TECH NEWS – It seems that both companies are preparing “fifties”, i.e. entry-level cards to be added to their new architecture offerings…

Let’s start with the greens. Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 5050 will be the first Blackwell architecture card to feature GDDR6 instead of GDDR7 VRAM, according to Benchlife. AMD didn’t put GDDR7 in the Radeon RX 9070 cards to make their products affordable, and so far it’s worked for them. The RTX 5070 gets 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM and its power consumption (TBP) will be 135W. It will be priced between $200 and $250 and would compete with the Intel Arc Battlemage B580.

Let’s take a look at the other manufacturer. A Mexican retailer, DDTech’s website, has the RX 9050 in their filter list. It also mentions the RX 9060, but we’ve heard of it in more ways than one (true, AMD hasn’t introduced this model yet). For the RX 5000 and RX 6000 cards, we’ve seen the RX 5500 XT and RX 6500 XT, but the company skipped this in the previous generation, but it may return in this category. Nvidia has also skipped the “50” level in desktop graphics cards, only in laptops has the RTX 4050 made an appearance.

We haven’t seen many graphics cards for under $200 or $250 lately, and the AMD Radeon RX 9050 could be a great solution. It’s too early to speculate on its specs, but it will probably have at least 8GB of VRAM and power consumption will be under 150W. Comparing it to the RX 6500 XT wouldn’t make much sense, as it’s not the previous generation, but one before.

So both companies may have realized that they need entry-level cards. Nvidia used to have 10 and even 30 cards, but they have not been made by Jensen Huang for several generations. Maybe it’s about time, right?

Source: WCCFTech