Tuesday, December 19th 2023
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB to Get a Formal Release in February 2024
The GeForce RTX 3050 has been around since January 2022, and formed the entry level of the company's RTX 30-series. It had its moment under the Sun during the crypto GPU shortage as a 1080p gaming option that sold around the $300 mark. With the advent of the RTX 40-series, NVIDIA is finding itself lacking an entry-level discrete GPU that it can push in high volumes. Enter the RTX 3050 6 GB. Cut down from the original RTX 3050, this SKU has 6 GB of memory across a narrower 96-bit GDDR6 memory interface, and fewer shaders. Based on the tiny GA107 "Ampere" silicon, it gets 2,048 CUDA cores compared to the 2,560 of the RTX 3050, a core-configuration NVIDIA refers to as the GA107-325. The card has a tiny typical graphics power (TGP) of just 70 W, and so we should see graphics cards without additional power connectors. The company plans to give the RTX 3050 6 GB a formal retail channel launch in February 2024, at a starting price of $179.
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63 Comments on NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB to Get a Formal Release in February 2024
612GB 980Ti :laugh:Else its all bad. Rtx 3050 8 gb is all ready not a powerful card and then make a all ready slow card worse. Thats all ready a DOA card in my opinion.
Then its also based on older generation gpu. Another thumbs down from me. Only 6 gb vram is also a dead end. I could continue with this.
Give us at least something that is worth actually spending money on. Rtx 4050 8 gb with a tgp of 75 watt. Yes please.
Since they are devoting 99.9999% of their current chips/boards etc to AI customers only, they really have nothin else to sell to us lowly consumers except outdated & leftover parts....
soooo sad :(
The "new" 3050 will be cut-down to 80% of SMs and to 75% of VRAM (not sure about clocks but if they don't change the VRAM clock it will be 75%). At the same time, the GPU also gets limited to 70 W instead of 130 W. That would be a GPU failing to outperform an RX 580 (which is $40 on the aftermarket, mind me). It's about 60% of RX 6600 raster performance. At best.
I thought RX 6500 XT was the most super dead GPU ever. Not for long.
www.guru3d.com/story/amd-quickly-deletes-blog-post-where-is-disqualifies-4gb-graphics-cards/
A 4050 at this price would at least offer driver support to a later date.