NVIDIA lowers the TGP of the GeForce RTX 3050

the GeForce RTX 3050 It is a mid-range graphics card that comes with a GA106 GPU is equipped with 2560 shaders. Specifically, it is a trimmed version of said graphics core also present in the GeForce RTX 3060, and in said graphics solution it has 3584 shaders.

As we can see, there is a huge difference in shading between the two graphics cards despite the fact that they both use the same GPU. As we said, this is due to the GeForce RTX 3050 It uses a heavily cropped version of the GA106while the GeForce RTX 3060 has a version that has almost all active shaders (3,584 out of 3,840 total).

This is standard practice by both NVIDIA and AMD. Both use stripped-down versions of GPU-based Utilizing graphic cores has had limited on-chip success, and that they didn’t come with all the shaders (or FP32 modules) functional. Not only does it allow you to get the most out of the chipsets you get per chip, but you can also reduce development and design costs by using the same GPU on different graphics cards.

The truth is that sometimes, changes can occur in graphics cards that use a particular GPU, which suddenly start using another graphics core without any explanation. This is also normal, as it is caused by a simple GPU cleaning stock question, and This time it affected the GeForce RTX 3050.

He already told us yesterday Our colleague Eduardo in this articleWhere we saw it MSi has released the GeForce RTX 3050 which uses GA107 GPU instead of GA106. This change is more significant than it might have seemed beforehand, as it not only allowed the card’s TGP to be reduced from 130W to 115W, but with it The power connector has also changed Required, from the transition from 8-pin to 6-pin.

This is a definite improvement in terms of efficiency, as it didn’t have to reduce the number of graphics card shaders being used A complete GA107 kernel (2560 active shaders) and the working speeds of the previous model are preserved. This graphics card is a better option than the original one, and it will hit the market named GeForce RTX 3050 VENTUS 2X 8GB OC V1.1

Ideally for users, both NVIDIA and AMD would, from the start, use the most appropriate graphics core for their graphics cards for consumption and performance reasons. In this case, NVIDIA should have used the GA107 chip in the GeForce RTX 3050 from the startbut did not do so because the priority The output of the graphics chipset that comes with the SM drivers is not functionalor they are unable to operate stably with all of those units activated.