NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Trails RTX 4060 but Leaps Ahead with Multi-Frame Generation

[kondamin]

I wish the whole world would get together and stop buying GPU's entirely for like a month. The prices would drop like a rock.

nvidia and amd are sitting on nice reserves and people are more than willing to give them loans to get them trough the hardship even if it's a decade like intel

 

[Prime2515102]

nvidia and amd are sitting on nice reserves and people are more than willing to give them loans to get them trough the hardship even if it's a decade like intel

Yeah, but zero sales for an entire month? The stockholders would panic, and if their CEO's were smart (unlike Intel) they would do something about it instead of letting the reserves dwindle and ending up forced to gut the company. I'd like to think Su and Huang are smarter than that.

 

[Daven]

Yeah, but zero sales for an entire month? The stockholders would panic, and if their CEO's were smart (unlike Intel) they would do something about it instead of letting the reserves dwindle and ending up forced to gut the company. I'd like to think Su and Huang are smarter than that.

There are too many Nvidia cultists for that to ever happen. To keep sales above zero, I would even bet many including some here would step in and buy more Nvidia cards even if they didn’t need them.

 

[docnorth]

Underwhelming GPU, even without considering price and wattage. Just a comment though, I think these results are with a 9800x3d.
At least it beats the 3060 12gb...

 

[Quicks]

Feels like technology has been on a standstill for far too long... The legendary 3060TI still doing well even after 5 years if it had 12GB or 16GB VRAM you would be good for another 2 years.

 

[Ruru]

MSI Cyclone is the most interesting model for low end cards IMO. They brought it back from the GTX 460 days. The 5060 version was already released, hope 5050 will follow soon.

https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-5060-8G-CYCLONE

Reminds me of the Radeon HD 4890 days as well

or seeing things from another perspective, considering this thing costs at least 300 euros, it should come with 4 fans, full aluminium shroud, metal backplate and a free low end cpu to pair with

but most will have 2 fans probably i bet

Feels though that those beefy coolers could run this passive..?

Feels like technology has been on a standstill for far too long... The legendary 3060TI still doing well even after 5 years if it had 12GB or 16GB VRAM you would be good for another 2 years.

12GB wasn't possible due to 256-bit bus without using mixed density memory chips, and as we all know that using that method just wasn't a wise solution.

 

[Bomby569]

Feels like technology has been on a standstill for far too long... The legendary 3060TI still doing well even after 5 years if it had 12GB or 16GB VRAM you would be good for another 2 years.

if i was a cynic i would say nvidia had it all planned out years in advance.

 

[Chaitanya]

All of the 5050 cards Gigabyte has listed on their site are x16 physical, x8 electrical


Fermi was fine. There's just a lot of bad press about the GTX 480 specifically, for being a rather hot and power hungry card for its time, but the same issue did not plague the other cards in the lineup.
Old reviews are still available on this website. You can see for example the GTX 470 performed well for its price and didn't consume anywhere near the same amount of power the 480 did.

ASUS GeForce GTX 470 Fermi Review

NVIDIA's GeForce GTX 470 was announced a few weeks back - now we got the first production sample of the card from ASUS. Compared to the GTX 480 we saw much more reasonable power consumption numbers as well as fan noise and heat.

www.techpowerup.com

Same thing with the GTX 460

ZOTAC GeForce GTX 460 1 GB Review

Zotac's GeForce GTX 460 is equipped with 1 GB of video memory and also brings in small improvements like an additional DisplayPort connector and better bundle at $229 which is no price increase from the price of other cards.

www.techpowerup.com

and the GTS 450

Axle GeForce GTS 450 OC 1 GB Review

AXLE's GeForce GTS 450 OC is a rock-solid implementation of the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 450. It uses both a custom PCB and cooling solution to deliver the maximum for your hard earned cash. The cooler is running quiet and offers low temperatures which make an excellent foundation for additional...

www.techpowerup.com

Interesting so 5060 series has SKUs with x8 physical interface while cheaper ones have full sized ones.

 

[ymdhis]

If the card offers more fake frames, will they accept if I buy it with fake dollars?

 

[JustBenching]

Yeah, but zero sales for an entire month? The stockholders would panic, and if their CEO's were smart (unlike Intel) they would do something about it instead of letting the reserves dwindle and ending up forced to gut the company. I'd like to think Su and Huang are smarter than that.

There is 0 chance the amd fanatics would stop buying amd products so no shot at this happening. People buying nvidia? Sure, can happen, they are value conscious buyers but then there is a question - why punish nvidia? They are delivering year after year top notch performance.

 

[etayorius]

For $150-180 it would had been a killer for people with much older GPU's. But for $250+ is mostly an insult. Also, fake frames should never be taken into account as "performance". They are an optional last resort.

 

[Random_User]

This could be the 1050/Ti's success repeat, if the price was sane, and there was naught additional power connector requirement. Thus, if one already have to buy a weaker class card with a 8pin PCIE power connector, 5050 is just a bad buy then. So far, it exists only to upsell 5060. And to be honest, both have nothing to do with RTX, because even 5060Ti (especially 8GB), is quite anemic, RT-wise. This looks like gaslighting nV fans and customers.

On the other hand, be it one-slot/strictly (at most) dual slot and single fan cooler, with PCIE slot power only, and cost $150-$175, at most, that would be a nice little card, which would be attractive regardless of brand loyalty. Since none of the other two, have any SKU at this class/performance.

Yeah, but zero sales for an entire month? The stockholders would panic, and if their CEO's were smart (unlike Intel) they would do something about it instead of letting the reserves dwindle and ending up forced to gut the company. I'd like to think Su and Huang are smarter than that.

