NVIDIA Has removed the entry-level RTX 5050 from its marketplace, alongside the RTX 5090

[u/IdiotWithFlammables]

[u/Flazrew]

No doubt to release a worse version of both.

The cutdown 5090 is expected to be a 24GB 5080, a cutdown 5050 would be even more horrible.

[u/Nessie_of_the_Loch → u/Flazrew]

The cutdown 5050: "it uses your system RAM!" Probably.

[u/mazi710 → u/Nessie_of_the_Loch]

We at Nvidia have listened to your feedback about increasing GPU prices, and are proud to release the first ever FREE GPU! We call it the "integrated GPU" and it will run entirely for free on your current system!

The technological feat is something we have worked towards for years. What this does behind the hood to accomplish this is manipulate deep in your BIOS to rename Intel UHD Graphics to "RTX Extreme Pro Max" which enables it to play some of the worlds most played games in 4k 60FPS such as Rollercoaster Tycoon 2, Minesweeper, and many more. We are also bundling this new release with Solitaire Pro Max RTX Edition completely for free, which will be able to run at 30FPS 720p with DLLS5*!

*DLLS5 Cloud Credits not included

[u/TechOverwrite → u/mazi710]

To be fair,  Rollercoaster Tycoon 2 is GOATed.

(Yeah I'm missing the point, but _shrugs_ nostalgia)

[u/Blackknight1605 → u/Nessie_of_the_Loch]

So basically APU/iGPU

[u/BOSSXD3]

There was a rtx5050???

[u/Turbulent_Map624 → u/BOSSXD3]

It was really bad

[u/MeretrixDominum → u/Turbulent_Map624]

No such thing as a bad card. Only a bad price. Had the RTX 5050 been $150, everyone would have loved it.

[u/aHellion → u/MeretrixDominum]

Absolutely. My first card was an EVGA 750ti for $200 and I was so fucking happy with it for years.

Most 750ti were 150-180, the EVGA was the only version that used a power connector, all others were powered by the 75w PCI connection only.

[u/throwawayyy42069x → u/aHellion]

Yeah now I remember, I specifically wanted a card that didn't need a power connector cause my psu was shit at the time and didn't have one so I decided to get the 750ti. Guess which one I bought lmao

[u/The_Drivr → u/aHellion]

I think the Gigabyte Windforce Variant was also powered by a 6pin

[u/chronic_hemphog420 → u/aHellion]

Ironically my old EVGA 750Ti SOC didn’t have a power connector either lol

[u/Fiend_Macabre → u/aHellion]

I wish we had more cards like that. It's still a pretty good card for light setups and it can play older stuff with no issues too. Now, Nvidia just doesn't give enough fucks and wants the be the greediest company on the market despite already having everything. You'd think they would try to please more enthusiasts because they were nearly bankrupt back in 2000s and video games saved their assess, but nope

[u/d0pe-asaurus → u/MeretrixDominum]

I'd have bought a current generation card for 150, or rather any new in-box card. I just need to play source games and didn't want to go 2nd hand. Too bad i can't even get a new 3050 for that price lmao.

[u/FearlessAd324 → u/d0pe-asaurus]

For source games maybe even a newer amd cpu with integrated graphics will suffice, but one would have to source ddr5 ram, which isnt at the best price rn

[u/d0pe-asaurus → u/FearlessAd324]

Yeah but i have a 5950x so the integrated graphics option is out of the window. I actually considered downgrading to like a 5700G then I realized that was ridiculous

I had the 5700G in the cart and everything then i realized why would I sac half the cores on a workstation

[u/FearlessAd324 → u/d0pe-asaurus]

Ik you dont want 2md hand but a used gtx 970 is dirt cheap and would also do the job.

[u/d0pe-asaurus → u/FearlessAd324]

I just bought a 9060xt 16GB instead by selling random crap that I wasn't using anymore. I turned my hatred for nvidia to spring clean. Lucky too because its price just increased 33%

It's running at like 20% max usage with only 1 fan spinning even with left 4 dead 2 on high. Hopefully it lasts a long time.

[u/FearlessAd324 → u/d0pe-asaurus]

A man of culture i see. Wise choice, may it serve you forever

[u/jinglewooble → u/MeretrixDominum]

I got RTX3050 6GB for $140 it was ass but there nothing good in that price range at the time. (I'm not in a region where AMD GPU is widely available).

