Graphics cards/NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 is NVIDIA’s Blackwell desktop graphics card with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, 2,560 shading units and a boost clock of 2570 MHz.
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Overview
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5050 is NVIDIA’s Blackwell desktop graphics card with 8 GB of GDDR6 memory, 2,560 shading units and a boost clock of 2570 MHz. These are the manufacturer’s published figures. They describe what the chip is designed to do, not what your particular machine does with it, and the gap between those two is usually cooling. A boost clock is a ceiling rather than a promise, and how long a graphics card holds it under continuous load is the one thing no specification sheet can tell you.
Specifications
- Architecture
- Blackwell
- Shading units
- 2,560
- Base clock
- 2310 MHz
- Boost clock
- 2570 MHz
- Memory
- 8 GB
- Memory type
- GDDR6
- Memory bus
- 128-bit
- TDP
- 130 W
- Process
- Not verified
- Launched
- 2025-07
Comparable within an architecture. Across vendors or generations it is not a like-for-like count.
Board power, not measured draw. A laptop GPU's power is a range the laptop maker chooses within.
Sources
Each figure, the label its source printed beside it, and the day it was read.
| Figure | As printed | Source | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|
| ArchitectureBlackwell | Shader Cores | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Shading units2,560 | NVIDIA CUDA Cores | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Base clock2310 MHz | Base Clock (GHz) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Boost clock2570 MHz | Boost Clock (GHz) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory8 GB | Standard Memory Config | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory typeGDDR6 | Standard Memory Config | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Memory bus128-bit | Memory Interface Width | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| TDP130 W | Total Graphics Power (W) | nvidia.comSpecification page | |
| Launched2025-07 | Starting in the second half of July, GeForce RTX 5050 graphics cards will arrive on store shelves | nvidia.comLaunch release |
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Compare
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What these numbers mean
Every figure on this sheet is a design target. None of it is a measurement.
Nothing above describes how a graphics card behaves twenty minutes into a sustained workload, which is where two chips with nearly identical specifications routinely diverge. A boost clock is a ceiling the vendor permits, not a rate the chip sustains, and whether it holds depends on the cooling, the case, the power profile and the room. None of those appear on a specification sheet.
We deliberately do not reduce these figures to a single score. A composite invented from specifications would look authoritative and measure nothing, and choosing the weights would be choosing the winner.