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Nvidia is rumored to be considering selling the mobile RTX 4050 in tandem with the upcoming RTX 5050 – hinting at a possible price hike for budget Blackwell mobile GPUs, according to Lenovo’s product manager at Weibo (via WCCFTech). The leak also explicitly states that all other RTX 40 (Ada Lovelace) mobile offerings will be discontinued – and replaced with their respective RTX 50 (Blackwell) counterparts.

The flagship RTX 50 GPUs will be revealed at CES 2025, but the mobile variants, as is tradition, could launch by Computex 2025 or later. Still, be prepared to pay a pretty penny as Lenovo’s product manager at Weibo claims that the RTX 4050 laptop/mobile will co-exist with the RTX 5050 once launched.

According to the source, laptops equipped with the newer variant could be priced higher as Nvidia looks to reposition Blackwell in its product stack. Since the Lenovo representative cannot access internal pricing numbers, this may be a hypothetical assumption. Alternatively, the price of RTX 4050-equipped laptops could drop, but that’s just a guess.

This is not the first time we have heard such rumors. An earlier report from Clevo suggested that Nvidia will continue to offer the RTX 3050 6GB mobile alongside the RTX 4050 6GB mobile until 2025 – and the RTX 2050 4GB will see a replacement in the form of the RTX 3050 4GB – the latter has a larger 128-bit memory bus.

Under the GPU ID “GN22-X2”, the RTX 5050 mobile is expected to use the GB207 GPU and 8GB of GDDR7 VRAM. When it comes to memory, the first Blackwell-mobile RTX 5090 is said to retain a 16GB VRAM configuration – similar to the RTX 5080 mobile and the last-gen RTX 4090 mobile.

Nvidia plans to position Blackwell as the premium offering next year, with latest generation counterparts aimed at budget laptops. This is similar to Intel’s approach with its Core 200 Processor family, which uses Alder Lake silicon under the hood.

The RTX 50 “Blackwell” series is expected to be revealed at the upcoming CES 2025 event in January, alongside AMD’s Radeon RX 8000 “RDNA 4” GPUs. We expect Blackwell Mobile to be announced at Computex, and it should appear on laptops soon after.