Nvidia's New WORST RTX Graphics Card?

Nvidia has been at it again trying to bait some noobs.

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[First-Name_Last-Name]

Wished Nvidia released a RTX 3030 just so I can call it the RTX Tiddy Tiddy

[snakeplissken]

They should just release a rtx 4090 2gb that runs on 32bits memory bandwith and has 1000 cuda cores.
Why not scam the consumer base properly if you want to scam them anyways?

One a sidenote all of this makes you appreciate even more why EVGA dropped their gpu lineup and broke ties with nvidia. They would be forced to participate in all this sh*tfest.

[Dizzykitty]

Recent Computer Science graduate here. Please take any, "learn to code, " services with a grain of salt. The job market is absolutely abysmal for us since tech has been laying off hundreds of thousands of people. If you want to learn to code for "funsies" or if it would supplement your current career, go for it. If you are thinking about finding full time employment once you learn to code, consider nursing instead.

Sorry for this PSA. It just really bugs me with how many companies are still selling the programming shovels when you can still hear the screams of us trapped in the recently collapsed programming goldmine.

[Sgt_SealCluber]

I see Nvidia still hasn't learned from their "unlaunched" 4080 12GB that a completely different core count die should be a different name.

[AnnaDoes]

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[alanaeichsteadt]

They did the same thing with the 3060, crazy thing is they could’ve just called it a 3050 ti which they already have naming precedence for

[frommatorav]

Nvidia realized that 8GB GDDR was sufficient for a lower end graphics card and decided they can't have that... so they gimped it like the rest of their lineup that isn't a RTX4090.

[Natepwnsu]

It should be illegal to sell a product at a certain tier of memory or whatever have you then, relaunch the product in the shadows with far less memory without adjusting anything but a -# at the end of the skew. It's an intentional deception.

[awalay-wznh]

Fun fact, newer gaming laptops with rtx 3050 actually also use this 6gb variant, and is much better than the pitiful 4gb version with 2048 cores. So moving to the same gpu laptops got a good upgrade while desktop diy suffered, but i guess its also the best no-external-power-cable needed gpu

[WhittyWhitts]

For the 50 series, you'll have to pay $500 for an RTX 5020 wirh 4GB of VRAM.

[fujinshu]

This is great as low-profile or single-slot cards that run off PCIe power alone, but the marketing is absolutely criminal.

[lordwafflesthegreat]

At half the power usage, it actually seems like a good low end/ small form factor card.
However, the price needs to be well below 200€.
And, of course, just call it a 3040. ffs Nvidia, just say you made a really efficient low end card and be proud of it.
I'd personaly love such a low power RTX card in a media centre PC.

[Folsomdsf]

FYI, the rtx 2050 is also a GA 107. The 3050 8gb also has a 'speical binned' ga107 variant that was asked for by SI's. The 3050 6gb is pretty much just a reject part of THAT and does indeed have more in common with the dumpster fire of the 2050/3050 laptop cards... which yes.. are all GA107..

Oh and XESS crapped out because of Nvidia's poor drivers when it deals with memory handling.

[Sgt_SealCluber]

Yeah 1080p on a 1440p panel can look quite bad. For those that are wondering it's because the pixel scaling is funky, unlike 1080p on a 4k panel which is a nice even and square 4x pixel count.

So 4 pixels turn into 1.

[brando]

NVIDIA needs to be sued for this nonsense, this is some criminal ish.

[your_average_cultured_dude]

it should be illegal for a company to release a product, and then in the future release a worse product with the same name.

[ReimuReimu_Animation]

ngl i'd actually searched the: "how much vram does rtx 2050 have bro?"

[lawfulsoup]

RTX 3050 is officially the replacement 1060 3GB.

[burrfoottopknot]

Thanks for having the backbone to call out Nvidia for this

[lemagreengreen]

The only 3050 6GB's that have any right to exist are the low profile ones. Even then Nvidia should have just released a 75W power limited version of the 3050 8GB for low profile cards (3040 would be a good model number for such a product).

Full size ones? why? 3050 8GB in full size is already cheap and entry level enough.