Leadtek launched WinFast RTX 3050 Classic 8GB
Once upon a time, many graphics cards adopted a turbo cooling design. However, in recent years, graphics cards with turbo cooling have become less and less common in the market, and most of them only appear on mid-to-high-end graphics cards used by OEMs. Recently, Leadtek launched a product called WinFast RTX 3050 Classic 8GB, which should be the first GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card with a turbo cooling design.
The overall dimensions of the WinFast RTX 3050 Classic 8GB are 253 x 111 x 35 mm, the GA106-150 equipped with the Ampere architecture has 2560 CUDA cores, the base frequency is 1552MHz, the acceleration frequency is 1777MHz, the video memory is 8GB of GDDR6, the video memory bit width is 128 bits, and the video memory rate is 14Gbps. It is equipped with an 8Pin external power supply interface, and its TDP is 130W. In terms of display output, it is equipped with three DisplayPort 1.4a interfaces and one HDMI 2.1 interface.
Nvidia doesn’t make a GeForce RTX 3050 reference, and quite a lot of partners will use the same cooling solution for graphics cards like GeForce RTX 3060 or GTX 1660 Super on the GeForce RTX 3050 to keep costs down. The WinFast RTX 3050 Classic 8GB is no exception and should be the same as the previous WinFast RTX 3060 Classic 12GB Rev B.
The advantage of turbo cooling is the relatively small size of the graphics card and the ability to direct hot air out of the chassis, making it suitable for multi-card systems, or small chassis with high requirements for installation size. The shortcomings of turbo cooling are also quite obvious, with larger noise and lower cooling ceilings, which are prone to bottlenecks. With the fading out of multi-card parallel methods such as SLI and the increase in power consumption of a single card, coupled with some restrictions from GPU chip manufacturers, this type of graphics card is rarely seen in the DIY market now.
