The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 leaks at the moment are coming in thick and quick, with the newest one showing to verify the pace of the VRAM utilized by the brand new gaming GPU. Keep in mind that Nvidia hasn’t even formally introduced the existence of the RTX 5050, not to mention any specs particulars, so that is all nonetheless in rumor territory proper now. Nonetheless, it seems to be as if the RTX 5050 goes to have precisely the identical reminiscence setup as AMD’s latest GPUs.
As we present in our AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT evaluation, you’ll be able to nonetheless make a good GPU by choosing GDDR6 VRAM relatively than the newest super-fast GDDR7 reminiscence, enabling AMD to chop prices and make the most effective graphics card in its league. Certainly, the 16GB 9060 XT has twice as a lot VRAM because the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, making it a a lot better card, even when the reminiscence is slower, and it seems to be as if Nvidia plans to cut back the price of the GeForce RTX 5050 through the use of the identical sort of reminiscence.
In line with this newest rumor, which comes from common tech leaker MEGAsizeGPU in a publish on X (previously Twitter), the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 will use 20Gbps GDDR6 reminiscence. This is not simply the identical sort of VRAM discovered on AMD’s newest GPUs, however it additionally runs on the identical pace. Earlier RTX 5050 specs rumors have acknowledged that the GPU will even have 8GB of VRAM hooked up to a 128-bit reminiscence interface, which means its whole reminiscence bandwidth shall be 322GB/s with this pace of reminiscence.
Different leaked specs recommend the RTX 5050 will include 2,560 CUDA cores, 20 RT cores for ray tracing, and 80 Tensor cores for AI workloads, together with Nvidia DLSS. If that is true, this implies it might have the same core configuration to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 from two generations in the past, however with the advantages of the brand new Blackwell structure, in addition to VRAM that runs sooner than the 14Gbps GDDR6 reminiscence equipped with the RTX 3050.
Whether or not the RTX 5050 is price shopping for or not will finally depend upon its worth, and I am hoping that it will likely be priced nicely under the $299 price of the RTX 5060. It has been a very long time since we have had a genuinely reasonably priced new GPU for PC gaming, and I would like to see it hit the $229 spot, and even higher, $199. We’ll simply have to attend and see what Nvidia releases over the following few months.
Within the meantime, try my Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 evaluation to see how the corporate’s present most cost-effective GPU holds up in our recreation benchmark suite, and skim my information on how one can set up a GPU to see how one can improve your graphics card.
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