- Acer by chance listed RTX 5050 GPUs in some gaming laptops
- The spilled particulars confirmed energy utilization and clock speeds
- We didn’t get another specs shared, although, and chatter in regards to the desktop variant of the RTX 5050 has gone quiet, too
Acer has leaked the Nvidia RTX 5050 cellular GPU, giving us a glimpse of among the key specs of this laptop computer graphics card.
Not so way back, Nvidia launched RTX 5060 fashions (the 5060 Ti spin got here first), and earlier than these arrived, there have been rumors flying round about them and the RTX 5050, too.
Whereas the RTX 5050 hasn’t been formally introduced, we’ve been seeing quite a few leaks about it not too long ago. VideoCardz experiences that the most recent leak comes from Acer, courtesy of a listing of GPU specs for Predator and Nitro gaming laptops.
This talked about an RTX 5050 in fairly a couple of of the Nitro notebooks, and I take advantage of the previous tense there as a result of Acer has caught the error and deleted the offending listings – however not earlier than VideoCardz took a screenshot as proof. Different sources have additionally taken notice, so that is doubtless real – though nonetheless take it with a grain of salt, as with all rumors.
We are able to see from this screengrab that Acer is about to supply the RTX 5050 in 5 completely different energy choices, starting from 50W as much as 100W, with correspondingly quicker clock speeds for every, from 1500MHz as much as 2550MHz. Notice that there’ll even be an ‘Acer OC’ (overclocked) enhance of 15W with these fashions, which means essentially the most highly effective mannequin will be capable of present 115W in a pinch.
Sadly, we don’t see any specs apart from energy utilization and clocks, that are tied collectively in a direct relationship – the quicker the clocks are pushed, the extra wattage the GPU will devour.
Evaluation: A laptop computer RTX 5050 feels imminent – however what in regards to the desktop mannequin?
The specs we see right here don’t give us a lot of a clue as to how highly effective the RTX 5050 will theoretically be. That mentioned, the utmost energy envelope marketed is kind of substantial at 115W, however we don’t know sufficient about this cellular GPU to attract any definitive conclusions. Key components will embrace the core rely, which isn’t disclosed, and the kind of video reminiscence (VRAM) used.
I ought to notice that on the latter entrance, there have been rumors that Nvidia may go for slower GDDR6 VRAM, quite than the GDDR7 employed elsewhere with the Blackwell era. Nonetheless, newer rumors have prompt Nvidia will follow GDDR7 (8GB of this VRAM, which is an anticipated configuration for an entry-level GPU).
At any price, what this obvious mistake from Acer does point out is that the RTX 5050 laptop computer graphics card could possibly be near arriving, in any other case it wouldn’t be popping up on spec sheets – and that is backed up by the truth that we’ve had a whole lot of leaks round this GPU not too long ago. Certainly, a kind of talked about a deliberate launch date of Q2 for the RTX 5050, and so a June launch seems to be a definite risk at this level.
In different phrases, we could be seeing the revelation of the Nvidia RTX 5050 for laptops within the subsequent week or two. What in regards to the desktop RTX 5050? Sure, it’s rumored Nvidia goes to supply a desktop taste of this bottom-tier Blackwell GPU, which runs counter to what occurred with the earlier Lovelace era (there was no desktop RTX 4050, solely a laptop computer variant).
Nonetheless, any gossip across the desktop RTX 5050 appears to have dried up, giving me pause for thought on whether or not Nvidia may need deserted that concept, not less than in the interim. Or possibly it was by no means taking place within the first place; we by no means know with rumors.
I’m actually hoping Nvidia can present a extra reasonably priced desktop GPU for funds gaming PCs this time round, although, however whether or not that’ll really occur is one thing I’ve all the time been uncertain about. Merely due to how Nvidia has uncared for the funds finish of the graphics card spectrum in newer occasions.