The GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card, which was previously rumored and confirmed by a Chinese OEM earlier, has officially announced its specifications by NVIDIA earlier. It has also confirmed that a mobile version will be available for laptop products, thereby targeting entry-level display acceleration computing needs.
The GeForce RTX 5050 has a suggested retail price of US$249. It is also built on the Blackwell display architecture, supports DLSS 4, fifth-generation Tensor Cores and fourth-generation Ray Tracing Cores, and is equipped with 8GB of GDDR6 memory, corresponding to 320GB/sec memory bandwidth.
The number of CUDA cores has been adjusted to 2560, which is much less than the 5060 in the GeForce RTX 3840. The real-time ray tracing computing power is 40 TFLOPS, which is significantly lower than the 5060 TFLOPS of the GeForce RTX 58. However, it still has a certain performance in games with a 1080P resolution.
As for AI accelerated computing performance, the GeForce RTX 5050 corresponds to 421 AI TOPS, which is also significantly lower than the 5060 AI TOPS corresponding to the GeForce RTX 614. At the same time, with only 8GB of memory capacity, the scale of AI models that can be successfully executed is relatively limited, so its applicability in AI accelerated computing may not be high.
However, the GeForce RTX 5050 is equipped with the same 5070th generation NVIDIA encoder (NVENC) and 9th generation NVIDIA decoder (NVDEC) as the GeForce RTX 6, which means that it will be able to achieve hardware acceleration performance similar to the GeForce RTX 5070 in video editing applications.
The GeForce RTX 5050 is the most entry-level graphics card in the 50 series. NVIDIA has not released a Founder's Edition version, leaving it primarily to OEMs. Besides desktops, the GeForce RTX 5050 also offers a mobile version for laptops. Laptops powered by this card are expected to be released by brands like Acer and HP, with availability expected to begin in late July of this year.
