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Tom's Guide
14-05-2025
- Tom's Guide
Nvidia's RTX 5050 is real? Gaming laptop listings show off new GPU with shocking price tag
Nvidia's RTX 5060 is set to launch just in time for Computex 2025, but there may be another GPU in the cards, as leaked gaming laptop listings have shown RTX 5050 graphics cards. The first laptops with an RTX 5050 laptop GPU have popped up at UK retailer Laptops Direct, including in a Lenovo Legion 5 and a Lenovo LOQ 15. According to the listings, the RTX 5050 will arrive with 8GB of video memory, just like the upcoming RTX 5060 and the lower-end RTX 5060 Ti with 8GB VRAM. There have been rumblings of Nvidia's lower-end GPU since Nvidia's announcement of its latest RTX 50-series cards back in January at CES, as an RTX 5050 laptop GPU was spotted in an LG Gram 2025. Now, more laptops have appeared, and it's looking likely they may be announced alongside the launch of the RTX 5060 this May. While the listings only show the amount of video memory the RTX 5050 laptops GPU is expected to have, credible leaker momomo_us on X spotted that it will come with GDDR7 memory. This means it will match the rest of the RTX 50-series lineup with the same graphics memory, although previous rumors showed the GPU having GDDR6 — like the RTX 40-series. 13, 2025 Originally, the listings were available to purchase, but this option has now been taken down at the retailer. However, the Lenovo Legion 5 is still shown, with other specs including an Intel Core i7 13650HX, 16GB of RAM, a 1TB SDD and even Wi-Fi 7. It seems Nvidia still has another graphics card up its sleeve, but we'll have to wait and see when the RTX 5050 gets an official announcement, and whether there will be a desktop version. If the listings are accurate, however, these entry-level gaming laptops won't come cheap. We've known that anything with an RTX 50-series come with a sky-high price tag, as with the Asus ROG Strix Scar ($4,499) and HP Omen Max 16 ($4,299) — both fitted with an RTX 5090. What's worse, Nvidia GPUs are looking to get a 10% price hike. Get instant access to breaking news, the hottest reviews, great deals and helpful tips. With the RTX 5050-equipped Lenovo gaming laptops shown, it appears these will come with a higher-than-expected price, too. While prices are currently taken down, VideoCardz was able to get prices for the notebooks. The Lenovo Legion 5 comes in at £1,349 (around $1,800), while the Lenovo LOQ 15 is priced at £1,149 (around $1,530). To put that into perspective, gaming laptops with an RTX 5060 are set to priced from $1,099 / £1,099. Already, RTX 5050 gaming laptops are coming with pretty shocking price tags. These could just be placeholder prices, seeing as the RTX 5050 laptop GPU is yet to be officially announced, but if these are the prices to expect, then it may seem worth grabbing a gaming laptop with something higher. Even this MSI Katana 17 with an RTX 5070 is priced at $1,299.
WIRED
08-04-2025
- WIRED
The Asus ROG Flow Z13 Is a Thin and Cool Portable Gaming PC
It feels even thinner when you're using the device itself. When all you have under your palms is that thin keyboard cover, and you're not seeing how thick the back of the device is, it's kind of magical, especially while gaming. That brings me to another huge advantage of this type of design—the thermals. This thing never got above 70 degrees Celsius internally, even under stress testing in Performance mode. And it stayed fairly quiet. It's especially noticeable when you aren't gaming. The Flow Z13 does a great job of keeping quiet and cool when it should, which can't be said for many gaming laptops. That makes it an even better hybrid work/gaming device. The excellent thermals have the vertical orientation to thank, sucking in tons of air through the intake vents on the back of the tablet, unobstructed by a desk like the bottom of laptops. The exhaust vents, meanwhile, are located right across the top of the tablet, as far away from the keyboard and your hands as physically possible. That's another big change over gaming laptops, which often spew hot air at your mouse hand. A Tough Sell? Photograph: Luke Larsen I don't love the limited configurations for the Flow Z13. Asus sells only expensive configurations with at least 32 GB of RAM and 1 TB of storage, starting at over $2,000. It's a shame there isn't a lower-tier option to get that starting price down. Not everyone needs that much memory and storage. If the starting price were closer to $1,500, I could see it attracting a larger audience. That's especially true since the Flow Z13 isn't necessarily a performance-first machine. I also wish the speakers and webcam were a bit more impressive. They get the job done and are better than what you find on many gaming laptops, but if they could match the Surface Pro, they'd have an even stronger upper hand over even the most premium gaming laptops. And I'd be remiss without mentioning the newly launched Nvidia RTX 50-series Laptop GPUs. It'll be a bit before the lower-tier RTX 5050 and 5060 laptops arrive, but when they do, they may make the comparison to the Flow Z13 less favorable. The price-to-performance comparison with comparable gaming laptops doesn't play out in the Flow Z13's favor. It will never hold a candle to its peers on that spec alone. But that's never been the point. Instead, the Flow Z13 continues to challenge the conventional idea of gaming laptops, and with the 2025 model, it's surprisingly successful.
