- LG Gram marketing materials show the laptop with an RTX 5050 GPU
- However, the rest of the promotional blurb indicates an RTX 4050 graphics card.
- This suggests Nvidia delayed the RTX 5050, but it’s probably not that far away
Nvidia recently revealed its new Blackwell laptop GPUs alongside the RTX 5000 desktop graphics cards at CES 2025, but we just got a look at the lower-tier mobile card that wasn’t issued at the show.
You may remember that previous rumors claimed that Nvidia could introduce the full suite of RTX 5000 laptop GPUs at CES, from RTX 5050 to RTX 5090, but we only got RTX 5070 models and above – RTX 5060 and 5050 were nowhere to be found. to be seen.
However, in the latter case, promotional material for the LG Gram for 2025 shows the laptop equipped with an RTX 5050 GPU, while the specifications provided refer to an RTX 4050 model, confusingly.
RTX 5050 MobileGDDR6 8GB pic.twitter.com/l2QtRtB7uJJanuary 13, 2025
As spotted by BullsLab Jay on
What could have happened in theory (add a lot of seasoning) is that LG was planning the RTX 5050 for the launch of this laptop, but Nvidia delayed the GPU. So LG switched to the RTX 4050, but someone made a mistake and dropped the name RTX 5050, it seems.
Analysis: An Nvidia RTX 5050 delayed?
This theory seems quite plausible given that we heard more than one rumor that Nvidia would show off the RTX 5050 to 5090 mobile GPUs at CES 2024. Which would also mirror what happened at the Lovelace laptop launch, where the RTX 4050 and more were revealed.
The upshot is that the RTX 5050 seems likely to hit the airwaves in the future, the question is: how long will we have to wait? To some extent, that’s anyone’s guess, but if Nvidia dropped this supposed GPU late in the game, just before CES 2025, there must be a good reason for it. So don’t expect to see the RTX 5050 anytime soon, but I’d be surprised if we had to wait that long for this mobile graphics card to appear.
Far from LG’s Gram laptop, the RTX 5050 (and RTX 5060) will allow cheaper gaming laptops to be equipped with next-generation GPUs, and that includes the use of DLSS 4, which will help boost speeds of frames for online games. -go play.
In theory, the RTX 5050 will run with 8GB of VRAM, which would be a solid allocation for this level of GPU, considering it will match not only the RTX 5060 (in theory), but also the RTX 5070, which we know has It controversially stuck with 8GB of video RAM (perhaps why Blackwell’s mobile side was a fairly low-key affair at the recent CES).
However, Nvidia has neural shading tricks up its sleeve for textures that, like DLSS 4, the company says will make a big difference over RTX 5000 graphics cards.
