It's been a few years since we have had a 50 Class GPU since the RTX 3050 which has seen two variants, an 8GB one and a cut down 6GB one. So now this week, the RTX 5050 has seen a soft-launch with only one review available so far, which is by TechPowerUp
Specs of the RTX 5050.
2560 CUDA Cores
80 Texture Mapping Units
32 Render Output Units
80 Tensor Cores
20 Ray Tracing Cores
8GB GDDR6 RAM on 128-bit bus
2317 MHz Core Clock
2572 MHz Boost Clock
20Gb/s Memory Clock
The RTX 5050 is advertised to be a more budget friendly option, bringing high Core Speeds of its CUDA cores. Which is the reason why, the RTX 5050 is near identical to the RTX 4060.
I'll just leave the article and review by TechPowerup up here, you can see the numbers for yourself:
https://www.techpowerup.com/review/gigabyte-geforce-rtx-5050-gaming-oc/
It'll be interesting to see where the RTX 5050 lands because this is a card I may want in my secondary machine I can use for light gaming and won't be held back by my Ryzen 7 1700X old CPU. But with that said, I hope for a 12 or 16GB Variant in the future and something to bridge the gap between the 5050 and the 5060. And to be honest it is not cheap enough because it makes the Intel Arc series A770 and the B580 look like an even more compelling option.
That's why it is not really a talked about GPU at all in today's market and does not really make a whole lot of sense, at least in a standard form factor. What makes sense however, is low profile versions which funnily enough, some shops in Singapore do have them on the market right now AND the LP card by Gigabyte is one of the cheaper 5050s.
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| Tech Yard Singapore sells the Low Profile one, which funnily enough is one of the cheapest RTX 5050s in the market. |
I'm hoping to buy one in the future, not only for testing but also to resurrect my ITX box, because this computer doesn't need to game at anything more than 1080p. If any, I'd be surprised that even on this GPU that my Ryzen 1700X is still the main bottleneck there.
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