NVIDIA has now put the GeForce RTX 5050 desktop graphics card on its site, showing all the specs and the price. This is the seventh kind in the RTX 50 line and is set to hit stores next month.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Graphics Card
GeForce RTX 5050 Main Specs and Features
After news of the laptop type, the desktop GeForce RTX 5050 info is here. At first, a launch in early July was thought, but NVIDIA now says it will be out in the later part of July.
The RTX 5050 is made on the GB207 piece with the Blackwell build. Key points include:
- CUDA Cores: 2560
- VRAM: 8 GB GDDR6 (not like the laptop's GDDR7)
- Memory Bus: 128-bit
- Memory Speed: 20 Gbps (making 320 GB/s speed, faster than RTX 3050/4050)
- Tensor Cores: 5th Gen
- Ray Tracing Cores: 4th Gen
- AI Power: Up to 421 TOPs (about six times more than RTX 3050)
- Total Graphics Power (TDP): 130W
- Advised PSU: 550W
- Power Plug: One 8-pin PCIe
- Clock Speeds: 2.31 GHz base, 2.57 GHz boost
RTX 5050 vs. RTX 3050 Fast Look
- Build: Blackwell vs. Ampere
- CUDA Cores: 2560 (Same)
- RT & AI Cores: New and faster on RTX 5050
- Memory: 8 GB GDDR6 (Same size)
- Memory Speed: 20 Gbps vs. 14 Gbps (+43% on RTX 5050)
- Bandwidth: 320 GB/s vs. 224 GB/s (+43% on RTX 5050)
- Bus: 128-bit (Same)
- TDP: 130W (Same)
- MSRP: $249 US (Same)
RTX 5050 vs. RTX 4060 Fast Look Image
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Market Spot and When You Can Get It
NVIDIA says the GeForce RTX 5050 desktop GPU will be out in the later part of July, for $249. This puts it just under the soon-to-be $299 US GeForce RTX 5060.
The RTX 5050 will face off with Intel's Arc B580 12 GB ($219 US) and Arc B570 10 GB ($249 US) GPUs. As it's a low-end model, all NVIDIA AIB friends will offer their own types at launch. No Founders Edition is coming for the RTX 5050. Most base PCB designs are thought to use a 5-phase VRM.
How the market will take another low-end 8 GB graphics card will be key to see.
