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The RTX 4050 is rumored to be based on a highly cut down version of the 5nm "AD107" silicon, similar to the RTX 4060. It may have a narrower 96-bit GDDR6 memory interface and 6 GB of GDDR6 memory, which is 25% less than the current-generation RTX 3050. However, the RTX 4050 may still perform better than its predecessor due to its smaller memory. The RTX 3050 desktop SKU was delayed for almost a year, and the current rumor suggests a 4-month gap between desktop and laptop Ada entry-level graphics cards. The RTX 4050 desktop may share the GPU specs with the laptop variant, featuring 2560 CUDA cores and 6GB memory. This is a downgrade from the RTX 3050's 8GB memory configuration.
NVIDIA is also rumored to launch three or four GPUs soon, including the RTX 4070 non-Ti in April, followed by the RTX 4060 Ti in May. While there are conflicting reports about the launch of the RTX 4060 (Ti and non-Ti), the RTX 4050's launch date is now confirmed.
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#6117021 Posted on: 03/30/2023 09:16 AM
Let's see what the price is. Probably will be laughable but remains a huge factor.
Contrary to the majority, I'm far from panicking about vram,12g will be plenty for 4070. But taking 2g away gen to gen is just sad. Thing is, if 6500xt's successor doesn't double the 4GB they put on it, low-specs gamers are f***ed either way, might as well buy the arc750 for cheap, they ain't that bad and at least drivers you can improve, can't do that to technical specs.
Even worse, both 4060 and 4060ti are supposed to have 8G, while at least the ti should have 10G. No actual progress made if 4060Ti beats 3070 but vram has you limited to 2560x1440. Not asking a 4060ti to be 4K ready under 500usd, but 10GB would be at least fine for 3440x1440. 3060Ti was perfect for 2560x1440, make some effort nvidia. The progress they're making they're using mainly to make profit, not advance the industry. High end gets better and better while entry level is just getting more and more pointless. They really do wanna make gpus a luxury item. Screw them both, I will be buying used from now on.
Perhaps, but in this gen 3050 competes with 6600, not 6500 which is about half the price. a770 recently has been quite cheap too at similar price point to both 3050 and 6600 series.
Let's see what the price is. Probably will be laughable but remains a huge factor.
Contrary to the majority, I'm far from panicking about vram,12g will be plenty for 4070. But taking 2g away gen to gen is just sad. Thing is, if 6500xt's successor doesn't double the 4GB they put on it, low-specs gamers are f***ed either way, might as well buy the arc750 for cheap, they ain't that bad and at least drivers you can improve, can't do that to technical specs.
Even worse, both 4060 and 4060ti are supposed to have 8G, while at least the ti should have 10G. No actual progress made if 4060Ti beats 3070 but vram has you limited to 2560x1440. Not asking a 4060ti to be 4K ready under 500usd, but 10GB would be at least fine for 3440x1440. 3060Ti was perfect for 2560x1440, make some effort nvidia. The progress they're making they're using mainly to make profit, not advance the industry. High end gets better and better while entry level is just getting more and more pointless. They really do wanna make gpus a luxury item. Screw them both, I will be buying used from now on.
Perhaps, but in this gen 3050 competes with 6600, not 6500 which is about half the price. a770 recently has been quite cheap too at similar price point to both 3050 and 6600 series.
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#6117028 Posted on: 03/30/2023 09:39 AM
Contrary to the majority, I'm far from panicking about vram,12g will be plenty for 4070. But taking 2g away gen to gen is just sad. Thing is, if 6500xt's successor doesn't double the 4GB they put on it, low-specs gamers are f***ed either way, might as well buy the arc750 for cheap, they ain't that bad and at least drivers you can improve, can't do that to technical specs.
Even worse, both 4060 and 4060ti are supposed to have 8G, while at least the ti should have 10G. No actual progress made if 4060Ti beats 3070 but vram has you limited to 2560x1440. Not asking a 4060ti to be 4K ready under 500usd, but 10GB would be at least fine for 3440x1440. 3060Ti was perfect for 2560x1440, make some effort nvidia. The progress they're making they're using mainly to make profit, not advance the industry. High end gets better and better while entry level is just getting more and more pointless. They really do wanna make gpus a luxury item. Screw them both, I will be buying used from now on.
It's 100% clear now that the VRAM decisions are today made solely based on the principle of minimising the number of memory chips and thus narrowing the memory bus width. Even reducing the memory capacity seems to be okay if it's needed to reach the goal of a tiny bus and a few lonely memory chips. The huge cache technique is a real golden egg for the manufacturers.
