Today is an odd one, as we have a card that to the general public, doesn’t exist: the RTX 5050. A card that, while it falls under the 50 series group of products, has some major differences that, on face value, suggest NVIDIA, along with many mainstream AIB partners, didn’t even want to show it. That’s why you’ll find a severe lack of content on the card, including all-important reviews. The big question, however, is why that’s the case. What’s being hidden, or are we looking at a card that is perhaps a little misunderstood and shouldn’t just be judged on its 8GB of GDDR6 memory and lacklustre specs?
Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 8GB
At $249, it’s an interesting argument, as this is one of the cheapest NVIDIA cards we’ve seen for a while, and could be a rival to the all-important market that Intel have been slowly swallowing up as of late. With nothing at this price point from AMD, it’s an interesting move by the green team. However, if it’s anything like the RTX 3050 was when that launched – being pretty dead on arrival as an RTX-based card – then we could have history repeating itself. But as always, I’m humble enough that I’ll happily eat my own words, and that’s where the all-important benchmarks come in to see exactly what the lay of the land is, and how this card stacks up.
