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So, it seems like NVIDIA’s up to something weird again. They’ve moved the launch of the GeForce RTX 5050 up to July 1st. Somehow, this doesn’t make a lick of sense to me. The word on the street—or from MEGAsizeGPU, if we’re being all proper about it—is that nobody is even ready to ship these things on that date. Are we talking a paper launch? Seems like it.
You’d think NVIDIA might want to roll out the red carpet or something, given it’s positioned to woo the budget-minded gamer. It’s gonna be priced around $199 to $249—actually just a step behind the RTX 5060. Funny, right? I’m wondering if they’re hoping to steal some thunder from Intel’s Arc B580 and B570. But then, who isn’t trying to steal someone’s thunder these days?
Anyway, back to this beast—if I can call it that. The specs are telling us it’s got the GB207 GPU, supposedly the smallest in NVIDIA’s Blackwell gaming lineup. I think it’s got 2560 cores—same as the RTX 3050, but with that shiny new architecture everyone’s talking about. They’re strapping on 8 GB of GDDR6 VRAM to this bad boy, running on a 128-bit bus interface. And with 20 Gbps modules, I mean, hello speed, right?
Let me break it down a bit because it’s got me all intrigued:
– Same 2560 CUDA Cores as before
– Boost on RT & AI Cores – supposedly faster
– 20 Gbps vs 14 Gbps GDDR6 – that’s a solid 43% kick upwards
– Bandwidth’s up from 224 GB/s to 320 GB/s (again, 43% more!)
And yet, it’s got a lower TDP—100W compared to 130W? How, NVIDIA? Just, how?
But getting back on topic, they aren’t doing a Founder’s Edition; but custom variants from AIB partners? Yeah, expect them. Most will probably come with a 5-phase VRM design. I’m kinda curious how the market’ll take to this new but-not-really-new 8 GB card. Will it fly off the shelves? Dunno. Maybe it’ll surprise us all.
That’s about all I got for now. Let me know when they actually start appearing in the wild—if you spot one, I mean. Who’s even ready for this launch? Not me.
