NVIDIA has been adding new GPUs to its RTX 50-series and the latest one on the block is the RTX 5050 graphics card. The brand has announced the launch of this new GPU for both desktops and laptops, complete with support for ray tracing and DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. The RTX 5050 desktop GPU will start at $249 when it goes on sale next month from third-party partners like ASUS, Gigabyte, and more, and you can expect the notebooks powered by NVIDIA’s RTX 5050 laptop GPUs to start at $999. Head below for more details.
NVIDIA’s new RTX 5050 GPU is now official
As far as the specifications are concerned, NVIDIA’s RTX 5050 desktop variant features 8GB of GDDR6 video memory (VRAM) and 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores, and it’ll draw up to 130W of power. The laptop variant, on the other hand, will draw anywhere between 35W to 100W of power and use 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM and 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores. The desktop version of the new RTX 5050 matches the RTX 5060 with 8GB of VRAM, but it’s expected to have a noticeable performance gap considering it has 1,280 fewer CUDA cores and uses GDDR6 instead of GDDR7 memory. It’ll be interesting to see how much of an impact these specs will make on real-world performance, though.
According to the brand, its new RTX 5050 will be able to deliver “an immersive ray-tracing experience with high settings in single-player games such as Cyberpunk 2077 and Avowed, thanks to DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation.” Be sure to check out the chart below to get a better understanding of the kind of performance you can expect from the new GPU.
NVIDIA’s new RTX 5050, in case you’re wondering, is a successor of the RTX 3050 which remains one of the most desktop GPUs out there in the budget space. This new model is expected to do well in the market considering the brand never released a desktop version of the RTX 4050. There won’t be a Founder’s Edition model for the RTX 5050 graphics card, but you can expect third-party partners to start dishing out the desktop GPUs next month. We’ll keep an eye out and update this space with more info.
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