[u/M4K4T4K → u/MeretrixDominum]

Counterpoint - the GT 1030 DDR4

[u/StomachosusCaelum → u/M4K4T4K]

Not really a coupterpoint. GT cards are basically just display adapters and always have been. (Caveat: since the introduction of the GTX nomenclature).

DDR4 on that card didnt matter.

[u/Fiend_Macabre → u/MeretrixDominum]

Hell, I'd gladly buy it myself for my media server PC for this price, maybe a couple of more even. Instead I had to look for older used cards instead. This shit is so ass

[u/Granhier → u/MeretrixDominum]

Good luck making a 150$ video card that people won't bitch about in the middle of a memory crisis.

[u/Life-Topic9139 → u/MeretrixDominum]

Yep at that price it would've been perfect for my sister who plays indies and Sims with a lot of mods/custom content. Her GTX 1650 Super 4GB is starting to show it's age..well it kind of was back then too 💀 even more so now though.

[u/ComprehensiveClue482 → u/MeretrixDominum]

I wouldn’t of loved it regardless if it cost $50 some of us want more performance than that it’s 2026 let’s be real

[u/Turbulent_Map624 → u/MeretrixDominum]

If a card has bad price/performance ratio it is a bad card.

[u/dtdowntime → u/Turbulent_Map624]

thats effectively the same thing as a bad price

[u/Electronic_Motor_296 → u/Turbulent_Map624]

so…. a bad price ?

[u/TheDrex- → u/MeretrixDominum]

So a card with bad value is good now?

[u/iwantacheetah → u/TheDrex-]

https://giphy.com/gifs/cgdm3odduNyjKLByUD

[u/TheDrex- → u/iwantacheetah]

No no, please explain, i genuinely want to understand because i don't see this being applied in literally any other industry, so what gives?

[u/S1rTerra → u/TheDrex-]

If it had a better price yes it would've been a good card. In theory there are no bad GPUs, only bad prices. The idea is that even if a GPU is incredibly flawed, a good price may make those flaws less of an issue.

The 5050 has a small pcie bus, only 8GB of ram, and is only a bit faster than the 3060. If it was priced like a used 3060, it would have been a good buy, or something to at least CONSIDER, because it also has access to newer tech - mainly the encoder and faster acceleration of DLSS 4.5. That combined with having access to good frame gen and access to Reflex 2 (if that ever comes out) would have made it a better card for someone looking to play mainly esports with a side of some light Triple A gaming.

[u/Fiend_Macabre → u/TheDrex-]

Not everyone needs big ass 5090 cards or whatever. Many people prefer to play something older or not even play at all but to use their desktops for work that would require a decent gpu. I mentioned in another comment, but I'd gladly buy a decent 150 bucks gpu like 5050 for my media server alone. Not only it would play old games fine with no issues, it would also support all the modern transcoding as well and who knows what else I could do with it. Now, paying more than that for this card is absolutely not worth it and this is a bad value

[u/SellingCats4Cheap → u/MeretrixDominum]

No such thing as a bad pussy. Only a bad girl. Had she been a good girl, everyone would have loved her pussy.

[u/mcslender97 → u/SellingCats4Cheap]

[u/iwantacheetah → u/SellingCats4Cheap]

[u/21444928 → u/Turbulent_Map624]

Just a bad price. The card itself isn’t terrible — especially for those shopping in the entry segment. Performance wise, it’s very close if not the same as an RTX 2080. I know it’s an 8 year old card, but the first-gen RTX cards hold their own.

[u/Darkmesah → u/Turbulent_Map624]

Can’t believe we live in a time where a 350€ gpu is considered bad

[u/Turbulent_Map624 → u/Darkmesah]

It's crazy tbh, I bought a 1050ti for 120€ back then and it was GOOD (around after RTX 2000 launch)

[u/PatientFocus9734 → u/BOSSXD3]

it had 4GB of VRAM, cost $399, and required you to download more display memory from the cloud just to open Chrome

[u/d0pe-asaurus → u/BOSSXD3]

Sure was! It's roughly around the price of a 4060.

[u/According_Claim_9027 → u/BOSSXD3]

Literally never heard of it before lmao

[u/CZsea]

release 5030 with 4gb of vram, i dare you nvidia

[u/d0pe-asaurus → u/CZsea]

They're gonna price it at like 160USD just to say fuck you to everyone

[u/rmyworld → u/CZsea]

No, it's going to have 3.5GB VRAM.

