Nvidia RTX 3050 will have GA107 version: Power consumption reduced by 15W
At the CES 2022 exhibition, Nvidia officially released the GeForce RTX 3050, which uses the GA106 like the RTX 3060. It has 2560 CUDA cores, 8GB of GDDR6 video memory, a 128-bit video memory interface, 14Gbps video memory speed, and 130W power consumption. The single-precision floating-point performance is 9T FLOPS, which is 38% higher than GeForce RTX 2060 (6.5T FLOPS), bringing the latest ray tracing technology to the “50” series desktop GPU for the first time.
Unlike the desktop version, the GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile uses the GA107. In addition, Nvidia also launched an OEM version of GeForce RTX 3050, which also uses GA107, and the number of CUDA cores has been reduced to 2304.
Recently, a graphics card called GeForce RTX 3050 Ventus 2X 8G OCV1 appeared on the official website of MSI, equipped with GA107, and has 2560 CUDA cores, GDDR6 memory with a rate of 14Gbps, and power consumption of 115W. Compared with the 130W power consumption of the old GeForce RTX 3050 Ventus 2X 8G OC equipped with GA106, the power consumption is reduced by 15W, and the external power supply interface has also been changed from 8Pin to 6Pin.
Over the past period of time, Nvidia has made further adjustments to the GeForce RTX 30 series graphics cards based on the Ampere architecture to further clear the inventory, some models use different versions of GPU, such as GeForce RTX 3070 Ti with GA102, or upgraded memory configuration, such as GeForce RTX 3060 Ti with GDDR6X memory.
The initial official suggested retail price of the GeForce RTX 3050 is $249. It is a good thing that the new version reduces power consumption, but players hope that the price can also be reduced.
