Need a budget GPU? NVIDIA RTX 5050 is out tomorrow, Amazon product listing suggests

NVIDIA said its desktop RTX 5050 graphics card won't debut until the second half of July, but an MSI board is supposedly set to arrive on July 1.

Need a budget GPU? NVIDIA RTX 5050 is out tomorrow, Amazon product listing suggests
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TL;DR: NVIDIA's RTX 5050 desktop GPU, announced last week and priced starting at $249, may launch earlier than expected in the US, with MSI's overclocked RTX 5050 Shadow 2X listed for pre-order on Amazon with a July 1 release date. This runs against NVIDIA's official release date of the second half of July, but it's possible Team Green may have changed its mind here (again).

NVIDIA's RTX 5050 desktop graphics card has been keenly awaited for some time now, and it may go on sale a bit sooner than we hoped in the US.

MSI's Gaming RTX 5050 Shadow 2X OC graphics card (Image Credit: MSI)
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MSI's Gaming RTX 5050 Shadow 2X OC graphics card (Image Credit: MSI)

As a quick refresher, NVIDIA revealed the desktop GPU alongside the laptop variant last week, pinning an MSRP of $249 on the former.

We were told that the board would launch in the second half of July - at least outside of Asia (it could arrive sooner in China, perhaps) - so that means we theoretically still have a couple of weeks to wait before we can buy this budget GPU.

However, VideoCardz noticed MSI has an RTX 5050 already up for pre-order on Amazon US, and that the release date is listed as July 1.

Is this a mistake? Well, that's always a possibility, but before the official announcement of the RTX 5050, the rumor mill reckoned that NVIDIA switched the planned launch date to July 1 at the last-minute.

So, the theory is that maybe NVIDIA thought better of this, after possibly panicking its partners with the change, and then reverted to the original launch date (second half of July) - but that now the July 1 release may still be going ahead, at least with some retailers.

Or Amazon could have completely got the date wrong, as already observed. The good thing is we don't have long to wait to find out, as if the product listing is right, you'll be able to buy the MSI Gaming RTX 5050 Shadow 2X OC on Amazon tomorrow.

The price in this case is $280, so it's a bit of a markup above the MSRP, which is, of course, standard practice for an overclocked graphics card that'll give you a bit more oomph.

Don't expect too much from the RTX 5050, naturally, but any extra choice at the bottom-end of the GPU spectrum is certainly welcome - even if the desktop variant runs with slower VRAM than the laptop card.