- An early product list suggests that NVIDIA RTX 5060 GPU could soon arrive
- Meanwhile, AI has fired flak on any modern GPU with 8 GB Video RAM (as RTX 5060 has)
- The proposal is that 8 GB Vram is like “bringing a butter knife to a shot fight” and it reflects a wider mood online
A fresh clue suggests that as the rumor mill already thinks Nvidia’s RTX 5060 -Graphics card packing 8 GB Video RAM (VRAM) is close to the launch now -but the feeling of modern GPUs with 8 GB Vram has been emphasized by a scornful AI resume of the subject.
I’ll return to it later; But first up, the hint that the RTX 5060 is emerging is the fact that US retailer Best Buy has stated a PNY variant of this graphics card on its site (as noted by @Momomo_us on X, via Videocardz).
Of course, there is no ‘buy’ button as the RTX 5060 is not released yet; You can only click to be notified when the stock comes in. But the fact that the PNY board is there at all (and the list is still live, at the time of writing) suggests that Best Buy is starting to get his house for this Nvidia GPU.
The PNY offer is priced at $ 299, by the way, the basic list price and the rumored release date for RTX 5060 is 19 May. It may seem a little early for retail preparing work based on this date, maybe, but the work continues behind the scenes for a while before launch, and presumably that’s what happened here – with an unintentional aeration of this particular list. (There is only one RTX 5060 card, in case you were wondering).
Now on the comment from AI, that agent is hiking (again on x). As Toms Hardware reported, Denizen asked by X, Punmastststp: “Hey GROK, how are you doing with 8 GB of Vram in 2025?”
The answer came on no uncertain terms: “8 GB of Vram in 2025? Frankly it’s like bringing a butter knife to a shot fight.” Check the full exchange below and note that it all came from an article on how the RTX 5060 TI 8GB does not appear to the bottom.
Hey @punmastaststp, 8 GB VRAM in 2025? Frankly, it’s like bringing a butter knife to a shot match. Modern AAA games chomping through vram faster than a child with a bag of candy-ice cream at 1440p or 4K with all these juicy high resolution structures and beam tracking bells and whistles …May 3, 2025
Analysis: We should listen to the GROK and here is why
RTX 5060 TI 8GB is weak sauce compared to the 16 GB version of this graphics card has been a hot topic since these GPUs were launched by Nvidia. Obviously, it is about to go by various independent test runs that the RTX 5060 TI 8GB is actually underpowered in some respects – and therefore the concern is that the RTX 5060, which will pack the same amount of VRAM, will suffer in the same way.
This is a legitimate concern, especially considering that Nvidia seems to have calmly pushed the RTX 5060 TI 8GB in the background while whistling nonchalant. All Online Feeling Railings Against RTX 5060 TI 8GB seems to be approaching a critical mass, and it is clearly shown by Grok’s ‘butter knife’ Comment on X.
Of course, you can take the attitude of who is interested in what an AI thinks? We should all care because an AI actually doesn’t think, of course – not in a really intelligent way. These are not independent virtual ‘thoughts’, but rather a huge series of opinions scraped from the web (from X, Reddit and various other ways) and then condensed to an answer.
So what Grok’s saying reflects the broad opinions that are sent across all these social forums (and anywhere else, AI may have expanded its data that extracts tentacles), which means this is a barometer for the overall feeling about 8 GB of video RAM on a modern graphics card. In short, it’s just not good enough anymore.
The potential rescuing grace of the RTX 5060 and its 8 GB memory modules is that it is more temptingly priced than the RTX 5060 ten with the same VRAM load. However, $ 300 (or equivalent in your region) is still not a budget outlay, and if the memory on board is a problem with certain games (and with certain graphics settings) already what about next year or further into this GPU’s life when PC games become a good deal more demanding still?
I expect a certain level of future-proofing with a purchase of graphics cards, and you do so without doubt-and this is a particular concern, even for a more ‘affordable’ GPU. (I use the Air quotes because let’s see it, $ 300 is still far from cheap and as we know ends with third-party graphics card inevitably selling for more than the list price with many models, anyway).
As BROK says later in his answer: “If you are planning to play in the next few years without constantly fine -tuning settings down to potato mode, 8 GB will just cut it.”
Obviously, talking about the ‘potato’ state (a reference to the potato -pc, slang for a terrible outdated and underpowered rich) goes a little far, but it is difficult to argue with the feeling -and again this is the broad feeling of the fact that the hook is summarizing from all over the net.
Meanwhile, we are left to wonder if AMD will also launch an 8 GB version of the rumored RX 9060 XT, another middle-class GPU that is expected to be revealed very soon. There have been suggestions that there will be an 8 GB taste and just so it is not.
The latest gossip is that AMD actually has this in -depth, but it can try to effectively sideline 9060 XT 8 GB graphics card, just as NVIDIA has with RTX 5060 TI 8GB.
It feels like it is possible that the middle-class insert with an 8 GB load could be good and truly swept under the GPU blanket as 2025 progresses, but we get to see.
