NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB Variants Not Made Available to Review Outlets

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As expected, NVIDIA lifted its GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card review embargo earlier today (April 16)—TechPowerUp's audience can check out W1zzard's opening day evaluations of six board partner models here. Just ahead of publishing its own verdict, Hardware Unboxed uploaded a video that leveled mild criticism in the direction of Team Green decision makers. VideoCardz swiftly picked up on the Australian PC hardware media outlet's accusations—in summary, only GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB models were made available to reviewers and influencers. Hardware Unboxed's Tim Schiesser elaborated on circumstances: "while the launch is claimed to be the same day for the two variants, NVIDIA is only sampling the 16 GB card for reviews, so that is what will be covered on launch day. But it goes beyond that because we've been told that AIBs will not be supplying the 8 GB card for reviews and, in fact, cannot supply the 8 GB card for reviews. Despite NVIDIA giving us permission to source 8 GB models for day one reviews, board partners told us they were unable to send us a graphics card in some cases because they weren't ready, but in other cases because NVIDIA had explicitly prevented them from doing so."

Day old press material adverted a simultaneous launch of both variants, but the ($379 MSRP) cheaper option seems to be delayed. An official source disclosed news about this release date anomaly to Schiesser and colleagues: "NVIDIA told us the 8 GB card is coming slightly later, perhaps a week or so after the 16 GB card ($429 MSRP), which would make it launch on a different day. But despite this, they both have the same launch day. Hard to know what's going on there." Additionally, Hardware Unboxed and other news outlets detected mixed messages during Team Green press liaisons—earlier messages focused on 16 GB and 8 GB getting equal billing around launch time. According to follow-up reports, a recent Q&A session indicated the sudden prioritization of GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB models. As of yesterday evening, VideoCardz detected media talk regarding a surprising lifting of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 (non-Ti) review embargo. They outlined curious conditions: "GeForce RTX 5060 is supposed to launch in May, (but) will have its review embargo lifted on April 16; the same day as the RTX 5060 Ti. Yes, that means the RTX 5060 won't have official review coverage, and basically, whoever can source the card before launch will not even break the embargo by sharing the results." As covered by TechPowerup's news team, yesterday's Team Green PR blurb was headlined by the "game changing" GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB card and its $299 starting price tag.




Fast-forward to the 4-minute, 10-second mark to watch Hardware Unboxed's "there are 8 GB models" segment:

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[3x0]

Color me surprised

 

[Scattergrunt]

Ah here we go. I'm sure this will help with what I've been talking about. regarding the 8GB model stuff.

 

[Vayra86]

If you needed any better confirmation they are actually selling an x50(ti) here and that 8GB is way past expiry date for half decent gaming in 2025's games you really need a reality check. With a sledgehammer.

I'm sure we'll fill a few pages now on '8GB is enough for 400 bucks' next, because it just so happens to be on a few shopping lists that are desperate to defend their poor choices. But let this sink in here. Even Nvidia doesn't want to show this product to the world. They aren't proud of it. Its clearly not the mainstream target anymore.

So the picture is this: Nvidia loves to sell an 8GB card at 299,- and talk about it. They also like to sell a 16GB card at 429,- and talk about it. Goes to show even Nvidia understands what balance in a GPU is all about. Let's see if customers figure it out this time. Take into account the 5060 is complete stagnation, too, but now at 299,-, so the only real talking point is its price and the x60 is clearly positioned mostly to be cheap, and not to be a half decent GPU.

 

[john_]

Damn that AMD. They ruin everything.

 

[N/A]

8GB is dead in the water. I just witnessed nearly 9GB in warzone and they will grow over time. Why can't they stitch 192 bits, it's not that small a chip.

 

[Ruru]

Pitiful. They don't want people to know its performance and want to mislead people. Which is funny since the 16GB version is already a joke.

8GB is dead in the water. I just witnessed nearly 9GB in warzone and they will grow over time. Why can't they stitch 192 bits, it's not that small a chip.

Then they should use 5070 chips for these and today's Nvidia's anti-consumer politics doesn't allow that, the card would be actually somewhat decent and that's out of the question. And what I've read, 3GB chips are so new and expensive thing that they don't want to use those for a card like this.

