If you’re looking for an entry-level gaming laptop in the next few months, good news – the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Laptop GPU will feature more VRAM over its predecessor, as spotted on British retailer Laptops Direct (via Videocardz).
RTX 5050 With 8GB VRAM
The new RTX 5050 Laptop GPU, as found on several Lenovo gaming laptops, is listed with 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM (memory generation confirmed by @momomo_us); that’s a 2GB increase over the RTX 4050 Laptop GPU. On paper, this should give the GPU more leeway to enable more graphically-intensive settings, which is now a prominent bottleneck in running modern games.
That said, no detailed specs is given aside from the revealed VRAM capacity, so the performance ballpark is still anyone’s guess. This VRAM upgrade, however, has created a rather odd lineup for NVIDIA’s RTX 50 series laptop GPUs where the same 8GB GDDR7 memory is applied up to even the RTX 5070, of which the gaming capabilities will be quite restricted by the lack of VRAM.
NVIDIA has yet to officially announce this GPU at this time, though expect a fairly soon retail launch as the listings have started appearing on the web (as of this minute, the page of the Lenovo laptops in question are still up by now, with only some of the information taken down).
Pokdepinion: RTX 5050 and RTX 5070 sharing the same memory specs just seem so odd.
