Nvidia may be making ready to switch the RTX 3050 graphics card with a brand new model – a less expensive one, with much less VRAM – and there’s a touch that this transfer could also be about making room for an additional mannequin on the funds finish of the spectrum, maybe an RTX 4050.

The latter bit is an airier piece of hypothesis, thoughts – and certainly we should always take all this with a wholesome spoonful of salt (or possibly not so wholesome) – however now we have already heard from the rumor mill {that a} new RTX 3050 variant could possibly be inbound.

The beforehand rumored idea, now backed up by Chinese language tech web site Benchlife (hat tip to VideoCardz), is that Nvidia is scrapping the RTX 3050 because it stands, which is supplied with 8GB of VRAM, and bringing in a refreshed model with a cut-down 6GB (and a trimmed down reminiscence bus, too).

This might imply the RTX 3050 6GB could possibly be pitched at a less expensive $179 to $189, or thereabouts, within the US (and consistent with that pricing elsewhere – so about 10% to 15% lower than the RTX 3050 8GB presently sells for, roughly).

Earlier buzz from the grapevine has instructed that the RTX 3050 6GB could possibly be minimize down for CUDA cores as nicely – shedding as much as 20% of its core depend, maybe – and it’d even have a a lot decrease energy utilization in idea.

Nvidia will supposedly deploy this new RTX 3050 6GB in January 2024, we’re instructed.

Benchlife provides that there’s hypothesis that Nvidia could also be planning a “new GeForce RTX 40 sequence graphics card to satisfy customers in numerous worth ranges,” referring to one thing to fill the hole between the cheaper RTX 3050 6GB and the RTX 4060. And that should absolutely be an RTX 4050 – if it exists.

Evaluation: Stiff funds competitors

The rumor in regards to the RTX 4050 is couched in very imprecise phrases, and as we already talked about, we needs to be particularly skeptical right here because of this. It’s one thing that players on a funds have been hoping for, and an RTX 4050 does exist in laptop computer type already – so who is aware of, we may see it.

Or the thought of bringing out a brand new RTX 3050 6GB that may be bought at a less expensive worth level may merely be Nvidia attempting to make itself a bit extra compelling on the funds finish of the market, although the rumored cut-backs for the graphics card make it appear not so tempting.

If the CUDA cores are certainly dropped down considerably (from the prevailing 2,560 cores) as some rumors have instructed, that’s going to make this an unappealing choice – and absolutely it’d be extra cheaply priced, if that was the case?

What’s extra probably is that the VRAM and reminiscence bus will likely be dropped, however not the core depend – if the purported worth is right, that’d make way more sense. It’d additionally align with the refreshed RTX 3050 laptop computer GPU (which emerged at first of the yr and has 2,560 cores).

No matter Nvidia does, it should absolutely must pitch this rumored new RTX 3050 to compete with AMD’s RX 6600, a rival last-gen choice that represents fairly stiff funds competitors presently in the most effective low-cost GPU division, with its worth having dropped fairly low lately.

On a extra normal observe, it’s good to see a development of repurposing older generations of silicon into wallet-friendly up to date merchandise – not simply from Nvidia, but in addition AMD with its rumored strikes on the CPU entrance, bringing in new 3D V-Cache processors from Zen 3 (supposedly the Ryzen 5700X3D and 5500X3D, which could possibly be significantly standard choices on the low-end).

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