A new Nvidia GeForce gaming GPU is reportedly coming, copies AMD in the best way

The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 leaks are now coming in thick and fast, with the latest one appearing to confirm the speed of the VRAM used by the new gaming GPU. Bear in mind that Nvidia hasn't even officially announced the existence of the RTX 5050, let alone any specs details, so this is all still in rumor territory right now. However, it looks as though the RTX 5050 is going to have exactly the same memory setup as AMD's recent GPUs.

As we found in our AMD Radeon RX 9060 XT review, you can still make a decent GPU by opting for GDDR6 VRAM rather than the latest super-fast GDDR7 memory, enabling AMD to cut costs and make the best graphics card in its league. Indeed, the 16GB 9060 XT has twice as much VRAM as the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060, making it a much better card, even if the memory is slower, and it looks as though Nvidia plans to reduce the cost of the GeForce RTX 5050 by using the same type of memory.

According to this latest rumor, which comes from regular tech leaker MEGAsizeGPU in a post on X (formerly Twitter), the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 will use 20Gbps GDDR6 memory. This isn't just the same type of VRAM found on AMD's latest GPUs, but it also runs at the same speed. Previous RTX 5050 specs rumors have stated that the GPU will also have 8GB of VRAM attached to a 128-bit memory interface, meaning its total memory bandwidth will be 322GB/s with this speed of memory.

Other leaked specs suggest the RTX 5050 will come with 2,560 CUDA cores, 20 RT cores for ray tracing, and 80 Tensor cores for AI workloads, including Nvidia DLSS. If that's true, this means it would have a similar core configuration to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 from two generations ago, but with the benefits of the new Blackwell architecture, as well as VRAM that runs faster than the 14Gbps GDDR6 memory supplied with the RTX 3050.

Whether the RTX 5050 is worth buying or not will ultimately depend on its price, and I'm hoping that it will be priced well below the $299 cost of the RTX 5060. It's been a long time since we've had a genuinely affordable new GPU for PC gaming, and I'd love to see it hit the $229 spot, or even better, $199. We'll just have to wait and see what Nvidia releases over the next few months.

In the meantime, check out my Nvidia GeForce RTX 5060 review to see how the company's current cheapest GPU holds up in our game benchmark suite, and read my guide on how to install a GPU to see how to upgrade your graphics card.

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