Nvidia’s RTX 4050 has been noticed, or at the least the packaging for the GPU was purportedly sighted, at a Galax occasion – although as you may think, this probably isn’t what it appears, and we needs to be staggering below the load of the salt that must be utilized to this explicit ‘leak’.

The sighting of a Galax RTX 4050 field occurred at an occasion the place the graphics card maker was launching its RTX 4090 fashions – the flagship being the one next-gen Lovelace GPU which is definitely on sale proper now – as reported by Wccftech (opens in new tab) (and first flagged up on Reddit (opens in new tab)).

And it has brought on some people to get excited that perhaps, simply perhaps, the RTX 4050 is in some way on the horizon. However we very, very a lot doubt it.

With leaks like these, in fact there’s all the time the chance that the picture is faked, however on this case, it looks like it’s in all probability actual – or at the least the picture could possibly be, however not the field itself. By which we imply that is most probably a mock-up field made by Galax to fill out the show stand on the launch occasion over within the Philippines, or that appears the most probably clarification, anyway (if the pic isn’t a pretend).

Evaluation: None of this makes a lot sense

If you happen to look carefully, there’s some tape over the entrance of the field the place it ought to say ‘RTX 4050’ to match the opposite logos seen, so in all probability, this hasn’t been modified (and simply taped over – it’s this component which makes it appear much less doubtless that the picture is a pretend, at the least to us).

However as talked about, this absolutely isn’t an indication that the RTX 4050 is in any approach imminent, and that graphics card makers are already producing packaging for it. Extra doubtless this can be a Galax worker being mischievous – or it’s a mistake, pure and easy (in some way) – or the corporate is simply filling out its stand with different potential Lovelace merchandise (although why the agency didn’t use an RTX 4080 field is a good query to ask in that case).

Clearly, although, an actual RTX 4050 field would positively not be the identical (huge) measurement because the hefty carton required to shroud the RTX 4090 flagship GPU. And so that is simply as clearly an RTX 4090 field which has had the textual content messed with (in actual life, or by somebody in Photoshop). VideoCardz (opens in new tab) additional stories on this and claims that it managed to get affirmation that the field in query was certainly current at this Galax launch occasion, by the best way.

We have now not heard something in any respect on the rumor mill in regards to the RTX 4050, and if it was wherever close to arriving, we absolutely would’ve been getting bits of hypothesis piped down the grapevine by now. Certainly, we’ve heard valuable little in regards to the RTX 4060 both, all of which means that any remotely wallet-friendly Lovelace GPU continues to be a way off, and the RTX 4050 may be very doubtless nonetheless an extended outdated distance away.

Though some witty people have recommended this could possibly be the brand new incarnation and title for the RTX 4080 12GB, which was not too long ago canceled (or ‘unlaunched’, ahem) by Nvidia following a detrimental response to that exact mannequin. In all seriousness, presumably that 4080 variant is destined to develop into both the RTX 4070 or in all probability extra doubtless the 4070 Ti (or Tremendous), although whichever approach Nvidia goes with the renaming, it’s more likely to get messy (not for the primary time).

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