GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 for notebooks and desktop PCs – launch still uncertain

Once again a leak from TUM_APISAK and at the same time the information from the manufacturers to keep the ball currently a little bit flatter. But what’s new is that the specs of NVIDIA’s upcoming GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and GeForce RTX 3050 graphics cards have surfaced, along with initial benchmarks, in the Geekbench database. Still unreleased laptops with Intel’s Tiger Lake-H processors were tested, in this case probably Samsung laptops with the Tiger Lake-H (Core i7-11800H and Core i5-11400H). The GeForce RTX 3050 series will be based on the GA107 GPU, which has not yet appeared as a chip in the desktop or laptop segment. Both chips are to be used unchanged in notebooks as well as on dedicated cards for the desktop sector. 

However, I also have a small disappointment from my own sources, because as one can learn from the AIC, at least the launch of the desktop cards is currently probably on “hold” for now. Some are talking early summer, others times after Computex 2021 in June, depending on the company. Whereby the time schedule of all of them coincides with that to a certain extent. Nothing is confirmed yet and if you know NVIDIA, you shouldn’t be surprised if there would be further postponements.The chip is ready, now you just have to wait for the right moment. Luxury problems.

But what is behind these two cards, which for the first time have been designed as true RTX cards even below the 60 nomenclature? The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti features 20 SMs or 2560 CUDA cores. This should then also be the GA107 full extension. The GPU ran at a maximum clock speed of 1.03 GHz in testing and also had 4 GB of GDDR6 memory running over a 128-bit bus interface. NVIDIA will probably go for cheaper 12 Gbps memory modules, so you could expect 192 GB/s bandwidth. The GPU should have a TGP (complete board) of less than 100 W.

RTX 3050 Ti Laptop
OpenCL Score – 60559https://t.co/djQR6mBcRC pic.twitter.com/sbERp4W10Z

— APISAK (@TUM_APISAK) March 17, 2021

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 without Ti has 16 SM or 2048 CUDA cores. The GPU ran with a maximum frequency of 1.06 GHz in the test. These are most likely the clock speeds optimized for laptops and you can definitely expect higher clock speeds for the desktop GPUs.

11th Gen Intel Core i5-11400H + RTX 3050 Laptop
6C/12T
2.70 GHz/4.49 GHz

Geekbench 5 Score
1387 – 4934https://t.co/UU5LEW1z41

RTX 3050 Laptop
OpenCL Score – 52587https://t.co/5ESj7THqXE pic.twitter.com/0uHnfIzPuF

— APISAK (@TUM_APISAK) March 16, 2021

In terms of pure compute performance, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti is about as fast in OpenCL as the older Radeon RX 5600 XT and a GeForce GTX 1080 Ti, for example. The GeForce RTX 3050 is still about as fast as a GTX 1080 in comparison. The non-Ti variant should thus also be slightly faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, which it will probably replace. Whereby the pure gaming performance should probably position itself a bit below the cards mentioned in each case.

I don’t want to speculate about possible prices at this point, but for under 200 euros it will probably be nothing for the end customer in the entry-level segment for a while this year. Too bad, but hard to change.

Source: TUM_APISAK, own