Yahoo
13-03-2025
- Yahoo
More affordable sub-$1,000 RTX 50-series laptops likely coming in May as RTX 5060 and RTX 5050 models spotted online
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Following hot on the ray-traced heels of that leak covering off the RTX 5050, RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti desktop GPUs comes news that the mobile versions of the RTX 5050 and RTX 5060 should be available in laptops from May. The kicker here is that it should enable RTX 50 laptops to dip below the $1,000 mark and according to Videocardz some RTX 5050 and and RTX 5060 laptops have been spotted on Acer Hong Kong's website and will be available in May. The caveat? We don't know the full specs of these GPUs, while the broader Nvidia Blackwell RTX 50 family is generally proving not to be a dramatic advance on the outgoing RTX 40 family. Anyway, no official specs are known for either GPU. But given that Nvidia has revealed full details of the RTX 5070 laptop chip, we can safely assume that represents an upper limit. The 5070 laptop, unfortunately, is an 8 GB GPU with a 128-bit memory bus. So, it's likely the 5050 and 5060 will likewise offer no more than 8 GB. Similarly, the 5070's 4,608 CUDA cores represent an upper bound. The new GPUs will come in lower than that. How much lower isn't known, but laptop GPUs tend to align with the desktop, but one tier lower. We also have the recent rumour of the desktop RTX 5060 offering 3,840 cores and the desktop RTX 5060 TI rocking the same 4,608 cores as the laptop RTX 5070. The confounding factor here is there appears to be no RTX 5060 Ti laptop chip. So, hopefully, the RTX 5060 laptop will get the same 3,840 cores as the desktop, just with lower clocks. If so, it would be a decent step over the RTX 4060 laptop chip and its 3,072 cores. That would leave the RTX 5050 laptop to align with the RTX 5050 desktop, which is rumoured to have 2,560 cores. Anyway, the broad point here holds. These new GPUs should enable a tranche of new lower-cost gaming portables to rank among our favourite gaming laptops. Best CPU for gaming: Top chips from Intel and gaming motherboard: The right graphics card: Your perfect pixel-pusher SSD for gaming: Get into the game first.
Yahoo
11-03-2025
- Yahoo
I wasn't going to upgrade my Nvidia GPU this gen, but new leaks may change my mind
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. To upgrade your GPU or not to upgrade your GPU, that is the question. Do you hold on to Nvidia's Ampere generation, or embrace the frame-gen future and upgrade to Blackwell? Nvidia's RTX 50-series graphics cards launched in January with the RTX 5090 and RTX 5080. The high-end GPUs were followed by the more mid-range RTX 5070 and 5070 TI. And the laptop variants of the new Blackwell GPUs are expected to launch later this month. While Nvidia has not officially confirmed the existence of the lower-end RTX 50-series cards, based on previous graphics card launches, observers expect an RTX 5050, 5060, and possibly a 5060 TI to follow. On Monday, a new leak revealed the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 TI specs. If these figures are similar to those of the launch GPUs, I might have to turn in my RTX 30-series card for a new-generation upgrade. X user @kopite7kimi and VideoCardz may have leaked the second half of Nvidia's new RTX 50-series generation. Thanks to those leaks, we now have specs for what could be the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 TI. If these leaked specs are accurate, then the entire RTX 50-series Blackwell generation will offer a GPU for most budget brackets, with solid specs to match. While the RTX 5070 still has a higher TGP and thus a bit more graphics headroom, the leaked 16GB VRAM version of the RTX 5060 TI may make it a more attractive option. The increased VRAM on the rumored 5060 TI with a lower TGP could make it a competitor with the base RTX 5070 while saving some money on your power bill. However, we'll have to wait for some benchmarks to know for sure. There is also a pretty solid CUDA core difference between the two GPUs, after all. I had originally gone into the new Nvidia RTX 50-series "Blackwell" generation expecting to upgrade my GPU in another generation or two. My gaming rig still uses an RTX 3080, and I've not hit many snags, even when playing demanding games like Monster Hunter: Wilds on high settings and high resolutions. After all, we still haven't completely surpassed the power of Nvidia's older GPU architecture. The RTX 50 series is probably more powerful than you'll ever need for gaming. However, my 30-series GPU is unlikely to benefit from DLSS 4, one of the main upgrades to the RTX 50-series. While the RTX 5060 TI isn't going to be the 4K gaming card, I don't spend much time using my RTX 3080 for 4K gaming. The 1440p or 1800p sweet spots generally offer a better balance of great visuals and smooth frame rates. This makes downgrading my GPU to an RTX 5070TI or 5060 TI a more reasonable purchase than opting for the RTX 5080. And considering the silicon tariffs that are expected to hit this year, upgrading my GPU sooner rather than later will be the smarter financial choice. While the RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 TI remain rumors for now, it is expected that Nvidia will announce the rest of the RTX 50-series during Computex in Taipei at the end of May. But since the RTX 5060 TI still doesn't officially exist, I'll be holding off on my final decision for now. However, I do have a few months to think it over, and AMD's new Radeon 9070 XT is making a solid case for switching to Team Red for this year's GPU upgrades. Nvidia RTX 50-Series reviews look grim: A slow start or a GPU generation gone to waste? Some classic games may run worse on RTX 50-series gaming laptops — Here's why Nvidia's Jensen Huang has some strong words for DeepSeek — and they're probably not what you think
Yahoo
10-03-2025
- Yahoo
Nvidia's upcoming budget GPUs could be underwhelming for gamers
Nvidia has yet to confirm the existence of entry-level GPUs in its latest RTX 50 series. However, recent leaks have revealed the anticipated specifications of the upcoming RTX 5050, 5060, and 5060 Ti. These GPUs are expected to be officially announced soon, as reports from last week indicated that Nvidia plans to unveil additional RTX 50 series models within the next 10 days. As for the leaked specifications, @kopite7kimi, a fairly accurate leaker, has shared important information about the upcoming GPUs. As per his posts on X, Nvidia's RTX 5060 and RTX 5060 Ti will utilize the GB206-300 GPU die, while the RTX 5050 will be built around the GB207-300 chip. The RTX 5060 Ti, positioned as the more powerful of the two 60-class cards, is expected to feature 4,608 CUDA cores—just a modest 5.7% increase over its predecessor, the RTX 4060 Ti. The GPU will come in two memory configurations: 8GB and 16GB of GDDR7, both operating on a 128-bit memory bus with a 180W TDP. The 16GB variant is set to launch first, hitting shelves by the end of March, while the 8GB model will follow in April alongside the RTX 5060. The RTX 5060 itself will be available in a single 8GB GDDR7 variant, maintaining the same 128-bit memory bus. It will feature 3,840 CUDA cores—a notable 22.22% increase over the RTX 4060. With a 150W TDP, this GPU is expected to be a solid choice for small form factor PC builds. As for the RTX 5050, this marks the return of Nvidia's 50-class GPU lineup, last seen with the RTX 3050. While the RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti will benefit from a 128-bit memory interface with a bandwidth of 448 GB/s—roughly 55% higher than the RTX 4060 Ti—the RTX 5050 will remain on GDDR6 memory. It is expected to use the PG152-SKU10/15 board with a GB206-300-A1 GPU die, offering 2,560 CUDA cores and a TDP of 130W. The RTX 50 series, including the RTX 5090, 5080, 5070 Ti, and 5070, is off to a sluggish start, primarily due to limited availability and inflated pricing. Concerns have also arisen regarding the flagship RTX 5090's incompatibility with older 12VHPWR power connectors, which has led to reports of cable and adapter melting under high power loads. Additionally, Nvidia is facing issues with certain RTX 50 graphics cards having missing ROPs (Render Output Units), resulting in a reduction in overall performance.
