The upcoming Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti continue leaking specs as the launch looms on the horizon, the latest of which confirms some previously rumoured memory subsystem details. We are now pretty sure that RTX 5060 Series will feature a 128-bit bus, offering nearly half a terabyte of bandwidth when paired with GDDR7 memory chips.
According to shipping manifests, cargo dating back to February 20 is described as including computer graphics cards with PG152 boards and 128-bit GDDR7 memory. The PG152 boards were previously linked to Nvidia RTX 5060 Series cards, confirming that these shipments contain parts related to the upcoming RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti GPUs.
Furthermore, the manifest also includes a part named GB206. For those unfamiliar, this is the mid-range Nvidia Blackwell GPU chip currently powering the mobile RTX 5070 and is expected to also drive the RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti. Add to that the listed GDDR7 memory and the previous rumours about these cards, and we start to see the full picture.
Knowing this, we can be pretty confident that the rumoured specs we’ve gathered so far are accurate. These expect RTX 5060 Ti to pack 4,608 CUDA cores alongside 8GB or 16GB of 28Gb/s GDDR7 memory running on a 128-bit bus. This results in 448GB/s of bandwidth, which is 55% higher than its predecessor’s 288GB/s. That said, since the memory speed is yet to be confirmed, the final bandwidth may change a bit.
Moving to the lower RTX 5060, we are expecting a cut-down version of the GB206 GPU, housing 3,840 CUDA cores. This chip is said to be paired with only 8GB of 28Gb/s memory, also linked via a 128-bit bus, resulting in 448GB/s of bandwidth. However, since RTX 4060 used slower 17Gbps memory, RTX 5060 would end up offering a 64% bandwidth boost.
Now, while bandwidth is an integral part of overall graphics card performance, its benefit may be limited by RTX 5060 Series’ slower GPUs. Some recently leaked tests also paint a similar picture, putting RTX 5060 Ti around RTX 4060 Ti despite its 55% extra memory bandwidth.
In any case, we should be fixed soon as Nvidia is announces RTX 5060 Ti and RTX 5060 on April 15, followed by availability on April 16 for RTX 5060 Ti and May for RTX 5060.
