Nvidia would show a certain conservatism regarding the memory configuration of its future RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti “Blackwell”. We learn that the firm would still be banking on 8 GB and 16 GB of VRAM, but this time in GDDR7.
The RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti will likely be the best-selling models of the future generation of Nvidia “Blackwell” graphics cards. For the moment quite rare, the information concerning them is all the more scrutinized, and this week we are learning a little more about their memory configuration.
According to the sources of WCCFTechNvidia’s new mid-range cards would again rely on 8 GB and 16 GB of video memory, respectively, but also on specifications close to those currently used for the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti… with one big difference: the transition expected to the GDDDR7 standard.
8 GB to 16 GB of GDDR7, in 128-bit?
The specialized site indeed seems to have obtained confirmation that the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti will be built around a “PG152” card supposed to house a 128-bit memory interface and a “GB206” GPU (which would bring together 4608 shading units144 texture mapping units and 64 ROPs, but also 144 tensor cores as well as 36 RT cores).
We would therefore maintain specifications close to those used by the current RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti, since the latter also rely on 8 and 16 GB of GDDR6 memory mounted in both cases on a 128-bit bus.
The RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti will nevertheless be able to count on the contribution of GDDR7 memory which would allow them to reach the 28 Gbps mark… even if we imagine that the RTX 5060 will remain slightly below this threshold in order to limit its consumption.
This move to GDDR7 will normally allow Nvidia to considerably boost the capacities of its mid-range on the memory side.
We therefore expect 448 GB/s of bandwidth, or 55% more than the current RTX 4060 Ti and 65% more than what an RTX 4060 offers. Furthermore, Nvidia would be banking on new techniques compression to limit the impact of the (small) 128-bit bus on the performance of its two new cards.
For context, the current competition from Intel and AMD has a greater quantity of video memory at the entry/mid range, but remains for the moment limited to slower GDDR6. The new Intel Arc B580 thus has 12 GB of GDDR6 VRAM, compared to 16 GB of VRAM for the AMD Radeon RX 7600 XT.
