January has been a month full of launches from Nvidia’s side, where the company has rolled out no less than three new graphics cards in the form of Geforce RTX 4070 Super, Geforce RTX 4070 Ti Super and Geforce RTX 4080 Super. In the entry-level segment, however, the company sticks to the older Ampere architecture, where the smallest Geforce RTX 3050 today gets a cheaper sibling with a reduced amount of graphics memory.
RTX 3050
RTX 3050 6G
Technique
8nm Samsung
8nm Samsung
Circuit
GA107*
GA107
Architecture
Ampere
Ampere
CUDA kernels
2 560 st.
2 048 st.
RT kernels
20 st.
16 st.
Tensor kernels
80 st.
64 st.
Clock frequency
1 552 MHz
1 042 MHz
GPU Boost
1 777 MHz
1 470 MHz
Computing power
9 098 GFLOPS
6 021 GFLOPS
Amount of memory
8GB GDDR6
6GB GDDR6
Memory frequency
14 000 MHz
14 000 MHz
Memory bus
128-bit
96-bit
Minnesbandbredd
224 GB/s
168 GB/s
Power supply
6-pin
–
TBP
115 W
70 W
Price at launch
249 USD
~179 USD
* The early versions of the Geforce RTX 3050 used the GA106 graphics chip.
Despite the product name, it is more than just the amount of memory that has changed to the new 6 GB version of the Geforce RTX 3050. The company has also gone ahead and cut out calculation units in the graphics circuit, where these are reduced by as much as 20 percent. Furthermore, the clock frequencies have been pushed down significantly, which reduces the computing power by almost 34 percent compared to the 8 GB version. Finally, the memory bus has been reduced to 96 bits, giving a memory bandwidth of a low 168 GB/s.
Gigabyte makes a low-profile variant of the RTX 3050 6GB.
The company also releases a factory overclocked Eagle card with a cooler cooler.
However, there is a positive aspect to the scaled-down specifications, and that is the card’s power budget (TBP) of 70 W. Namely, the model stays within the limits of being powered only via the PCI Express port on the motherboard – something that is demonstrated on two newly released cards from Gigabyte , which lack extra power contacts. The low power output also opens up passive solutions, like the one shown by Palit earlier at the end of last year.
In terms of pricing, the new card carries a suggested entry price of $179. In reality, however, the price looks to land a bit higher, as the range presented from Swedish dealers is the same Inet and Pro shop seems to be in the region of 2,700 to 2,800 kroner including VAT for Gigabyte’s Eagle card.
2024-02-03 19:00:00
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