Nvidia has already announced much of its GeForce RTX 50 Series with the company presumably planning to reveal RTX 5060 Ti and 5060 at a later date. However, it seems that Team Green could also bring back its most affordable class of graphics card via a potential RTX 5050.
A new EEC (Eurasian Economic Commission) submission filed by OEM Global Technologies Limited – representing Zotac – has listed an unannounced RTX 5050. If true, such a card would probably use a cut-down version of the GB206 Blackwell chip or maybe even a GB207. Rumours suggest the former GPU will power RTX 5060, featuring up to 4,608 CUDA cores in its full form, whereas the latter would pack a measly 2,560 cores.
Note however that this doesn’t represent concrete evidence of an upcoming GPU. For example, RTX 4050 appeared in previous EEC filings. In many instances, brands jump ahead to register potential upcoming products to save time, just in case.
Since its appearance in Seasonic TDP listings for GeForce RTX 50 Series, there’s been no mention of RTX 5050. Perhaps the threat of Arc B580 or Radeon RX 9060 Series has made Nvidia reconsider the value of the lower-end of the market. Of course this might just be wishful thinking, but I wouldn’t mind seeing the Nvidia make a return to the budget market, if it can deliver high-value specifications at a low price.
I’d prefer a Blackwell GPU, but there is room for Nvidia to reheat its Lovelace designs in service of making a prospective RTX 5050 more affordable. Missing out Multi Frame Generation wouldn’t be a huge blow to the budget pixel pusher given its base frame rates would presumably be too low in most cases.
In any case, considering how popular GeForce RTX 3050 is among Steam users (making up 2.83% of the user base at the time of writing) there’s every chance it would fly off store shelves.
