Wednesday, May 9th 2018
NVIDIA Allegedly Working on GeForce GTX 1050 with 3GB Memory
According to a rumor originated from Chinese media Expreview, NVIDIA is preparing a brand-new variant of the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card with 3GB of onboard memory. The additional memory could potentially increase the graphics card's performance in certain situations. However, Expreview speculates that NVIDIA might actually reduce the memory bus to 96 bits instead of maintaining the 128-bit bus. If this was to happen, actual performance on the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB might be even worse than the normal variant. Now, only time will tell if the rumors are true. If the 3GB variant does make it to the shelves, it would probably be exclusive to the Chinese market like the GeForce GTX 1060 with 5GB memory.
Source:
Expreview
38 Comments on NVIDIA Allegedly Working on GeForce GTX 1050 with 3GB Memory
I don't like them rehashing the same GPU with different anything. Only leads to user confusion.
but I'm sure someone will buy in to it for sure just as you put it alone . maybe add some rbg led's to it as a strong selling point
There was GTX 550 Ti (192-bit, 1GB,) and GTX 660 & 660 Ti which were 192-bit & 2GB, so is it so hard these days to use mixed density chips?
''Even with Maxwell's efficiency gains over Kepler, a 128-bit memory bus is still relatively small. This raises a concern of whether or not the GM206 is capable of transacting memory rapidly enough to adequately utilize a 4GB buffer'' . For the most part, games are either optimized in such a fashion that additional VRAM offers no net gain or consume low enough capacities that it is largely irrelevant. In the few above cases where an added 2GB vastly improves performance, it may be an arguable case that users instead invest in a higher-end GPU altogether ''
and now your at 96 . and 3gb ,
it seemed like NVidia uses a technology in the Maxwell 960 that helped squeeze that to work there was a article on it I now cant find
on this
''''Don't be quick to write off the 128-bit memory bus width just yet as NVIDIA is backing it with a new lossless texture compression technology that reduces memory bandwidth usage, effectively making it a wider memory bus than it physically is.''
got to be in play big time here ?
Unless RTG is rebranding to be a crypto mining vendor, then they can stay with GCN forever.