GeForce RTX 5050 Desktop GPU May Arrive With A VRAM Twist For Budget Gaming

As of this moment, NVIDIA's stack of desktop graphics cards for gamers based on Blackwell stands six models high, or seven models if you count the 16GB and 8GB variants of the GeForce RTX 5060 Ti separately. However you want to audit the lineup, you can add one more to the mix, as rumors are swirling of a GeForce RTX 5050 in desktop form being added to the mix. This raises the question, what will the VRAM look like on what figures to be the last budget variant of the GeForce RTX 50 series?

First things first—let's discuss the rumored specs. The folks at Videocardz said their sources "confirmed" that NVIDIA truly is planning on adding a GeForce RTX 5050 to the mix, and that it will arrive in the "coming weeks." We've also heard chatter about a mobile variant for laptops, but we'll keep ...