Nvidia’s New Geforce RTX 2050 Graphics Card was surprisingly announced along with two more GPUs The Nvidia GeForce MX550, and GeForce MX570. All these Graphics Cards will be available for gaming and creators’ laptops, which will most likely fall in the budget price range.
On December 17, 2021, Nvidia surprisingly unveiled these GPUs via a press release. Nvidia has plans to unveil new graphics cards at CES 2022, including the GeForce RTX 3050, RTX 3050 Ti, and RTX 3090 Ti. With that planning, The GeForce RTX 2050 is the most puzzling SKU with many questions. What’s the performance? Better than 1660ti? etc.
Nvidia RTX 2050 Specifications and Features
Coming to the Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050, It comes with 4GB of GDDR6 VRAM with 14Gbps Memory Clock and has a 64-bit memory interface, and comes with a total memory bandwidth of 112GB/s. On paper, this gives it a total throughput of between 4.7 TFLOPS and 6.0 TFLOPS.
It comes with 2048 CUDA cores which is the same as the RTX 3050. However, the RTX 2050 has a lower clock speed of 1155MHz to 1477MHz and a lower TDP of 30W or 45W with a lower 64-bit memory bus controller. Due to the lower TPD and memory bandwidth, the performance of the RTX 2050 will be lower than the RTX 2060, despite having more CUDA cores.
This GPU supports VIDIA Optimus technology to offer a balance between performance and battery life. This GPU is based on Ampere GA107 GPU technology with Samsung 8nm process technology. It is the same one that we found on the GeForce RTX 3050. However, it doesn’t support many features, such as Resizable Bar, Nvidia Reflex, Shadow Play, etc.
But it is an RTX branding GPU, which means it ships with both tensor cores and ray-tracing (RT) cores enabled, and making the RTX 2050 the lowest-power/lowest-performing SKU to come with these features. These specs put the RTX2050 between GeForce GTX 1650 and GTX 1660 Ti with RTX enabled.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20/30 Series Laptop Specifications
| RTX 3060 Laptop GPU | RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU | RTX 3050 Laptop GPU | RTX 2050 Laptop GPU | |
| CUDA Cores | 3840 | 2560 | 2048 | 2048 |
| ROPs | 48 | 32 | 32 | 32? |
| Boost Clock | 1283 – 1703MHz | 1035 – 1695MHz | 1057 – 1740MHz | 1155 – 1477MHz |
| Memory Clock | 14Gbps GDDR6 | 14Gbps GDDR6 | 14Gbps GDDR6 | 14Gbps GDDR6 |
| Memory Bus Width | 192-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit | 64-bit |
| VRAM | 6GB | 4GB | 4GB | 4GB |
| TDP Range | 60 – 115W | 35 – 80W | 35 – 80W | 30 – 45W |
| GPU | GA106 | GA107 | GA107 | GA107 |
| Architecture | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere | Ampere |
| Manufacturing Process | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm | Samsung 8nm |
| Launch Date | 01/26/2021 | 05/11/2021 | 05/11/2021 | Spring 2022 |
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 specifications
Nvidia GeForce RTX 2050 benchmark figures
3DMark – 2560×1440 3DMark Time Spy Score:
| Average NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 Ti Mobile (4946 – 6261, n=21) | 5717 Points ∼100% |
| Average NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU (3938 – 5506, n=6) | 4821 Points ∼84% |
| Average NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2050 Mobile | 4000 Points ∼70% |
| Average NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1650 Ti Mobile (3738 – 4201, n=8) | 3907 Points ∼68% |
| Average AMD Radeon RX 5300M (3861 – 3872, n=2) | 3867 Points ∼68% |
NVIDIA GeForce MX570 Features And Specifications
NVIDIA is offering no indication that the Ampere-based MX570 has any of its advanced features enabled, such as the RT or tensor cores. But the MX 570 will be an Ampere-based part using GA107 technology. For all practical purposes, it’s functionally closer to a feature level 12_1 SKU, rather than 12_2/DirectXU as the hardware is capable of. The MX 570 is said to offer better performance on tasks like gaming, photo edition, and video editing when compared to the integrated graphics card.
NVIDIA GeForce MX570 Features And Specifications
MX550 is based on the Turing architecture. The last-generation MX450 was based on the TU117 GPU. NVIDIA is not disclosing the number of CUDA cores enabled on the MX550, but they are disclosing that it’s come with more CUDA cores than the MX450, which came in at 896 CUDA cores. So it would seem that MX 550 might come with 1024 CUDA cores – a full TU117 configuration.
These graphics cards will be powering many thin-and-light laptops and do support the latest GDDR6 video memory. NVIDIA also isn’t disclosing official TDPs here. But keeping in line with the target market for the MX500 series and previous parts’ TDPs, we’re almost certainly looking at sub-30W configurations here.
So that’s everything we know about these Graphics Cards. If you have any doubts or any updates regarding these cards, then comment down below.
