Boy, it’s not getting any easier to afford a gaming laptop these days, huh? You might be considering a step down in power for your next purchase if you’ve got a tight budget, way down from the current crop of $3,000+ laptops. If that’s you, Nvidia might have a few cheaper options in store soon, in the form of RTX 5050 laptop GPUs. They’ll slide in under the RTX 5060 series, scheduled for later in May.
Prolific leaker @momomo_us showed off two screenshots of Lenovo LOQ (the company’s more budget gaming brand) and Legion 15-inch laptops sporting 13th-gen Intel processors paired with not-yet-announced RTX 5050 cards. The pages were up on UK-based seller Laptops Direct, but appear to be down as of now. As VideoCardz.com notes, they’re packing 8GB of GDDR7 video memory, matching the laptop version of the RTX 5060 and boasting a 2GB upgrade over the mobile RTX 4050. We don’t know any other specs at the moment, but presumably it’ll be a step down from the 5060 in at least a few metrics.
Less encouraging is the price. The cheaper of the two laptops was priced at ₤1,149.97. At today’s exchange rate, that would put its USD price at $1,531. Ouch, especially considering that RTX 5060 laptops are allegedly going to start at $1,100. The existence of more expensive models doesn’t preclude the existence of cheaper ones… but yeah, I wouldn’t hold out hope for getting a newer Nvidia card in a laptop that dips below the four-figure mark anytime soon. There’s always the Acer Nitro V (or as I like to call it, “Old Faithful”).
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