What precisely makes a graphics card a GeForce RTX 3050? Simply put, it is the title on the field. From there, NVIDIA can dictate what specs represent the mannequin title, and people specs could be revised over time (an idea that is not distinctive to NVIDIA, by the way in which). We convey this up as a result of NVIDIA is reportedly getting ready some adjustments to the GeForce RTX 3050.
Before we get to that, let’s recap the RTX 3050. When the cardboard launched in January 2022, it debuted with a GA106 GPU that includes 2,560 CUDA cores, 80 Tensor cores, 20 RTX cores, and 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence (14Gbps) tied to a 128-bit bus for 224GB/s of reminiscence bandwidth. Reference specs additionally referred to as for a 1,552MHz base clock and 1,777MHz enhance clock.
Then in December of 2022, the RTX 3050 obtained a mid-life kicker with a GA107 GPU, which stored the core specs the identical however allowed NVIDIA to therapeutic massage a decrease TDP at 115W (versus 130W).
Now there’s elevated chatter of one other refresh (chatter that we first heard in October), however with some key revisions to the general spec sheet. Citing info that was posted to the Board Channels discussion board in China, which we do not have entry to, the parents at Videocardz say NVIDIA has alerted its add-in board (AIC) of “important changes to the RTX 3050 collection merchandise.”
Apparently NVIDIA is planning to discontinue the present iteration of the GeForce RTX 3050 with 8GB of GDDR6 reminiscence and exchange it with a model that wields 6GB of VRAM. It’s additionally instructed that the bus width may change in both course, to 96-bit or 192-bit.
There’s one other fascinating wrinkle to the story, although. It’s reported by ITHome that NVIDIA will swap out the GPU for a similar one discovered within the cell GeForce RTX 3050, the GA107. This would imply a 20% discount in CUDA cores to 2,048, and it is additional said that it’ll characteristic a 1,470MHz core clock, which is 17% decrease than the 8GB mannequin that is accessible now.
On the plus aspect, the gimped launch (if it involves cross) possible would draw all the mandatory energy from the motherboard’s PCI Express slot moderately than requiring a PSU cable being plugged in. It also needs to include a value discount, although we’ll have to attend and see.
