NVIDIA Reportedly Spawns A New RTX 5050 Variant With 9GB VRAM Instead

NVIDIA has only given the new 3GB GDDR7 modules to a very small number of models, namely the RTX 5090 Laptop GPU, and supposedly, the RTX 50 SUPER series GPUs as well. A leaker suggested that RTX 5050 will soon join that list through a new variant, gaining an extra gigabyte of video memory over the current model in the process.

RTX 5050 9GB GDDR7

The vast majority of the RTX 50 series GPUs employ 2GB GDDR7 modules as these are much more commonly available, while the 3GB non-binary memory modules are the newer variant that, thus far, hasn’t seen enough production to warrant NVIDIA putting them inside the majority of the lineup. Of course, the memory shortage also made things messier too, with the pushback of SUPER series making the RTX 5090 Laptop GPU the only model to feature this new memory variant at this point.

Currently, the RTX 5050 you can buy today uses four 2GB GDDR6 modules (which, by the way, is the only model to feature GDDR6 in the entire RTX 50 series) to form a total 8GB of VRAM via a 128-bit bus. The new variant will instead utilize three 3GB GDDR7 modules to form 9GB VRAM instead, with a narrower 96-bit bus. Despite the narrower memory bus, the memory generation upgrade will more than compensate for that, potentially giving the new GPU a 5% higher bandwidth at 336GB/s – assuming the new modules operate at 28Gbps, which they do in all RTX 50 models.

Given that this is RTX 5050 we’re talking about, the performance is not going to wow anyone, even with the new GDDR7 modules involved. Either way, further leaks from Benchlife indicated that the GPU maker will formally introduce this new variant in Computex 2026, which is set to be held this June. If the RTX 5050 launch was as quiet as it was, we doubt this new one will even be mentioned for more than a minute in whatever keynote Jensen Huang is going to present in Taipei by then.

Source: Videocardz (1,2)

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