- A rumor appeared showing the RTX 5060 with a 16 GB variant
- This turned out to be false, unfortunately
- The discreditors have doubled the existing speculation: only the RTX 5060 TI will offer 16 GB and 8GB, with the RTX 5060 only with 8GB
NVIDIA RTX 5060 GPU will not come in a variant that has 16 GB of video RAM (unfortunately, but not surprisingly), or that is the last of the rumor factory, after a Tiktok video that increased the hopes of some players PC.
This video clip presented what was stated that were the Zotac RTX 5060 (and 5060 TI) boxes that showed 16 GB in them, suggesting that both RTX 506 flavors will offer an option of 16 GB (as well as 8 GB).
However, this was clearly falsified, as noted by the Chinese technology site and Megasizegpu filtration in X pointed out.
This is false. There is no plan for 5060 16 g, and the Sectoshope box of the latest generation Zotac box. You can see this from the DLSS3 brand and the coldest design. https://t.co/lq2ihom4k6February 8, 2025
In fact, these are the last generation RTX 4000 GPU boxes that have been altered, but without care of the details, since the packaging still says ‘DLSS 3’ when Nvidia has passed to DLSS 4 with its new Blackwell graphics cards. As Megasizegpu points out, the coldest design is the same as the latest generation products with these GPUs as well.
The current theory remains the same as before, that the RTX 5060 TI will have a 16 GB turn, plus an 8 GB version, while the Vanilla RTX 5060 will only work with 8 GB.
Benchlife states that he has confirmed with the sources of graphics card manufacturers in China that RTX 5060 will only have an 8 GB version.
ANALYSIS: A complex VRM equilibrium act, with a distinctive danger of getting too thin
Of course, before we get carried away by the fervor of watercene of water-videos that freezes to pour here, we must remember that even the existing rumor, which has been in its place for a while, of the RTX 5060 that only has 8GB It’s just that: a rumor. This may not be the case, but for me, it is undoubtedly a fairly credible movement of Nvidia.
After all, it would reflect the video RAM settings of the existing RTX 4060 models. In addition to that, with the RTX 5070 with 12 GB of VRM, it makes sense to keep the RTX 5060 below that (if not the RTX 5060 TI, but that happened with the 4060 TI and 4070 too).
What should also be taken into account is that the new RAM of the video GDDR7 in the RTX 5060 models is also a great update in terms of memory speed. In addition, Nvidia has its Secret Vram sauce (neuronal texture compression) to help smaller capacity graphics cards with the Blackwell generation, although the support for that will be limited, certainly in these initial stages of the useful life of the RTX 5000 GPU 5000 .
All of which adds to a distinctive probability that Nvidia stays with the RTX 4060 VRM loads, since the rumors so far have insisted, and we can certainly torpedo the false speculation RTX 5060 16GB that emerged in Tiktok.
Just having 8 GB with RTX 4060 was controversial enough, back in the launch of this GPU, so it can bet that it will be even more with the RTX 5060, if this is how this develops. There are definitive concerns and, in my opinion, valid that this is not enough brute capacity for anything above the 1080p games, despite the tricks that Nvidia has under the sleeve as the compression of the neuronal texture.
Do you want a more positive fodder from the rumor factory about RTX 5060? It seems that in the front of the power connector, we are seeing a much easier update with these graphics cards than we thought before.
We should know the truth behind these GPUs soon enough, since a March 2025 launch seems a great possibility for the weight of speculation now behind that date.
Through Tom hardware
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