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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I was talking specifically about GDDR. HBM has its own rules and standards. It’s different since there it’s eight 128-bit channels per stack for HBM and HBM2 and sixteen 64-bit ones for HBM3 onward. So it always comes down to 1024-bit memory bus per stack. Total width therefore is based on the number of said stacks.
Even funnier is that my VRAM usage, as shown by RivaTuner, never goes more than 80% in any of the games...
And yes, I play natively on 3K resolution, or 3440x1440.
Next year GDDR7 with 3GB/32bit modules comes out, so you will be able to offer 12GB on 128bit bus, 18GB on 192bit bus, 24GB on 256bit bus etc. I wonder if they'll offer those options on both laptop and desktop parts. Wouldn't mind seeing a 5080 with 24GB
Slap 12 or 16GB of vram in a 5060 and it'll now be called a RTX B2000 that costs 3x more.
We might see more playing around with 3 and 6 gig chips on the inevitable refreshes. The first wave of GDDR7 is all 2 gig dies and I assume the orders have been placed way in advance, so NV is working with what they have.
Hell, they might just again ignore such concerns - GDDR6 also had 1.5 and 3 gig density in spec and those were shown, but apparently nobody was particularly interested and so no real mass production happened.
Max-Q branding is not going away.
When we originally introduced Max-Q back in 2017, the brand was initially used in GPU naming since Max-Q referred to the GPU TGP only.
Today, 3rd Generation Max-Q is broader, and is a holistic set of platform technologies and design approach to building powerful and thin laptops.
In addition, to be more transparent about a laptop’s exact capabilities, RTX 30 Series laptops now show more information than ever, listing exact TGP, clocks and features supported. You will find this in the control panel which now reports maximum power (TGP+Boost), and support for key features including Dynamic Boost 2, WhisperMode 2, Advanced Optimus, and others, all of which fall under the Max-Q umbrella.
We strongly encourage OEMs to list clocks and other technologies a laptop supports, including Advanced Optimus, Dynamic Boost 2, and more. Ultimately, like all laptop features and specs, it is up to the OEM to market what their particular laptop configuration supports.
Source: HotHardware
And I'm talking about actually using the VRAM, not just caching it, like most of the engines are doing it nowadays.
We need to demand better from Nvidia. Especially for the amount of money they keep demanding from us.
5060 Laptop or Desktop GPU regardless 12 GB Vram minimum. 5070 must start with 16 GB Vram and 5080 20 GB Vram, and lastly 5090 with 24 GB Vram. That seems fair.
Just get an IGP and face the fact you're not buying a 'gaming' laptop here. I've had my share of this class of laptops and it was all unfiltered poop. You can not game on this class of GPUs. Get an IGP and save money, or spend big on something that does run a game proper. Get a Steam Deck alongside a 500 dollar laptop and you have the same 1K dollar spent but then you have two devices, of which the gaming device doesn't drain your battery in a half hour while your non gaming device can be thin and light and excellent for anything that isn't gaming.
/thread really.
And also /discussion over 8GB on this class of cards. People... this is a lying piece of shit product what do you expect. Shouldn't even be called Geforce.