News Nvidia defends RTX 5050 desktop GDDR6 decision — says power-efficient GDDR7 is a better choice for laptops

[tristanx]

Same price as Intel Arc B580 12GB. I can still find it on sale at 249. It will delete RTX 5050 8GB.

 

[KidHorn]

I don't know why people think the price is way too high. A 4060 currently costs over $400 and I'm guessing the performance will be about the same. Obviously every card is priced too high.

I bought a 4060 in October for I think $292 and it came with a 1GB Nvme card. Clearly I knew what would happen and I was a genius. Not. I was upgrading and didn't want to deal with removing the motherboard, so I kept a AM4 system and thought it pointless to pair with a better card. I ended up having to remove the MB anyway because of the CPU cooler. Doh. Really wish I had spent another $100 and moved to AM5.

 

[JamesJones44]

In context of this article, anyone reading this article can tell it's a crappy move by Nvidia, done simply to increase profit margins. GN complaining about it flamboyantly doesn't really add anything of value. It's just drama for viewership sake.

How is an article going over the situation any different than someone making a video about the same thing? It's a different medium that's for sure, and I much prefer written myself because of the time spent aspect, but that doesn't invalidate video.

I said it didn't add anything of value that we didn't already learn from reading this article. I didn't say it was different, not as good, etc.

 

[Amdlova]

Same price as Intel Arc B580 12GB. I can still find it on sale at 249. It will delete RTX 5050 8GB.

The cheap b580 I can find here is about 450$ in brazil

330$ in another country
Can find the rtx 4060 for 298$ and 330$ for the 5060
even the AMD graphics still overpriced in my region.

 

[Eximo]

Same price as Intel Arc B580 12GB. I can still find it on sale at 249. It will delete RTX 5050 8GB.

Nvidia has volume on their side. Existing OEM contracts as well.

 

[renz496]

They are using an even smaller GB207 die in this. 5060 uses GB206. Fat chance of 192-bit. 12 GB or 9 GB on 96-bit would be pretty funny though.

In fact, the 9 GB isn't so unlikely since GDDR7 could balance out the smaller memory bus, and from laptop we can see it's designed to use either GDDR6 or GDDR7. Wow.

There is nothing wrong with what they did to cut costs in the 5050. Only the price is wrong: it should be $200 MSRP instead of $250.

No AIB want to sell something at $200 or below anymore. Even 3050 6GB the initial launch price of $180 only happen for a week. Then AIB give some bogus claim about how the card is extremely popular forcing them to raise the base price to $210.

 

[renz496]

GN is pro-consumer through and through.
If they're happy with the product, they think it's good value for the consumer.
If they're unhappy with the product, it's poor value for the consumer, plain and simple.
If they're somewhere in the middle, it means it's a good value product, if it did X.
For example: GN was overall pleased with RX 9070 and 9070XT, but followed it up with their disappointment in MSRP vs. street price shenanigans.
Where as they crap all over the RTX 50 series as being a total disaster.

If you are a consumer looking for purchasing advice, they're good info. If you're an investor looking into who shafts their customers the most, you'll want to look at what they don't like.

More like they were "pro what their audience want to hear". They talk with tech company all the time so they should be aware of the grim reality that gamers did not want to accept. But if they come out with this matter as honest as possible then gamer will start accusing them shilling for companies.

 

[renz496]

Same price as Intel Arc B580 12GB. I can still find it on sale at 249. It will delete RTX 5050 8GB.

In many place of the world those B580 are competing with 9060XT 16GB price. So in reality those B580 are the one got deleted.