GeForce RTX 5050 9 GB, the project may have been shelved after the return of the RTX 3060 12 GB

The alleged GeForce RTX 5050 with 9 GB may never hit the market. After months of rumors about its development and subsequent delays, new information from familiar leakers suggests that NVIDIA has decided to cancel the project or indefinitely postpone it. The company has not released any official statements, leaving all information in the realm of speculation.

The most credible hypothesis is that the decision is connected to the return of the GeForce RTX 3060 with 12 GB, a card recently reintroduced to the market. The presence of this model in the same price range would make the launch of an RTX 5050 with very similar features unappealing. In short, they want to avoid internal competition between products aimed at the same segment.

I think it's canceled. Or permanently delayed. They reissued the 3060 12G for the same segment, so the 5050 9G will be meaningless for a while.
— MEGAsizeGPU (@Zed__Wang)
June 26, 2026

The RTX 5050 with 9 GB was supposed to strengthen NVIDIA's budget offerings by utilizing three GDDR7 chips of 3 GB each instead of the four GDDR6 modules of 2 GB used by the currently available RTX 5050. This way, NVIDIA would have offered greater memory capacity while using fewer modules.

The current RTX 5050 integrates 8 GB of GDDR6 memory at 20 Gbps connected via a 128-bit bus, resulting in a bandwidth of 320 GB/s. The 9 GB variant, on the other hand, would have used GDDR7 memory at 28 Gbps on a reduced 96-bit bus. Despite the reduced interface, the higher speed of the memories would have allowed for a throughput of approximately 336 GB/s, marking an increase of about 5%, accompanied by a 12.5% increase in memory capacity.

Rumors also mentioned the use of the GB206 chip, replacing the GB207 used by the 8 GB RTX 5050. Despite the GPU change, the number of compute units would have remained the same—2560 CUDA Cores.

According to leakers, NVIDIA is considering a "permanent" postponement, a term that could indicate either a definitive cancellation or a delay of many months. In theory, the product could still be introduced later, for example towards the end of the year, should market conditions change.

However, at present, the prevailing hypothesis is that the RTX 5050 with 9 GB will not be marketed. But, since the existence of the card has never been confirmed by NVIDIA, we are in the realm of "speculation about speculation," which leaves room for any scenario.