TSMC has raised its prices somewhat during the last couple of years, but I reckon Nvidia, and probably AMD as well, raised their own far more, also by valuing their GPUs internally higher as well (if you want to artificially create some kind of price structure for the cards sold directly by Nvidia and AMD in select countries), so the AIB partners must be paying a huge amount of money for the GPU chip itself, leaving a minuscule budget for everything else. So, despite memory being cheaper than ever, for the time being, it doesn't help them. In EVGA's statements regarding their withdrawal from the graphics card market, they suggested as much, though naturally EVGA would have tried to make itself look as good and innocent as possible.
Contrary to the majority, I'm far from panicking about vram,12g will be plenty for 4070. But taking 2g away gen to gen is just sad. Thing is, if 6500xt's successor doesn't double the 4GB they put on it, low-specs gamers are f***ed either way, might as well buy the arc750 for cheap, they ain't that bad and at least drivers you can improve, can't do that to technical specs.
Even worse, both 4060 and 4060ti are supposed to have 8G, while at least the ti should have 10G. No actual progress made if 4060Ti beats 3070 but vram has you limited to 2560x1440. Not asking a 4060ti to be 4K ready under 500usd, but 10GB would be at least fine for 3440x1440. 3060Ti was perfect for 2560x1440, make some effort nvidia. The progress they're making they're using mainly to make profit, not advance the industry. High end gets better and better while entry level is just getting more and more pointless. They really do wanna make gpus a luxury item. Screw them both, I will be buying used from now on.
It's 100% clear now that the VRAM decisions are today made solely based on the principle of minimising the number of memory chips and thus narrowing the memory bus width. Even reducing the memory capacity seems to be okay if it's needed to reach the goal of a tiny bus and a few lonely memory chips. The huge cache technique is a real golden egg for the manufacturers.
TSMC has raised its prices somewhat during the last couple of years, but I reckon Nvidia, and probably AMD as well, raised their own far more, also by valuing their GPUs internally higher as well (if you want to artificially create some kind of price structure for the cards sold directly by Nvidia and AMD in select countries), so the AIB partners must be paying a huge amount of money for the GPU chip itself, leaving a minuscule budget for everything else. So, despite memory being cheaper than ever, for the time being, it doesn't help them. In EVGA's statements regarding their withdrawal from the graphics card market, they suggested as much, though naturally EVGA would have tried to make itself look as good and innocent as possible.
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#6117030 Posted on: 03/30/2023 09:48 AM
yup, tsmc has been the biggest beneficiary of the "shortage" of them all.
yup, tsmc has been the biggest beneficiary of the "shortage" of them all.
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#6117034 Posted on: 03/30/2023 10:00 AM
Let's see what the price is. Probably will be laughable but remains a huge factor.
Perhaps, but in this gen 3050 competes with 6600, not 6500 which is about half the price. a770 recently has been quite cheap too at similar price point to both 3050 and 6600 series.
True, 6600 is probably the best entry level card amd/nvidia released last gen. 6600xt and 3060 are 320eur and 300eur respectively, while 6600 is more like 260e.
Though arc750 is a true 8G 256-bit with 16X pcie in the same price range as 6600 and beats both 6600 and 3060.
https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Grafikkarten-Grafikkarte-97980/Specials/Rangliste-GPU-Grafikchip-Benchmark-1174201/
Let's see what the price is. Probably will be laughable but remains a huge factor.
Perhaps, but in this gen 3050 competes with 6600, not 6500 which is about half the price. a770 recently has been quite cheap too at similar price point to both 3050 and 6600 series.
True, 6600 is probably the best entry level card amd/nvidia released last gen. 6600xt and 3060 are 320eur and 300eur respectively, while 6600 is more like 260e.
Though arc750 is a true 8G 256-bit with 16X pcie in the same price range as 6600 and beats both 6600 and 3060.
https://www.pcgameshardware.de/Grafikkarten-Grafikkarte-97980/Specials/Rangliste-GPU-Grafikchip-Benchmark-1174201/
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Contrary to the majority, I'm far from panicking about vram,12g will be plenty for 4070. But taking 2g away gen to gen is just sad. Thing is, if 6500xt's successor doesn't double the 4GB they put on it, low-specs gamers are f***ed either way, might as well buy the arc750 for cheap, they ain't that bad and at least drivers you can improve, can't do that to technical specs.
Even worse, both 4060 and 4060ti are supposed to have 8G, while at least the ti should have 10G. No actual progress made if 4060Ti beats 3070 but vram has you limited to 2560x1440. Not asking a 4060ti to be 4K ready under 500usd, but 10GB would be at least fine for 3440x1440. 3060Ti was perfect for 2560x1440, make some effort nvidia. The progress they're making they're using mainly to make profit, not advance the industry. High end gets better and better while entry level is just getting more and more pointless. They really do wanna make gpus a luxury item. Screw them both, I will be buying used from now on.