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NVIDIA's RTX 5060 "Blackwell" Laptop GPU Comes with 8 GB of GDDR7 Memory Running at 28 Gbps, 25 W Lower TGP

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In a recent event hosted by Chinese laptop manufacturer Hasee, company's chairman Wu Haijun unveiled exciting details about NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5060 "Blackwell" laptop GPU. Attending the event was industry insider Golden Pig Upgrade, who managed to catch some details of the card set to launch next year. The RTX 5060 is expected to be the first in the market to feature GDDR7 memory, a move that aligns with earlier leaks suggesting NVIDIA's entire Blackwell lineup would adopt this new standard. This upgrade is anticipated to deliver substantial boosts in bandwidth and possibly increased VRAM capacities in other SKUs. Perhaps most intriguing is the reported performance of the RTX 5060. Wu said this laptop SKU could offer performance comparable to the current RTX 4070 laptop GPU. It's said to exceed the RTX 4070 in ray tracing scenarios and match or come close to its rasterization performance.

This leap in capabilities is made even more impressive by the chip's reduced power consumption, with a maximum TGP of 115 W compared to the RTX 4060's 140 W. The reported power efficiency gains are not exclusive to RTX 5060. Wu suggests that the entire Blackwell lineup will see significant reductions in power draw, potentially lowering overall system power consumption by 40 to 50 watts in many Blackwell models. While specific technical details remain limited, it's believed the RTX 5060 will utilize the GB206 GPU die paired with 8 GB of GDDR7 memory, likely running at 28 Gbps in its initial iteration.



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8gig, wow Nvidia are so ahead of the curve.
 
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8 GB? Hard pass nvidia. I have 12GB on my 3060. Not downgrading. Pure greed.
This is an article about mobile meaning laptop 5060 not desktop. So far Nvidia has released

1060 Mobile/1060 Max-Q 6 GB
2060 Mobile/2060 Max-Q 6 GB
3060 Mobile only 6 GB
4060 Mobile only 8 GB

It is not surprising that the 5060 Mobile/Laptop comes with 8 GB when they released three generations of the same class mobile GPU with 6 GB (1060 to 3060).

Edit: Here is some more data

660M 2 GB
760M 2 GB
860M 2 GB (some had 4 GB)
960M 2 GB (some had 4 GB)

It takes 3-4 generations before Nvidia increases the VRAM on its mobile products.
 
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8 GB? Hard pass nvidia. I have 12GB on my 3060. Not downgrading. Pure greed.

This is mobile did 3060 laptop GPUs come with 12GB though?

But yea I hope Nvidia bumps VRAM quantity not just speed. 5070 series with 16GB GDDR7 would be ideal, but probably a long shot, I'd guess they still stay at 12GB.
 
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Hello nGreediya,

Please check your calendars, cause in most places on this planet, this is 2024, NOT 2014 :)

The fact that it will supposedly use GDDR7 means only one thing: yet ANUTHA reason to jack up their prices AGAIN, and since they are only giving you 8GB of it, these cards will essentially be useless for anything but browsing, email, office, minor photo editing, and some older games......
 
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Midrange gaming laptops at the $1000 range that these will be installed on are still rocking 1080p displays, 8 GB shouldn't be a hindrance. On a laptop, the least amount of chips employed means the least amount of throttling, so this should turn out to be a nice and cool model.
 
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GDDR7 only? When NVIDIA (allegedly) doesn't have enough supply of GDDR6X right now so it is resorting to downgrading one of their current cards to GDDR6?
How is moving the whole stack (even down to mobile) to a newer standard help with supply?
 
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Easily. GDDR7 is an actual JEDEC spec that every manufacturer adheres to and already shown as being capable of producing. GDDR6X was a weird, scuffed collaboration between NV and Micron which only the latter produced (obviously). It wouldn’t surprise me if the “supply issue” is simply Micron moving the available production over to GDDR7 at this point.
 
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Will be funny to see running at 28 and having a 128bit or even a 64 bit hehe to starve it to hehell and that 8gb, unbelievable, even for laptops 8gb is bad.
 
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I am sure part of the reason for the 8gb is power consumption which is important on a mobile chip like this (For thermals I mean, not battery life). What will matter at the end is performance since I figure these will be on $1000 dollar laptops which could be nice if the performance moves up a bit compared to the previous midrange mobile GPU's.
 
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It's an entry level gpu on a laptop. What did you expect?
8GB is fine.
If you want to play on a laptop seriously, you need a 4070, 4080 class gpu anyway.
The x60s laptops are capable of running most of the games fine at settings that don't exceed 8GB anyway.
 
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Even for a laptop the minimum should be 12GB, only 8GB is obvious stagnation when these gpu's are in $1000+ laptops.
Its the "8GB is enough" argument from nvidia users all over again lol.
 

