GeForce RTX 5050 is the Third 8GB Blackwell GPU Released Without Official Reviews
NVIDIA has announced the GeForce RTX 5050 for desktop computers, and it is supported by the latest NVIDIA drivers. However, the GPU is not yet available in stores. It will probably take one to seven days before it goes on sale.
Because of this, there are no official reviews of the RTX 5050. This means there are no reviews from NVIDIA’s sample units. NVIDIA says the RTX 5050 will be available in the second half of July, but some stores in China may sell them earlier.
No Reviews Available
Since there are no review units, no reviews are available. This situation is similar to what happened with the RTX 5060 and other previous models like the RTX 5060 Ti. Specifically, no 8GB GPU model with Blackwell technology has had an official review program.
The only reviews available come from media outlets that bought the GPUs themselves, with drivers that they had to wait for, just like regular users. The RTX 5060 Ti could only be properly reviewed for the 16GB model, while the 8GB model couldn’t be tested. When the RTX 5060 models launched at Computex, many reviewers were out of their labs, which delayed the reviews.
This is a very unusual situation that leaves buyers depending on performance data shared by NVIDIA itself, which includes configurations with multi-frame generation. This could lead to misleading FPS numbers.
In other news, German retailer Mindfactory reports that the 16GB NVIDIA RTX 5060 Ti outsold the 8GB model by 16 times, with gamers preferring the larger VRAM version due to better performance and resale value
