There’s been a lot of talk aboutNvidiarecently, mostly due to the company looking at unleashing a slew of products within the early parts of next year. While theFTC is suing the company over its ARM merger, it’s still business as usual for Jensen Huang and his team. Along with the Ti version of the RTX 3090, one of the most powerful cards in the current market, the company has been looking at slightly more entry level products, such as the 3050. Now, new information suggests there may be two iterations of the GPU coming.
According to a recent report, which cites a tweet from a known leaker,Nvidiamay be getting ready to launch the RTX 3050 in both an 8 GB and 4 GB form. Initially, it seemed the leaker was confident that this graphics card, whichever version that would be, was going to be made on the GA107-300 silicon, but has since posted under their initial tweet saying that the 8 GB will be made with the GA106-150 silicon, while 4 GB will be made with GA106-140.
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The newRTX 3050 is expected to be out at the end of January 2022. The report speculates that the 8 GB variant will have 2,560 CUDA cores and the 4 GB will have 2,304. This makes sense given that the former, which has more memory capacity, will be the most powerful out of the two. Of course, neither card is expected to take on the mid or high-range graphics cards on the market. It seems the RTX 3050 is simply going after the low-end. This could also suggest that, as and when these cards come out, they will likely be on the cheaper side of things, which will be enticing for those who are not in the area for an expensive model.
However, that may not even be the case. WhenNvidia released a re-do of its RTX 2060, this time with 12 GB instead of 6 GB, or 8 GB for the SUPER, stores reported that they were not receiving sufficient stock. There were even reports that the 2060 was selling in the UK for around £515, or $680. Given that this card is based on three-year-old technology and is still expensive, some may be skeptical that the RTX 3050 cards will be any cheaper. Of course, that’s just speculation at this stage.
There’s also a chance thatNvidia may lose some of the market share to Intel, once the Arc graphics cards hit the shelves next year. It’s probably not phasing the company too much, though, as some insiders and leakers are suggesting thatNvidiamay be wanting to go for the crypto market anyway. That will probably become more apparent once the RTX 3050 and its other roster of products comes out.
