Monday, December 16th 2024
32 GB NVIDIA RTX 5090 To Lead the Charge As 5060 Ti Gets 16 GB Upgrade and 5060 Still Stuck With Last-Gen VRAM Spec
Zotac has apparently prematurely published webpages for the entire NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5000 series GPU line-up that will launch in January 2025. According to the leak, spotted by Videocardz, NVIDIA will launch a total of five RTX 5000 series GPUs next month, including the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, 5070, and the China-only 5090D. The premature listing has seemingly been removed by Zotac, but screenshots taken by Videocardz confirm previously leaked details, including what appears to be a 32 GB Blackwell GPU.
It's unclear which GPU will feature 32 GB of VRAM, but it stands to reason that it will be either the 5090 or 5090D. Last time we checked in with the RTX 5070 Ti, leaks suggested it would have but 16 GB of GDDR7 VRAM, and there were murmurings of a 32 GB RTX 5090 back in September. Other leaks from Wccftech suggest that the likes of the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti will pack 8 GB and 16 GB of GDDR7, respectively. While the 5090's alleged 32 GB frame buffer will likely make it more adept at machine learning and other non-gaming tasks, the VRAM bumps given to other, particularly Ti-spec, RTX 5000 GPUs should make them better suited for the ever-increasing demands from modern PC games.
Sources:
VideoCardz, Wccftech
It's unclear which GPU will feature 32 GB of VRAM, but it stands to reason that it will be either the 5090 or 5090D. Last time we checked in with the RTX 5070 Ti, leaks suggested it would have but 16 GB of GDDR7 VRAM, and there were murmurings of a 32 GB RTX 5090 back in September. Other leaks from Wccftech suggest that the likes of the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti will pack 8 GB and 16 GB of GDDR7, respectively. While the 5090's alleged 32 GB frame buffer will likely make it more adept at machine learning and other non-gaming tasks, the VRAM bumps given to other, particularly Ti-spec, RTX 5000 GPUs should make them better suited for the ever-increasing demands from modern PC games.
96 Comments on 32 GB NVIDIA RTX 5090 To Lead the Charge As 5060 Ti Gets 16 GB Upgrade and 5060 Still Stuck With Last-Gen VRAM Spec
I also don't expect many reviewers to say 8GB is a problem when Nvidia often gets excuses for things like not enough VRAM on the low and mid range.
A 8GB card is probably fine for kids playing minecraft or roblox.
Though saying Nvidia does thing differently to use it as a defense for a favorite brand is an interesting way to put it for sure. I remember people saying anything more than 10GB was a "waste" but were proven wrong when those cards started to hit a VRAM limit.
Prices will be twice as high as with Ada Lovelace, because those won't be gaming cards but "AI accelerators" that could be used to generate income, not just used to waste time. And they will be scarce, since Nvidia will clearly focus on making AI server accelerators - not even the new high prices of "home AI accelerators" could compete with revenue there.
On the other hand, my 3080 10G needs a desperate upgrade lol
The names will absolutely cause chaos among the vocal, but really it's the price that matters most, where 8GB should be relegated to $199 or less now, maybe even $179 or less.
And then, if you found your rare edge case, someone who bought a low end card (yes 4060 is "low end", since there's nothing lower now) can not expect to always use Ultra settings, Ultra settings are wasteful, and with other settings the game will work 100% flawlessly and still look great. You got no point. Simply spoken, Nvidia is of the same opinion as me, so is AMD, they still think 8 GB is enough for a low end card, otherwise they wouldn't risk it. Now you will 100% call "capitalism" here, but that's not how the world works. The world of technology, with at least good companies, is a mix between practicality and capitalism, so it's a practical decision before it is capitalistic one to save chip size, PCB and RAM. #4
These days other people have started to notice it too in newer games at 1080p and not even max settings. They have had problems with fans on their cards. Mine started rattling. Many customer reviews say the same. Other than this issue i have not really heard anything else. Why are you using only one reviewer as an example? There are multiple reviewers saying the same thing.
