If insider reports are to be believed, NVIDIA is readying new versions of the GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti graphics cards with a surprising memory setup. The company is said to be developing models that come with 9 GB of VRAM, a strategy that has been talked about before for the entry-level RTX 5050.
The leaks point to NVIDIA using three GDDR7 modules, each providing 3 GB. This step aims to keep prices low, which should make the cards more interesting for the budget market. But to pull this off, NVIDIA might have to make a trade-off by cutting down the memory bus width.
In concrete terms, the bus is likely to drop from 128-bit to 96-bit. That shift will have a direct effect on memory bandwidth, which could hold back performance in some scenarios—particularly in modern games where quick data transfer with VRAM is key. In practice, this means NVIDIA is banking on a middle ground between memory size and production costs. Although the extra VRAM seems appealing at first glance, the lower bandwidth might cancel out some of those advantages.
Early details suggest the new RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti variants could arrive as soon as May or June. Their introduction will probably happen at Computex, the trade fair where big hardware news is usually unveiled.