A GeForce RTX 5050 Variant With 9GB Of Faster GDDR7 May Be Inbound

Gamers chomping at the bit (technically champing, for you grammar purists) for a refresh of the GeForce RTX 50 series with more VRAM are about to get their wish, though perhaps not exactly as they had envisioned, according to a popular leaker on X. No, we're not talking about the oft-rumored GeForce RTX 50 Super lineup, but an upgrade to the budget-oriented GeForce RTX 5050 with more and faster memory.

According to MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang) on X, NVIDiA is readying a GeForce RTX 5050 variant with 9GB of GDDR7 memory on a 96-bit bus width. As it stands, the stock blueprint for the GeForce RTX 5050 that released last June is 8GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus.

Other key specs include 2,560 CUDA cores, 80 texture mapping units (TMUs), 32 render output units (ROPs), 20 ray tracing (RT) cores, 80 tensor cores, a 2.31GHz base clock ...