CES 2025 will take place in Las Vegas next month. The Consumer Electronics Show traditionally serves as the start of the coming technology year. It will be official; In view of this, there has been speculation about a launch of the RTX 5000 series for weeks.
A screenshot of this upcoming Blackwell generation is now circulating on the PCMR subreddit, which summarizes not only the chips but also the amount of memory and the interface of the respective models and which causes horror among numerous comments:
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The listing comes from the portal's GPU databaseTechPowerUp. There are no leaks about the memory size of the RTX 5050 and RTX 5060 so far, but there are.
- It is now clear that theand at least in the first new Nvidia GPUs16 Gb pro Moduleremains. From this - as with all other graphics cards - the overall size can be realistically understood.
- A graphics card with a 128-bit interface ultimately means nothing other than the “addition” of the existing 32-bit memory controllers. This means a total of 128 bitsfour memory chipsbefore.
- Since both theGB206 chip for RTX 5060as well as thatGB207 chip for RTX 5050with 128-bit interface in the leak mentioned, in combination with the 16 Gb (= 2 GB) that are considered secured, it can be calculated that the two graphics cardsonly over 8 GB of VRAMhave.
These two graphics cards in particular are at the center of criticism given the presumably high prices that Nvidia will charge for the models. As a reminder: The RTX 4060 came onto the market in June 2023 for an RRP of 329 euros; an RTX 4050 was only released in a laptop version.
- At this point, comparisons are made in the Reddit comments: The AMD Radeon RX 580, which was released more than seven (!) years ago, was already equipped with eight GB.
- The lack of progress in this aspect, especially against the background, is no longer acceptable.
- The Nvidia competition in particular knows how to use VRAM more generously: AMD's Radeon RX 7600 XT, one of the RDNA 3 budget solutions, already has 16 GB of video memory; also.
However: "Nvidia would get away with it" is one of the scenarios drawn in the comments, because the average customer buys GPUs primarily based on the Nvidia brand.at least partially justify this assessment, although such results are of course not necessarily representative.
By the way, you also expressed similar criticism in the context of the RTX 5070 leaks:.
Since things don't look any better with the RTX 5050 and 5060, what expectations do you now have for the upcoming Blackwell generation? Given ray tracing, DLSS 3 & Co., is Nvidia the only option for you or are you now on the move to AMD and Intel? What new GPUs do you have in mind? Let us know in the comments!
