MSI Intros GeForce RTX 5050 Shadow 2X OC Graphics Card

[btarunr]

MSI introduced the GeForce RTX 5050 Shadow 2X OC graphics card. At the time of this writing, this is MSI's only custom RTX 5050 graphics card model. The card is a premium factory-overclocked product, and is likely to be priced above the $249 NVIDIA MSRP for the RTX 5050. It is 19.6 cm in length, and 12 cm in height, while being strictly 2 slots thick. The card offers factory-overclocked speeds of 2602 MHz boost compared to 2570 MHz reference. The RTX 5050 is cooled by an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that appears to use a single nickel-plated copper heat pipe bent in an S-shape.

The heatsink is ventilated by a pair of premium MSI TorX 5.0 fans. This fan is used by MSI in many of its premium custom-design cards, it features a partially webbed impeller that's designed to maximize axial airflow. The card draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. Display outputs include three DisplayPort 2.1b and one HDMI 2.1b. Based on the 5 nm "GB207" silicon, the RTX 5050 features 2,560 CUDA cores across 20 SM, 80 Tensor cores, 20 RT cores, and 8 GB of 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface (320 GB/s memory bandwidth). The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[TheDeeGee]

What's with the giant random stamped in Torx-50 on the shroud...

 

[b1k3rdude]

What is the actual point of this 5040 series card... because its a s sure as sh*t not worth £250.

 

[THU31]

What is the actual point of this 5040 series card... because its a s sure as sh*t not worth £250.

A pity they never did a 4050 on desktop. That would've been a great card for PhysX and AV1 encoding.

 

[dgianstefani]

What's with the giant random stamped in Torx-50 on the shroud...

Maybe way to remove fans to clean or replace without removing heatsink.

 

[lexluthermiester]

This card, but in low profile. Sign me up.

 

[LabRat 891]

Maybe way to remove fans to clean or replace without removing heatsink.

There's 3 trilobe screws w/ markings to indicate removal; the T50-looking thing, lacks those markings.
It looks like part of the molding/casting, decoration.

Funny, though... I've only seen 'big torx' on cars/trucks.
I'd have expected a continuation of that theme, with the rest of the card's styling and boxart.

 

[bitcoin325]

its not cheap

 

[Raiju]

This card, but in low profile. Sign me up.

Theres are been several 5060 in low profile format during computex from Gigabyte & Zotac which are more powerful than this joke.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Theres are been several 5060 in low profile format

Seen them. Gigabyte already has theirs listed online.

which are more powerful than this joke.

You're welcome to your ironic opinion. Couldn't care less about such thinking. I'm looking for an upgrade from a Geforce 1050 low profile card and would prefer to take a bigger step up than an RTX 3050 that stays within a similar power profile. People like me are very interested in such a card.

EDIT: Really looking for something like the one show here.

 

[ARF]

What is the actual point of this 5040 series card... because its a s sure as sh*t not worth £250.

Err, if it's £250, call it DOA. This is worth £99.

Die size less than 159 mm^2.
Additional 8-pin bloatware connector.
Extremely low specs and low performance.

 

[THU31]

Die size less than 159 mm^2.

121 mm2 according to Wikipedia. That would make it their smallest GPU since the GT 1030. It would be even smaller than the GTX 1050 Ti, which cost $139.

 

[ARF]

121 mm2 according to Wikipedia. That would make it their smallest GPU since the GT 1030. It would be even smaller than the GTX 1050 Ti, which cost $139.

This means its true tier is GT 5020.