Since we started talking about GeForce RTX 50, it was clear to us that NVIDIA it will use GDDR7 memory with these new graphics cards, but this does not mean that all the models that will arrive in this new generation will use this type of memory.

I believe NVIDIA will repeat the strategy we saw with the GeForce RTX 30 and GeForce RTX 40, the two generations that They used two types of graphics memory and they worked perfectly. It’s not confirmed, but it makes a lot of sense, and as I said, it’s supported by two precedents from previous generations.

The most powerful models of both generations used memory GDDR6X, while less powerful and cheaper models used memory GDDR6. For example, in the GeForce RTX 30 series, only GeForce RTX 3070 Ti and above used GDDR6X memory, the rest were limited to GDDR6 memory, and in the current generation, the use of GDDR6X memory was extended to GeForce RTX 4070 and above.

The main reason why NVIDIA used two different types of graphics memory in their graphics cards was reduce costs as part of the entry into the higher band and also into the middle band. It also made it possible better differentiate your products and increase bandwidth on more powerful graphics cards that benefit most from faster memory.

GeForce RTX 50: GDDR6 in the middle and lower class

Price of GDDR7 memory it will be highand its availability will be very limited during the first post-market phase. These two keys help us better understand why NVIDIA may have decided to limit the use of this type of graphics memory to its most powerful graphics cards within the GeForce RTX 50 series, and why I don’t think we will see GDDR7 in all models.

I have doubts about which models will use GDDR7 memories and which will repeat the use of GDDR6 memories, but I believe that most likely all top graphics cardsincluding the GeForce RTX 5070, which will be the entry model of the mentioned series, use this type of graphics memory with a speed of 28 Gb/s.

In the middle zone, these doubts occur to me. Both the GeForce RTX 5060 and GeForce RTX 5060 Ti can use GDDR7 memory, but there is also the possibility that only the Ti model has this type of memory. I can’t rule it out either that both end up using 20 Gb/s GDDR6 memory.

I’m sure if we see a GeForce RTX 5050 it will be equipped with it GDDR6 memory. This memory will operate at speeds between 18 Gbps and 20 Gbps and may have a 96-bit or 128-bit bus, depending on the amount of graphics memory NVIDIA chooses to integrate. A 96-bit bus would fit in a 6GB configuration and a 128-bit with an 8GB configuration.

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