Lenovo has prematurely released the data sheet for the upcoming Legion R5 complete system 28 IMB 05 put online. The PC manufacturer confirms the existence of other mid-range graphics cards from Nvidia’s current Ampere family: GeForce RTX 3050, GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and GeForce RTX 3060.

The latter model is said to be in response to AMD’s expected Radeon series RX 6700 with 12 GByte graphics memory also with 12 GByte GDDR6-RAM on 192 Data lines appear – Lenovo also specifies the amount in the data sheet. The GeForce RTX 3060 would therefore have more graphics memory than its big sister RTX 3060 Ti, RTX 3070 and RTX 3080.

This is unusual, but it would not be the first case of this kind: The GTX 780 and GTX 770 were available as new editions with 6 and 4 GB of RAM, the GTX 780 Ti, however, only with 3 GByte. The rumor mill spoke for a long time about new versions of the RTX 3080 and RTX 3070 with 20 or 16 GB of memory, which Nvidia is said to have deleted. A GeForce RTX 3080 Ti with 20 GByte should appear at the beginning 2021.

GeForce RTX 3050 as ray tracing entry According to the often well-informed Twitter user “kopite7kimi” should the GeForce RTX 3060 come with 3840 shader cores – 21 Percent less than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. Below the GeForce RTX 3060 Lenovo also names the two models GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and GeForce RTX 3050. The Ti version should be hardly slower with 3584 shader cores than the GeForce RTX 3060, but according to Lenovo only uses 6 GB of GDDR6-RAM.

The GeForce RTX 3050 is According to “kopite7kimi” with 2304 shader processing cores and 4 GByte GDDR6 memory clearly lagged behind. For comparison: The cheapest RTX graphics card from the 1920 generation, the GeForce RTX 2060, used 1920 shader, but with higher computing power per core.

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