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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 expected to feature 2304 CUDA cores
https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-rtx-3050-expected-to-feature-2304-cuda-cores
Kopite7kimi brings another set of rumors about the GeForce RTX 30 series.

The RTX 3050 is expected to feature GA107-300 GPU with 2304 CUDA cores. Such a number of cores would be a significant upgrade over GeForce RTX 1650 (896 CUDAs) and GTX 1650 SUPER (1280 CUDAs). However, it is important to note that NVIDIA doubled the number of cores per Streaming Multiprocessors, not necessarily doubling the performance in the process.

RTX 3050, GA107-300, 2304FP32, 90W TGP

— kopite7kimi4virgil (@kopite7kimi) November 9, 2020

Considering you have to basically divide the number of cuda cores in half with Ampere compared to Turing, the 3050 seems kinda weak compared to the 1650 SUPER. Alo, 90W TGP for that is disappointing since the base 1650 had only 75W and thus didn't need any power connectors and could be fed entirely through the PCI-E slot. I predict only a ~5% performance increase over the 1650 Super with that data.

Yeah, performance won't be much better than the older models, and the extra power cunsumption will go, mostly, to power the ray tracing hardware, because this time all cards should get it, hence why it's an RTX 3050 part, and not GTX.