- We have had news of the rumored specifications for the RTX 5050 desktop GPU of NVIDIA
- Two sources say that GDDR6 is slower, instead of the GDDR7 modules used with other Blackwell GPU
- Based on that, and the rest of the supposed specification, some PC players are not impressed, but it is too early to judge
Apparently, NVIDIA has an RTX 5050 entry as a desk graphics card (and probably also a portable GPU), and we have also caught a lot of spilled specifications for this low -level Blackwell model.
As marked by Videocardz in both cases [1, 2]There have been two alleged leaks around RTX 5050, which insist that the graphics card will use a slower video memory type than the rest of the existing Blackwell desktop GPU range.
First, an affirmation of the Chinese technological site Benchlife emerged that the RTX 5050 will have 8 GB of video RAM, but that it will be a slower GDDR6 memory, instead of the new GDDR7 presented in all the RTX 5000 GPUs until now (and rumored the RTX 5060 models, also).
That is supported by a regular hardware gossip in X, Kopite7kimi, who also claims to have news about the specifications of the RTX 5050. This filter believes that the VRM will end like 8 GB of GDDR6 (with a lower level memory bus of 128 bits of 128 bits), and that the RTX 5050 will have 2,560 CUDA CUDA GB207).
We are told that energy consumption is established in 130 W.
GEFORCE RTX 5050PG152-SKU50GB207-300-A12560FP32128-bit GDDR6 8G130WMarch 9, 2025
This is the first concrete information about the complete specifications of this graphics card, but obviously, take all this with great caution. However, the fact that we are listening more and more about the RTX 5050 now, including the details of firmer specifications, suggests that it is more likely to be something that Nvidia has under the sleeve, not only as a portable GPU, but a desk graphics card. (Remember that RTX 4050 was just a mobile graphics card, present in portable budget game computers: there was no desktop incarnation for PC).
In fact, the buzz in the rumor is that the RTX 5050 could reach in a matter of weeks, and the RTX 5060 models are not too far away either. We can be seeing April (or May) so that all these graphics cards arrive (and Nvidia’s ads could come very soon).
Kopite7kimi also mentions the RTX 5060, echoing the previous rumors of the specification, with the RTX 5060 TI supposedly offered in flavors of 16 GB and 8GB, and Vanilla 5060 only one version of 8 GB (however, with GDDR7 VRM).
The filter recognizes that the RTX 5060 TI will look 4,608 CUDA cores and an energy consumption of 180W.
ANALYSIS: RTX 5050 already in the container? Not so fast …
There is nothing unexpected in equipping the RTX 5050 with 8 GB of video RAM, in fact, this would be the expected allocation at the end of the distant budget of the RTX spectrum, but the slower GDDR6 memory is a bolt of nowhere (or green, rather).
The previously suggested rumors that Nvidia stayed with GDDR7 for the entire Blackwell range, but then, we have never been sure that Team Green intends to make an RTX 5050 desktop. In fact, we still can’t be sure, but as noted, it is more likely at this time.
Vram much slower in the Cash hamstrings the RTX 5050? Well, it would not clearly help, and a large part of the increase in performance with Blackwell has been achieved by NVIDIA thanks to the fastest GDDR7 modules in these graphics cards. (As Blackwell’s VRM loads have stagnated to a large extent, as we have seen with the RTX 5080, 5070, and in fact the rumored plan to continue with the same video memory configurations with the RTX 5060 models).
So, leaving that generational impulse outside the equation will not be good for RTX 5050, and as the players are already speculating, we could get a GPU that is not much better than the RTX 3060 here (or one that will not reach RTX 4060, anyway).
According to the rumor factory, the RTX 5050 is a reaction to the launch of the Intel ARC B580 graphics card, which seems to suggest that it aims to compete with the well received offer from Team Blue. At least in theory, but it feels like what we are seeing on paper here for the RTX 5050 does not fit that invoice, and Nvidia would need something a bit rather Peppier. Since the B580 manages the 1440p tasks in a capable way, and in particular it has 12 GB of VRM, while the RTX 5050 presented here seems more 1080p rate.
Perhaps Nvidia intends to push the speeds of the clock with the RTX 5050, in which energy consumption hints, to obtain a faster graphics card, but in general, something does not add with the talk of the rumor factory here, particularly that comparison B580.
However, really, speculate on performance at this stage is a bit premature, although temptation is inevitable, but, of course, we need the price of RTX 5050 to obtain a more complete perspective than is offered.
Personally, I think there is a lot of pressure on Nvidia to recover some good will with the players, given the way Blackwell has advanced so far. Therefore, an RTX 5050 that has a very affordable price, which minor performance levels could insinuate, would be an excellent way to do it. We have spent a long time waiting for a Nvidia RTX desktop GPU to a true level of budget price, after all.
Is this naive thought? Possibly, although other rumors have indicated a possible MSRP as low as $ 199 (or $ 249) in the US, and the point is that we will not launch the (supposed) RTX 5050 in the container yet. It could end up snatching the B580 Intel crown, our current Best Budget GPU, you never know.
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