At the same time that DIY players are looking forward to the launch of Intel Desktop Solo, NVIDIA and AMD have also frequently exposed hot news. Recently, NVIDIA announced that it will launch a new RTX 3050 8G graphics card with GA107 core, and the biggest advantage is low power consumption + price reduction or slight reduction. Similarly, the performance beast RTX 4090, which is expected to be released in September/October 2022, is priced or exposed at 1899 yuan, which is $400 more expensive than the RTX 3090.
First, let's look at the new RTX 3050 8G graphics card with a GA107 core. Compared with the previous GA106 core version, the new card specifications are nearly the same, and because the two are pin-compatible, there is no need to develop a new PCB, which reduces the development cost of the manufacturer. In addition, in terms of power consumption, the TBP/limit power consumption of the GA106 core is about 130/150W, and the TBP/limit power consumption of the GA107 is about 115/130-140W, all thanks to the efficient architecture design of the GA107.
In addition, the full GA106 has 3840 CUDA cores, compared with 3584 in the currently officially released RTX 3060 desktop version, 2560 in the RTX 3050 desktop version, and 3072 CUDA cores in the GA107 full version. It can be seen that the price of the new version of the RTX 3050 will be slightly reduced after the listing.
Judging from the current price of the RTX 3050 8G version of the e-commerce platform, the official price of 1899 yuan is required to be snapped up by appointment. The version that wants to buy directly will be roughly increased by 800-1000 yuan.
Next, let's talk about the latest news of the RTX 40 series of performance beasts - RTX 4090 graphics cards that will appear in the second half of 2022.
It is reported that the RTX 4090 corresponds to the AD102 large core, there will be as many as 12 GPC (graphics processing clusters), 72 TPC (texture processing clusters), 144 SM (streaming multiprocessors), and each SM continues to have 128 stream processors (CUDA cores), then the overall number of up to 18432 stream processors, compared with the current ampere architecture GA102 core of 10752 cores increased by 71%, the overall performance doubled.
In terms of price, according to overseas hardware bloggers, the official price of RTX 4090 is $1899, of course, even so, it is $400 more expensive than RTX 3090, and the retail price of the National Bank of China is likely to exceed 15,000 yuan according to the current exchange rate.
In any case, for DIY players, graphics cards, especially mainstream graphics cards, can ensure stable supply according to the official sale price is the greatest wish, and it is also expected that Intel desktop graphics will be released quickly.