NVIDIA's GeForce RTX 5050 9GB May Be Dead As AIBs Left In The Dark
It has been a minute since we've heard anything about a relaunched GeForce RTX 5050 with upgraded VRAM, and that could be due NVIDIA pausing or outright cancelling plans to release such a card. Apparently NVIDIA has gone radio silent to its add-in board partners regarding the not-yet-(and maybe never)-announced SKU.
In case you missed it, past rumors pointed to NVIDIA refreshing its budget GeForce RTX 5050 with 9GB of GDDR7 memory, which would represent both a capacity and speed increase over the existing model. As it currently exists, the GeForce RTX 5050 wields 8GB of GDDR6 memory (20Gbps chips) linked to a 128-bit bus to deliver up to 320GB/s of memory bandwidth.
So it basically boils down to an additional 1GB of VRAM with faster memory chips, though according to MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang), a prominent leaker on X, the new SKU would cut the bus width to 96 bits....
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