NVIDIA has formally announced the GeForce RTX 5050 desktop GPU coming in the second-half of July, which it says is 60% faster than the GeForce RTX 3050.

The 8GB of GDDR6 is the same amount of memory Nvidia built into the RTX 3050. Another compromise is that the RTX 5050 features fewer CUDA cores at only 2,560, down from the 3,840

Nvidia has launched an affordable, Blackwell-based RTX 5050 GPU for desktops and laptops, which starts at just $249.