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Nvidia’s RTX 5050 GPU starts at $249 with last-gen GDDR6 VRAM
- Nvidia has announced the GeForce RTX 5050 GPUs for desktops and laptops supporting ray tracing and DLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation.
- The desktop RTX 5050 starts at $249, features 8GB of last-gen GDDR6 VRAM, 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores, and draws up to 130W of power.
- Third-party partners such as Asus, Gigabyte, MSI, and Zotac will make the desktop RTX 5050 cards with expected shipments in the second half of July.
- The laptop RTX 5050 GPU will have 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM, 2,560 CUDA cores, draw 35W to 100W of power, and laptops with this GPU are expected to start at $999.
- Some laptop models with the RTX 5050 GPU are already available, with drivers pre-installed until Nvidia's Game Ready Drivers are released in early July.
- Despite the desktop RTX 5050 having GDDR6, it is expected to perform better than the laptop version with GDDR7 due to more CUDA cores, although it falls below the RTX 5060.
- Nvidia claims the RTX 5050 will offer an immersive ray-traced experience in games like Cyberpunk 2077 and Avowed, achieving over 150 fps with DLSS 4, paired with an AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU.
- In full raster, Nvidia states the RTX 5050 is about 60 percent faster than the RTX 3050, being the direct replacement for it.
- Nvidia has not announced a desktop RTX 4050, with the RTX 5050 expected to cater to budget-conscious gaming needs.
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