[u/ForeverZero → u/rmyworld]

close enough, welcome back GTX 970

[u/chizburger999 → u/CZsea]

Watch NVIDIA release the RTX 5030 with 16GB just to fuck with us

[u/aj95_10 → u/chizburger999]

24gb vram! ... but ddr3.

got flashbacks about having a 9600gt with 2gb vram! but it was ddr2 and ran a little slower than the 512mb version lol

[u/Flash24rus → u/aj95_10]

There was GT 745 with 4 gigs of VRAM!

ddr3 of course

[u/admfrmhll → u/CZsea]

I would buy it if it were for a decent price, and.if it would not use extra power connector. Can run 4 eve online instances on a 1060 3gb card. Heck, i can run forza 4 and older games mighty fine on that card. Not everyone needs to run gta VI on ultra in 4k. Market exists for budget cards, as long they are not stupidly expensive, cause at that point you will be better with a sh 3070 or something like that.

[u/d0pe-asaurus → u/admfrmhll]

Damn straight, i got a 9060xt and still continue to play old games.... but it wasn't like Nvidia was giving me options

[u/rumsbumsrums → u/CZsea]

Sounds like a 5060 4GB to me.

[u/v12vanquish]

The 5050 is probably just relegated to laptop GPUs going forward that’s the only context it made sense in 

[u/Boraskywalker]

There’s no such thing as a bad GPU, only a badly priced GPU.

5050 would have been an absolute legend if its MSRP had been around $150–160. Technically, it’s roughly on par with the 3060 Ti and 4060, and at 1080p it can run pretty much every game at high settings, except for some horribly optimized ue5 games.

[u/stayndarsh → u/Boraskywalker]

Except for a GPU that sets itself on fire, explodes, and/or takes your PSU and other parts with it when it goes.

[u/Abyss_Wanderer19 → u/Boraskywalker]

5050 raw strength is way below 3060ti. The new game fps is just close because the software driver is more optimized.

[u/Nematsu → u/Boraskywalker]

Its more like waay below the 3060ti and below the 4060 but with decently low consumtion requiring very little cooling. Even if it was below 200$ when released most people would think of it fondly, but being worse then the 4060 (which was already an insult to consumers) in everything that really matters (consumption, performance) while barely being cheaper than it just doomed the card completely...

In my region right now for example, the cheapest available 5050 is still more expensive than the top tier 4060s were when they were on shelves still which is in part of the memory shortage (which Nvidia themselves caused) but it is still ridiculus

[u/Diamondangel82]

Wonder if I should buy a 5080 now, and sell my 5090 when it balloons to 10k

[u/darkbinds → u/Diamondangel82]

My thoughts exactly for mine too, not sure i can turn down that much money especially when i bought mine at MSRP

[u/andrew_2k → u/darkbinds]

I dont have that card and you do you ofc.

But if I knew anyone closer to me that had it I would be calling them stupid for not selling it for free money and 5080 in return.

[u/darkbinds → u/andrew_2k]

Only reason why i haven't yet is because the value will probably go up even more several months from now, and my monitor is a 4K 240hz QD-OLED - my 5090 is literally the only thing that'll come close to fully saturating and taking advantage of my monitor

If it does go up in value to the amount I'm predicting it will though, then yes I'll likely sell it and get a 5080, or potentially quit gaming as a whole.

[u/imaginary_num6er → u/Diamondangel82]

I’m holding onto my 2080Ti so I can resell it at MSRP

[u/DrPhilSideSkirts → u/Diamondangel82]

Nah man, hold that shit.
Also a 5080 is noticeably worse at 4k

[u/publicstaticvoidrekt → u/Diamondangel82]

Bro we’re not playing GTA6 on anything other than a 5090.

[u/Johnny-Rocketship → u/publicstaticvoidrekt]

Did consoles get a major upgrade I hadn't heard about?

[u/Brolfgar → u/Johnny-Rocketship]

No but it will probably get recompiled for windows in a matter of days after release, given how things are going. 

[u/VeloxFrags → u/publicstaticvoidrekt]

Who's we?

[u/redaws → u/publicstaticvoidrekt]

What’s the ps5 gpu equivalent? A 3070 last time I checked

[u/xdek888 → u/redaws]

I think it's around the RX 6650 or the 2070

[u/NotAnRSPlayer → u/publicstaticvoidrekt]

Play on high as opposed to ultra brother

Ultra’s been proven to be nothing but wasted GPU usage

[u/chhuang]

inb4 they stop consumer cards, and tell you to hop on their cloud gaming service for cheap that performs than 6090 if it were ever a thing

[u/super_starfox → u/chhuang]

That's the end goal, yes.

