At CES2022 earlier this month, both AMD and NVIDIA launched their entry-level dessert graphics cards within $2,000. AMD released the RX 6500 XT 4GB, priced at 1599 yuan. It is expected to go on sale on January 19. Nvidia launched the RTX 3050 8GB, priced at 1899 yuan, and went on sale on January 27.
In terms of specifications, the RTX 3050 graphics card is based on ampere architecture, uses GA106 cores, has 2560 stream processors, 20 optical tracking units, and 80 tensor units, and a core frequency of 1550-1780MHz (no public version). With 128-bit 8GB GDDR6 memory, the equivalent frequency is 14GHz, the power consumption of the entire card is 130W, and the floating-point performance is nearly 40% higher than that of the RTX 2060.
However, players know in their hearts that the suggested retail price can only be used as a joke. Affected by all aspects, since last year, it is almost impossible to buy a graphics card at the original price. Previously, the RX 6500 XT has already premiumed thousands of yuan before it is released, and the RTX 3050 will naturally be raised.
The Japanese Amazon market has begun to have a pre-sale of RTX 3050 graphics card with Ambition (Yingchi), priced at 50,138 yen, about 2,789 yuan, a premium of nearly 50% compared to the suggested retail price.
Previously, it was reported that Nvidia would increase the supply and distribution of the first batch of RTX 3050 series, even exceeding the RTX 3060 and RTX 3060 Ti, and did not know whether the price of graphics cards would fall under such a policy.