Rumour has it that NVIDIA has been speaking with board partners, discussing the possibility of launching a GeForce RTX 5050. Specifically, the company may release the card as a desktop GPU, and that it may want to launch the card in July.
Obviously, the specifications of the RTX 5050 have not been confirmed but according to reports, NVIDIA may build it around the GB207 GPU, and give it 2,560 CUDA cores and 8GB GDDR7. That CUDA core count is approximately two-thirds the amount of CUDA cores on the RTX 5060, which we’ve yet to review.
On a somewhat related note, it is also being rumoured that NVIDIA is exploring the idea of using 3GB memory modules future cards, but again, this remains an unsubstantiated rumour. We doubt such modules will be used with the RTX 5050, simply because the alleged total graphics memory on the GPU wouldn’t add up.
As to which GPU could use the 3GB memory modules, that honour could lie with another rumoured Blackwell GPU, the RTX 5080 Super. While still unconfirmed, rumours have suggested that NVIDIA could slap 24GB GDDR7 memory on to it, 8GB more than the current RTX 5080. The memory amount has been a sticking point for many consumers, mainly because it shares the amount of memory as the RTX 5070 Ti and RTX 5060 Ti.
Other rumours about the RTX 5050 suggest that the card will use a 128-bit memory bus and have a TDP of 130W. That’s all hearsay until NVIDIA makes an official announcement, so until then, the surgeon general’s warning about salt consumption and rumours is in effect.
(Source: Benchlife, Videocardz)
