Nvidia has announced GeForce RTX 5050 GPUs for each desktops and laptops with help for ray tracing and DLSS 4 with Multi Body Era.
On the desktop aspect, the RTX 5050 will begin at $249, draw as much as 130W of energy, and have 8GB of last-gen GDDR6 video reminiscence (VRAM) and a pair of,560 Blackwell CUDA cores. The playing cards might be made by third-party companions like Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, Zotac, and others, with anticipated shipments within the second half of July. Nvidia’s Recreation Prepared Drivers are anticipated to obtain an replace for compatibility with the brand new playing cards in early July.
The RTX 5050 laptop GPU will draw 35W to 100W of energy and use 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM and a pair of,560 Blackwell CUDA cores. Laptops operating a 5050 GPU are anticipated to start out at $999, with availability of some models beginning today. Early fashions launching earlier than Nvidia’s Recreation Prepared Drivers are launched could have drivers for the 5050 GPU pre-installed. GDDR7 VRAM is extra energy environment friendly than GDDR6, permitting the laptop computer model of the 5050 to suit into slimmer notebooks with out getting fairly as scorching.
The selection to go together with GDDR6 on the desktop playing cards looks like an odd one, although it ought to outperform the laptop computer model with GDDR7. The desktop RTX 5050 matches the RTX 5060 with 8GB of VRAM, however being GDDR6 and having 1,280 fewer CUDA cores ensures it ought to have a noticeable hole in efficiency with the cardboard immediately above it.
Nvidia is claiming the 5050 will have the ability to ship “an immersive ray-traced expertise with excessive settings in single-player video games corresponding to Cyberpunk 2077 and Avowed, due to DLSS 4 with Multi Body Era.” Its chart exhibits the 5050 attaining over 150 fps in that situation with 4x MFG turned on. Nevertheless, understand that the tremendous print signifies that’s all whereas the GPU was paired with a $479 AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU operating at 1080p decision. In full raster, Nvidia claims the RTX 5050 is about 60 p.c sooner than the two-generations-old RTX 3050.
The RTX 5050 is the direct substitute of that RTX 3050, which stays one of the vital in style GPUs in use on Steam. Nvidia by no means introduced a desktop RTX 4050.