At the CES presentation, Nvidia unveiled its most affordable 3000-series RTX graphics card to date. Rumor has it that it will be released for an MSRP of 249 US dollars, which would correspond to about 250 Euros in this country. The whole thing is very tempting if you keep the current scarcity of chipsets in mind. Compared to a GeForce RTX 3060, you save around 80 US dollars, but the question is whether this price difference makes it worthwhile.
The most interesting difference from the RTX 3050 and the models above it is that this one is not supposed to get a Founder’s Edition and will only be available through board partners. The sales launch for this graphics card is to be exclusively then on January 27 .
The GeForce RTX 3050 is based on the GA106 GPU, which we are already used to from the RTX 3060, but with the difference that the RTX 3050 will only have 2,560 instead of 3584 CUDA computing units. In return, the RTX 3050 has 8 GB of GDDR6 graphics memory, which reaches a bandwidth of 224 GB/s via a 192-bit interface. The graphics card’s power consumption is also very astonishing for the performance and is a maximum of 130 watts.
We are curious to see how the graphics card will perform in practice, since the Deep Learning Super Sampling technology (DLSS for short) promises 1080p gaming with a maximum level of detail and active ray tracing at 60 frames per second. However, the lower benchmark shows that you should probably pay more in the low-budget sector if you want to play your games with the ray tracing technology in maximum detail.
Source(s):
– Nvidia
