News Lenovo warns of potential RTX 5050 mobile GPU price hike as supply — budget mobile Blackwell GPU rumored to co-exist with the RTX 4050

[Admin]

Lenovo's Project Manager at Weibo says that RTX 4050 sales will continue alongside the RTX 5050 - suggesting a higher price tag for the latter.

Lenovo warns of potential RTX 5050 mobile GPU price hike as supply — budget mobile Blackwell GPU rumored to co-exist with the RTX 4050 : Read more

 

[subspruce]

This is certainly a place N44 bins could shimmy into if AMD wanted to

 

[Giroro]

RTX 5050 might be the exact same chip as 4050, coexisting with the 4050 Max-Q. We don't know.

Or maybe it will be multiple different old chips all called RTX 5050, with wildly different performance levels. Or maybe a RTX 5050 mobile won't be released and they'll just rename their lowest-end design to RTX 5060 Ti Mobile at the last minute. Who knows. It's Nvidia.
All we know is that they don't want to make new gaming chips because of the opportunity cost, so prices for everything they make will go up (probably even their old chips) when they release the next gen.... if they even bother releasing a next gen.

What are you going to do about it?

 

[DS426]

No problem, nVidia will still make their revenue gains while AMD might gain tens of sales worldwide from this situation.

Everybody wants green, so that's ya'lls problem.

 

[hotaru251]

Everybody wants green, so that's ya'lls problem.

not really. people want performance for their perceived money value.

If next AMD gpu's are 4080 ish at price of a 4070 many people would switch so long as performance is there. (and if FSR4 is better which should as isn't the rumor of it being more liek dlss?)

fsr 3 is bad (by comparison) and rt performance on amd is worse. if they fix those issues nvidia loses the benefits apart from the HALO tier buyers.

 

[excalibur1814]

This is simple. They put the (planned) price up, don't buy them. The prices will soon fall.

But we don't do that, as we continue to put up with fake rises. Same for phones and tablets. Profits keep increasing.