NVIDIA Is Now Rumored to Expand its 9 GB Memory Configuration Strategy With RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti GPUs

[Peter_Brosdahl]

A new rumor suggests that NVIDIA could be expanding its plan to offer GPUs with 9 GB VRAM into its mid-performance tiers. With virtually no new consumer GPU offerings from any of the three manufacturers thus far in 2026, truly a first in decades, it appears that NVIDIA could be looking at VRAM compromises to […]

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[Grimlakin]

Glas they revisited their texture compression to get more out of 8 gig cards. Like they did with the 970... right?

 

[Elf_Boy]

One more gb of vram makes big difference?

Even with compression - how good is it? How fast?

 

[Burticus]

9gb is such a bizarre amount

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

Truly none of this makes a whole lot of sense and rumors are really coming from every direction now. The only thing I can make out from them is that NV has something going on with the RTX 5060 GB206 die. Either a surplus of low-yield GPUs that they want to use for the 5050 models, and/or a shortage of hi-yield for the 5060s which are going to be repackaged with this memory configuration while the current gen gets phased out.

 

[Elf_Boy]

I guess, bottom line, if it works it works - more a 1080/1440 thing?

 

[Grimlakin]

With their new texture compression who knows. But this means more.gaming cards at.16 gig and leave the big cards to others.

 

[Peter_Brosdahl]

not even going to pos about itt but now another rumor that the 3060 12G could make a comeback. I swear . . . .mumble mumble . . . . .walks away in disgust.

 

[igor_kavinski]

not even going to pos about itt but now another rumor that the 3060 12G could make a comeback. I swear . . . .mumble mumble . . . . .walks away in disgust.

Samsung begged them for that probably.

 

[Elf_Boy]

not even going to pos about itt but now another rumor that the 3060 12G could make a comeback. I swear . . . .mumble mumble . . . . .walks away in disgust.

I guess it depends how well the texture compression is going to function - I dont doubt it works, but is it fast enough type stuff.

It is better to have 12gb I think than 8/9. I was reading NV is stating 80% compression. So functionally almost doubling the frame buffer? I suspect not everything can be compressed. are there compression for sound and things beyond textures as well?

 

[Brian_B]

Remember SoftRAM for Win95?

 

[igor_kavinski]

I suspect not everything can be compressed. are there compression for sound and things beyond textures as well?

Compression is a misnomer unless it is specified whether it's lossy or lossless. Most "incredible" compression schemes are lossy. H.265/AV1? Lossy and look better only because a LOT of horsepower goes into reconstructing the image from the "hints" left by the encoder. They all depend on the fact that presented with incomplete information, our brains try to fill in the rest. So yes, almost any media can be compressed. But decompressing (or rather reconstructing) it will require serious compute power.