A report from Videocardz revealed that NVIDIA has one more GPU yet to launch for its Blackwell (RTX 50) lineup, and this new model – dubbed RTX 5050 – will serve as the lowest-end model for both desktop and laptop segments.
RTX 5050 Revealed
RTX 5050 is said to be using GB207 silicon, which is yet to debut in the consumer segment but has been known in the workstation segment in the form of RTX PRO 1000 and PRO 500 chips. It’ll feature 2,560 CUDA cores (20 SMs) – two-thirds of RTX 5060 desktop GPU – along with 8GB of VRAM via 128-bit memory bus, and 130W TGP. However, this 8GB will be using the slower GDDR6 variant, instead of the newly-debuted GDDR7 modules found in all RTX 50 GPUs at this point.
The publication also obtained information for the GPU’s launch, which is sometime within July. Both desktop and laptop versions of RTX 5050 will be announced, and the latter has been revealed by some laptop makers in the last few weeks. It’s worth noting that 50-class GPUs was absent in the RTX 40 desktop line, and interestingly, the new card will not see any increase in terms of core count compared to RTX 3050 (both 2560 cores), nor memory (8GB GDDR6).
As for pricing, none is confirmed thus far, but if RTX 3050 is any indication, we’re looking at a price bracket somewhere around $249 mark. Given that RTX 5060 already occupies the $299 price tag, the RTX 5050 should be a fair bit lower than that – although it is worth mentioning that price can always change at any given time.
Pokdepinion: I have doubts of this card being a big upgrade over RTX 3050 except some extra AI features.