To be honest, this is highly unlikely. I'm almost sure, that if the sales of DIY consumer GPUs will tank, both of those companies would rather close the consumer/gamer GPUs entirely. They sell those cards to AI/compute oriented buyers much more (I'd presume these are the main customers ATM).
Also, there are the OEMs/SI, after all. If the regular DIY customers will become smart, and reluctant enough, the GPU vendors would quickly find the markets, and gladly dump more stock of these cards, that will end up sold to the gulible Joes and Janes en masse, rather than drop the price, by a single penny.

But that's my take!

Best regards!

 

[hsew]

So translation: RTX 5050 gets edged out by 4060, but can hallucinate twice as fast


The N24 chip (RX 6500XT) was a waste of sand. The ATi R600 series was bad, so was Fermi (GeForce 400), Intel Arrow Lake shows performance regression, same as Rocket Lake. Meanwhile Pentium 4 and AMD Bulldozer shat the bed seriously, and since we're at AMD CPUs, for some reasons(the IOD was kind of bad for 7000 series, and really needed an overhaul) Zen 5 is underwhelming, sometimes losing to their direct predecessor- the truly next gen V-cache gave the 9800X3D wings tho. And then there is mobile, FPGA, controllers and a million other chips.

Zen 5 was fine. People were salty because 2 years after Zen 4, AMD chose to tighten their power and thermal envelope instead of falling prey to the idiotic clockspeed wars that Intel was baiting them into. Even then, AMD released subsequent microcode updates to relax those restrictions and boost Zen 5 performance to about 10% over Zen 4 at the cost of higher power and thermals.

The irony of course being that Intel’s Arrow Lake was also an architecture which prioritized thermals and lower power consumption…

 

[sLowEnd]

Interesting so 5060 series has SKUs with x8 physical interface while cheaper ones have full sized ones.

x8 physical isn't common, and I have yet to see a 5060 with x8 physical
x8 physical looks like this

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8 Specs

NVIDIA GK208, 902 MHz, 384 Cores, 32 TMUs, 8 ROPs, 2048 MB DDR3, 900 MHz, 64 bit

www.techpowerup.com

 

[dr0]

Review sample is here already

Nice! It will be interesting to see the 'idle' and 'video playback' power consumption numbers.
It's a shame that you don't do 'GPU compute' tests for lower-end GPUs though...

 

[Tyler-98-W68]

I still can't understand why everyone is trashing this card so bad. Did people trash the 3050 when it came out and were mad because it was slower than a 2060 or 3060?

Is it a card i'm interested in, not really although I might pick one up to some of my own testing.

 

[hsew]

I still can't understand why everyone is trashing this card so bad. Did people trash the 3050 when it came out and were mad because it was slower than a 2060 or 3060?

Is it a card i'm interested in, not really although I might pick one up to some of my own testing.

Yes, we did. Because nVidia took advantage of the shortage created by crypto miners to sell a x50 class GPU for 50% more than their prior 1650/S.

Also, it seems like nVidia’s strategy now is to skip every other gen for x50 class cards on the desktop.

 

[Chaitanya]

x8 physical isn't common, and I have yet to see a 5060 with x8 physical
x8 physical looks like this

NVIDIA GeForce GT 630 Rev. 2 PCIe x8 Specs

NVIDIA GK208, 902 MHz, 384 Cores, 32 TMUs, 8 ROPs, 2048 MB DDR3, 900 MHz, 64 bit

www.techpowerup.com

Many of Gigabyte SKUs based on 5060 and 5060Ti GPUs have physical x8 slot. Even the power connector on those cards have been shifted to the front as PCB itself has been cut short to match the length of the slot.

 

[Tyler-98-W68]

Back to the 3050............how far behind was the 3050 from the 3060? how far behind the 2060 was it?

This seems like its closer to the previous gen 60 card that the 3050 was.

 

[sLowEnd]

Many of Gigabyte SKUs based on 5060 and 5060Ti GPUs have physical x8 slot. Even the power connector on those cards have been shifted to the front as PCB itself has been cut short to match the length of the slot.

Wow, you're right

https://www.gigabyte.com/Graphics-Card/GV-N5060EAGLE-OC-8GD

 

[InVasMani]

The MFG is pretty solid overall wish they weren't wasting so many PCIE 5.0 lanes though on such a weaker entry level GPU however and not at least trying to get some usage out of them. They could easily insert some M.2's, USB 4, or like 10G perhaps with some of the dormant PCIE slot lane bandwidth. That would impact price a bit though I think in the case of the first two options of a M.2 slot or two or some USB 4 ports it could make the GPU a bit more attractive than wasting away x8 PCIE 5.0 lanes.

 

[MCJAxolotl7]

I don't mind MFG. I think that on, for example, a lower-end laptop, it could be excellent. However, needing it simply to have a desktop card catch up at all to a previous gen desktop card only one tier higher is unacceptable.

 

[Tyler-98-W68]

Anyone remember the asus rtx 4060 with the m2 slot on it, havent seen any 5000 series with that option. Granted it's a fringe use case, id rather see that option on a higher end gpu vs a lower end one

 

[Readlight]

It has GTX 980 speed?

 

[Random_User]

Yes, we did. Because nVidia took advantage of the shortage created by crypto miners to sell a x50 class GPU for 50% more than their prior 1650/S.

Also, it seems like nVidia’s strategy now is to skip every other gen for x50 class cards on the desktop.

Yeah, if not that crypto craze scarcity, 1050/1650 wouldn't be sold in droves, the way it did.
However, outside the late heavy markup, it still could be a fine card for some laxed performance tasks and use cases, like HTPC, NAS etc. It was fine even for retro gaming.