GeForce RTX 5050 Gaming Laptop Listings Point To Multiple VRAM Configs

There is a bit of mystery and intrigue surrounding NVIDIA's upcoming GeForce RTX 5050 GPU, and a handful of early retail listings (as well as a leak by Acer) of gaming laptops outfitted with the mobile variant either shed light on the situation, or add to the intrigue. How so? The memory configuration is not the same across all of the early listings, which could suggest that NVIDIA will offer multiple SKUs.

Let's start with a laptop listing at Kiebel.de, which was spotted by @momomo_us, a reliable leaker on X. The listing is for a 16-inch Helix 13 laptop powered by an Intel Core i9-13900HX processor based on Raptor Lake, 16GB of DDR5-4800 memory, a 1TB M.2 solid state drive (SSD), and a GeForce RTX 5050 mobile GPU.

If we dig deeper into the specs, it's revealed that NVIDIA's not-yet-announced mobile GeForce RTX 5050 ...