Nvidia’s RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM

A caller RTX fund enactment is coming for desktops and gaming laptops.

Nvidia has announced GeForce RTX 5050 GPUs for some desktops and laptops with enactment for ray tracing and DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation. 

On the desktop side, the RTX 5050 volition commencement astatine $249, gully up to 130W of power, and diagnostic 8GB of last-gen GDDR6 video representation (VRAM) and 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores. The cards volition beryllium made by third-party partners similar Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Zotac, and others, with expected shipments successful the 2nd fractional of July. Nvidia’s Game Ready Drivers are expected to person an update for compatibility with the caller cards successful aboriginal July. 

The RTX 5050 laptop GPU volition gully 35W to 100W of powerfulness and usage 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM and 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores. Laptops moving a 5050 GPU are expected to commencement astatine $999, with availability of immoderate models opening today. Early models launching earlier Nvidia’s Game Ready Drivers are released volition person drivers for the 5050 GPU pre-installed. GDDR7 VRAM is much powerfulness businesslike than GDDR6, allowing the laptop mentation of the 5050 to acceptable into slimmer notebooks without getting rather arsenic hot.

The prime to spell with GDDR6 connected the desktop cards feels similar an unusual one, adjacent though it should outperform the laptop mentation with GDDR7. The desktop RTX 5050 matches the RTX 5060 with 8GB of VRAM, but being GDDR6 and having 1,280 less CUDA cores ensures it should person a noticeable spread successful show with the paper straight supra it.

Nvidia is claiming the 5050 volition beryllium capable to present “an immersive ray-traced acquisition with precocious settings successful single-player games specified arsenic Cyberpunk 2077 and Avowed, acknowledgment to DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation.” Its illustration shows the 5050 achieving implicit 150 fps successful that script with 4x MFG turned on. However, support successful caput that the good people indicates that’s each portion the GPU was paired with a $479 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU moving astatine 1080p resolution. In afloat raster, Nvidia claims the RTX 5050 is astir 60 percent faster than the two-generations-old RTX 3050.

The RTX 5050 is the nonstop replacement of that RTX 3050, which remains 1 of the astir fashionable GPUs in usage connected Steam. Nvidia ne'er announced a desktop RTX 4050.