The latest information emerged from NBD shipment manifest (as spotted by Videocardz) has pretty much confirmed one of the crucial specs of NVIDIA’s upcoming RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 GPUs, with both cards expected to feature a 128-bit memory bus, meaning the memory capacity should be either 8GB or 16GB.
RTX 5060 (Ti) Memory Specs Revealed
In the manifest, one mention of GB206 (the silicon that will be powering both RTX 5060s) is followed by “GDDR7 128-bit”, which corroborated with earlier leaks detailing the specs of both upcoming GPUs. If RTX 40 series are any indication, the RTX 5060 will be an 8GB card, while the RTX 5060 Ti will be available in both 8GB and 16GB versions; since they now use 28Gbps GDDR7 modules, the overall memory bandwidth have been increased substantially to 448GB/s.
That’s a 55% increase in bandwidth which will certainly be a big boost in gaming performance, but the elephant in the from remains the capacity itself. Many games these days demand more than 8GB of VRAM with decently good graphics settings, and some has started to max out even 12GB cards; in particular, with the VRAM limited to 8GB, they won’t be able to utilize NVIDIA’s new Project G-Assist chatbot that requires 12GB to work.
Still, we should able to get the full details of these cards as NVIDIA will likely be announcing these cards sometime within this month, though product launch is reportedly going as far as May this year.
Pokdepinion: Honestly, 12GB / 192-bit probably would’ve worked better for these cards.
