MSI Intros GeForce RTX 5050 Shadow 2X OC Graphics Card

MSI introduced the GeForce RTX 5050 Shadow 2X OC graphics card. At the time of this writing, this is MSI’s only custom RTX 5050 graphics card model. The card is a premium factory-overclocked product, and is likely to be priced above the $249 NVIDIA MSRP for the RTX 5050. It is 19.6 cm in length, and 12 cm in height, while being strictly 2 slots thick. The card offers factory-overclocked speeds of 2602 MHz boost compared to 2570 MHz reference. The RTX 5050 is cooled by an aluminium fin-stack heatsink that appears to use a single nickel-plated copper heat pipe bent in an S-shape.

The heatsink is ventilated by a pair of premium MSI TorX 5.0 fans. This fan is used by MSI in many of its premium custom-design cards, it features a partially webbed impeller that’s designed to maximize axial airflow. The card draws power from a single 8-pin PCIe power connector. Display outputs include three DisplayPort 2.1b and one HDMI 2.1b. Based on the 5 nm “GB207” silicon, the RTX 5050 features 2,560 CUDA cores across 20 SM, 80 Tensor cores, 20 RT cores, and 8 GB of 20 Gbps GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit wide memory interface (320 GB/s memory bandwidth). The company didn’t reveal pricing.