- Acer accidentally listed the RTX 5050 GPUs in some game laptop computers
- The wasted details showed power consumption and watch speeds
- However, we did not get any other specifications that were shared and scraped for the desktop variant of the RTX 5050 has also gone quiet
Acer has leaked the NVIDIA RTX 5050 Mobile GPU, giving us a glimpse of some of the most important specifications on this portable graphics card.
Not so long ago, NVIDIA introduced RTX 5060 models (5060 Ti -Spin came first), and before they arrived, there were rumors flew around them and RTX 5050 as well.
While the RTX 5050 is not officially announced, we have seen several leaks about it recently. Videocardz reports that the latest leak is coming from Acer, thanks to a list of GPU specifications for predators and nitro -games -Arable computers.
This mentioned an RTX 5050 in a whole part of Nitro notebooks, and I use the past there because Acer has caught the error and deleted the insulting lists – but not before Videocardz took a screen shot as proof. Other sources have also noted, so this is probably real – even if it still takes it with a grain of salt, as with all rumors.
We can see from this scrab that Acer is set to offer RTX 5050 in five different power settings ranging from 50W up to 100W, with similarly faster watch speeds for each, from 1500MHz up to 2550MHz. Note that there will also be an ‘acer and’ (over -clocked) boost of 15W with these models, which means the most powerful model will be able to give 115W in a pinch.
Unfortunately, we do not see any specifications other than power consumption and watches that are bound together in a direct relationship – the faster the watches are pushed, the more watts, GPU will consume.
Analysis: A portable RTX 5050 feels imminent – but what about the desktop model?
The specifications we see here do not give us much of a clue how powerful RTX 5050 theoretically will be. That said, the advertised maximum powered is quite significant on 115W, but we don’t know enough about this mobile GPU to draw any final conclusions. Key factors will include the core counting that has not been passed on and the type of video memory used (VRAM).
I should note that on the latter front there were rumors that Nvidia could choose slower GDDR6 VRAM, rather than GDDR7 used elsewhere with the Blackwell generation. However, recent rumors have suggested that Nvidia will stick to GDDR7 (8 GB of this VRAM, which is an expected configuration for an entry-level GPU).
In any case, what this apparent error from Acer indicates is that the RTX 5050 portable graphics card could be close to arriving, otherwise it wouldn’t emerge on spec sheets – and this is backed up by the fact that we have had a lot of leaks around this GPU recently. In fact, one of them mentioned a scheduled launch date of Q2 for the RTX 5050, and therefore a June release seems to be a clear opportunity at this time.
In other words, we may see the revelation of NVIDIA RTX 5050 for laptops in the next week or two. What about Desktop RTX 5050? Yes, it was joked that Nvidia will produce a desktop taste of this bottom level Blackwell GPU, which contradicts what happened to the previous Lovelace generation (there was no Desktop RTX 4050, only a portable variant).
However, every gossip around the Desktop RTX 5050 seems to have dried up, giving me a break to think of whether Nvidia may have left that idea, at least for the time being. Or maybe it never happened in the first place; We never know with rumors.
I really hope Nvidia can give a more affordable desktop GPU to budget games -this time, but whether it will actually happen is something I’ve always been in doubt about. Simply because of how Nvidia has neglected the budget of the graphics card spectrum in recent times.
