GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti GPUs with 9GB of RAM are reportedly coming soon

Last month, we reported on a rumor that NVIDIA is planning to launch a new GeForce RTX 5050 with 9GB of VRAM, increasing the overall VRAM capacity by 1GB. Now, that's not a lot, and the main reason for the change is the recent availability of 3GB GDDR7 modules. For a GeForce RTX 5050 9GB GPU, this would reportedly also feature a 96-bit memory bus rather than 128-bit, delivering a 5% increase in memory bandwidth and a 12.5% increase in VRAM capacity.

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This month, we've got a fresh batch of 9GB GPU rumors courtesy of the China-based Board Channels forum, which regularly posts new information on unreleased GPUs and inventory updates from NVIDIA's GeForce RTX partners. The translated post notes that in addition to releasing a GeForce RTX 5050 9GB GPU, NVIDIA might also upgrade its other 8GB GPUs with this new 9GB configuration featuring 3GB modules.

So, that would mean that we could see GeForce RTX 5060 9GB and a GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 9GB GPUs as early as the end of May or the beginning of June. As noted by VideoCardz, which broke this story, while the extra 1GB of memory might come in handy in some titles, if NVIDIA were to shift to the smaller 96-bit memory interface, the overall bandwidth on these new GeForce RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti variants would drop, potentially affecting performance.

Interestingly, known leaker MEGAsizeGPU, who was the source for our original GeForce RTX 5050 9GB story has come out to state that, as far as they know, there are no plans to release GeForce RTX 5060 9GB and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti 9GB GPUs, with only the GeForce RTX 5050 9GB on track for a release in the coming months. In a way, this is good news because even though the current memory crisis has led to GPU price increases in several regions, we'd much rather see NVIDIA use these new 3GB GDDR7 memory modules to release a GeForce RTX 5060 with 12GB of VRAM, which would be a welcome update to what is an impressive mainstream GPU.