NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Launching in Q2 2022, Faster than GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER

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NVIDIA will finally release its GeForce RTX 3050 for budget-oriented gamers next year. This is according to a report by VideoCardz, which has learned that the graphics card will launch in Q2 2022 and leverage the GA106-150 GPU instead of the GA107-350 that was previously rumored. Sources claim that the GeForce RTX 3050 will feature 8 GB of memory and offer performance greater than the GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER.



From VideoCardz:



A graphics card which is internally referred to as PG190 SKU 70 will feature GA106-150 GPU. It was indeed rumored to be RTX 3050 Ti, but our source now believes it is actually the non-Ti model. We were also told that it might feature 8GB memory, but we couldn’t verify this claim with other sources […].As we were told, the GeForce RTX 3050 is to have higher performance than GeForce GTX 1660 SUPER, but still lower than RTX...

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[Denpepe]

Small typo in the title, "Selling out faster then a ..." would be better.

 

[Ditchinit]

Not sure that's a good marketing strategy. "Our soon-to-be-released video card is faster than our low budget card released two generations back!"

Well, yeah. It should be.