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.
108 Comments on NVIDIA's RTX 5060 "Blackwell" Laptop GPU Comes with 8 GB of GDDR7 Memory Running at 28 Gbps, 25 W Lower TGP
Even black myth wukong which looks fantastic has poor texture quality if you look too closely even at max setting a likely concession to stay within 8GB.
My issue with 8GB cards at the entry level has nothing to do with performance or what settings someone has to use it's stagnation for almost a decade in the 300ish price range and below and with Nvdia the 400 usd price range and below...
I feel this is a side effect of how much stagnation nvidia has done with vram at the low to midrange...
Thankfully mods like the Witcher 3 HD rework and CP2077 HD rework are saving the day.
8 GB is a problem but lack of bang per buck improvement is a much bigger problem.
Overall I agree on the pricing though, it'd be nice to see more VRAM across the entire stack, but on this SKU I don't see it as a necessity. I also don't know what to even try to believe at this point, we usually get high end desktop parts well before mobile, it seems odd to get a leak about a mobile 5060 at this point in the pre-release leaks.Oh I agree, it might not be the GPU that appeals to me the most but I'd wager it's fine. It was more a dig at HUB/Techspot and their testing they do to highlight problems, testing with methodology specifically constructed to prove their supposition correct (at least in one or more occasions).
Rhetorical question btw :ohwell:So if you want to run custom ML models you now need to pay more for VRAM as well :wtf:
IDK why you guys are so insistent on holding onto that 8GB lifeline. Console shave 16GB of RAM. 8GB is no longer a baseline. It's OK to move on. Buying a GPU with 8GB of RAM at this point is like buying a 2GB GPU in 2015. A pointless move that will likely backfire.
But I forgot, resident evil Village is a specifically crafted benchmark, nobody actually PLAYS it.
The ballooning sizes are also, IMO, pure laziness that stems from the trend started on previous console gens. Devs stopped compressing assets to save on CPU resources due to consoles having weak CPUs and they just kinda… kept going like this. Next COD is what, like 400 gigs for a full install? Shit’s ridiculous.
I just really dont get it. These GPUS cost nearly as much as a console themselves, cannot play at settings consoles can, yet you still need the rest of the PC. Yeah, sure your use case may not demand it now, but when 512MB and 2GB cards went out to pasture there wasnt this constant demand that games be made to work on them, people understood that they were outdated, and it was time to move on. But with 8GB people get really hung up on it, like its some kind of insult to say 8GB just isnt enough anymore. When wolfenstein the new order came out and needed 3+ GB for the highest settings, people didnt cry about how it should fit fine in 2GB, they accepted that 2GB cards were coming to their end.
Any card over $200 should have more then 8GB of VRAM today. To do otherwise is an insult to the consumer. If you are buying these $400+ cards and running games at low settings to avoid running out of VRAM, something is seriously wrong.
I absolutely agree there are games you can't max all the sliders at 1080p on an 8GB card, but the equation isn't as simple as that fact being true = 8GB is a wholly insufficient amount for certain SKU's.I'm not, I wouldn't buy this myself, but I think the issue is also somewhat overblown, for an unreleased rumored low end mobile video card. personally, targeting 4k120 since my last GPU upgrade, I'll be after a 16+ GB card when I next upgrade.
The thing is that adding 12 GB VRAM to an entry level laptop GPU isn't going to put more money into Huang's pocket. It will probably take money out of his pocket. The added cost will just be passed down to consumers who are on a tight budget and already looking hard at the cost of the laptop. Some may choose not to buy it if it adds more than they are comfortable with spending.
On a tight budget and making compromises is a difficult subject to broach on a tech enthusiast site. It's not how most of us think but I can assure you that there a lot of gamers out there who do care very much about the budget especially at the level of this laptop.
VRAM has more issues than RAM with asymmetric configs. It’s stringent in that each GDDR package has a 32-bit connection. Anything like, say, getting 12 gigs on 128-bit bus is, while theoretically possible, will cause non-uniform performance for part of that memory. CPU IMCs are more flexible and can run, essentially, whatever (to certain extent), especially after a firmware update.
www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/b200-sxm-192-gb.c4210
www.anandtech.com/show/21310/nvidia-blackwell-architecture-and-b200b100-accelerators-announced-going-bigger-with-smaller-data