Editor's comments: Lao Huang's knife technique is fascinating.
Look at the core prefix can know that the current RTX 3050 uses the RTX 3060 "same" core, of course, the former core size is less than the latter, RTX 3050 desktop display with 2560 CUDA cores, 80 texture units, 32 ROP and 20 RT cores, is the first RTX desktop display using the "50" suffix.
From the specifications of Nvidia's official website, it can be known that the RTX3050 has 8 PCIe 4.0 channels, and in fact, the GA106-150 core supports 16 channels, and the number of PCIe 4.0 channels of the card is likely to be reduced for the future adaptation of the GA107 core. Interestingly, Igor Wallossek also said that the two cores of GA106 and GA107 will remain pin-defined compatible, which means that non-public N card manufacturers do not need to make PCB adjustments to the existing RTX 3050, as long as the BIOS is compatible, the GA106-150 core can be seamlessly switched to GA107.
The existing RTX 3050 has a calibrated graphics power of 130W, and it is reported that the RTX 3050 with a GA107 core reduces the graphics power to 115W, which is about 12% lower.
According to the sales data of previous generations of N cards, RTX 3050 is expected to become the most "best-selling" ampere architecture graphics card, and the price of some non-public graphics cards was once close to the official guidance price, and the GA107 core version may further promote the situation of "buying graphics cards at the original price" after listing. Players have been rushing to buy for a long time, and perhaps the RTX 3050 will become the answer for many parties and so on.