GoKawiilNvidia’s GeForce RTX 30 series (codenamed Ampere) firmly established itself among the best graphics cards of its time. Interestingly, it seems that Nvidia may have left some money on the table with Ampere. The latest photographs and benchmark results shared by hardware leaker Gok clearly show that the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti is real and has at least reached the prototype stage.
Nvidia did bring a GeForce RTX 3050 Ti to the market, but only for laptops, catering primarily to mobile gamers. What we're seeing today is the desktop version, which should not be confused with the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile or the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Max-Q for laptops. Ampere was a popular and successful architecture for Nvidia. However, the downsides of Ampere's launch during the great graphics card shortage, first caused by the cryptocurrency mining boom and second by the COVID-19 pandemic, probably deterred Nvidia from releasing the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti.
The GeForce RTX 3050 Ti engineering sample , reportedly from a company named Robiny, leverages the PG190 SKU 40 design board. It employs the GA106 silicon, the same die utilized in other popular Ampere products, including the GeForce RTX 3050 and the GeForce RTX 3060 . As you can tell from the model name, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti slots in between the two aforementioned models. Once again, it's just an example of Nvidia's strategy to recycle high-end silicon to serve different market segments.
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Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Specifications
Swipe to scroll horizontally Graphics Card GeForce RTX 3060 GeForce RTX 3050 Ti* GeForce RTX 3050 Architecture GA106 GA106 GA106 Process Technology Samsung 8N Samsung 8N Samsung 8N Transistors (Billion) 12 12 12 Die size (mm²) 276 276 276 SMs 28 26 20 GPU Cores 3,584 3,328 2,560 Tensor Cores 112 104 80 RT Cores 28 26 20 Base Clock (MHz) 1,320 1,410 1,552 Boost Clock (MHz) 1,777 1,665 1,777 VRAM Speed (Gb/s) 15 14 14 VRAM (GB) 12 6 8 VRAM Bus Width 192 192 128 ROPs 48 48 48 TMUs 112 104 80 Bandwidth (GB/S) 360 336 224 TGP (watts) 170 ? 130 Launch Date February 2021 N/A January 2022 Launch Price $329 N/A $249
*Specifications are unconfirmed by Nvidia.
A perfect GA106 silicon has 30 Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs), but the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti has only 26 enabled, resulting in approximately 87% die utilization. With 26 SMs active, the Ampere-based graphics card features 3,328 CUDA cores, which is about 7% fewer than the GeForce RTX 3060, yet 30% more than the GeForce RTX 3050. The configuration puts the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti in a sweet spot, balancing performance and power efficiency.
The clock speeds for the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti fall well within expectations. The base and boost clocks are higher than those of the GeForce RTX 3060 because the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti has fewer CUDA cores. Conversely, the clock speeds are somewhat lower than those of the standard GeForce RTX 3050, which features even fewer CUDA cores.
On the contrary, the memory subsystem of the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti is a cross between those of the GeForce RTX 3050 and the GeForce RTX 3060. While it retains the 14 Gb/s GDDR6 memory modules found in the former, the memory operates over a wider 192-bit interface, similar to the latter's. As a result, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti offers 50% higher memory bandwidth than the GeForce RTX 3050 but trails behind the GeForce RTX 3060 by 7%.
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