Monday, June 9th 2025
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Uses Slower GDDR6 Memory, Based on GB207 Silicon
NVIDIA is preparing to launch a new lower mid-range graphics card SKU in July, the GeForce RTX 5050. Positioned below the RTX 5060, the RTX 5050 possibly targets a price-point under the $250 mark, looking for a slice of the pie commanded by the Intel Arc B580. We are now learning that NVIDIA is making design choices that enable it to sell this card with an aggressive price, specifically, the choice of older generation GDDR6 memory. The card will likely feature 8 GB of GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit memory interface. At this point, we don't know the memory speeds, but if we were to hazard a guess, it could be 18 Gbps, for 288 GB/s of memory bandwidth.
The RTX 5050 is also expected to debut and max out the new "GB207" silicon, the smallest chip based on the GeForce Blackwell graphics architecture. This chip is expected to come with 20 SM, for 2,560 CUDA cores, 80 Tensor cores, 20 RT cores, 80 TMUs, and an unknown number of ROPs. The RTX 5050 is expected to be given a total graphics power (TGP) value of 130 W. It will be possible to build cards with 6-pin PCIe power connectors (75 W from connector, 75 W from the PCIe slot), although we expect single 8-pin PCIe to be the standard. The 130 W TGP will make it possible to build low-profile or compact, ITX-friendly cards.
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The RTX 5050 is also expected to debut and max out the new "GB207" silicon, the smallest chip based on the GeForce Blackwell graphics architecture. This chip is expected to come with 20 SM, for 2,560 CUDA cores, 80 Tensor cores, 20 RT cores, 80 TMUs, and an unknown number of ROPs. The RTX 5050 is expected to be given a total graphics power (TGP) value of 130 W. It will be possible to build cards with 6-pin PCIe power connectors (75 W from connector, 75 W from the PCIe slot), although we expect single 8-pin PCIe to be the standard. The 130 W TGP will make it possible to build low-profile or compact, ITX-friendly cards.
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Edit: Meh, forget that. It seems the X050 are almost carbon copies generation after generation.
What a crock. Cards in this awkward middle ground have never really found their niche: the 1060 3GB, the 1660/Ti/Super, the 3050 8GB... The kind of people that bought them bought them because they wanted to build something for themselves, but couldn't afford a better card (and/or didn't know better). Items like the 1050Ti, the 1650, and at this point the 3050 6GB find much greater success due to both being cheap and playing nice with cheap systems, i.e. office PCs with crappy proprietary power supplies.
Slot-powered is a powerful position in the market, and oftentimes makes up for a card's otherwise abysmal value proposition. Doesn't matter much if the card ain't worth $170 if the system in total costs less than a petsitter's paycheck.
Doesn't make much sense to power limit these cards to 75 W when APUs exist. Better for 95% of gamers to plug in a single cable and get, what, 30-40% more performance
RTX Video is very nice to have for your standard compressed 1080p stream on a 4K TV.
Likelihood is the new NVIDIA APU will replace slot powered GPUs for best in class at that power target.
1. Games from then didn't require that much VRAM to run fine. 2. People paid like five cheeseburgers for these GPUs.Please don't say you never saw it coming. I'm quite surprised with 5060 beating 4060 because, y'know, nVidia faced no pressure again. So 5050 being ballpark 2070 but with lower TDP is better than expected. Still garbage value anyway.
s DOA.....well ok....now that I am thinking of it, it should be DOA, but it will sell and will sell great, no matter how bad of an option it will be. Nvidia sticker sells even rotten bread today.*gastroenterologist's services are not included in the offer.
Of course influencers & YTers weren't peddling 3k cards to
druggame addicts back then so there's that!RX GPUs are fine and dandy but they ain't exactly the best power efficiency. Also they weren't better value, they mostly were a little more expensive than 1060s. So perhaps in Greece it was daft to buy 1060; in Russia it wasn't.
All the other stuff cited in this thread notwithstanding, it's just noise IMO :)
LOL in what world would this thing be considered mid-range? 50 class is never mid-range and this is pathetic even for a 50 class so it's low end garbage at best.
The 3GB version was a card with no future because of it's memory capacity and a scam because while having the same model number, it was in fact a cut down die.
Now, you want to put more laughing smiles and call a different opinion "nonsense" and the 3GB model "excellent budget card", be my guest. The reality is that the 3GB VRAM capacity was a kill switch and the naming misleading.Cheaper yes, but against 8GB models, like the RX 480, from AMD? Nvidia puts lower prices to products that will perform well today, but they will start failing much sooner and they do that constantly, for probably a decade or two, by cutting memory capacity or memory bandwidth. The 6GB GTX 1060, or the 8GB RX 480/580 could be bought and used for years. And the RX cards where selling for cheaper most of the time. The 3GB model not so much. It was looking cheap compared to the 6GB model, but it wasn't a good option when considering the competition from the RX cards.Yes, yes, RTX 3050 6GB is better than the RX 6600. Nice logic.