NVIDIA RTX 5050

GPU

NVIDIA Blackwell (GB207): 8 GB GDDR6 on a 128-bit bus, 320 GB/s of memory bandwidth, 130 W board power, $249 launch MSRP. An entry-level 8 GB card - capacity and bandwidth are both low, so local inference is mostly limited to small (<7B) quantized models.

2

Run records

1

Models covered

1

Frameworks covered

L0 Self-reported × 2

Evidence mix

Typical measured performance

Published benchmark averages per model × framework × quantization on this hardware.

  1. llama.cpp · Q5_K_M Decode 83.2 · Prefill 624 ·
  2. llama.cpp · Q4_K_M Decode 104 · Prefill 780 ·

Key specs

Vendor
NVIDIA
Architecture
Blackwell
VRAM
8 GB
Memory bandwidth
320 GB/s
TDP
130 W
Release date
2025-07-01

Run records

2 configurations

ModelFrameworkQuantizationDecodeGen timeSamples
Qwen3.5-4Bllama.cppQ5_K_M83.2 tok/s—1
Qwen3.5-4Bllama.cppQ4_K_M104 tok/s—1