We’ve simply heard extra in regards to the rumored RTX 3050 variant Nvidia may be cooking up, and the phrase is that this graphics card might debut in February.

Wccftech flagged up that the RTX 3050 with a cut-down 6GB of VRAM (from 8GB) has been talked about on the Board Channels boards (over in China – a supply of extra sketchy rumors, so add some further seasoning).

Whereas beforehand it was thought Nvidia was planning to launch this RTX 3050 6GB in January, the brand new rumor insists it’ll be February, and we’ve additionally been given a purported worth.

That price ticket is $179 (within the US – with pricing to align with that elsewhere), which was the lower-end estimate from the earlier chatter on the grapevine.

As per the earlier rumor, we’re instructed that the CUDA core rely may very well be dropped by 20%, in addition to that VRAM discount (and the reminiscence bus may also be dropped to a 96-bit affair). On prime of that, Wccftech reviews that the bottom clock pace will probably be lowered by nearly 20% in comparison with the 8GB mannequin, too.

Evaluation: A flop of a price range GPU?

If Nvidia does drop the core rely and clock pace of the RTX 3050 6GB considerably, as predicted, in addition to shedding 2GB of VRAM (and downsizing the reminiscence bus), it’ll be a reasonably nerfed product in comparison with the RTX 3050 8GB because it stands.

If that is appropriate, or a minimum of close to the mark, the refreshed RTX 3050 doesn’t sound very interesting.

Frankly, the RTX 3050 8GB wasn’t all that tempting a proposition from the get-go, and we don’t see how a hobbled model, on the rumored worth level, can compete with the likes of AMD’s Radeon RX 6600. That Group Pink card represents robust competitors within the area of the greatest price range GPUs proper now.

It’s attainable that both the purported spec, or pricing, of this refresh may be mistaken – perhaps even each. Time will inform, but it surely does appear doubtless that the RTX 3050 6GB may very well be inbound, provided that we’ve additionally heard that Nvidia is planning to scrap its venerable GTX 1650 and 1630 graphics playing cards. So, the refreshed RTX 3050 may very well be a superb match to interchange the GTX 1650 in principle – we will see.

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