Shopping for a brand new graphics card is an costly and irritating course of within the yr 2025. New GPUs are pricy, particularly good ones, and that is if you happen to may even discover them listed for MSRP. Nvidia’s answer, when it is not stealth launching new 50 sequence playing cards, is to return to the previous methods, and launch yet one more iteration of the 3050. And truthfully? I feel it is a fairly good thought.
We have been listening to rumours of a brand new RTX 3050 from Nvidia for a couple of yr now, although they’re unclear as as to whether we’re taking a look at a cellular or desktop GPU. Cellular was the extra doubtless route however Tom’s {Hardware} has noticed a brand new itemizing in GPU-Z that exhibits assist for an as of but introduced RTX 3050, brining again these desktop speculations.
Within the notes the thriller card is known as the GeForce RTX 3050 A, which actually would not inform us a lot in any respect. What we do know is that this Nvidia GPU will probably be utilizing the brand new Ada Lovelace employed in playing cards just like the GeForce RTX 4060 Ti, and mobi le playing cards just like the GeForce RTX 4070 Cellular, and GeForce RTX 4070 Max-Q. If we’re fortunate the larger density featured on this AD106 silicon will give us a 3050 bursting with transistors and gaming energy.
Nvidia could possibly be utilizing the newer dies simply because it is what it has out there, or dumping the final of the AD106 silicon earlier than it strikes on to the following neatest thing. What we all know of AD106 tells us it needs to be greater than sufficient to deal with a 3050, but it surely begs the query of what type we are able to anticipate to see.
A brand new RTX 3050 A would put us as much as a grand complete of 5 iterations of this card to this point. Within the first yr we noticed the 4GB and 8GB variations launch adopted by one other 8GB utilizing the identical dies because the 4GB mannequin. Then final yr we noticed a 6GB center of the highway launch, so I am hoping for one thing a bit of shinier.
Given Nvidia are nonetheless calling this an RTX 3050, I do not plan on getting my hopes up too excessive for this unit, however a chunky lovelace field is not an excessive amount of to ask. I would wish to see a 12GB VRAM unit, one other 8GB would not really feel value it however I do know it will not be value going to the total 16GB. If they will additionally give it the power to run body technology just like the 40 sequence playing cards not too long ago received, then these could possibly be an actual winner.
The RTX 3050 at present sits at fifth place on Steam’s {hardware} survey for well-liked GPUs, so we all know avid gamers have not given up on these little beasties but. If Nvidia nails the worth level for a brand new launch, it could possibly be that we see these proceed to take a seat visibly on that record for years to come back.
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