News Nvidia RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU specs revealed and it's as bad as expected — comes with just 1,768 CUDA cores and 4GB VRAM on a 64-bit bus

[Admin]

Nvidia has apparently found a use for Ada Lovelace chips that don't meet QC standards. The new RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU uses an AD106 die, with over half of the cores disabled and only two of the potential four memory channels.

Nvidia RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU specs revealed and it's as bad as expected — comes with just 1,768 CUDA cores and 4GB VRAM on a 64-bit bus : Read more

 

[edzieba]

Whilst it sounds like it's just a "3050 with longer battery life", the combination of a larger die (assuming the non-binned areas are not directly adjacent but spread out) and lower power means it'll probably perform better than expected in the thermal and power constrained environment of a laptop, just by dint of not needing to throttle down when a 'full' 3050 would.

 

[usertests]

It’s a bit like when your bananas get bruised and your grandma uses them to make banana bread — a delicious and economical way to use what might have ended up in the trash.

Make banana bread, people. It's good.

 

[watzupken]

Whilst it sounds like it's just a "3050 with longer battery life", the combination of a larger die (assuming the non-binned areas are not directly adjacent but spread out) and lower power means it'll probably perform better than expected in the thermal and power constrained environment of a laptop, just by dint of not needing to throttle down when a 'full' 3050 would.

I doubt it will be better, if not worst. The reduction of memory bus will take a significant toll on the performance, even with the larger cache and faster memory chips.

 

[Amdlova]

Wait for the 3050ti 128bits
Nvidia it's trying to put those gpus on ultrabooks
Very thin and portable gaming laptop.
With an intel cpu will have the right recipe for disaster.

 

[KyaraM]

And I just posted in the other thread...

Realtalk, as long as it brings roughly the same performance as the og 3050, I don't care about the actual shader number. That's not always an indicator of absolute performance.

But 4GB VRAM is completely unacceptable. Well, guess now we know why it's not called a 4050...

 

[Alvar "Miles" Udell]

Going to be funny if it performs worse than a Snapdragon X laptop...