NVIDIA to Repeat History: RTX 5060 to Feature 8GB VRAM, While RTX 5060 Ti will Ship with 16GB

NVIDIA isn’t looking interested in adding more VRAM to the 60-class cards and while the Ti edition is supposedly bringing higher VRAM, it is still going to use the same processor at its heart, which may or may not introduce many benefits.

GeForce RTX 5060 reportedly comes with 8GB GDDR7 VRAM on 128-bit while the RTX 5060 Ti will come with twice the memory capacity

I previously reported that NVIDIA ‘may’ continue with the same amount of VRAM on the Blackwell RTX 5060 GPU as on the RTX 4060 and it looks like the rumor may come out true after all. NVIDIA is supposedly preparing both regular and Ti editions for the 5060 but the memory configurations will be almost similar except for the size.

This report comes from WCCFTech, which claims that they have received the news that the RTX 5060 will indeed ship with 8GB of VRAM but the RTX 5060 Ti will come with 16GB. Since the GPU at their cores will remain the same, the memory bus width will also be the same. The RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti will get the GB206 GPU with a PG152 board.

It’s unlikely that either of the GPUs will receive the 256-bit memory bus and hence, once again, we are seeing the same stuff repeating as with the Ada lineup. Both RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti had a similar story and NVIDIA didn’t improve the 5060/5060 Ti’s memory configuration except for the memory type. The RTX 5060, and RTX 5060 Ti will both come with GDDR7 memory and therefore, there will be a memory bandwidth increase over their predecessors for sure.

The GDDR7 memory will run at 28Gbps of speed, which is drastically higher than the 17Gbps memory speed of the GDDR6 VRAM of RTX 4060 and the 18Gbps speed of the 4060 Ti. This will result in around 448GBps of memory bandwidth on both cards, which is a solid 65% memory bandwidth increase over the RTX 4060 and about 55% increase over the RTX 4060 Ti (since the latter has a faster memory speed).

There was one difference though: The RTX 4060 Ti came with AD106 die unlike the RTX 4060, which brought AD107. At least this time, both the 60-class cards will ship with XX6-class die, which has been the case with earlier NVIDIA GPU generations. NVIDIA may also introduce the RTX 5050 GPU in this lineup and it will also feature 8GB VRAM on a 128-bit bus. However, it will come with a GDDR6 memory, which will result in lower memory bandwidth. Apart from these budget cards, NVIDIA has also prepared the RTX 5070 Ti with 16GB of VRAM on a 256-bit bus, which will bring the GB203 board.

The RTX 5070 Ti will supposedly launch earlier than the RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 cards. As per the reports, we can expect the RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti to launch in late February or early March 2025.