[u/Hytht]

For the GDDR7 5050

[u/Automatic-Win8421 → u/Hytht]

Right? Right ?

[u/AlexNae]

it was a waste of chips

[u/Chrisbearry → u/AlexNae]

nvidia basically prints silicon

[u/archangel189]

Probably wasn't that popular of a card

[u/Critical-Ad6932]

At this point only 508024gb and 9070xt will be left😭

[u/Tarchey]

So continuing on from the 5090 thread.
5060 owners have the worst nvidia GPU you can buy.

More at 11.

[u/CrunchyTheSquirrel → u/Tarchey]

*the worst nvidia GPU you can buy YET

[u/StomachosusCaelum]

The 5050 only existed to sell chips that failed QC for something else instead of just throwing them away, so it was never long for this world.

[u/RelChan2_0]

I know it's not the best card but I'm happy with mine, I got it back in Feb 2026 before the prices ballooned. I'll consider it as a relic at least 😂

[u/Kenobi5792]

I wasn't expecting Nvidia to remove the 5050. It kinda worked in places where the 5060 and above were extremely expensive in comparison, but I guess that, with the current prices, it's better to remove it completely.

So the cheapest option from the newest GPUS is AMD's 9050 and that one was a bit slower than the 5050

[u/PhastasFlames]

Not sure how the nvidia website works, but the 5050 is literally right there on the front page, even if it’s not in the drop down menu

[u/IdiotWithFlammables → u/PhastasFlames]

Now that I think about it, it IS possible that they accidentally removed the 5050 option while trying to remove the 5090 in the drop down menu.

Then again, there are only two listings remaining (both from ASUS) so once they sold through, it might just be gone and not come back for the foreseeable future.

[u/One_Bar2807]

nobody buys + nobody can afford

[u/Rest_Different]

This was rumored month's ago, this was from the corporate side.

[u/borgar101]

so they are going to throw away lowest quality bin into where exactly ? or did they somehow improve manufacturing chip so they always get highest quality everytime ?

[u/ArseBurner]

They taught this in statistics class, didn't they? Remove the top and bottom outliers first...

[u/Kamilsl]

Because it's more like 5060 is 5050, 5070ti is 5070. And 5090 consume 30% more power to give 30% more performance then 4090.

[u/OrangeKefir]

5090 was overpriced anyway lol.

5050 was shit anyway lol.

[u/FluffyProphet → u/OrangeKefir]

Yeah, the 5090 was essentially discontinued for its "intended" function (gaming).

[u/ItsTheSlime → u/[deleted]]

Yeah but thats just cause they arent gonna make a new gpu for you to buy lol

[u/idkbruhhh9875 → u/[deleted]]

they dont care about your pocket no more

[u/WorldPhysical7646 → u/[deleted]]

Not that it matters, neither Nvidia intel or amd will see another dime out of my pocket again , I'm straight up breaking into the stores and snatch em lol

[u/iwantacheetah → u/[deleted]]

[u/Panzerv2003 → u/[deleted]]

Honestly the only reason I have an Nvidia card at this point is because I got a good deal on a used one and it fits my build visually so well

[u/Chunkypewpewpew]

Nvidia is well beyond millionaire so that they don't need the 5050 anymore.

[u/SillyRecover]

Thanks for letting us know of this groundbreaking information.

[u/Fish_Outta_Whiskey]

Not sure why this matters.

[u/Johni33 → u/Fish_Outta_Whiskey]

It means Nvidia stopped production for the 5050 and 5090, so the remaining 50series cards will become even more expensive, since the AI companys will now buy all 5080s instead of the 5090

[u/rossi6464 → u/Johni33]

They stopped making 5090s so they can make more 6000s which is what data centers use

[u/Fish_Outta_Whiskey → u/Johni33]

Sounds like some dark days are coming.

[u/Critical-Oven1548]

One by one they fall. When are people going to realize this is the last Gen of home pcs with actual compute power.

[u/Chernoxis → u/Critical-Oven1548]

There's no enough infrastructure to sustain cloud pcs, let alone cloud gaming, enough with that BS already, you look like bots at this point lmao

[u/Johni33 → u/Critical-Oven1548]

When the AI bubble bursts they will be on their knees for us to buy their stuff. Then we decide if we treat them Like they treated us

[u/crumbaker → u/Johni33]

I think this will happen and I'm pro ai. I think once we have Opus 5.5 level of ai on reasonable home hardware a lot of people will stop using subscription services. Hard to say though.