Monday, August 26th 2024
NVIDIA's RTX 5060 "Blackwell" Laptop GPU Comes with 8 GB of GDDR7 Memory Running at 28 Gbps, 25 W Lower TGP
In a recent event hosted by Chinese laptop manufacturer Hasee, company's chairman Wu Haijun unveiled exciting details about NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5060 "Blackwell" laptop GPU. Attending the event was industry insider Golden Pig Upgrade, who managed to catch some details of the card set to launch next year. The RTX 5060 is expected to be the first in the market to feature GDDR7 memory, a move that aligns with earlier leaks suggesting NVIDIA's entire Blackwell lineup would adopt this new standard. This upgrade is anticipated to deliver substantial boosts in bandwidth and possibly increased VRAM capacities in other SKUs. Perhaps most intriguing is the reported performance of the RTX 5060. Wu said this laptop SKU could offer performance comparable to the current RTX 4070 laptop GPU. It's said to exceed the RTX 4070 in ray tracing scenarios and match or come close to its rasterization performance.
This leap in capabilities is made even more impressive by the chip's reduced power consumption, with a maximum TGP of 115 W compared to the RTX 4060's 140 W. The reported power efficiency gains are not exclusive to RTX 5060. Wu suggests that the entire Blackwell lineup will see significant reductions in power draw, potentially lowering overall system power consumption by 40 to 50 watts in many Blackwell models. While specific technical details remain limited, it's believed the RTX 5060 will utilize the GB206 GPU die paired with 8 GB of GDDR7 memory, likely running at 28 Gbps in its initial iteration.
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via Wccftech
This leap in capabilities is made even more impressive by the chip's reduced power consumption, with a maximum TGP of 115 W compared to the RTX 4060's 140 W. The reported power efficiency gains are not exclusive to RTX 5060. Wu suggests that the entire Blackwell lineup will see significant reductions in power draw, potentially lowering overall system power consumption by 40 to 50 watts in many Blackwell models. While specific technical details remain limited, it's believed the RTX 5060 will utilize the GB206 GPU die paired with 8 GB of GDDR7 memory, likely running at 28 Gbps in its initial iteration.
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1060 Mobile/1060 Max-Q 6 GB
2060 Mobile/2060 Max-Q 6 GB
3060 Mobile only 6 GB
4060 Mobile only 8 GB
It is not surprising that the 5060 Mobile/Laptop comes with 8 GB when they released three generations of the same class mobile GPU with 6 GB (1060 to 3060).
Edit: Here is some more data
660M 2 GB
760M 2 GB
860M 2 GB (some had 4 GB)
960M 2 GB (some had 4 GB)
It takes 3-4 generations before Nvidia increases the VRAM on its mobile products.
But yea I hope Nvidia bumps VRAM quantity not just speed. 5070 series with 16GB GDDR7 would be ideal, but probably a long shot, I'd guess they still stay at 12GB.
Please check your calendars, cause in most places on this planet, this is 2024, NOT 2014 :)
The fact that it will supposedly use GDDR7 means only one thing: yet ANUTHA reason to jack up their prices AGAIN, and since they are only giving you 8GB of it, these cards will essentially be useless for anything but browsing, email, office, minor photo editing, and some older games......
How is moving the whole stack (even down to mobile) to a newer standard help with supply?
Easily. GDDR7 is an actual JEDEC spec that every manufacturer adheres to and already shown as being capable of producing. GDDR6X was a weird, scuffed collaboration between NV and Micron which only the latter produced (obviously). It wouldn’t surprise me if the “supply issue” is simply Micron moving the available production over to GDDR7 at this point.
8GB is fine.
If you want to play on a laptop seriously, you need a 4070, 4080 class gpu anyway.
The x60s laptops are capable of running most of the games fine at settings that don't exceed 8GB anyway.
Its the "8GB is enough" argument from nvidia users all over again lol.
(Let's ignore how they are making 8GB GPUs while marketing that 8GB is not enough. Did you think before writing that out? )
Or it could be that 8GB is outdated, and has been outdated. Games are using more, even at 1080p. It's time to move on.
Christ imagine people in 2014 still chanting that 512mb of vram is enough for anyone.....Sorry? Does 1080p on a laptop use less vram then 1080p on desktops? Because techspot has already demonstrated games suffering performance issues at 1080p with 8gb.So as long as you are ok with your games looking like a PS2 title with missing textures, 8gb is fine.
LMFAO. PC master race right here. When you have to play at settings worse then a series S, it's time to upgrade.
The current laptop RTX 4000 we have many GPU with the same name but different wattages and configuration
There will certainly be multiple 5060, yes probably one with lower wattage given the current ultra notebook trends...but it means nothing more than ONE "5060" having that TGP of 115W.
Don't read too much into it.
However MSI adding another PCI-E 8 pin connector to their X870 mobo...