Remember The RTX 5050?

Theoretically A $250 GPU To Replace Your Old $250 GPU

The theoretical part is of course the price, since no GPUs have been available at the proper price for years.  

The FPS Review recently took a look at the RTX 5050, a card that didn’t receive much attention and what little it did was not overly positive.  We didn’t see an equivalent card last generation, there was no RTX 4050 so the comparisons which make sense would be the RTX 4060 at a theoretical $299 and the old RTX 3050 which was supposed to sell for $250, just like the RTX 5050.  That is a great price point for those who need a discrete graphics card but can’t afford to break the bank with a higher end GPU.

The core counts of the RTX 5050 are very similar to the RTX 3050 but the frequencies are not.  At 2572MHz peak the RTX 5050 has an 800MHz advantage over the older card, with the memory running at 20Gbps and bandwidth of 320GB/s the Blackwell based RTX 5050 has a giant advantage over the old Ampere.   That’s not the whole story though, the core counts may be the same but they are both two generations newer and the new version of DLSS will mean you can run at resolutions the RTX 3050 could never dream of.

This all sounds great on paper, but what really matters is how it performs in a system.  Check out The FPS Review’s results in the full review.