NVIDIA Launches GeForce RTX 5050 for Desktops and Laptops, Starts at $249

[etayorius]

$250? holy dang... what were they thinking! $120-150 sounds more like it. Absurd nVidia prices. Yuck, just go for RTX 5060 instead.

 

[Dragokar]

MFG is a selling point.

Not when u cant even generate enough real frames.

 

[windwhirl]

Just a rough look at the bar graphs with frame gen versus the 3050, it appears as if *all* of the performance difference is due to frame gen. So actually 0 real performance gain? That's pretty awful...

RTX 5000 series has a 1% IPC improvement compared to RTX 4000 series. All performance improvements come from increased clocks, increased CUDA core counts (and if you don't mind, you can also include multi frame generation to increase frame rates), with the corresponding increase in energy cost.

 

[wNotyarD]

an unspecified ROP count

This is actually an amazing genius move.
People can't complain about missing ROPs when its count is never disclosed.

 

[oxrufiioxo]

This is the prebuilt sucka editon GPU.... They should have just named it the RTX PSE

Meanwhile Nvidia Kool-Aid drinkers.

 

[ModEl4]

What a fail, it should have been max $229 with the kind of performance I expect (RTX 4060 must be at least +5% in 1080p and even faster in QHD) and even then it wouldn't offer RTX 5060 performance/price.
Maybe AMD has an interesting offer at below $300 (i just hope that they named it RX 9060 because RX 9050 will tie it with RTX 5050 in market perception when in reality should be a much faster product than RTX 5050 because with the kind of yields a 199mm² die in N4P has, it will be counter productive for AMD to cut it/downgrade it too much.

 

[LastDudeALive]

I'm still wondering why there was no 4050 desktop card last gen.

They still had an abundance of older Ampere silicon they needed to get rid of. That's why they introduced the 3050 6GB slot-powered GPU in Feb 2024. It wouldn't make sense to introduce a 4050 in that same market segment.

Plus, yields were probably good enough that the laptop 4050 and RTX cards took up all the chips with a few defective cores.

 

[hsew]

It does not because the B580 costs the same and has 12GB. Don't buy this piece of crap.

Cheapest B580 I can find online right now is $299 and it’s been that way for a while now. With the drivers and high-performing CPU dependency it’s just a harder sell at that price. Intel either has had trouble keeping them in stock or hasn’t produced enough.

 

[BlaezaLite]

I like the physical look of it, but that is all

 

[sudothelinuxwizard]

Cheapest B580 I can find online right now is $299 and it’s been that way for a while now. With the drivers and high-performing CPU dependency it’s just a harder sell at that price. Intel either has had trouble keeping them in stock or hasn’t produced enough.

At least for the first few weeks, the 5050 will be in the same situation.

 

[docnorth]

At this point only a cut-down, (<)75w version makes sense, though I don't think that matters to Nvidia...

 

[Tsukiyomi91]

it's gonna be like $270 or close to $300 IRL street or "RRP", which is the "minimum recommendation" MSRP for the 4060 8GB. This dumpster fire of a GPU is gonna make the ARC B580, a rather "undesirable" GPU more like a decent option for it's closer-to-MSRP of ~$260 (ASRock Challenger model)

 

[hsew]

At least for the first few weeks, the 5050 will be in the same situation.

A few weeks after launch I can forgive, but B580 has been out for over half a year now.

 

[sudothelinuxwizard]

A few weeks after launch I can forgive, but B580 has been out for over half a year now.

Regardless, considering even the B570 is much better, you still shouldn't buy the 5050.

 

[Ninja Weedle]

Slower than a 4060 on Nvidia's own charts, 130w tdp, GDDR6, 250$... this thing is truly one of the most DOA cards Nvidia's ever released. The only market for cards like this is prebuilts and grandmas who don't know any better.

If they dropped the TDP to 75 watts and the price to 200, it'd at least be a worthy successor to the 3050 6GB.... unfortunately all it is is a blackwell 3050 8GB.

 

[Crazybabe]

Finally 5030 is out! Looks sooooo cuteeeééé and expensive.
Never forget what they are doing to us, for their maximum profits.

 

[TheDeeGee]

 

[jaszy]

Finally 5030 is out! Looks sooooo cuteeeééé and expensive.
Never forget what they are doing to us, for their maximum profits.
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skewed graph. Base it on die size and wafer cost vs previous generation and come back.. Tired of defending NVIDIA when I have no reason to.

 

[hsew]

Regardless, considering even the B570 is much better, you still shouldn't buy the 5050.

B570 is also selling over MSRP. The cheapest one I can currently see online is $259. At that price, it'd have to be closer to 20% faster than 5050 in order to make sense. So far, per TPU, B570 is on average slower than 4060 except for at 4K, which is obviously not the intended resolution for any card under $400-500 anyways. If 5050=4060 in raster as nVidia says it does, I think it's safe to say that it will tie against the B570.

Remember too that the Intel cards don't make sense for anyone upgrading older systems, since they are heavily dependent on fast, new CPU architectures and connectivity. And they draw more power.

 

[Dristun]

If one is not scared of the used market there are so many options at $249 out there, and it's not like they're even 4 years old. Hell, you can get cards even faster than this for 140$ if you dig deeper (repurposed laptop 3070s from China).

 

[sudothelinuxwizard]

B570 is also selling over MSRP. The cheapest one I can currently see online is $259. At that price, it'd have to be closer to 20% faster than 5050 in order to make sense.

I don't get your logic, but even if Battlemage is a bad value (which is very much possible - I haven't been keeping track of GPU prices) it doesn't make NGreedia's crap any better.

 

[AusWolf]

Unspecified ROP count? That sounds shady as heck.

Also, below 75 W for low profile and a tad cheaper would have been nice. It's kind of a missed opportunity this way.

 

[hsew]

I don't get your logic, but even if Battlemage is a bad value (which is very much possible - I haven't been keeping track of GPU prices) it doesn't make NGreedia's crap any better.

Never said it did. But nVidia still manages to sell like hotcakes. And my logic is simply based on real prices. If B570 = 4060 = 5050 in terms of raster (allegedly), B570 is $10 more than 5050, and 5050 has a better feature set and power efficiency, then 5050 is the better purchase. If B570 falls back down to $229 (it really should be $219 imo but whatever), or B580 comes down to $249, then there’s a viable alternative. It’s not rocket science.

And nobody knows what demand and availability is going to look like anyways. It’ll be the cheapest card, the easiest for nVidia to produce too. However, the 5060 might be more enticing to buyers.

 

[sudothelinuxwizard]

Never said it did. But nVidia still manages to sell like hotcakes. And my logic is simply based on real prices. If B570 = 4060 = 5050 in terms of raster (allegedly), B570 is $10 more than 5050, and 5050 has a better feature set and power efficiency, then 5050 is the better purchase. If B570 falls back down to $229 (it really should be $219 imo but whatever), or B580 comes down to $249, then there’s a viable alternative. It’s not rocket science.

And nobody knows what demand and availability is going to look like anyways. It’ll be the cheapest card, the easiest for nVidia to produce too. However, the 5060 might be more enticing to buyers.

Fair enough

 

[docnorth]

Unspecified ROP count? That sounds shady as heck.

Also, below 75 W for low profile and a tad cheaper would have been nice. It's kind of a missed opportunity this way.

It may come later, like 3050 6gb. Who knows.