- An early list of products suggests that the NVIDIA RTX 5060 GPU could arrive soon
- Meanwhile, the AI has been shooting any modern GPU with 8 GB of video RAM (which has the RTX 5060)
- The suggestion is that 8 GB of VRM is like “wearing a butter knife to a shooting”, and that reflects a broader feeling online
A new track suggests that, as the rumor factory already believes, now the launch of the NVIDIA RTX 5060 graphics card is close to the modern GPUs with 8GB of VRM has been underlined by a summary of AI scathing in the subject.
I will return to that later; But in the first place, the clue that the RTX 5060 is about to emerge is the fact that the American retailer Best Buy has listed a PNY variant of this graphics card in its place (as @Momomo_us noticed in X, through videocardz).
There is no ‘buy’ button, of course, since the RTX 5060 has not yet been launched; You can only click to be notified when stocks enter. But the fact that the PNY Board is there (and the list is still live, at the time of writing) suggests that Best Buy is beginning to get his home for this GPU Nvidia.
PNY’s offer is priced at $ 299, by the way, the price of the base list, and the rumored launch date for RTX 5060 is May 19. It may seem a little earlier for retail preparation work based on that date, but the work continues behind the scene for a while before the launch, and that is what has happened here, with an accidental air of this particular list. (There is only the RTX 5060 board listed, in case I ask).
Now in AI’s comment, the agent in question becomes Grok (again in X). As Tom Hardware, Denizen of X, Punmasterstp reported, asked: “Hi Grok, how do you feel about 8 GB of VRM in 2025?”
The answer came in non -uncertain terms: “8 GB of VRM in 2025? Honestly, is it like wearing a butter knife to a shooting.” See the complete exchange below and keep in mind that everything is due to an article on how RTX 5060 Ti 8GB does not work to zero.
Hi @punmasterstp, 8GB of VRM in 2025? Honestly, it’s like wearing a butter knife to a shooting. Modern AAA games are going through a faster than a child with a bag of sweets, especially 1440p or 4K with all those juicy high resolution and rays textures that draw bells and whistles …May 3, 2025
Analysis: We should listen to Grok, and here is why
The RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is a weak sauce compared to the 16 GB version of this graphics card has been a hot topic since Nvidia launched these GPUs. It is quite clear for several independent tests that the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB in fact has little power in some aspects, so the concern is that the RTX 5060, which has been packed by the same amount of VRM, will suffer in the same way.
It is a justified concern, especially since Nvidia seems to have silently pushed the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB in the background, while whistling with indifference. All the online feeling that sweetened against the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB seems to be approaching a critical mass, and that is clearly shown by ‘Knife of butife of grok butter’ in X.
Can, of course, take the attitude of who cares what an AI thinks? Well, we should all import ourselves, because an AI does not really think, of course, not in a truly intelligent way. These are not independent virtual ‘thoughts’, but rather a large strip of scratched opinions of the web (of X, Reddit and several other ways) and then condensed in an answer.
So, what Grok says reflects the general opinions that are issued in all these social forums (and wherever the AI may have extended its data extraction data), which means that this is a barometer of the general sensation of approximately 8 GB of video RAM on a contemporary graphics card. In short, it is no longer good enough.
The grace of potential salvation for the RTX 5060 and its 8 GB of memory modules is that it has a more tempting price than the RTX 5060 TI with the same vram load. However, $ 300 (or the equivalent in your region) is not yet a budgetary disbursement, and if memory on board is a problem with certain games (and with particular graphic configurations), what happens next year or more in the life of this GPU, when PC games become a good treatment even more demanding?
I await a future proof level with a graphics card purchase, and it certainly does, and this is a definitive concern, even for a more “affordable” GPU. (I use air contributions because we are sincere, $ 300 is still far from being cheap, and as we know, third -party graphics cards that inevitably end up selling for more than the list price with many models, anyway).
As Grok says later in his answer: “If you plan to play over the next few years without constantly adjusting the configuration to the potato mode, 8GB simply will not cut it.”
Obviously, talk about the ‘potato’ mode (a reference to the potato pc, jargon for a horribly outdated and low power platform) is going a little far away, but it is difficult to discuss with the feeling, and again, this is the wide sensation that Grok is summarizing the entire website.
Meanwhile, we ask ourselves if AMD will also launch an 8 GB version of the rumored RX 9060 XT, another average range GPU that is expected to be revealed very soon. There have been suggestions that a taste of 8 GB is approaching, and also that it is not.
The most recent gossip is that AMD has this incoming, but it could try to effectively put aside graphics card 9060 XT 8GB, just like Nvidia has with the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB.
It seems that it is possible that the medium range efforts with a load of 8 GB can be fine and really swept under the GPU carpet as 2025 progresses, but we will see.
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