NVIDIA’s decision to use a stripped-down version of the GA106 GPU instead of the full-blown GA107 in the desktop graphics card GeForce RTX 3050 looked somewhat unexpected and was attributed to the still current shortage of semiconductors and the manufacturer’s desire to adapt to the capabilities of suppliers. But if you believe the information of the editor-in-chief of the resource Igor’sLAB Igor Wallosek, NVIDIA is also preparing a GA107 version of the video card.
In the original version, the desktop GeForce RTX 3050 has 2560 CUDA cores, 80 texture mapping units, 32 rasterization units and 20 RT cores on board. Moreover, with support for 16 PCIe Gen4 lanes by the GA106-150 processor, the developer has halved their number for an entry-level video card. This was clearly done in order to meet the specifications of the GA107, which may appear in an alternative version of the same model.
Mr. Vallosek noted that the GA106 and GA107 chips are pin-compatible, which means that video card manufacturers will not have to make any global changes to the configuration – the replacement will only affect the GPU and BIOS. According to the source, the new version of the GeForce RTX 3050 will also have reduced power consumption: in the version with the GA106, the TDP is 130 W, while for the GA107 it will decrease to 115 W. Igor’sLAB has not yet specified when NVIDIA might offer an updated version of the GeForce RTX 3050, but if it does, it has a chance of becoming the most popular GeForce RTX 30 series.
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