News Nvidia RTX 5050 puts Blackwell within reach of more gamers at $249 — entry-level 50-series launches in late July

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Nvidia finally unveils the RTX 5050, sporting 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR6, and a 130W TGP. The new GPU represents Nvidia's first new xx50-class desktop card since the RTX 3050

Nvidia RTX 5050 puts Blackwell within reach of more gamers at $249 — entry-level 50-series launches in late July : Read more

 

[logainofhades]

And it will most likely be a terrible card. Techpowerup is showing that this card will as being slower than an RTX 2060. I would assume that is based on the specs given so far.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-5050.c4220


If this holds true, this card is DoA. You can still get RX 6600's for less than $250. which is faster than a 2060.

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[Notton]

The specs are 2/3 of a 5060, but the price is 5/6.
It needs to be $200 for 2/3 of an already cut down card.

 

[DS426]

Will obviously be a poor value, but unfortunately, a lot more people are able or willing to buy a $250 GPU than a $300 one, so I don't think nVidia will have a lot of trouble moving these. Some to many will go into prebuilts anyways.

Still, $250 is too much ... I'm presuming the market will correct this by the holiday shopping season later this year down to ~$220.

 

[beyondlogic]

Will obviously be a poor value, but unfortunately, a lot more people are able or willing to buy a $250 GPU than a $300 one, so I don't think nVidia will have a lot of trouble moving these. Some to many will go into prebuilts anyways.

Still, $250 is too much ... I'm presuming the market will correct this by the holiday shopping season later this year down to ~$220.

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The issue is 250 USD is to much but in UK markets that's just under 200 pounds

 

[TerryLaze]

Still, $250 is too much ... I'm presuming the market will correct this by the holiday shopping season later this year down to ~$220.

The market correcting itself would be nvidia lowering the prices....which I doubt.
But I do believe that the resellers will become desperate enough to sell them and reduce them to that price.

 

[Zerk2012]

Still, $250 is too much ... I'm presuming the market will correct this by the holiday shopping season later this year down to ~$220

Or up to 300 because nobody can find cards.

 

[logainofhades]

Or up to 300 because nobody can find cards.

Don't see that being an issue with the 5050. The 5060 can easily be found around it's $300 MSRP, still, because almost nobody is buying them. 8gb 5060ti can easily be had for around it's $379 MSRP. People are finally voting with their wallets.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=rtx+5060&Order=1

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=rtx+5060+ti&Order=1

Even the 5060ti 16gb can be had for a little over it's $429 MSRP.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=601110192 100007709 4814&d=rtx+5060+ti&Order=1

 

[acadia11]

Will obviously be a poor value, but unfortunately, a lot more people are able or willing to buy a $250 GPU than a $300 one, so I don't think nVidia will have a lot of trouble moving these. Some to many will go into prebuilts anyways.

Still, $250 is too much ... I'm presuming the market will correct this by the holiday shopping season later this year down to ~$220.

This card has no impact whatsoever to NVIDIAs bottom line , they are just filling out their product line. This isn’t even a money grab … cause it’s Pennie’s to their earnings.

 

[Amdlova]

I have impression the gtx 5050 will be worse than a gtx 4060.
Dark times...

 

[SSGBryan]

Don't see that being an issue with the 5050. The 5060 can easily be found around it's $300 MSRP, still, because almost nobody is buying them. 8gb 5060ti can easily be had for around it's $379 MSRP. People are finally voting with their wallets.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=rtx+5060&Order=1

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?d=rtx+5060+ti&Order=1

Even the 5060ti 16gb can be had for a little over it's $429 MSRP.

https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=601110192 100007709 4814&d=rtx+5060+ti&Order=1

The Gigabyte Windforce 16gb hits MSRP on a regular basis on Newegg. I picked up one earlier this month. 429USD is acceptable - 489USD isn't.

 

[thestryker]

I have impression the gtx 5050 will be worse than a gtx 4060.
Dark times...

