News Alleged RTX 3050 6GB specifications leak — significant cuts to core count, memory bandwidth, clock speed, and TDP

[Admin]

Specifications for the RTX 3050 6GB have leaked, and now it's clear that it's not just a 3050 with a little less memory and cores.

Alleged RTX 3050 6GB specifications leak — significant cuts to core count, memory bandwidth, clock speed, and TDP : Read more

 

[-Fran-]

It really boils down to this: "Really should be the RTX 3040."

200% agree.

This is just nVidia's marketing doing stupid stuff with names, AGAIN.

Regards.

 

[Neilbob]

So we all know that there are no bad products, only bad prices.

Seems to me that which one of those will happen is obvious just from the fact that you can still charge silly money for a product ending in the number 50 rather than 40.

Which isn't saying much. After all, they manage to charge silly money for that other product ending in the number 30...

 

[The Historical Fidelity]

I feel like this product is a 1030/1630 replacement since it’s low profile and has no external power requirements. Let’s see what the price ends up being.

 

[Giroro]

I would be totally fine with the RTX 3050 6GB if it were sold at a price worthy of a cut-down version of their lowest-end last-gen/obsolete GPU.
So, like, $80-$100

But we all know that would never happen. The cheapest Nvidia gaming card on earth right now is $160 for a 5 year old GTX 1650. So classic Nvidia logic dictates: "the RTX 3050 6GB performs 25% better than a GTX 1650, so it should be exactly 25% more expensive... ehh actually and we have to add a fee on top for all those fancy new RTX features."
So I fully expect the RTX 3050 6GB to be $200-$230 (Which is the market rate for a 3050 8GB).

Face it. If the Nvidia ultra-rich elite wanted to sully their luxury brand by letting "the poors" have access to gaming, then they never would have discontinued production of the GTX 1650/1660 in the first place.
That would be like if Rolex made a watch that cost $80. These products aren't for working class people anymore, and we just need to get over it. They are a dudebro Crypto and AI company who doesn't need or probably even want lowly gamers to buy their lavish products. Just sit back and hope game devs see the value of designing their games for attainable hardware.

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

The real problem, of course, is a lack of price competiton. AMD's current lowest end card, the RX 7600, is $300, $80 more than the RTX 3050 8GB, as is the Arc A770. At the market this card is targeting, there simply is no competition, so nVidia can do anything they want. Now if AMD dropped a RX 7500 8GB that had 75fps average performance at 1920x1080 for $150 then...Well nVidia probably would still charge $200 for the 3050 6GB but at least there'd be SOME competition.

 

[usertests]

The real problem, of course, is a lack of price competiton. AMD's current lowest end card, the RX 7600, is $300,

RX 7600 is clearly selling at $270 in the US. Which is still too high but that can come down.

A 3050 isn't even current-gen, so it should be compared to prev-gen products like the RX 6600, which is closer to $210 and faster than the RTX 3050 8GB.

 

[Notton]

It's slower and more power hungry than a RTX 4050 mobile.

Seeing as it is being released this late in the cycle, I guess nvidia is dumping their worst batch of GA107 dies?

 

[Amdlova]

That a dream card for pixeled games with ray tracing.