Nvidia has officially introduced its most affordable addition to the RTX 50-series lineup — the GeForce RTX 5050, priced at $249.
The budget-friendly graphics card will hit retail shelves in the second half of July, expanding access to the power of Nvidia’s latest Blackwell architecture.
The RTX 5050 is built on the new GB207 die and comes equipped with 2,560 CUDA cores, roughly two-thirds the core count of the RTX 5060 launched in April.
Despite its entry-level pricing, the card features 5th generation Tensor cores and 4th generation Ray Tracing (RT) cores, enabling support for cutting-edge features like DLSS 4 with multi-frame generation and Reflex 2, an upcoming latency-reduction technology.
The GPU offers a base clock of 2.31GHz and boosts up to 2.57GHz, while memory specs include 8GB of 128-bit GDDR6 VRAM — making it the only RTX 50-series card so far to exclude GDDR7. Display connectivity includes three DisplayPort 2.1b outputs and one HDMI 2.1b port.
Encoding and decoding capabilities come from Nvidia’s 9th-gen NVENC encoder and 6th-gen NVDEC decoder, supporting modern streaming and content creation needs.
The RTX 5050 draws 130W of power and can be powered via a single 8-pin connector or a PCIe Gen 5 cable rated at 300W or higher. Nvidia claims the new card delivers 60% faster raster performance than the three-year-old RTX 3050, and performance levels appear comparable to the RTX 4060 in most cases.
While there won’t be a Founders Edition model from Nvidia itself, the RTX 5050 will be available through major board partners including ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI, ZOTAC, Palit, PNY, INNO3D, and others.
In addition, Nvidia is also launching a mobile version of the RTX 5050, which is already shipping in laptops starting at $999, offering gamers and creators a more portable option with next-gen capabilities.
With its aggressive pricing and modern architecture, the RTX 5050 aims to make next-gen performance accessible to mainstream PC gamers.