Tuesday, April 8th 2025
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 & 5050 Mobile GPUs "Officially" Leaked by Laptop Manufacturers
NVIDIA is expected to reveal its GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile and RTX 5050 Mobile GPUs later this month, but a series of leaks—going back to last summer—have already spoiled the fun. Last month, leaks pointed to Razer and MSI's preparing cheaper of "cheaper" portable gaming PCs—featuring lower end "Blackwell" Mobile hardware. VideoCardz has spent time looking for more examples—recent detective work has unearthed further evidence of an imminent launch. Yesterday's investigative article put spotlights on Razer, Lenovo and LG. Team Green's manufacturing partners have inadvertently published official web material with multiple mentioning of pre-release GeForce RTX 5060 and GeForce RTX 5050 laptop-oriented solutions. Razer China has already reacted to VideoCardz's report; their Razer Blade 16 (2025) splash page no longer lists an NDA-busting GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile option.
Similarly, LG's Taiwanese office has scrubbed "5050" from a recently published new LG gram AI notebook press release. The edited line states: "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 8 GB graphics card is only available in 16Z90TR-E.AD88C2 model." On January 31 (2025), the Lenovo PC YouTube channel uploaded an unboxing of their refreshed Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5 16" model. The video's description let slip crucial pre-release information, regarding an upcoming discrete graphics configuration: "optional latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 graphics, with a total power output of 135 W for strong performance." VideoCardz has deduced a speculative 65 W TDP rating for Team Green's entry level "Blackwell" mobile SKU. At the time of writing, Lenovo has not edited out the offending descriptor from their Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5 16" (2025) featurette.
Sources:
Razer Zone China, LG Taiwan PR, VideoCardz, Lenovo YouTube Channel
Similarly, LG's Taiwanese office has scrubbed "5050" from a recently published new LG gram AI notebook press release. The edited line states: "NVIDIA GeForce RTX 8 GB graphics card is only available in 16Z90TR-E.AD88C2 model." On January 31 (2025), the Lenovo PC YouTube channel uploaded an unboxing of their refreshed Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5 16" model. The video's description let slip crucial pre-release information, regarding an upcoming discrete graphics configuration: "optional latest NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 graphics, with a total power output of 135 W for strong performance." VideoCardz has deduced a speculative 65 W TDP rating for Team Green's entry level "Blackwell" mobile SKU. At the time of writing, Lenovo has not edited out the offending descriptor from their Lenovo IdeaPad Pro 5 16" (2025) featurette.
6 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 & 5050 Mobile GPUs "Officially" Leaked by Laptop Manufacturers
The 8Gib or 16Gib VRAM argument is not an argument for many NVIDIA buyers. VRAM is utilised differently and "only" benchmarks counts for those games. Maybe worth making a list of arguments for the 8GiB VRAM is enough.
There is no such thing as enough. There will simply be less progress in graphics due to the amount of memory available to the consumer.
Look at processors and threads. 8/16 should have been the standard a long time ago, but it is not. If the majority, let's say 80%+ of the gaming market does not have a given hardware, it is not worth making games for this hardware to use it to the maximum. Because the game must also work on 4 threads.
6/12 processors should not exist. But they segment the offer because they want to earn more and longer on a given solution. Intel gave up on HT because it was unable to compete. It is trying to create its own standard like nvidia so that others (AMD) would have to follow. They just don't have the strength.
They already moved away from HT in Coffee Lake once, saw that it was rubble and came back, now they are trying to cram in useless E-cores and convince us that they are needed.
IMO a cheap 1080p 4060 8GB laptop has been about the only sensible mid-price option for a very long time, and the VRAM is the limiting factor in higher resolutions and higher game settings. The laptop 4070 is already disappointing because it only appeared in ~$2000 MSRP laptops and has to make the same compromises a $299 RTX 4060 makes. I think that's what they mean by "a bit sad" with $800 desktops basically providing the same experience, just without the screaming little laptop fans.