Listing Of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Emerge From Austrian Retailer

Listing Of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Emerge From Austrian Retailer

The upcoming RTX 3050 variant, with 6GB of VRAM and significantly reduced TDP, has appeared in one Austrian retailer with a placeholder listing. The listing’s presence more or less confirms this GPU’s existence and impending launch, which corroborated the rumors that this GPU may be launching sometime in February this year.

In case you missed it, here’s a recap on the 6GB variant’s specs. The RTX 3050 6GB, while sharing mostly the same name as the RTX 3050 8GB (the off-the-shelf variant, not the OEM ones – just to prove how complicated this model has gotten), is quite different under the hood: you get less CUDA cores (2304 vs 2560), lower clock speeds, narrower memory bus (96-bit vs 128-bit) and lower bandwidth as a result. The power budget has been cut nearly in half to just 70W, meaning it should be possible for this variant to omit the dedicated PCIe 8-pin connectors.

The listing on the Austrian retailer E-Tec has confirmed that it is indeed a 6GB variant, and it also confirms the existence of MSI’s variant in the form of Ventus 2X OC. However, the price of 245 EUR could likely be inaccurate, as placeholder listings often have placeholder pricing before launch (previous rumors point to a $179 MSRP, for reference).

This new variant of RTX 3050 is expected to supersede the recently retired GTX 16 series of GPUs, and the Ampere GPU is going to directly replace the GTX 1650 as the new low-end GPU of Team Green’s lineup.

Source: Videocardz

Pokdepinion: We’re entering February soon – so the announcements should come soon.