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.