NVIDIA right this moment is quietly launching a brand new entry-level graphics card for the retail market, the GeForce RTX 3050 6GB. Primarily based on a cut-down model of their price range Ampere-architecture GA107 GPU, the brand new card brings what was beforehand an OEM-only product to the retail market. Moreover including one other half to NVIDIA’s deep product stack, the launch of the RTX 3050 6GB additionally comes with one other perk: decrease energy consumption due to this half concentrating on system installs the place an exterior PCIe energy connector wouldn’t be wanted. NVIDIA’s companions, in flip, haven’t wasted any time in benefiting from this, and right this moment Palit is releasing its first fanless KalmX board in years: the GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB.
The GeForce RTX 3050 6GB is predicated on the GA107 graphics processor with 2304 CUDA cores, which is paired with 6GB of GDDR6 hooked up to a petite 96-bit reminiscence bus (versus 128-bit for the complete RTX 3050 8GB). Coupled with a lift clock ranking of simply 1470 MHz, the RTX 3050 6GB delivers tangibly decrease compute efficiency than the fully-fledged RTX 3050 — 6.77 FP32 TFLOPS vs 9.1 FP32 TFLOPS — however these compromises provide an indeniable benefit: a 70W energy goal.
Palit is the primary firm that takes benefit of this lowered energy consumption of the GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB, as the corporate has launched a passively cooled graphics card primarily based on this half, the primary in 4 years. The Palit GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB (NE63050018JE-1170H) makes use of a customized printed circuit board (PCB) that not solely gives fashionable DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.1 outputs, however, as we nonetheless see in some entry-level playing cards, a dual-link DVI-D connector (a primary for an Ampere-based graphics card).
The twin-slot passive cooling system with two warmth pipes is definitely the principle promoting level of Palit’s GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB. The product is fairly giant although — it measures 166.3×137×38.3 mm — and won’t match into tiny desktops. Nonetheless, given the truth that fanless methods are normally not essentially the most compact ones, this is probably not a big limitation of the brand new KalmX system.
One other benefit of Palit’s GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB particularly and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3050 6GB typically is that it may be powered completely through a PCIe slot, which eliminates the necessity for an auxiliary PCIe energy connectors (that are typically not current in low-cost methods from huge OEMs).
Wccftech experiences that NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3050 6GB graphics playing cards will carry a really useful price ticket of $169 and certainly these playing cards can be found for $170 – $180. This seems to be a fairly aggressive worth level because the product gives increased compute efficiency than that of AMD’s Radeon RX 6400 ($125) and Radeon RX 6500 XT ($140). In the meantime, it stays to be seen how a lot will Palit cost for its uniquely positioned GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB.
