NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 to Launch on July 1?

[btarunr]

NVIDIA is rumored to have advanced the launch date of its GeForce RTX 5050 mid-range GPU to July 1, 2025. It was earlier reported that the RTX 5050 would launch by the end of July. MEGAsizeGPU, a reliable source with NVIDIA leaks, says that NVIDIA informed AICs of the advancement, and that no cards will be ready to ship on that date. We are not quite sure what NVIDIA's strategy with the RTX 5050 is. The RTX 5060 launch was eclipsed by Computex, back in May. There are no major press events planned in July. One idea would be to announce the card and have AICs make it available to purchase as soon as they can, so the company could cover some ground over the mid-Summer.

The GeForce RTX 5050 is rumored to be based on the "GB207" silicon, the company's smallest chip implementing the "Blackwell" graphics architecture. This chip is rumored to physically has 20 SM, which the RTX 5050 maxes out, for 2,560 CUDA cores, 80 Tensor cores, 20 RT cores, 80 TMUs, and an unknown number of ROPs. It's expected to offer 8 GB of GDDR6 memory (either 18 Gbps or 20 Gbps), across a 128-bit wide memory bus. NVIDIA is looking to target a sub-$250 price-point with the RTX 5050, to compete with the Intel Arc B580.



Update 14:44 UTC: Turns out the RTX 5050 was announced today, with availability "in the second half of July".

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[Selaya]

ah, burying.
to the surprise of no-fucking-one tbh.
let's face it, this card will be a turd that shouldn't cost more than $100 yet will be sold for $200, instantly obliterating any value it might've had. but that's nv2025 for y'all. yikes.

so better try to bury the launch & generate as few negative reviews as humanly possible ig

 

[Alyux]

Wouldn't be surprised if NVIDIA also launched a 5050 6GB to repeat their same deceptive strategies as what went down with the 3050 6GB/8GB, and stripped down the die even more.

With how few shits NVIDIA gives about gamers, the odds of this card being competitive with the B580 in terms of value proposition are near-zero. Maybe it'll have a place in SFF systems without any spare PCIe power connectors, but that's assuming it's slot-powered.

 

[Nostras]

2560 Cuda Cores is probably going to be worse than a 6600 which I'd consider low-end nowadays. If performance is as expected I would not call it a mid-end card.

 

[Chaitanya]

Dont care about this stupidity of launching "5050" but I would really love to see flower type GPU coolers making a comeback. Have one of CM flower type GPU cooler in a box right now.

 

[Daven]

I’m questioning the validity of this leak but if true, the 5050 is anything but midrange. Its a budget card just above highend iGPUs like AMDs 16 CU Radeon 890M. As such, it should be priced lower than $200 and get all power from the PCIe slot.

 

[Macro Device]

just above highend iGPUs like AMDs 16 CU Radeon 890M

Even a 6 GB 3050 is at least not slower than that. 5050 will be ballparking 4060, being slightly slower. Of course it's horrible performance per dollar at 250 bucks but even the strongest iGPUs don't stand a chance.

The worst part in it is 5050 is rumoured to have a 130 W TGP which is a disaster. If it was the exact same story but slot powered... I mean, not ideal but the new "PSU-less" king.

 

[Paganstomp]

Must have found some useable scrap pieces from the waste bucket. nVidia gonna have a review blockade on these, too?

 

[Rightness_1]

Will this stellar product out-perform one of their own cards from 10 years ago, yet still cost more than the old card's original retail price?

 

[LittleBro]

NVIDIA is rumored to have advanced the launch date of its GeForce RTX 5050 mid-range GPU to July 1, 2025.

Calling Nvidia's smallest die a mid-range GPU is funny. RTX 5050 is a budget card, thus below mid-range. I'd say that even RTX 5060 is a budget card.

 

[Daven]

Even a 6 GB 3050 is at least not slower than that. 5050 will be ballparking 4060, being slightly slower. Of course it's horrible performance per dollar at 250 bucks but even the strongest iGPUs don't stand a chance.

The worst part in it is 5050 is rumoured to have a 130 W TGP which is a disaster. If it was the exact same story but slot powered... I mean, not ideal but the new "PSU-less" king.

You’re right, the 890M performs like a 1070 which is 50% slower than the 4060.

AMD's latest integrated graphics perform like an eight-year-old Nvidia midrange GPU — Radeon 890M achieves GTX 1070 performance in Geekbench and lags behind GTX 1650 Super by 15%

Discrete GPU performance (albeit from several generations ago) makes its way to integrated graphics engines.

www.tomshardware.com

 

[Macro Device]

You’re right, the 890M performs like a 1070 which is 50% slower than the 4060.