Many have compared 4060 Ti 8GB vs 16GB and the 16GB card offers noticeably smoother performance. But it isn't. 8GB on a 5060 is not there to keep costs down to sell it for cheaper. Especially if it uses GDDR7 that is more expensive than GDDR6.
If Nvidia already sold 4060 for 300+ then there zero chance 5060 will cost less than 300.
Yet Intel is giving buyers 12GB for 250. Even if this 12GB were 300 it would still be appropriate.
8GB in 2025 for 300+ is delusional and anyone defending such low amount of memory at this price point just looks silly, as you do here.
I don't understand why you keep bringing up only one reviewer, there are a lot of examples of reviewers saying more VRAM results in better performance without stuttering like what happens when 8GB isn't enough, Hardware Unboxed has some good comparisons with VRAM for example. If you think low quality textures with smeared looking details look great, to each their own, however a card selling for at least $300 should have 12GB mininum, anything less is rediculous and defending Nvidia for it at this point makes you look rediculous.
It isn't about cost, and if it was because of cost Nvidia would be using GDDR6 modules and an 8 pin power connector.
3) there is also some issue on the game dev and their broken game when 8 GB vram (which is not a low amount, if you are technically versed) isn't enough *or* makes the game look like garbage. This discussion isn't as simple as people think it is, it seems. Next we all have 12 GB vram everywhere the game devs will be lazy again and then suddenly the 12 GB vram isn't enough either, 100% this will happen if you just ignore their agency and just play blame game with 8 GB video cards, which technically still makes no sense. There are big, beautiful games who work great with 8 GB vram, as long as this is the case, the other games who can't work well with 8 GB vram are the problem, not the video cards.
They have confused themselves with their own lies/product stack so much over the years, they can't even keep track anymore and they want their customers to swallow their bs.
Well except people like you who think it's normal to sell 8GB for 300+ and argue against progress.
This has happened may times before. It happened with 2GB, 4GB and 6GB cards too.
For some reason i no longer see anyone arguing today that 4GB is enough if you lower enough settings.
Windows and apps by itself can take up to 2GB without a single 3D rendering game/program running. That's your problem. You refuse to watch videos and then claim i have no practical arguments or links. How lazy can a person be.
Im not going to re-type every reviewers word to you by hand. This just shows me that you ignore evidence that contradicts your statements and therefore you ignore it because it is in the "wrong format". These cards were released years ago when 8GB was not such an issue. Every year that goes by the issue gets worse.
And what do you mean by "shit storm"?
What are these people supposed to complain about years later? That their 8GB card cant receive OTA update to 12GB? Complain and nitpick on their chip as much as you do but every 8GB card released from now on will be compared to B580 and im pretty sure it will a an unfavorable comparison because Nvidia will never lower their prices and AMD likely wont lower their prices by enough.
I had a 3070Ti 8GB and not having enough VRAM definitely was a problem, even with some older titles, 8GB is a stupid limitation on new cards and at this point Nvidia is punishing the average gamers for not spending more on the x70 tier. Telling users to lower settings just doesn't work as an excuse any more when the prices keep going up, yet the value price/performance goes down. Honestly good luck with that, I like to have written content as an option, but if you want to compare how games look and perform with an analytical comparison you need to see it in a video. There was criticism from users and reviewers when AMD released 8GB cards, that same criticism doesn't happen with Nvidia cards, for several reasons. And I think people are expecting the x60 card to be mediocre after the 4060 was slower than a 3060Ti. A majority of reviews and comments from users have been positive on the Intel B580, anyone being so negative over having more competition is probably going to be buying from Nvidia though. The B580 according to TPU is 10% faster in relative performance at 1440p over the 4060 8GB, at $250 it is an excellent value, and if Nvidia isn't just going ride on their arrogance they'll probably rush out a 16GB version of the 5060.