Nvidia’s RTX 5050 benchmarks are in — they usually’re not nice

Nvidia has been a little bit circumspect in the case of sending out evaluate models for its latest RTX graphics playing cards as of late. (That’s why there’s no PCWorld evaluate but for the RTX 5050 or 5060 or the 8GB model of the RTX 5060 Ti.) However reviewers gonna evaluate… and the primary evaluations for the brand new RTX 5050 aren’t nice.

Korean website Quasar Zone (noticed by Tom’s {Hardware}) has a full evaluate and benchmark suite of the Colourful iGame model of the RTX 5050, which comes with a Blackwell processor, 2560 CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence, a 128-bit bus, and a $250 USD price ticket. (That’s the advised retail value, anyway. As with all graphics playing cards in the mean time, your outcomes might differ if you get to the checkout display screen.)

The outcomes of Quasar Zone’s exams are lower than spectacular. The RTX 5050 simply barely manages to carry even with the RTX 4060 from two years in the past in most straight benchmarks, shedding by a small margin in some. Intel’s Arc B580 (12GB, $250 retail) beats it handily in most artificial benchmarks, although a median of in-game testing reveals it solely successful out by a small sliver—there are nonetheless loads of video games the place Intel’s {hardware} and drivers are at a drawback.

There’s a vivid spot for crew inexperienced, although, and it’s in body era. Flipping on the swap for the signature function of the RTX 50 sequence permits the RTX 5050 to tug forward of the RTX 4060 by a substantial quantity—almost double versus the older card with single-frame era and DLSS enabled. That’s to be anticipated, because the Blackwell chips can, certainly, generate double and even triple the factitious frames of its predecessors. This led to some questionable claims when the sequence was launched, and people who are desirous about multiplayer aggressive video games (the “pretend frames” crowd) received’t be received over.

Even with the enhance from body era, it appears that evidently the RTX 5050 just isn’t the funds competitor that Nvidia wants on this section… or at the least that buyers need from Nvidia on this section. Nvidia continues to be making an obscene quantity of revenue from its broad portfolio on the AI increase, so it’s not as if it actually has to compete on the decrease finish. And it has a digital monopoly on desktop graphics, anyway.