Don't need to guess really just look at the numbers it's a fact:
5050 v 4060
2560 v 3072 cores
-16.6% core count
2570Mhz v 2460Mhz boost clock
+4.5% boost clock
20Gbps v 17Gbps video memory
+17.6% memory bandwidth

The 4060 wasn't particularly starved for memory bandwidth in the first place, the boost clock is a negligible difference, but the core count loss sure is a problem since Blackwell is no faster than Ada. Based on the hardware specifications it seems we're looking at something which will be within 5% of a 3060 which means it's probably going to be at best competitive with the B570. Sure is a shame Intel didn't allocate enough wafers for the B570/580 to keep the price closer to MSRP.

 

[derekullo]

Make it a single slot and 16 gigabytes for $300 and it will sell out !

 

[HardwiredWireless]

Sounds like the perfect card for a lot of users who want better than CPU graphics but don't have money for anything higher end.

 

[usertests]

And it will most likely be a terrible card. Techpowerup is showing that this card will as being slower than an RTX 2060. I would assume that is based on the specs given so far.

https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/geforce-rtx-5050.c4220

I don't see how that could be possible given it has more Blackwell CUDA cores than the 2060 has Turing, along with more VRAM and L2 cache. The 2060 has 5% more bandwidth from being a 192-bit card, but the 5050 has over 10x the L2 cache, so it will have the advantage there.

It's the ROPs and TMUs, isn't it?

 

[Notton]

Sounds like the perfect card for a lot of users who want better than CPU graphics but don't have money for anything higher end.

That's a big maybe.
We can't forget the 5050 is running on a PCIe 5.0 x8 slot, and the 5060/5060Ti 8GB both suffer from horrible 1% lows when it runs out of VRAM and has to dip into system RAM.
It's made worse on older systems that are running PCIe 4.0 or 3.0.

For $250, Arc B580 with 12GB VRAM is a better choice.

 

[Giroro]

This will be a pretty interesting card, for anybody connected or famous enough to get one at slightly-under half MSRP... Or I guess for free.

But for the other 100.0000% of us, this sucks.

But, to be fair, I would say the exact same thing about every other Nvidia GPU sold in the last 7ish years.
RTX sucks. I wish they would kill it.

 

[Mattzun]

No informed person would buy a 5050 for $250 when the 5060 is 50 percent faster and widely available for $300. Its not even much faster than previous low end discrete GPUs.

I'm guessing the actual market for this is prebuilts that like to say they have NVidia graphics
The OEMs are almost certainly paying less that 200 bucks for this card.
I can just see Dell having a 100 dollar upsell to a 5060 and 250 dollar upsell to a 5060TI 16GB.

 

[Bikki]

If one thing great ahout this card, it will show how (bad) the Blackwell generation architectural improvement compare to Ampere when it has same memory bandwidth of gddr6.

 

[thesyndrome]

Sounds like the perfect card for a lot of users who want better than CPU graphics but don't have money for anything higher end.

I can see where you're coming from, and you are correct that it will definitely be a step up from integrated graphics, but the issue is more to do with it's expected lifespan; if we're already looking at it's specs and saying they are weak for games that are out now, but for games in the next year or 2 it might be completely awful, and taking that into consideration that makes it quite poor value for money.

One thing I learned a while ago is that buying the cheapest item can often lead to you spending more over time, because the compromises it takes to make it cheap also mean it's either unreliable or underpowered, leading you to replace it with something of equal (or slightly greater) value more frequently than someone who bought the more expensive product, I've seen it with everything from cars, to kitchen appliances, to vacuum cleaners, to PC parts.

 

[HardwiredWireless]

I can see where you're coming from, and you are correct that it will definitely be a step up from integrated graphics, but the issue is more to do with it's expected lifespan; if we're already looking at it's specs and saying they are weak for games that are out now, but for games in the next year or 2 it might be completely awful, and taking that into consideration that makes it quite poor value for money.

One thing I learned a while ago is that buying the cheapest item can often lead to you spending more over time, because the compromises it takes to make it cheap also mean it's either unreliable or underpowered, leading you to replace it with something of equal (or slightly greater) value more frequently than someone who bought the more expensive product, I've seen it with everything from cars, to kitchen appliances, to vacuum cleaners, to PC parts.

That's true if you buy cheap gear that doesn't meet your needs.