NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 Review

[Brent_Justice]

Introduction Is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 a game-changer at $249 MSRP? Let’s find out. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 was launched late July of 2025, as the entry-level GPU for the GeForce RTX 50 Series family of graphics cards. Like all cards in the lineup for the RTX 50 Series, the GeForce RTX 5050 […]

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[magoo]

Buy a used 4060.

 

[williamstanton]

Introduction Is the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 a game-changer at $249 MSRP? Let’s find out. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 was launched late July of 2025, as the entry-level GPU for the GeForce RTX 50 Series family of graphics cards. Like all cards in the lineup for the RTX 50 Series, the GeForce RTX 5050 […]








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Seems like a particularly hard sell when the 50-series' biggest party trick is at its least useful when the base framerate is a little tenuous.

The 130w/8GB combo is also kind of harsh. That's high enough draw that going for the modern card on an efficiency basis (while it will help a bit) won't be as dramatic an effect as you might like; and if you hit a VRAM wall anywhere it will be in the same place you would on a 3050; and one of the 12GB 3060s will still be chugging along for 40 watts more.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

OEMs love these low end SKUs.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

OEMs love these low end SKUs.

- Yeah, this is basically a repurposed laptop chip that would otherwise be used to bump a $499 office laptop into the $799 "entry gaming laptop" market.

These cards absolutely have their place however, good way to stand up a hella basic gaming PC that will be thesus' shipped into something respectable over time.

If you know what you're doing though, used 3080's and 6800XT's are starting to hit the $299 and lower price point (while 3070 and 6700XT are at $250 and below) and you'd get a helluva lot more bang from your buck there.