Our Verdict

I don't love it, but the RTX 5050 is the graphics card I would recommend to budget PC gamers in this generation. It is more reliably performant than Intel's B580, regularly comes in much cheaper than AMD's RX 9060 XT, and delivers decent 1080p and even okay 1440p frame rates with upscaling enabled. But the design of the GB207 chip shows little ambition to best the bottom-end of Nvidia's previous generation of desktop graphics cards. It is absolutely not a GPU that's been built with love for the hobby, only to be just good enough to be considered.

For

Reliable performance

Decent 1080p frame rates

DLSS 4 support

Against

Much weaker than RTX 5060, which is only a little more expensive

Slower than the RTX 4060

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