Gigabyte Launches Trio of GeForce RTX 5050 Graphics Cards, Including Low-Profile Model

[TheLostSwede]

Alongside everyone else, Gigabyte Launched three graphics cards based on the GeForce RTX 5050 GPU today, with the GeForce RTX 5050 GAMING OC 8G topping the line-up, followed by the GeForce RTX 5050 WINDFORCE OC 8G and the GeForce RTX 5050 OC Low Profile 8G. The Gaming OC comes with a larger heatsink and three fans, as well as a gimmicky sliding side plate that reveals the "game on" slogan on the card. The Windforce OC gets to make do with a smaller heatsink and two fans, although both cards are equipped with Gigabyte's hawk fans, Both cards also sport 8 GB of 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory and a pair of DP 2.1b and HDMI 2.1b outputs, as well as a single 8-pin power connector.

The OC Low Profile on the other hand is quite a different beast, largely due to its low-profile design and although it sports the same memory as the larger cards, it only gets one DP 2.1b output, as the second DP output is of the older 1.4b flavour, which is most likely related to it not being mounted straight to the PCB, but there's also a pair of HDMI 2.1b ports on this card. The card obviously has a smaller heatsink, but Gigabyte has still kitted it out with a copper contact plate for the GPU and a copper heatpipe. The smaller fans are said to be lubed with a graphene nano lubricant that is meant to extend the fan life by 2.1 times. The card also sports an 8-pin power connector and Gigabyte supplies a low-profile bracket.



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[theglaze]

So dumb looking, it's almost cute. RGB would have made it comical.
Imagine a little ITX build, in a tiny fish bowl chassis, and this little 5050 beauty beaming away.

 

[Vayra86]

So dumb looking, it's almost cute. RGB would have made it comical.
Imagine a little ITX build, in a tiny fish bowl chassis, and this little 5050 beauty beaming away.

And still 2 slots... this literally 'screams' lazy

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

And still 2 slots... this literally 'screams' lazy

You have a better suggestion for how to handle a ~115 watt TDP in a low profile form?

 

[Vayra86]

You have a better suggestion for how to handle a ~115 watt TDP in a low profile form?

If they can cram 600W dissipation in a 2 slotter... a bit of smart design can certainly dissipate 130W, less than a quarter of it... in about a quarter of surface area.

There is also no single slot full sized card

 

[kilis]

Thanks to Gigabyte for still keeping dual HDMI out ports, which is very useful when you are connecting the pc to external tv with different sdr and hdr settings.
As a long time HTPC user, that was the only reason i was buying their graphic cards.
I just wish their low profile versions would have fan stop function like the dual fan version.