Wednesday, March 29th 2023
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 "Ada" Launches This June
NVIDIA's mainstream GeForce RTX 4050 "Ada" graphics card, which succeeds the RTX 3050, reportedly launches in June 2023. This could end up being the highest-volume SKU in the RTX 40-series desktop lineup. Team green is planning to launch a new desktop SKU every month leading up to Summer. April will see the company launch the performance-segment RTX 4070, followed by the RTX 4060 Ti and RTX 4060 in May, and now we hear about the RTX 4050 in June.
The GeForce RTX 4050 is likely based on a highly cut down version of the 5 nm "AD107" silicon that also powers the RTX 4060 in its maxed out configuration. The AD107, much like the AD106, features a 128-bit wide GDDR6 memory interface. For the RTX 4050, NVIDIA could narrow this down to 96-bit, and give it 6 GB of GDDR6 memory, which is 25% less than the 8 GB of 128-bit GDDR6 memory that's standard for the current-generation RTX 3050. NVIDIA would have worked out the performance numbers, and the RTX 4050 might still end up generationally faster than the RTX 3050 despite this narrower/smaller memory.
Sources:
MEGAsizeGPU (Twitter), VideoCardz
The GeForce RTX 4050 is likely based on a highly cut down version of the 5 nm "AD107" silicon that also powers the RTX 4060 in its maxed out configuration. The AD107, much like the AD106, features a 128-bit wide GDDR6 memory interface. For the RTX 4050, NVIDIA could narrow this down to 96-bit, and give it 6 GB of GDDR6 memory, which is 25% less than the 8 GB of 128-bit GDDR6 memory that's standard for the current-generation RTX 3050. NVIDIA would have worked out the performance numbers, and the RTX 4050 might still end up generationally faster than the RTX 3050 despite this narrower/smaller memory.
81 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4050 "Ada" Launches This June
please release a 4050 Ti
just so I can have it in my collection
The Smarts TVs nees to be HDMI 2.1 as well, so only modern Smart TVs have 10 bit and even 12 bit.
Keep your AMD, I'll be back to NVidia as soon as they release their 4050.
If it had more VRAM, it wouldn't access PCI-E so much.
That card really should have had a 6GB 96 bit or 8GB 128 bit bus, with a x8 connection.
I agree on the x8 connection, though.
Anyone with a modicum of sense bought a Radeon 6600 which is a hands-down winner in every possible way - it's like 60% faster at the same price point and gives the more expensive 3060 12G reason to sweat.
If you hate team red for whatever reason, you could have thrown your 3050 money at the used market and picked up a 2060S for less. Not only does it have waaaaay higher performance but you'd still likely save enough cash to buy one of those giant foam middle fingers used at stadium events and mail it to Jensen's home address. The 4GB variant of the 3050 isn't even worth mocking; It's not PC to make fun of stillborn infants.
As for the RX 6400, the RX 6400 came out in 2022, the GTX 1050 Ti came out late 2016. Congrats, AMD made a card that can do everything the 1050 Ti can do 3 years later and it still can't encode (because it's derived from an ultrabook dGPU). So it is a pretty useless graphics card if you ask me.
Even with fixed framerates, those videos feel flickering.
My smart TV works at 30 and 24 Hz, at least in Kodi when I choose to use real framerate allowed me to set those refresh rates.