During Computer Electronics Show 2022, the most important event for the tech sector (at least for what concerns us gamers) that is taking place at the moment, even if behind closed doors and made mainly of livestreams and press announcements usable “from home” several new and very interesting products from leading companies in the sector such as NVIDIA, AMD And Intel. Specifically, today we report two announcements made by the first of these companies, the “green team” as they say in the jargon, which announced two new video cards that somehow “close the circle” of GPUs RTX third generation. The alpha and omega somehow, since the announced video cards are there RTX 3090 Ti, according to the company “the most powerful video card ever made” and the RTX 3050, finally a low-mid-range video card for the more conscientious and budget-conscious gamer.
In terms of specs, the GPU GA102 (that is the “heart” of the video card itself) delivers well 10,752 CUDA cores, but it was decided to keep the same 24 GB from VRAM GDDR6X present in the base RTX 3090, which according to many, works better for rendering and simulations rather than for actual gaming. That said, NVIDIA has it anyway increased the bandwidth available to VRAM, bringing it to a potential throughput of 21 Gbps versus the 19.5 Gbps of the original RTX 3090. In terms of performance we are talking about 40 TFLOPS, bringing this Ti version to almost 5 TFLOPS more than the RTX 3090. NVIDIA’s announcement stopped at the performance characteristics and has overlooked availability and prices, asserting that there would be an announcement dedicated only to those: it is reasonable to think that, given the prices of the RTX 3090 base (MSRP of € 1499.99, which has almost doubled with the current crisis) it is reasonable to expect that this video card could already touch the suggested price of one close to 2000 euros.
On the other side of the fence, however, NVIDIA has always given some faint hope to gamers looking for something less extreme and cheaper: the RTX 3050, the video card designed for those who do not have very large graphics needs but still want to take advantage of the possibilities offered by the Ampere architecture, such as DLSS and Ray Tracing. This GPU was already present on laptops alongside its slightly more powerful counterpart, the RTX 3050 Ti, but was still absent from the desktop market as a card. stand alone. We don’t know how many CUDA cores are present in the GPU, but it has a shader performance of 9 TFLOPS, 18 TFLOPS for Ray Tracing and 73 TFLOPS as performance for Tensor cores. This video card instead has a price and a release date: is expected to be available starting January 27, 2020, at a suggested retail price of $ 249. Considering that in the past video cards belonging to this market segment regularly cost between 100 and 150 euros, we can only take note of a general price inflation that has unfortunately not gone hand in hand with technological evolution, but has been marred by the commodity crisis, absolute domination of the scalpers in the secondary market, and the explosion of cryptocurrencies and “home-made” mining. Also with regards to availability, we will actually have to see how much stock will arrive at retailers, and how much will end up on eBay in no time at a doubled price.
Source: NVIDIA Street PC Gamer
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