VRAM limitations suggest that Nvidiaâ€s more affordable RTX 4000 cards could underwhelm, and thatâ€s a serious problem.
As we recently reported, Nvidia’s budget desktop GPUs are expected to land in the next couple of months, with the RTX 4060 rumored to be launching in May – and the RTX 4060 Ti and 4050 supposedly dropping around the same May-June window.
What we didn’t know at the time was that freshly leaked specs for the RTX 4060 and 4060 Ti had also surfaced, with VideoCardz reporting on that – as well as further corroborating the suggested May release date.
Those leaked specs have me pretty worried, though. My colleague John Loeffler already raised concerns about the RTX 4060 back in February, and I’m here to double down on those claims: the most recent rumors have all but confirmed that both the 4060 and its big brother the 4060 Ti will only have 8GB of GDDR6 (not the GDDR6X found in the currently available RTX 4000 cards) with a 128-bit bus. That’s… not good.
Compared to the RTX 3060 Ti, that’s the same amount of video memory with literally half the bus width, and both of these cards have fewer shader cores too. Sure, it’s built on newer, faster architecture, so the baseline performance will be better, but the VRAM situation is concerning.
