• An early product itemizing suggests the Nvidia RTX 5060 GPU may arrive quickly
• In the meantime, AI has been firing flak at any fashionable GPU with 8GB of video RAM (which the RTX 5060 has)
• The suggestion is that 8GB of VRAM is like “bringing a butter knife to a gunfight”, and that displays a broader sentiment on-line

A recent clue means that, because the rumor mill already believes, Nvidia’s RTX 5060 graphics card packing 8GB of video RAM (VRAM), is near launch now – however the feeling round fashionable GPUs with 8GB of VRAM has been underlined by a scathing AI abstract on the topic.

I’ll return to that later; however first up, the trace that the RTX 5060 is about to emerge is the truth that US retailer Greatest Purchase has listed a PNY variant of this graphics card on its website (as observed by @momomo_us on X, by way of VideoCardz).

There’s no ‘purchase’ button, in fact, because the RTX 5060 isn’t launched but; you possibly can solely click on to be notified when inventory is available in. However the truth that the PNY board is there in any respect (and the itemizing remains to be dwell, on the time of writing) means that Greatest Purchase is beginning to get its home to ensure that this Nvidia GPU.

The PNY providing is priced at $299, by the best way, the bottom record worth, and the rumored launch date for the RTX 5060 is Might 19. It might sound slightly early for retailer prep work primarily based on that date, maybe, however work goes on behind the scenes for some time earlier than launch, and presumably that’s what has occurred right here – with an unintended airing of this explicit itemizing. (There’s solely the one RTX 5060 board listed, in case you have been questioning).

Now onto the remark from AI, the agent in query being Grok (once more on X). As Tom’s {Hardware} reported, denizen of X, PunmasterSTP, requested: “Hey Grok, how do you are feeling about 8 GB of VRAM in 2025?”

The reply got here in no unsure phrases: “8GB of VRAM in 2025? Truthfully, it’s like bringing a butter knife to a gunfight.” Take a look at the complete trade beneath, and be aware that the entire thing stemmed from an article about how the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB doesn’t carry out as much as scratch.

Evaluation: we must always hearken to Grok, and right here’s why

The RTX 5060 Ti 8GB being weak sauce in comparison with the 16GB model of this graphics card has been a sizzling matter since these GPUs have been launched by Nvidia. It’s clear sufficient going by varied impartial take a look at runs that the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB is certainly underpowered in some respects – and so the concern is that the RTX 5060, which comes packing that very same quantity of VRAM, goes to undergo in the identical approach.

It’s a justified concern, particularly provided that Nvidia seems to have quietly pushed the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB into the background, whereas whistling nonchalantly. All the web sentiment railing towards the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB seems to be approaching a essential mass, and that’s clearly proven by Grok’s ‘butter knife’ touch upon X.

You could, in fact, take the angle of who cares what an AI thinks? Properly, we must always all care, as a result of an AI doesn’t really assume, in fact – not in a really clever approach. These aren’t impartial digital ‘ideas’ however slightly an enormous swathe of opinions scraped off the online (from X, Reddit, and varied different avenues) after which condensed right into a reply.

So, what Grok’s saying displays the broad opinions being aired throughout all these social boards (and wherever else the AI could have prolonged its knowledge extracting tentacles), which means it is a barometer of the general feeling about 8GB of video RAM on a up to date graphics card. Briefly, it simply isn’t adequate anymore.

The potential saving grace for the RTX 5060 and its 8GB of reminiscence modules is that it’s extra temptingly priced than the RTX 5060 Ti with the identical VRAM loadout. Nonetheless, $300 (or the equal in your area) remains to be not a funds outlay, and if the reminiscence on-board is an issue with sure video games (and with explicit graphics settings) already, what about subsequent 12 months, or additional into the lifetime of this GPU, when PC video games grow to be a superb deal extra demanding nonetheless?

I count on some stage of future-proofing with a graphics card buy, and likely so do you – and it is a particular fear, even for a extra ‘inexpensive’ GPU. (I take advantage of the air quotes as a result of let’s face it, $300 remains to be removed from low-cost, and as we all know, third-party graphics playing cards inevitably find yourself promoting for greater than the record worth with many fashions, anyway).

As Grok says later in its reply: “When you’re planning to sport for the following few years with out continually tweaking settings all the way down to potato mode, 8GB simply ain’t gonna reduce it.”

Clearly speaking about ‘potato’ mode (a reference to the potato PC, slang for a horribly outdated and underpowered rig) goes a bit far, but it surely’s troublesome to argue with the sentiment – and once more, that is the broad feeling that Grok is summarizing from throughout the online.

In the meantime, we’re left to surprise if AMD may also be launching an 8GB model of the rumored RX 9060 XT, one other mid-range GPU anticipated to be revealed very quickly. There have been recommendations that an 8GB taste is coming, and equally that it isn’t.

The latest gossip is that AMD does certainly have this inbound, but it surely would possibly attempt to successfully sideline the 9060 XT 8GB graphics card, similar to Nvidia has with the RTX 5060 Ti 8GB.

It feels prefer it’s attainable that mid-range efforts with an 8GB loadout may very well be nicely and actually swept below the GPU rug as 2025 progresses, however we will see.

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