- Acer Gpus RTX 5050 accidentally listed in some gaming laptops
- Tilled details have shown energy and clock speeds
- We have not obtained other shared specifications, and chatter on the RTX 5050 office variant also became silent
Acer has disclosed the NVIDIA RTX 5050 mobile GPU, giving us an overview of some of the key specifications of this laptop graphics card.
Not so long ago, Nvidia introduced RTX 5060 models (the Spin 5060 Ti came first), and before those who arrived, there were rumors flying around them and the RTX 5050 too.
Although the RTX 5050 has not been officially announced, we have seen many leaks on this subject recently. Videocardz reports that the last leak comes from Acer, gracked a list of GPU specifications for Predator and Nitro Gaming laptops.
This mentioned an RTX 5050 in many of the Nitro notebooks, and I use the past there because it has caught the error and deleted the incriminated announcements – but not before Videocardz takes on a screenshot as proof. Other sources have also taken note, so this is probably authentic – although it always takes it with a grain of salt, as with all rumors.
We can see from this ScreenGub that EERC that is defined to offer the RTX 5050 in five different power options, ranging from 50 W to 100W, with faster clock speeds for each, from 1500 MHz to 2550 MHz. Note that there will also be a “Acer OC” boost (overclocké) of 15W with these models, which means that the most powerful model will be able to provide 115W in a pinch.
Unfortunately, we see no specification other than electricity consumption and clocks, which are linked in a direct relationship – the more the clocks are pushed, the faster the GPU consumes.
Analysis: an RTX 5050 laptop seems imminent – but what about the desktop model?
The specifications that we see here do not give us many indications on the power of the RTX 5050 theoretically. That said, the maximum power envelope announced is quite substantial at 115W, but we do not know enough about this mobile GPU to draw definitive conclusions. The key factors will include the number of nucleus, which is not disclosed and the type of video memory (VRAM) used.
I should note that on this last front, there were rumors that Nvidia could opt for the slower GDDR6, rather than the GDDR7 used elsewhere with the Blackwell generation. However, more 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, this apparent ACER error indicates is that the graphics card of the RTX 5050 laptop could be close to the arrival, otherwise it would not appear on specifications – and this is supported by the fact that we had a lot of leaks around this GPU recently. Indeed, one of those mentioned a planned launch date of the T2 for the RTX 5050, and therefore a version of June seems to be a distinct possibility at this stage.
In other words, we could see the revelation of the Nvidia RTX 5050 for laptops during the week or the next two weeks. What about the RTX 5050 office? Yes, rumor says that Nvidia will produce an office flavor of this lower level GPU of Blackwell, which goes against what happened with the previous love generation (there was no RTX 4050 desk, only a laptop variant).
However, all the gossip around the RTX 5050 office seems to have dried, giving me a break to think if Nvidia could have abandoned this idea, at least for the moment. Or maybe it never happened first; We never know with rumors.
I really hope that Nvidia can provide a more affordable office GPU for game PCs this time, but if it will really happen is something that I still doubt. Simply because of how Nvidia has neglected the end budgetary of the graphics card spectrum more recently.
