Nvidia at the moment introduced the smallest member of the RTX 50-series, the GeForce RTX 5050. It is going to begin at $249 and will probably be obtainable within the second half of July.
The RTX 5050 includes a new GB207 die primarily based on the Blackwell structure with 2560 CUDA cores, two thirds of the RTX 5060 that launched in April. It additionally options fifth technology Tensor cores and 4th technology RT cores like different 50-series playing cards. This permits it to assist options like DLSS4 with multi-frame technology and the upcoming Reflex 2.
The RTX 5050 GPU is clocked at 2.31GHz base and boosts as much as 2.57GHz. You get 128-bit 8GB GDDR6 reminiscence, making it the one 50-series card to date with out GDDR7. Different options embody 3x DisplayPort 2.1b and 1x HDMI 2.1b connectivity, 1x ninth technology NVENC encoder and sixth technology NVDEC decoder. The cardboard runs on 130W of energy and might take both a single 8-pin connector or 300W or larger PCIe Gen 5 cable.
Nvidia has a few largely pointless graphs exhibiting the relative efficiency of the RTX 5050 in comparison with older Nvidia playing cards that make it onerous to make something out however the firm claims the brand new card is 60% sooner on common in raster than the RTX 3050 that got here out over three years in the past. The cardboard additionally appears on common within the ballpark of RTX 4060 efficiency from two years in the past.
The RTX 5050 ought to be on cabinets this time subsequent month. There isn’t any Founders Version mannequin from Nvidia however the card will probably be obtainable from all main board companions, together with ASUS, Colourful, Gainward, Galaxy, GIGABYTE, INNO3D, MSI, Palit, PNY, and ZOTAC.
There may be additionally going to be a cell model of the RTX 5050, which is delivery at the moment in laptops beginning at $999.