NVIDIA has unveiled the GeForce RTX 5050, an entry-level mobile gaming graphics card. The company has revealed the specifications of the new product and compared its performance with both its predecessor and the current-generation “sixtieth” model.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 is based on the GB207 graphics chip with 2560 CUDA cores. It is equipped with 8 GB of GDDR7 video memory on a 128-bit bus, which provides a bandwidth of 384 GB / s. The declared TDP limit of the video card is limited to 115 W.
Laptops with RTX 5050 are already on sale. Among the first were Mechrevo Kuangshi X and ASUS TianXuan 6 with an Intel Core i7 14650HX processor. In China, they cost from $913 (30-40 dollars cheaper than comparable devices with RTX 5060). The official comparison of the video card performance with the previous generation models looks like this:
- Time Spy: 10,269 points (9% more than RTX 4050, 18% less than RTX 5060).
- Firestrike Extreme is 19% slower than RTX 5060.
- Port Royal: RTX 5050 is 18% slower than RTX 5060, but 27% faster than RTX 4050.