It's a rare sight, but yes, the desktop variant did exist, and here are the detailed specifications for the unreleased Ampere card.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Desktop GPU Appears With GA106 Die, Featuring 3328 Shaders and 6 GB GDDR6 of VRAM
While NVIDIA released multiple SKUs in the Ampere RTX 30 series family, it never released the bigger brother of the GeForce RTX 3050 for the desktop. The GeForce RTX 3050 Ti does exist, but only in laptops, while the non-Ti edition still sells for the desktop market. NVIDIA never released the desktop RTX 3050 Ti officially, but it doesn't mean that we don't have any engineering samples.
As per @GOKForFree, the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti desktop GPU exists, and we can see one of the engineering samples. The GPU is supposedly from a company called "Robiny", which we don't recognize, and it's a dual-fan GPU with a dual-slot design. Equipped with a single 8-pin connector, the GPU sits on an ASUS motherboard. While the card doesn't have any official branding and stuff, stickers have been pasted on the card to showcase its specs.
The card is mentioned as "RTX 3050 Ti", featuring the "GA106-200-A1" die. It's the same GA106 die used on the GeForce RTX 3060 GPUs, but a cut-down version that brings 7% fewer cores than the RTX 3060. According to the screenshot of GPU-Z, the GPU has 3,328 CUDA cores and a 6 GB GDDR6 VRAM capacity. Therefore, it uses the 192-bit bus width, which results in 336 GB/s of memory bandwidth. So, it appears that the memory speed is slightly slower than on the RTX 3060.
The GPU boasts a default base clock of 1410 MHz and can boost up to 1665 MHz. These numbers aren't official, so take the leaked specs with a grain of salt. All in all, the RTX 3050 Ti appears to be closer in performance to the RTX 3060 than the RTX 3050, which runs on a significantly cut-down GA106 die. It's also theoretically much faster than the RTX 3050 Ti laptop variant, which utilizes a GA107 die and features just 4 GB of GDDR6 memory. The only concern is its smaller memory capacity, and we don't know if NVIDIA ever prepared a 12 GB version for the same.
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