Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3050 has surfaced online, or at least the specs for this alleged graphics card have been highlighted on Twitter. Prolific leaker kopite7kimi is once again the source of this Nvidia-related speculation (which also recently posted details about the alleged RTX 3060 and RTX 3050 Ti GPUs).
RTX 3050, GA107-300, 2304FP32, 90W TGP Nov 9, 2020 Apparently the RTX 3050 will use the GA107 GPU, the descendant model of the GA106 rumored to power the RTX 3060 and RTX 3050 Ti, but it's still a card RTX, which means it will support ray tracing. . In other words, in theory there will be no GTX flavors with the Ampere line, and even lower-end Nvidia GPUs will have ray tracing capabilities. The RTX 3050 will be powered by 2.304 CUDA cores, compared to 3.840 CUDA cores for the RTX 3060 (and 3.584 for the 3060 Ti). This is a huge improvement over lower-end Turing GPUs (the GTX 1650 Super offers 1.280 CUDA cores, the 1660 and Super variant have 1.408, and the 1660 Ti has 1.536). The power consumption of the RTX 3080 will be 90W, but keep in mind that this is all still speculation. Also, obviously, we don't yet have a full picture of the alleged specs, with clock speeds and memory configuration details missing, in terms of trying to guess exactly how powerful the alleged RTX 3050 is. Also, as Videocardz points out, whoever saw the above tweet, Nvidia has doubled the number of CUDA cores per SM (streaming multi-processor) with the Ampere architecture, which of course means comparing performance between generations of Nvidia GPUs isn't that simple. scales linearly with more nuclei.
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In short, it's a complex picture with a few bits missing, but that hasn't stopped people on Twitter from getting carried away with the fact that this 3050 could give us something like the power of the RTX 2060. the base card for the Ray tracing in the 2000 series, hopefully for a lot less money. But as we said, it's too early to draw any conclusions (although we can only wait). Nvidia's RTX 3060 Ti will reportedly be the next Ampere GPU to launch, theoretically landing in December, alongside the vanilla RTX 3060, with the RTX 3050 and its Ti version expected to arrive in early 2021 (the rumor counts three The graphics cards will be here by the end of February, but take this with more salt than the information in the rest of this story). Today's best graphics card deals PNY GeForce GTX 1660 6 GB XLR8 ... Radeon RX5600 XT MECH OC 6 GB ...
