Nvidia just stealth-dropped news of a GeForce RTX 5050 desktop graphics card coming in middle or late July. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 is shaping up to be a modest, budget-focused GPU with significantly reduced specs compared to the RTX 5060 – roughly 33% fewer resources overall. It uses older GDDR6 memory instead of GDDR7, though at a faster 20Gbps rate than the RTX 4060’s 17Gbps, giving it a bandwidth boost over its predecessor despite trailing far behind the 5060. While the 5050 has fewer shader resources than the 4060, its higher clock speeds and improved bandwidth might help it keep pace or slightly outperform it in certain scenarios. Also notable, Nvidia has ditched the 12VHPWR connector for this card in favor of a traditional 8-pin, marking a shift in its design approach for low-power cards. Although early signs pointed to the GeForce RTX 5050 being a mobile-only GPU – especially after the desktop RTX 4050 failed to appear last generation – its arrival on desktops comes as a ...