NVIDIA Rumored to Launch Two Versions of the GeForce RTX 3050 with Different Core Counts and Memory Sizes

[Tsing]

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NVIDIA is reportedly planning to launch its GeForce RTX 3050 for budget gamers relatively soon, but the graphics card won’t limited to a single configuration.



That’s according to famed leaker kopite7kimi, who claims that NVIDIA has cooked up two versions of the GeForce RTX 3050. The weaker one, which leverages the GA106-140 GPU, will supposedly feature 2,304 CUDA cores and 4 GB of memory, while the more powerful model is said to utilize the GA106-150 GPU and feature 2,560 CUDA cores and 8 GB of memory.



Kopite7kimi suggested last year that NVIDIA had been planning to use the GA107-300 GPU for the GeForce RTX 3050 and that there would only be one model available with the same CUDA core count as the new and alleged 4 GB model. The card was also said to feature at 90-watt TGP.



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[Zarathustra]

Pisses me off when they do this.

The only conceivable reason is to deceive consumers. It ought to be illegal. They should have clearly observable separate product names.

 

[Dan_D]

I hate this kind of crap.