AMD's latest integrated graphics perform like an eight-year-old Nvidia midrange GPU — Radeon 890M achieves GTX 1070 performance in Geekbench and lags behind GTX 1650 Super by 15%

Discrete GPU performance (albeit from several generations ago) makes its way to integrated graphics engines.

www.tomshardware.com

iGPUs also don't make much sense from the money standpoint. More often than not an i5-12400F + 4060 combo will cost you similar money because you're also not forced to go ham on RAM as you're gonna buy neither fast nor lots thereof. These are a niche product specifically for those who don't have enough space for a system with a dGPU. You have space, you go dGPU, it's cheaper and/or more performant.

Sure, 12400F is slower than these Ryzen chips but it's also obscenely cheap. Plus it's still a fast gaming CPU all things considered.

 

[Daven]

iGPUs also don't make much sense from the money standpoint. More often than not an i5-12400F + 4060 combo will cost you similar money because you're also not forced to go ham on RAM as you're gonna buy neither fast nor lots thereof. These are a niche product specifically for those who don't have enough space for a system with a dGPU. You have space, you go dGPU, it's cheaper and/or more performant.

Sure, 12400F is slower than these Ryzen chips but it's also obscenely cheap. Plus it's still a fast gaming CPU all things considered.

iGPUs are being implemented in all sorts of new ways. I think this is the reason we don’t have much in the way of budget discrete GPUs anymore. Which is also why I would be surprised if a desktop version of the 5050 exists. We will find out on July 1 maybe.

Edit: I guess I should put it another way. Why didn’t Nvidia release a desktop 4050? What’s changed for them to release a 5050 this generation but not last generation?

Calling Nvidia's smallest die a mid-range GPU is funny. RTX 5050 is a budget card, thus below mid-range. I'd say that even RTX 5060 is a budget card.

I’m not sure why btarunr is calling this a midrange card. It’s not like Nvidia could possibly have any cards lower than the 5050. I guess its the press trying to help companies pass off what should be a $150 card at higher prices.

 

[Visible Noise]

ITT: A bunch of people complain about a product that wasn’t designed for their particular use case.

 

[Macro Device]

ITT: A bunch of people complain about a product that wasn’t designed for their particular use case.

I do have a use case for a Blackwell GPU that's slot-powered but it still don't exist. That's why I'm unhappy with the 5050.

 

[Visible Noise]

I do have a use case for a Blackwell GPU that's slot-powered but it still don't exist. That's why I'm unhappy with the 5050.

I think slot powered GPUs aren’t a thing going forward. Performance uplift over a high end APU isn’t worth it.

 

[Macro Device]

Performance uplift over a high end APU isn’t worth it.

Like I stated earlier, even the highest end APUs are at least 30% slower than a hypothetical slot-powered Blackwell GPU. Not much but for me it's totally worth it, especially since this GPU will cost me less than getting an APU with a motherboard and a DDR5 kit. Way less than that.

 

[Daven]

I do have a use case for a Blackwell GPU that's slot-powered but it still don't exist. That's why I'm unhappy with the 5050.

I am also interested in the pricing of GPUs going forward. It’s a troubling trend when low end hardware gets higher end pricing. As a customer of GPUs this is concerning to me.

I’m not sure why Visible Noise would welcome any of the trends of higher and higher pricing and higher and higher power usage and attack us for our concern or usage cases.

 

[Apocalypsee]

I’m not sure why Visible Noise would welcome any of the trends of higher and higher pricing and higher and higher power usage and attack us for our concern or usage cases.

If you read his other post, its because of this is an nvidia card, it will be in reverse if it's an AMD card.

I do agree this card have a place, but it needs to be properly priced and slot powered to be optimal, on small compact PCB (no triple fan or 2.5+ thick) I'm using RTX 3050 mobile that have similar spec to this (except for 2048 shader with 4GB VRAM) and its capable to play at 1080p nicely.

 

[Daven]

If you read his other post, its because of this is an nvidia card, it will be in reverse if it's an AMD card.

I do agree this card have a place, but it needs to be properly priced and slot powered to be optimal, on small compact PCB (no triple fan or 2.5+ thick) I'm using RTX 3050 mobile that have similar spec to this (except for 2048 shader with 4GB VRAM) and its capable to play at 1080p nicely.

So what would happen if it was an Intel card? Would we all turn inside out?

 

[TheDeeGee]

Waste of warehouse shelf space.

 

[kondamin]

2560 Cuda Cores is probably going to be worse than a 6600 which I'd consider low-end nowadays. If performance is as expected I would not call it a mid-end card.

I whole heartedly agree, media should stop going along with this and start calling a spade a spade. Even the xx60 cards haven’t been midrange in generations.
They cost a heck of a lot of money but that doesn’t make them mid range.

 

[mechtech]

"NVIDIA is looking to target a sub-$250 price-point with the RTX 5050, to compete with the Intel Arc B580."

hmmmmm

The intel B580 is basically vapourware here in Canada.

Is it readily available anywhere else and for MSRP??