The RTX 5050 has already been tipped to feature GDDR6 memory rather than GDDR7 found in the RTX 5060 through RTX 5090. However, what was still unknown was the speed bin Nvidia would choose. Leaker MEGAsizeGPU on X reports that the RTX 5050 will allegedly utilize the fastest version of GDDR6 in mass production — 20 Gbps modules, which are used in AMD's RX 9070 series GPUs and Nvidia's GDDR6 variant of the RTX 4070.
If the X leak is accurate, the RTX 5050 will feature 320GB/s of memory bandwidth, 40% of the bandwidth of the RTX 5060 (which boasts 448GB/s of memory bandwidth). The massive drop-off in memory bandwidth goes hand in hand with the RTX 5050's 50% drop in CUDA cores from the RTX 5060. It remains to be seen what the RTX 5050 would be capable of with GDDR7, but it is likely the GPU's significantly cut-down compute power will prevent the 20 Gbps GDDR6 modules from being a major bottleneck.
