NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Features Ampere GA107 GPU With 2048 CUDA Cores, Ray Tracing Coming Soon To Budget Gaming Laptops

NVIDIA will soon be launching its GeForce RTX 3050 series graphics cards for both desktop and mobility platforms. The GeForce RTX 3050, in particular, has leaked out today in the form of its GPU-z screenshot which was posted over at Bilibili (via Videocardz).

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Mobility Discrete GPU Spotted, Features GA107 GPU With 2048 Cores & 4 GB GDDR6 Memory

The specifications for both NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 graphics cards for the mobility platform were leaked out a few weeks back. We were able to confirm the most basic specifications and now we've got a more exact look at what they are going to be (at least for the Non-Ti variant). The GeForce RTX 3050 series cards will be targetting the budget gaming segment with desktop cards priced within a sub-$250 US range while the laptops based on these cards will retail at under $599 US considering the RTX 3060 laptops start at $999 US.

So coming to the specifications, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Non-Ti variant is based on the N20Z-QS1-A1 GPU SKU (Ampere GA107) which features 16 SM units or 2048 CUDA cores. GPU-z can't tell the exact clock speeds that the GPU features and only reports a base clock of 300 MHz and a boost clock of 795 MHz which are a far cry from its final clocks. The GPU also carries 4 GB of GDDR6 video memory which operates across a 128-bit bus at speeds of 12 Gbps, delivering a total bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 GPU was reportedly running on a Dell machine on a PCIe Gen 3.0 interface which suggests it was either running on an AMD Ryzen 5000 or an Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake CPU based notebook considering these are the only two options that offer Gen 3 interface & Intel's 11th Gen Tiger Lake CPUs are the only notebook offerings that come with PCIe Gen 4.

The other key feature is that the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti is listed as an "RTX" variant. Previously, ray tracing was kept exclusive to **60 series graphics cards and above but this changes with Ampere and now we can get ray tracing on entry-level graphics cards too. However, the pricing of the GPU will be higher with the RTX 3050 Ti expected to be set at around $229-$279 US while the RTX 3050 will cost just slightly below the sub-$200 US range. Expect more details on these cards along with several laptop configurations in the coming months.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Mobility GPU Lineup:

GPU Name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 A	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti
Process Node	Samsung 8nm	TSMC 4N	TSMC 4N	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm
GPU SKU	GA107	GA107	AD106	GA107	GA106	GA104	GA104	GA104	GA103
SMs	16	16	14	20	30	40	46	48	58
CUDA Cores	2048	2048	1792	2560	3840	5120	5888	6144	7424
Base Clock	1057 MHz	1042 MHz	TBD	1035 MHz	1283 MHz	1290 MHz	1035 MHz	1245 MHz	1125 MHz
Boost Clock	1740 MHz	1470 MHz	TBD	1695 MHz	1703 MHz	1620 MHz	1485 MHz	1710 MHz	1590 MHz
Memory Clock	12 Gbps	14 Gbps	TBD	12 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	14 Gbps	16 Gbps
Memory Type	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6	GDDR6
Memory Size	4 GB	6 GB	4 GB	4 GB	6 GB	8 GB	8 GB	8/16 GB	16 GB
Memory Bus	128-bit	96-bit	64-bit	128-bit	192-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit
Bandwidth	192 GB/s	168 GB/s	TBD	192 GB/s	336 GB/s	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	448 GB/s	512 GB/s
TGP	35-95W	35-95W	35-50W	35-95W	60-115W	80-125W	80 - 125W	80-150W+	175W
Configurations	Max-Q Max-P	Max-Q Max-P	TBD	Max-Q Max-P	Max-Q Max-P	Max-Q Max-P	Max-Q Max-P	Max-Q Max-P	Max-Q Max-P
Launch	Q2 2021	Q1 2024	2024?	Q2 2021	Q1 2021	Q1 2021	Q1 2022	Q1 2021	Q1 2022

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