8GB may even be fine, as the GB207 rumoured (not guaranteed) to become the vanilla 5060 is a smaller, less impressive config than the 4060, which is already a pretty underwhelming GPU. There's a good chance the 5060 isn't much of an improvement on the 4060, so potentially like the 40-series, it'll be about new features rather than more performance.
17% fewer resources on the same crippled 128-bit GDDR6 memory bus means that clockspeed and IPC gains are going to need to be significant to even just match a 4060's performance:
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This is all rumour though.
- Nvidia might make these RTX 5050 instead of 5060 and sell them at a lower price.
- This leak could be wrong.
- A combination of more cache and higher-density GDDR6 means these could be viable 16GB cards
(that last one is particularly unlikely - but at this stage everything is possible because it's all just speculation and unverified leaks)