{"id":519881,"date":"2026-03-05T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519881\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T08:15:10","slug":"geforce-rtx-5050-likely-to-get-a-minor-vram-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/519881\/","title":{"rendered":"GeForce RTX 5050 likely to get a minor VRAM upgrade"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\"The<\/p>\n

\u24d8 Gigabyte<\/p>\n

<\/a>The GeForce RTX 5050 could get a slight upgrade <\/p>\n

A new leak says Nvidia is working on a new RTX 5050 variant. It will use GDDR7 VRAM and offer a minor increase in VRAM. <\/p>\n

With the RTX 50 Super lineup<\/a> effectively pushed back to 2026, Nvidia has to find new, creative ways to keep Blackwell alive in the gaming segment. The RTX 5070 laptop<\/a> variant might get a VRAM upgrade, and if a new leak from known leaker @Zed__Wang<\/a> is accurate, so might the RTX 5050 desktop. Apparently, the entry-level GPU will be remade with 3 GB GDDR7 modules. <\/p>\n

Hence, the RTX 5050 9 GB will come with 9 GB of VRAM on a 96-bit bus. On paper, that is an upgrade from 8 GB of GDDR6 video memory, but it is on a 128-bit bus. Overall memory bandwidth should stay roughly the same, and depending on the type of GDDR7 modules used (28 Gbps\/32 Gbps), we might even see a tiny increase (from 320 GB\/s with GDDR6 to 388 GB\/s with fast GDDR7 modules). <\/p>\n

Other RTX 5050 9 GB specs, such as its GPU, TGP and base\/boost clocks, are unknown at this point. They will likely remain nearly identical or the same as the RTX 5050 8 GB. Overall, it looks like Nvidia wants to put its 3 GB GDDR7 modules to work somewhere, although one can\u2019t imagine why they got wasted on an RTX 5050 when the RTX 5060<\/a> lineup could have benefited far more from a VRAM increase.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\t\"Anil<\/a>Anil Ganti<\/a> – Senior Tech Writer – 2859 articles published on Notebookcheck since 2019<\/p>\n

I’ve been an avid PC gamer since the age of 8. My passion for gaming eventually pushed me towards general tech, and I got my first writing gig at the age of 19. I have a degree in mechanical engineering and have worked in the manufacturing industry and a few other publications like Wccftech before joining Notebookcheck in November 2019. I cover a variety of topics including smartphones, gaming, and computer hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u24d8 Gigabyte The GeForce RTX 5050 could get a slight upgrade A new leak says Nvidia is working…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519882,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[64,63,234,100362,93032,126675,235,227,233,226,2291,236,232,228,229,259528,259529,259530,259531,105,231,230],"class_list":["post-519881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-benchmarks","tag-blackwell","tag-gddr7","tag-geforce","tag-graphics-card","tag-laptop","tag-netbook","tag-notebook","tag-nvidia","tag-processor","tag-reports","tag-review","tag-reviews","tag-rtx-5050","tag-rtx-5050-9-gb","tag-rtx-5050-9gb","tag-rtx-5050-gddr7","tag-technology","tag-test","tag-tests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519881\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}