 

[Athena]

...and yet, tons of people will still buy the 8GB version sight unseen, and they don't really care, they just care about the Nvidia name on it

 

[Cheeseball]

What they should've done is just make this RTX 5060 Ti 8GB the RTX 5060 and just sell the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB as the RTX 5060 Ti. Whatever that RTX 5050 thing that they're planning should use the GPU that was for the RTX 5060 and thats that. At least we'll have an entry level card that is a bit more powerful than the RTX 3060 12GB/RTX 4060.

Then again, I'm not a businessman and I know NVIDIA likes $$$.

 

[N/A]

Pitiful. They don't want people to know its performance and want to mislead people. Which is funny since the 16GB version is already a joke.


Then they should use 5070 chips for these and today's Nvidia's anti-consumer politics doesn't allow that, the card would be actually somewhat decent and that's out of the question. And what I've read, 3GB chips are so new and expensive thing that they don't want to use those for a card like this.

Wouldn't be bad, if 5060 Ti was 83% enabled GB205 5376/80 or 76% 4864/64 Rops much like 5070 Ti is 83% enabled 5080, provided Nvidia could see the justification, maybe in super variants.

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

What they should've done is just make this RTX 5060 Ti 8GB the RTX 5060 and just sell the RTX 5060 Ti 16GB as the RTX 5060 Ti. Whatever that RTX 5050 thing that they're planning should use the GPU that was for the RTX 5060 and thats that. At least we'll have an entry level card that is a bit more powerful than the RTX 3060 12GB/RTX 4060.

Then again, I'm not a businessman and I know NVIDIA likes $$$.

They painted themselves in the corner by making the 5070 a 12GB card. The 8GB 5060Ti is a placeholder to hit a sub-400 MSRP and to not make folks wonder why less is more and move “up” to a 5070. It all sells out in a few hours anyway.

 

[Bruno_O]

love this arc of nvidia digging their graves deeper and deeper with gamers

 

[Visible Noise]

love this arc of nvidia digging their graves deeper and deeper with gamers

How deep can the grave be when they essentially own the market?

 

[Chaitanya]

love this arc of nvidia digging their graves deeper and deeper with gamers

"Gamers" are minority in fraction of their profits these days, so gamers are getting short end of the stick these days.

 

[Crackong]

The 8GB variant shouldn't exist in the first place.
'Mainstream' 8GB card in 2025 is just an insult.

 

[Visible Noise]

The 8GB variant shouldn't exist in the first place.
'Mainstream' 8GB card in 2025 is just an insult.

How dare Nvidia insult people by giving them choices, right?

 

[3x0]

How dare Nvidia insult people by giving them choices, right?

When the choice is between an overpriced card and a slightly less overpriced POS card then it's not really a choice is it?

 

[Visible Noise]

When the choice is between an overpriced card and a slightly less overpriced POS card then it's not really a choice is it?

Overpriced? You been in a coma the last 5 years?

 

[Hecate91]

The 8GB variant shouldn't exist in the first place.
'Mainstream' 8GB card in 2025 is just an insult.

The 8gb version should be the 5060, and the 5060ti a cut down 5070 with 12gb.

 

[Crackong]

The 8gb version should be the 5060, and the 5060ti a cut down 5070 with 12gb.

The 5060Ti is more like a 5050, a card meant to be HHHL

 

[Hecate91]

The 5060Ti is more like a 5050, a card meant to be HHHL

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Wow, that is a tiny pcb. These cards should have been single slot with 1 or 2 fans to get closer to MSRP.

 

[Bruno_O]

How deep can the grave be when they essentially own the market?

they only own the super high end + cuda / ai, that 90% of gamers dont care about

for these 90% of gamers, intel and amd are great options, and the more nvidia shows their true colors, the more people will realize that and jump ship

 

[Jism]

I don't get it. 8GB is sufficient to run games. Not with all eye candy turned on, but still it would perform as it should.

The price difference for a 16GB model is roughly 60$ - i doubt that you get any performance benefit from going twice the amount of VRAM.

Same story with the RX580/480 - 4GB vs 8GB. The 8GB model did not show any performance difference, and on top of that the GPU was never intended to be stronger then 1080p.

 

[Rightness_1]

16GB SHOULD be the standard for modern gaming GPU's in 2025. The 5080 SHOULD have been a 24gb card. Then the whole of NV's range would have made sense.

 

[TheDeeGee]

RIP sales then ^^