An early review has now confirmed what the specifications already suggest: The Nvidia GeForce RTX 5050 is slower than last generation's GeForce RTX 4060. Even the Intel Arc B580 outperforms the RTX 5050, whilst offering significantly more graphics memory for a minimal price premium.https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-GeForce-RTX-5050-trails-Intel-Arc-B580-and-barely-beats-Radeon-RX-7600-in-early-review.1050505.0.html
Given the 7600 is utter trash an in reality a 6500XT replacement and not in any way a 6600XT replacement this is quite hilarious from Nvidia, but then again, these clowns also did the same thing, and the 5050 would be a 5040 at best in reality at $50 cheaper.
Uhh, yeah they are and that's true but it's nothing new? The < $250 dgpu market died like 5 years ago. It's never coming back. So not too sure what you were getting at here.