Leaked details reveal NVIDIA's RTX 5050 with 9GB GDDR7 memory, 2,560 CUDA cores, and 130W TDP. Expected to boost bandwidth by 5% while maintaining power efficiency.
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A new version of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card with an unusual memory configuration—9 GB of GDDR7—has surfaced online. References to the model have been found in customs and shipping documents, as well as in insider publications. The data suggests this is a variant with the marking PG152-SKU40 and the graphics chip GB206-150-Kx-A1.
According to the leak, the card will feature 2,560 CUDA cores, a 96-bit memory bus, and a 130W TDP—the same as the current desktop RTX 5050 with 8 GB of GDDR6 and a 128-bit bus. However, instead of four 2GB GDDR6 modules, the new version supposedly uses three 3GB GDDR7 chips, resulting in a total of 9 GB of video memory.
Despite the narrower bus, bandwidth could actually increase. While the current RTX 5050 with GDDR6 (20 Gb/s) delivers around 320 GB/s, the 96-bit GDDR7 version, running at 28 Gb/s, could reach approximately 336 GB/s. This translates to a 12.5% increase in memory capacity and roughly a 5% boost in bandwidth, all while maintaining the same power draw.
If confirmed, the RTX 5050 9GB would mark another step by NVIDIA toward adopting GDDR7, even in the budget segment. The card would still be positioned below the RTX 5060 but would no longer be the only desktop RTX 50-series model using GDDR6 memory. No official announcement has been made yet, but the volume of leaks indicates that such a modification is indeed being tested.