GIGABYTE’s low-profile RTX 5050 solution offers a compact form factor that can fit inside ITX cases and offers a custom-designed cooling system that can ensure faster heat dissipation without needing a big heatsink.
GIGABYTE Silently Launches RTX 5050 OC 8G Low Profile Card, Measuring Just 182mm in Length While Still Bringing Three Fans Onboard
Yesterday, NVIDIA launched its GeForce RTX 5050 graphics card for both laptops and desktops. The desktop variant will be launched for retail later next month, but NVIDIA’s board partners have started showing off their custom designs. Being a power-efficient and entry-level GPU, the GeForce RTX 5050 allows vendors to prepare smaller cooling solutions, and that’s why GIGABYTE launched a low-profile design with the GB207 chip.
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It’s the GeForce RTX 5050 OC Low Profile 8G, which boasts a triple-fan cooling design and is compact enough to sit inside a small chassis with no hassles. Despite featuring an additional fan compared to GIGABYTE’s RTX 3050 Low Profile edition, the GPU hardly increased in dimensions. The RTX 5050 OC Low Profile measures 182mm x 69mm x 36mm and is a dual-slot card. It offers 8 GB GDDR6 memory clocked at 20 Gbps and a PCIe 5.0 interface.
The core clocks are not revealed yet, but since it’s an OC edition, expect the boost clock to be somewhat higher than the reference edition, which offers 2.57 GHz of boost clock. The GPU will have the same 130W TDP as the reference edition, and, therefore, GIGABYTE has the same 550W PSU recommendation as NVIDIA.
The RTX 5050 OC Low Profile uses a custom heatsink with a server-grade thermal conductive gel applied on the GPU chip, which is directly in contact with the copper plate. The aluminum heatsink is connected to copper heat pipes for faster heat dissipation, making the cooling solution sufficient for cooling the entire PCB effectively. Since the RTX 5050 is fairly power-efficient, low-profile coolers actually make sense for it, but we will also see standard heatsinks for those who crave more power.
For connectivity, the RTX 5050 OC Low Profile is equipped with dual HDMI 2.1b ports, 1x DP 1.4a, and 1x DP 2.1b. The price will likely be set at the official MSRP of $249, and the card will launch in late July.