NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti Could Use Standard 8-Pin PCI Power Connectors

[AleksandarK]

The GPU market is heating this March as both NVIDIA and AMD prepare to launch competing mid-range graphics cards. NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti, part of its Blackwell architecture lineup, are rumored to debut alongside AMD's Radeon RX 9070 and 9070 XT, setting the stage for a high-stakes battle in the mainstream gaming segment. According to leaks from Chinese hardware sources at Douyin, including ZOTAC-affiliated leakers, the RTX 5060 series will retain traditional 8-pin power connectors instead of adopting NVIDIA's newer 12V-2x6 16-pin design, simplifying upgrades for users with older PSUs.

However, the cards will reportedly require a minimum 650 W power supply—a 100 W increase over the RTX 4060 series—with estimated total graphics power (TGP) of 150 W for the RTX 5060 and 200 W for the Ti variant. While NVIDIA has not confirmed specifications, the RTX 5060 Ti will reportedly launch in two variants: 8 GB and 16 GB GDDR7 configurations, leveraging a 128-bit bus.



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[Legacy-ZA]

Such attractive power usage, wonder what the performance will look like.

 

[hsew]

Hallelujer!

 

[bonehead123]

Such attractive power usage, wonder what the performance will look like.

wimpy, gimpy, and dimpy, just like all of nGreediya's cards of the past 10 yrs or so.....in other words: 2-5% increases, at MOST...

As for the connectors, as long as they don't melt, then so much the better

 

[Vayra86]

1GB per pin?

I'll see myself out

 

[Hueristic]

8 GB and 16 GB GDDR7 configurations, leveraging a 128-bit bus.

Ngreedia still trying to push entry level garbage as mainstream to the plebs.

 

[Onasi]

wimpy, gimpy, and dimpy, just like all of nGreediya's cards of the past 10 yrs or so.....in other words: 2-5% increases, at MOST...

Literally the only card so far with THAT bad of an uplift gen on gen for the same tier of model is the 5080 (even then it’s closer to 10-ish% averaged out at 4K). So I wouldn’t start ringing that particular alarm just yet. And 10 years? It’s 2025. 10 years ago was sandwiched between Maxwell and Pascal releases, which were a lot of things, but wimpy with low increases? Absolutely not.

 

[Ruru]

Personally I see no issue of them having only 8GB considering they're practically 1080p cards. At least the difference between 4060 Ti 8GB vs 16GB was practically marginal. And when thinking of the difference between 4080S and 5080, I doubt that 5060 series are much faster than the 4060 series.

 

[Event Horizon]

But will the 5060 serve as a worthwhile upgrade to the 3060 (currently the most popular GPU on Steam). The 4060 certainty wasn't.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Wow, I think this is a new low as far as source reliability goes. We've begun to get hardware news off TikTok.

 

[Ruru]

Wow, I think this is a new low as far as source reliability goes. We've begun to get hardware news off TikTok.

Honestly, that's even worse source as tabloids in general.

 

[_roman_]

The Nvidia 5060 will serve as a worthwhile replacement for dead older graphic cards.

The title says * could use *. So everything is speculation and no facts

 

[bug]

About that recommended PSU, has anyone noticed how much a dive power draw takes once you enable Vsync and limit rendering to 60fps?

 

[docnorth]

About that recommended PSU, has anyone noticed how much a dive power draw takes once you enable Vsync and limit rendering to 60fps?

Obviously, and the dive becomes deeper for the most powerful GPUs.

 

[Ruru]

About that recommended PSU, has anyone noticed how much a dive power draw takes once you enable Vsync and limit rendering to 60fps?

Those PSU recommendations are always practically for the F-tier worst ones.

Add undervolting to those as well.

 

[Kapone33]

People can say what they want 8GB is paltry for Gaming at anything over 1080P. I look forward to the Indiana Jones raw numbers for these cards. Or everyone favourite to bash Spiderman 2.

 

[Bomby569]

very low power and with few generational uptake, this doesn't look good unless they have a metric ton of cores extra in comparison to the 4060 cards.

 

[bug]

Those PSU recommendations are always practically for the F-tier worst ones.

Add undervolting to those as well.

Not necessarily for the worst PSUs, but they do have to assume you'll be running a number of peripherals, maybe more than one SSD and sometimes a few add-in cards.

 

[Bomby569]

Not necessarily for the worst PSUs, but they do have to assume you'll be running a number of peripherals, maybe more than one SSD and sometimes a few add-in cards.

to go from 200 to 650W you have to be running a small army of hard drives

 

[bug]

to go from 200 to 650W you have to be running a small army of hard drives

You know there's someone out there running exactly that.

Joking aside, that 650W is spread across 3 rails. That makes these "recommended PSU wattage", pretty meaningless. You can be well below the rated number, but if you you load one rail excessively, your PSU will still run out of juice without going anywhere near the max.

 

[freeagent]

wimpy, gimpy, and dimpy, just like all of nGreediya's cards of the past 10 yrs or so.....

What are you running?

I only see you posting in the news section and never anywhere else

Should you even be posting about current hardware

 

[Darmok N Jalad]

People can say what they want 8GB is paltry for Gaming at anything over 1080P. I look forward to the Indiana Jones raw numbers for these cards. Or everyone favourite to bash Spiderman 2.

I’m playing Forbidden West at 1080p and it will pull 9-10GB on my 6700xt. I’m sure I could run it okay on 8GB (I ran it on 6GB on lower settings), but it obviously will make use of more.

 

[lexluthermiester]

This will be a selling point for a lot of people. I wonder if this will be done for the 5070?

 

[AusWolf]

The best news in the whole 50-series so far.

 

[N/A]

Amazing. RT 5030 /50 aka 5060/Ti should be powered by the slot. Not requiring any