Tuesday, February 11th 2025
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 16 GB Variants Deemed Fake, Insiders Insist SKU is 8 GB Only
According to early February reportage, Team Green's GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards are expected to launch onto market next month. Very basic technical information has leaked online; insiders reckon that both product tiers will be utilizing the NVIDIA "Blackwell" GB206 GPU. Rumors have swirled regarding intended VRAM configurations—loose online declarations point to variants being prepared with 8 or 16 GB of GDDR7 VRAM, on a 128-bit bus. Regulatory filings indicate two different configs with the eventual arrival of GeForce RTX 5060 Ti models, but certain industry watchdogs insist that the GeForce RTX 5060 SKU will be an 8 GB-only product.
A curious-looking ZOTAC Trinity OC White Edition GeForce RTX 5060 16 GB variant surfaced via a TikTok video—post-analysis, expert eyes declared that the upload contained doctored material. A BenchLife.info report pointed to a notable inconsistency on the offending item's retail packaging: "DLSS 3 should not appear on the GeForce RTX 50 series box, because the Blackwell GPU architecture focuses on DLSS 4." The publication presented evidence of ZOTAC RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Trinity OC White Edition box art being repurposed in the TikToker's video. Hardware soothsayer MEGAsizeGPU added their two cents: "this is fake. There is no plan for a GeForce RTX 5060 16 GB, and the box is photoshopped from the last-gen ZOTAC box." At the end of their report, BenchLife reckons that NVIDIA has not sent a "GeForce RTX 5060 color box template" to its board partners.
Sources:
BenchLife, Tom's Hardware
A curious-looking ZOTAC Trinity OC White Edition GeForce RTX 5060 16 GB variant surfaced via a TikTok video—post-analysis, expert eyes declared that the upload contained doctored material. A BenchLife.info report pointed to a notable inconsistency on the offending item's retail packaging: "DLSS 3 should not appear on the GeForce RTX 50 series box, because the Blackwell GPU architecture focuses on DLSS 4." The publication presented evidence of ZOTAC RTX 4070 Ti SUPER Trinity OC White Edition box art being repurposed in the TikToker's video. Hardware soothsayer MEGAsizeGPU added their two cents: "this is fake. There is no plan for a GeForce RTX 5060 16 GB, and the box is photoshopped from the last-gen ZOTAC box." At the end of their report, BenchLife reckons that NVIDIA has not sent a "GeForce RTX 5060 color box template" to its board partners.
19 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 16 GB Variants Deemed Fake, Insiders Insist SKU is 8 GB Only
But they're not, they're asking for $300 for starters, and still offering 8GB at the $400+ level. When you're turning down basic texture settings (which do a lot to improve visual fidelity with a very low computational cost when there is enough VRAM) or cannot even use all the VRAM hungry features of your card at $400 there is a problem.
That 0.1 higher FPS from double the VRAM, while the 8 GB card still beats its 12 and 16 GB competition.
This is before you factor in RTX cards having a competent upscaler (compared to the competition).
Surely worth $50-100 more for that 0.1 FPS /s
The only reasonable argument for the 16 GB xx60 variants was for professional workloads, but lets face it, if you're doing "professional" work, you can probably afford more than $400 for your GPU.
I just tried playing stalker 2 with my rtx 4060 and well it was not a pleasant play throw. I had to go down to 1080P medium settings before it was somewhat playerble. Not do to gpu dit not had enough grunt. It had. But when i ran out of vram and could go from 150 fps with dlss and fg and down to measly 30 -40 fps when i hit vram limit and response and enter menu was slow as hell.
Avoid at all costs 8 gb vram gpu's. Its not a pleasant gaming on new games. Yes i only tried 1 so far, but i think more games will run terribly on 8 gb vram cards even though the gpu has enough grunt to do so.
8 gb vram cards is a dying breed of gpu's. Avoid and don't buy. You will probably regret it