Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 GPU for Desktops, Gaming Laptops Launched: Price, Specifications

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 The company on Tuesday launched its entry-level RTX graphics card for desktops and laptops. It is the successor to the GeForce RTX 3050 launched at CES 2022. The new GeForce RTX 5050 GPU uses Nvidia’s Blackwell CUDA core and is equipped with 8GB of video memory. It sits underneath the RTX 5060 GPU and offers support for ray tracing, Nvidia Reflex, DLSS 4 with Multi-Frame Generation (MFG).

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 price, availability

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 price starts at $249 (approximately Rs. 21,400) and the GPU will be sold by multiple OEMs including Asus, Colorful, Gengsheng, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Inno3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac. These GPUs will be available in the second half of July.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050-powered laptops are now available for purchase starting at $999 (approximately Rs. 85,900). ASUS is the first OEM to launch gaming laptops in India with the new Nvidia GeForce RTX GPU.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 specs, features

Nvidia’s new GeForce RTX 5050 GPU has a peak clock speed of 2.57GHz and features 2,560 Blackwell CUDA cores, as well as fifth-generation Tensor cores and fourth-generation ray tracing cores. It delivers up to 440 trillion operations per second (TOPS) for on-device AI capabilities.

Connectivity features of the GeForce RTX 5050 include support for HDMI2.1b ports and three DisplayPort 2.1b ports. The desktop version of the RTX 5050 consumes up to 130W (stock speeds), and the company says it performs 60% better than the GeForce RTX 3050, which was released more than two years ago.

Unlike other graphics cards in the RTX 50 series, the GeForce RTX 5050 for desktop computers comes with 8GB of GDDR6 video memory. On the other hand, the GeForce RTX 5050 laptop GPU comes with GDDR7 memory, which offers better power efficiency. In addition to DLSS 4 with MFG and Nvidia Reflex, the GPU supports ray tracing in a variety of popular games.