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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Hell, the 5060 is slated to have 128-bit GDDR6 so it's going to have godawful bandwidth unlike the GDDR7 5060Ti and above which at least might solve the abysmal bandwidth issues the 4060Ti has.
6 to 8 GB is still +25% in capacity
8 Gbps to 28 Gbps is +350% in memory bandwidth
Anyhow, you're forgetting that the 1060 6gb has a 192-bit bus, that's almost 200GB/s of memory bandwidth with GDDR5. That 5060 with 128-bit should have a total memory bandwidth of ~320GB/s, so a 50~70% increase in bandwidth, quite far from that 350% you got.
It doesn't really matter. The mobile 5060 will utterly outclass any 10 series GPU.
totally unprecedented situation
imagine 8 MB being the standard for 10 years
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How much VRAM do I need for Games?
There is no doubt that VRAM is crucial for gaming performance. Not having enough can mean poor performance that includes blurry textures and choppy frames. As games have become more demanding, we are seeing more and more instances where even 8GB is not enough for some modern titles.
Thankfully more than 8GB is becoming more commonplace, and 12GB should be viewed as the recommended minimum amount of VRAM for 1440p or 4K gaming.
www.cyberpowerpc.com/blog/how-much-vram-do-i-have/?srsltid=AfmBOorIfIwlbm5YgSvDo5OZq9x_W0mZ6SDX2OUpbUYL3OeNUcbWR-XH
I mean if nothing else I do think it will hinder its longevity. We have seen higher VRAM cards last longer/improve over time over similar counter parts just because of the extra VRAM headroom.
Anyhow, which version of the 3050 are you talking about? Most of those (specially the mobile ones) are all sub 200GB/s. AFAIK there's no model that does the number you mentioned, and only the 3050 8gb desktop goes past the 200GB/s mark at the same 128bit bus, but still slower than those 256GB/s you mentioned.
Many of the laptops ones are even 96-bit lol
I'm not arguing against the 5060 being way faster, it's just that being faster but not having enough vram to run your task makes it useless at it, no matter how fast it is (reminder that we're not talking about games here).
Amd is even less competitive mindshare wise on laptop than they are on desktop. So basically a one horse race to the bottom.
It's not much better on desktop if you don't spend 500+ gtfo lol.
As long as people keep buying these gimped $3-400 usd cards they'll keep making them. Can't blame Nvidia for rolling in dat $$$.
The 140w versions in the 4050 to 4070 are misleading, the 4050-4070 only ran at a max of 100-107w.
The 4050, 4060, and 4070 mobile maxed out at 100-107w
4060 was fine with 8GB (we got the 16GB variant, we saw more VRAM does squat for that card). But if this is claimed to offer 4070 level of performance (laptop or not), I'm pretty sure it can handle more than 8GB.
But that's just theory. I don't pay much attention to leaks and put next zero value on them. I'll reserve judgement for when the products land.
Always fun to see a swarm of people who wouldn't have bought a 5060 laptop anyway, complain about it :)
So is the laptop version. And the Max-Q variants is 35W. I have no idea where 140 came from. The 4060Ti is 160W. And there is no mobile version.
But still, by default the mobile config seems to be either 115W or 35W (on the Max-q), as already said above.