There’s been a good bit of chatter about Nvidia’s rumored contemporary tackle the RTX 3050 – with much less video RAM, 6GB quite than 8GB – and now we’ve caught sight of this graphics card on-line.

VideoCardz picked up on product listings for Palit RTX 3050 6GB fashions at a Russian retailer, and naturally, as with all rumor, take all this with heavy seasoning – although the leak comes full with product codes and certainly specs.

The listings for the Palit RTX 3050 StormX and StormX OC, plus KalmX, present that there’s 6GB of VRAM on board (although there are inconsistencies right here – the field nonetheless exhibits 8GB of reminiscence, however that’s doubtless only a placeholder). Curiously, the KalmX variant is a fanless mannequin (for individuals who like a whisper-quiet PC).

Different specs shared are a base clock of 1042MHz, which is manner decrease than the present RTX 3050 8GB (at 1,552MHz) – a lot in order that we really feel this might be a mistake. The increase velocity stays the identical (1,777MHz), and fortunately so does the CUDA Core rely (2,560).

Evaluation: Specs skepticism

It’s good to see the core configuration is unchanged, as there have been rumors that it’d simply be reduce down – and that actually can be unhealthy information for the efficiency ranges of the brand new RTX 3050 6GB. Thoughts you, these specs from the retailer should be handled with skepticism as talked about – they might be placeholders – so we’d be silly to learn an excessive amount of into this.

Relating to the key drop in base clock velocity with the Russian retailer’s specs, earlier chatter has indicated it’ll be decreased by extra like 20% – not a 3rd slower as indicated right here – and we expect the previous extra modest throttling appears a extra reasonable prospect.

At any charge, shakiness on the aired specs apart, the important thing level right here, actually, is the graphics card fashions (full with product codes) showing at this retailer, which is proof backing up the assertion that the RTX 3050 6GB is coming quickly.

In line with the newest from the rumor mill, we should always see this rejigged Nvidia graphics card in February, with a purported asking worth of $179 within the US (and worth tags in keeping with that elsewhere, we are able to presume).

If the specs leaked listed below are in the fitting ballpark, roughly, there’s nonetheless doubt as to how a lot impression the RTX 3050 6GB will make on the price range finish of the market, if the rumored worth is correct.

We’re holding our fingers crossed that this graphics card is perhaps pitched only a tad extra reasonably priced. It’d appear that Nvidia can be clever to contemplate that line of assault, provided that AMD’s RX 6600 is a extremely compelling providing within the price range house, and is without doubt one of the finest low cost GPUs at the moment on cabinets.

Time will inform, however sadly it’s fairly straightforward to be jaded about Nvidia’s pricing ways on the whole, and to consider {that a} extra cheaply pitched product is unlikely.

Through Tom’s {Hardware}

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