- A list of early products suggests that the NVIDIA RTX 5060 GPU could soon happen
- Meanwhile, the AI fired flak on any modern GPU with 8 GB of video RAM (which RTX 5060 A)
- The suggestion is that 8 GB of VRAM are like “Bring a butter knife to a shooting”, and this reflects a wider feeling online
A new clue suggests that, as the rumor mill already believes, Nvidia’s RTX 5060 graphics card packing 8 GB of Video RAM (VRAM), is about to launch now – but the feeling around modern GPUs with 8 GB of VRAM has been underlined by a summary of the CINGANT AI on the subject.
I will go back later; But first of all, the light 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 on its site (as noted @momomo_us on X, via Videocardz).
There is no “buy” button, of course, because the RTX 5060 is not yet published; You can only click to be informed when the stock enters. But the fact that the PNY card is there (and that the list is still live, at the time of writing) suggests that Best Buy begins to obtain his house in order for this Nvidia GPU.
The PNY offer is at a price of $ 299, by the way, the price of the basic list, and the release date of the rumor for the RTX 5060 is May 19. It may seem a little early for the preparation work for the retailer according to this date, but the work takes place behind the scenes for a certain time before the launch, and probably this happened here – with an accidental distribution of this particular list. (There is only the RTX 5060 card listed, in case you ask yourself the question).
Now on the commentary of the AI, the agent in question being Grok (again on X). As Tom’s equipment, Denizen of X, PunmasStp, asked, asked: “Hey Grok, how do you feel about 8 GB of VRAM in 2025?”
The answer did not come in terms of uncertainty: “8 GB of VRAM in 2025? Honestly, is it like bringing a butter knife to a shooting.” Consult the full exchange below and note that the whole resulting from an article on how the RTX 5060 TI 8 GB does not work at zero.
Hey @punmasstp, 8 GB of VRAM in 2025? Honestly, it’s like bringing a butter knife to a shooting. Modern AAA games cross VRAM faster than a child with a candy bag, especially at 1440p or 4k with all these high -resolution textures and the bells and the whistles of the shelves.…May 3, 2025
Analysis: we have to listen to Grok, and here is why
The RTX 5060 TI 8 GB being a weak sauce compared to the 16 GB version of this graphics card has been a hot topic since the launch of these GPUs by Nvidia. It is quite clear according to various independent tests that the RTX 5060 TI 8 GB is indeed under -effective in certain respects – and therefore the concern is that the RTX 5060, which comes to pack the same amount of VRAM, will suffer in the same way.
It is a justified concern, especially since Nvidia seems to have quietly pushed the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB in the background, while whistling in a nonchalant manner. All the online feeling ramps against the RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB seem to approach a critical mass, and this is clearly shown by the comment of Grok “ Butter Knife ” on X.
You can, of course, take the attitude of who cares about what an AI thinks? Well, we all have to worry about it, because an AI does not really think, of course – not in a really intelligent way. They are not independent virtual “thoughts” but rather a huge band of opinions scratched on the web (from X, Reddit and various other avenues) then condensed in response.
So what Grok says reflects the broad opinions broadcast on all these social forums (and wherever AI may have extended its tentacles extraction data), which means that it is a general feeling barometer of around 8 GB of video ram on a contemporary graphics card. In short, it’s no longer good enough.
The potential saving grace for the RTX 5060 and its 8 GB of memory modules is that it is more tempting than the RTX 5060 Ti with the same VRAM load. However, $ 300 (or equivalent in your region) is still not a budgetary expenditure, and if memory on board is a problem with certain games (and with particular graphic parameters), what about next year, or further in the life of this GPU, when PC games become a more demanding good deal?
I expect a certain level of future with a graphics card purchase, and you too, and it is a defined concern, even for a more “affordable” GPU. (I use air quotes because it has it, $ 300 are still far from cheap, and as we know, third-party graphics cards inevitably sell more than the price of the list with many models, anyway).
As Grok says further in his answer: “If you plan to play in the coming years without constantly refining parameters in Potato mode, 8 GB will not cut it.”
Obviously, talking about the “potato” mode (a reference to the potato, the slang for a horribly outdated and undernourished platform) goes a bit far, but it is difficult to challenge the feeling-and once again, it is the broad feeling that Grok sums up all over the web.
Meanwhile, we allow ourselves to ask ourselves if AMD will also launch an 8 GB version of the RX 9060 XT RX 9060, another mid -range GPU which should be revealed very soon. There have been suggestions that an 8 GB flavor arrives, and just as it is not.
The most recent gossip is that AMD has this entry, but he could try to effectively put the line of implementation of the 9060 XT 8GB graphics card, just like Nvidia A with RTX 5060 TI 8GB.
It is possible that mid -range efforts with a loading of 8 GB are beautiful and really swept away under the GPU carpet as 2025 progresses, but we will see.
