More and more data confirms NVIDIA’s plans to release the RTX 5050. The entry-level budget graphics card is expected to be released within weeks, not months. It will compete with the Intel Arc B580 — depending on what happens with prices.
The well-known informant Kopite7kimi was almost silent after the launch of the RTX 50 series. Now the account is back with the first specs leak RTX 5050 and no less interesting RTX 5060 Ti. The more powerful of the two will get the memory GDDR7 128-bit with a capacity of 16 GB and 8 GB. The TGP RTX 5060 Ti is 180 watts, which is is consistent with previous rumors. The video card uses the PG152 board design and a GB206-300 GPU processor with 4608 CUDA cores. This is 256 more than the RTX 4060 Ti.
The RTX 5050 will get the same PCB, but it will be based on the radically smaller GB207-300 GPU (2560 CUDA cores). It looks like the RTX 5060/5050 graphics cards are pin-compatible, which may simplify production. The TGP 5050 is 130W — 50W less than the 5060 Ti and 15W less than the upcoming RTX 5060 without Ti, which the source does not mention. The youngest in the family, the RTX 5050 will have 8GB of GDDR6 memory with a 128-bit memory bus. It is the only RTX 50 graphics card to use this type of memory — others have GDDR7. Memory speed and bandwidth are not yet confirmed.
Both graphics cards are expected to make their debut in April-May. According to the website VideoCardz, they will be announced next week.
