NVIDIA has released so far only presented the most powerful representatives of the new Ampere architecture. So far we got to know the performance and capabilities of the GeForce RTX 3090, RTX 3080 or RTX models 3070, and everything indicates that soon the Greens will be showing cheaper models, which are viewed by players with less wealthy wallets. It seems that only a matter of time is the debut of GeForce RTX 3060 Ti or RTX 3060, and meanwhile, the network has a quite surprising leak from leakster @ kopite7kimi, which suggests that NVIDIA was also planning a card … RTX 3050. What do we know about her? And the most important question – will such a budget Ampere make sense in ray-tracing?

Leakster may have misspelled the card naming and RTX in question 3050 it will actually be part of the GTX series and will be a cheap representative of the new architecture without proper RT cores. After all, it’s hard to assume now that the RTX 3050 is completely suitable for ray-tracing …

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 and RTX 3050 Ti on the way – premiere in 2021

If the latest information is to be believed, GeForce RTX 3050 will be a GA-based chip 107 – 300, which will only offer 2304 CUDA units (for comparison, RTX 3070 has 5888 such units) Although it does not sound very promising in terms of performance, we are definitely talking about a very energy-saving card, because its TGP factor is to be only 90 W. There is still the issue of VRAM, but in this case we can’t really count on anything in more than 4 or 6 GB of GDDR6 memory.

RTX 3050, GA 107 – 300, 2304 FP 32, 90 In TGP

– kopite7kimi4virgil (@ kopite7kimi) November 9, 2020

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti – the card will not debut until December

RTX 2060 was moderately suited to ray-tracing, so we can only wonder how such a low-positioned model will work in handling this popular technology. We cannot exclude that leakster simply mispredited the naming of the card and the discussed RTX 3050 will actually be the successor of GTX models 1660 Ti / GTX 1660, so it will become a cheap representative of the new architecture without proper RT cores. However, we will not know the details of this card soon. The Greens will first focus on the release of RTX chips 3060 Ti or RTX 3060, and we will probably have to wait a few more months for this unit.

Source: @ kopite7kimi