GPU performance as well. That's why this is something people with less powerful graphics hardware might want to increase.

 

[P.Amini]

No you're actually the incorrect one here because frame generation increases VRAM usage. DLSS upscaling can lower the amount of VRAM usage due to lowered input resolution though.

Seems you also don't understand what texture resolution refers to. This doesn't have anything to do with the resolution you're running your screen at but rather individual textures. While it's game dependent higher resolution textures can have a pretty big impact on overall image quality. Assuming you have enough VRAM increasing texture quality has virtually zero impact on GPU performance as well. That's why this is something people with less powerful graphics hardware might want to increase.

Indeed, well said.

 

[usertests]

The 16 GB hoax was a curveball. I think the real question is if they come out with a 12 GB refresh using 3 GB GDDR7.

I would buy an 8 GB RTX 5050, RX 9040, B380, etc. if they end up at $150 or below.

 

[8086]

No pain, no gain. Let the NGREEDIA Boycotts begin! Glory to Intel and AMD!

 

[LolaGT]

An 8GB GPU is a 200 dollar card. So if it is 200 dollars it will sell. 300 dollars is a no.
I still set up to get notifications whenever B580s are back in stock, and they do show up even though they sell out again within 20 minutes(I'm not in the market but I was curious to keep tabs on them, I could have bought one at the $259-$269 MSRP more than once in the past few weeks if I were).
There is no good reason to buy a new xx60 8GB team greed GPU.

 

[Amdlova]

WHY some one belive will use a 5060 at 1080P ? It's more likely to run at 320p quad fake frames

 

[palladin9479]

The 5060 (really a 5050) being 8GB is to be expected, but guaranteed they are going to sell it for $400+ and that is what is outrageous.

 

[DS426]

There's just no reason to be hobbled by VRAM on a $400 or higher GPU, plain and simple. If anyone thinks that there won't be games later in 2025 and especially 2026 that will suffer even at 1080p, you're silly. We've already seen this on past generations of nVidia cards where some don't age well due to new games being released just a couple years after launch being VRAM hogs. Blame it on the lack of dev optimization, but not everyone can be highly-resourced either.

It would be different if nVidia was the only one that the internet is singling out, but they have two competitors now that have no issue being able to market their products on sufficient VRAM sizes for the respective cards.

More VRAM to the masses will result in better games, plain and simple.