Wednesday, April 16th 2025
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB Variants Not Made Available to Review Outlets
As expected, NVIDIA lifted its GeForce RTX 5060 Ti graphics card review embargo earlier today (April 16)—TechPowerUp's audience can check out W1zzard's opening day evaluations of six board partner models here. Just ahead of publishing its own verdict, Hardware Unboxed uploaded a video that leveled mild criticism in the direction of Team Green decision makers. VideoCardz swiftly picked up on the Australian PC hardware media outlet's accusations—in summary, only GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB models were made available to reviewers and influencers. Hardware Unboxed's Tim Schiesser elaborated on circumstances: "while the launch is claimed to be the same day for the two variants, NVIDIA is only sampling the 16 GB card for reviews, so that is what will be covered on launch day. But it goes beyond that because we've been told that AIBs will not be supplying the 8 GB card for reviews and, in fact, cannot supply the 8 GB card for reviews. Despite NVIDIA giving us permission to source 8 GB models for day one reviews, board partners told us they were unable to send us a graphics card in some cases because they weren't ready, but in other cases because NVIDIA had explicitly prevented them from doing so."
Day old press material adverted a simultaneous launch of both variants, but the ($379 MSRP) cheaper option seems to be delayed. An official source disclosed news about this release date anomaly to Schiesser and colleagues: "NVIDIA told us the 8 GB card is coming slightly later, perhaps a week or so after the 16 GB card ($429 MSRP), which would make it launch on a different day. But despite this, they both have the same launch day. Hard to know what's going on there." Additionally, Hardware Unboxed and other news outlets detected mixed messages during Team Green press liaisons—earlier messages focused on 16 GB and 8 GB getting equal billing around launch time. According to follow-up reports, a recent Q&A session indicated the sudden prioritization of GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB models. As of yesterday evening, VideoCardz detected media talk regarding a surprising lifting of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 (non-Ti) review embargo. They outlined curious conditions: "GeForce RTX 5060 is supposed to launch in May, (but) will have its review embargo lifted on April 16; the same day as the RTX 5060 Ti. Yes, that means the RTX 5060 won't have official review coverage, and basically, whoever can source the card before launch will not even break the embargo by sharing the results." As covered by TechPowerup's news team, yesterday's Team Green PR blurb was headlined by the "game changing" GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB card and its $299 starting price tag.
Fast-forward to the 4-minute, 10-second mark to watch Hardware Unboxed's "there are 8 GB models" segment:
Source:
Hardware Unboxed YouTube Channel
Day old press material adverted a simultaneous launch of both variants, but the ($379 MSRP) cheaper option seems to be delayed. An official source disclosed news about this release date anomaly to Schiesser and colleagues: "NVIDIA told us the 8 GB card is coming slightly later, perhaps a week or so after the 16 GB card ($429 MSRP), which would make it launch on a different day. But despite this, they both have the same launch day. Hard to know what's going on there." Additionally, Hardware Unboxed and other news outlets detected mixed messages during Team Green press liaisons—earlier messages focused on 16 GB and 8 GB getting equal billing around launch time. According to follow-up reports, a recent Q&A session indicated the sudden prioritization of GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 16 GB models. As of yesterday evening, VideoCardz detected media talk regarding a surprising lifting of NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 (non-Ti) review embargo. They outlined curious conditions: "GeForce RTX 5060 is supposed to launch in May, (but) will have its review embargo lifted on April 16; the same day as the RTX 5060 Ti. Yes, that means the RTX 5060 won't have official review coverage, and basically, whoever can source the card before launch will not even break the embargo by sharing the results." As covered by TechPowerup's news team, yesterday's Team Green PR blurb was headlined by the "game changing" GeForce RTX 5060 8 GB card and its $299 starting price tag.
43 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 8 GB Variants Not Made Available to Review Outlets
I'm sure we'll fill a few pages now on '8GB is enough for 400 bucks' next, because it just so happens to be on a few shopping lists that are desperate to defend their poor choices. But let this sink in here. Even Nvidia doesn't want to show this product to the world. They aren't proud of it. Its clearly not the mainstream target anymore.
So the picture is this: Nvidia loves to sell an 8GB card at 299,- and talk about it. They also like to sell a 16GB card at 429,- and talk about it. Goes to show even Nvidia understands what balance in a GPU is all about. Let's see if customers figure it out this time. Take into account the 5060 is complete stagnation, too, but now at 299,-, so the only real talking point is its price and the x60 is clearly positioned mostly to be cheap, and not to be a half decent GPU.
Then again, I'm not a businessman and I know NVIDIA likes $$$.
'Mainstream' 8GB card in 2025 is just an insult.
for these 90% of gamers, intel and amd are great options, and the more nvidia shows their true colors, the more people will realize that and jump ship
The price difference for a 16GB model is roughly 60$ - i doubt that you get any performance benefit from going twice the amount of VRAM.
Same story with the RX580/480 - 4GB vs 8GB. The 8GB model did not show any performance difference, and on top of that the GPU was never intended to be stronger then 1080p.
There was a point in time when we expected a company to make, you know, decent products worthy of a purchase. How dare we demand that. Yeah.
Man stop fooling yourself. We're just getting the least possible amount of hardware for an inflated price point now. It used to be just an inflated price point. And here you are advocating 'choices'. Lmfao. You're like the employer that says to its employees 'At least you've got a job, right!' Stop complaining!' even though the job's underpaid, the free lunch that was promised isn't given, and you're actually doing shitty chores instead of what you were hired to do.'Choices'. Exactly :D You almost need a magnifying glass to find back the PCB under the overkill shroud. Its one big misleading clusterfuck built for the gullible, naive and stupid. 'but but 8GB runs almost everything at not max settings at 1080p!'.... and we wonder why we can't have nice things. With a customer base like this, you don't even need marketing. Just plonk half defective GPUs on the market next time, why not? We already saw missing ROPs.