https://www.techtimes.com/articles/268588/20211126/nvidia-rtx-3050-rumors.htm NVIDIA has weirdly held out on releasing low-end RTX graphics cards ever since they announced their RTX 20 series. But now, new rumors are afoot.
Renowned industry leaker kopite7kimi is at it again, this time leaking a few new details about NVIDIA's upcoming RTX 3050 series graphics cards.
VideoCardz reports that the 3050 Ti, for instance, will be featuring a GA1-6-150 die, while the base 3050 will be equipped with a GA107-350.
The alleged launch window is set at Q2 2022.
Further rumors suggest that the base RTX 3050 will be faster than the GTX 1650 SUPER and even the GTX 1660 SUPER, which are the only low-end Turing cards currently out on the market. The rumored performance will also be slightly under the RTX 2060, specifically the 12 GB model which is launching in December.
TechPowerUp posted a few alleged specs of the 3050. While unconfirmed, they might be able to provide a good idea of what the card is capable of. The card will reportedly feature 4 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 128-bit bus, which further reinforces that it is a budget NVIDIA RTX solution. As for other specs, one might expect to find 2304 Shading Units, 72 TMUs, 40 ROPs, 72 Tensor Cores, and a total of 18 ray tracing cores. So this would be the first budget Turing-based GPU that will be capable of ray tracing. NVIDIA has not commented on the rumors at this time.
This is rumor, but sounds legitimate.