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I think people make a mountain out of a molehill with VRAM. On this laptop games will not be running very high settings and certainly not RT. Even games today don't use that much VRAM on lower settings at 1080p. Take a look at Black Myth Wukong on lower settings at 1080p. About 5 GB VRAM usage. Yes, there will be an outlier here and there that can use more than 8 GB but think of this from the point of view of an entry level laptop buyer. They are on a tight budget and don't want to spend money on something that would only be necessary every once in a while.

 
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I believe you mean "this will sell millions of units present on almost every laptop from $800-1200+ range, with a high likelihood that this SKU alone will move more units than the entire Radeon dGPU shipments throughout the generation"
 
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Even for a laptop the minimum should be 12GB, only 8GB is obvious stagnation when these gpu's are in $1000+ laptops.
Its the "8GB is enough" argument from nvidia users all over again lol.
it was the other way around. it is nvidia (and AMD) want you to believe 8GB is not enough. they have their own way with their marketing with that statement and push people buying hardware that they did not really need.
 
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8 GB? Hard pass nvidia. I have 12GB on my 3060. Not downgrading. Pure greed.
hey guy how is it I got 8gb 3070ti, I hope jensen gets diarrhea for a year
 
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I still run my 1060 laptop, I will not upgrade to 5060 for +2GB VRAM. 12GB or nothing. I play games ocasionally, but I use the GPU for CUDA computation and photo editing.
 
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I still run my 1060 laptop, I will not upgrade to 5060 for +2GB VRAM. 12GB or nothing. I play games ocasionally, but I use the GPU for CUDA computation and photo editing.

True, you won't upgrade for +2 GB VRAM, you'd be upgrading for the 5 to 6 times the performance your 8 year old laptop GPU has :kookoo:
 
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it was the other way around. it is nvidia (and AMD) want you to believe 8GB is not enough. they have their own way with their marketing with that statement and push people buying hardware that they did not really need.
Sorry I didn't realize that game stunning poorly on 8 gb cards was all marketing! Wow, guess allt he reviewers are in Nvidias pocket!

(Let's ignore how they are making 8GB GPUs while marketing that 8GB is not enough. Did you think before writing that out? )

Or it could be that 8GB is outdated, and has been outdated. Games are using more, even at 1080p. It's time to move on.

Christ imagine people in 2014 still chanting that 512mb of vram is enough for anyone.....

Midrange gaming laptops at the $1000 range that these will be installed on are still rocking 1080p displays, 8 GB shouldn't be a hindrance. On a laptop, the least amount of chips employed means the least amount of throttling, so this should turn out to be a nice and cool model.
Sorry? Does 1080p on a laptop use less vram then 1080p on desktops? Because techspot has already demonstrated games suffering performance issues at 1080p with 8gb.

I think people make a mountain out of a molehill with VRAM. On this laptop games will not be running very high settings and certainly not RT. Even games today don't use that much VRAM on lower settings at 1080p. Take a look at Black Myth Wukong on lower settings at 1080p. About 5 GB VRAM usage. Yes, there will be an outlier here and there that can use more than 8 GB but think of this from the point of view of an entry level laptop buyer. They are on a tight budget and don't want to spend money on something that would only be necessary every once in a while.

So as long as you are ok with your games looking like a PS2 title with missing textures, 8gb is fine.

LMFAO. PC master race right here. When you have to play at settings worse then a series S, it's time to upgrade.
 
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5060, 4060 it means nothing anymore

The current laptop RTX 4000 we have many GPU with the same name but different wattages and configuration

There will certainly be multiple 5060, yes probably one with lower wattage given the current ultra notebook trends...but it means nothing more than ONE "5060" having that TGP of 115W.
Don't read too much into it.

However MSI adding another PCI-E 8 pin connector to their X870 mobo...
 
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True, you won't upgrade for +2 GB VRAM, you'd be upgrading for the 5 to 6 times the performance your 8 year old laptop GPU has :kookoo:
They did mention CUDA stuff, if they're running any kind of large-ish ML model, VRAM often is a pretty major limitation compared to raw compute.
 

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So as long as you are ok with your games looking like a PS2 title with missing textures, 8gb is fine.

LMFAO. PC master race right here. When you have to play at settings worse then a series S, it's time to upgrade.

As I said there will be outliers that can use more VRAM even for 1080p but the majority won't and they won't look as bad as you think. Entry level and on a tight budget means that compromises have to be made. It isn't critical to buyers at that level to be able to play every game at high settings. Only a lot of games. Sometimes people have to balance their wants with their need to be able to still buy food and pay the bills. Been there, done that so I can relate. Even the added expense of 4 more GBs VRAM at entry level will be a factor for them
 
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