8 GB is still alive in 2025 – but RTX 5060 Ti cards cost less than the latest generation
Is there something more subject to contempt and passionate ridiculous than a perceived shortage of VRAM? Based on the reaction to the launch of the GeForce RTX 4060 TI of the latest generation, the safe response is no. And Nvidia is there again, with the new RTX 5060 Ti available with only 8 GB of VRAM, although a 16 GB version should theoretically cost you less than the variants of 16 GB of RTX 4060 TI last year. Or not. Who knows what things cost more day by day.
As the RTX 5060 family is based on current Blackwell architecture, you can take advantage of all the same features of the previous RTX 50 cards, including the generation of 4x frames. Another interesting aspect of the RTX 5060 family is the use of GDDR7 GDDR7 with large bandwidth for all versions, even the $ 299 RTX 5060. Here is Nvidia’s painting with some basic specifications: