Nvidia announces the geforce gtx 1050 with 3 gb

The arrival of a 3GB version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card has been rumored for quite some time, a model that is in a strange position in the GPU market.

The GeForce GTX 1050 with 3 GB is now official, all the details of the new and confusing card

In order to include 3 GB of VRAM memory capacity, Nvidia has had to reduce the memory bus of its GTX 1050 from 128 bits to 96 bits, which reduces the memory bandwidth of the graphics card by 25% compared with the standard GTX 1050. The strange thing is that this new variant of the GTX 1050 includes a faster graphics core than the GTX 1050 Ti, with the same number of CUDA cores and higher clock frequencies.

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These strange specifications mean that the GTX 1050 3G is neither a GTX 1050 nor a GT 1050 Ti, since it has its own characteristics to create an extremely confusing product. It would have been interesting to use 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory to increase its memory bandwidth from 84 GB / s to 96 GB / s, which would still be less than the 112 GB / s offered by the standard GTX 1050, but would be an important improvement.

Currently 2GB of VRAM is too small even for low-end graphics cards, that's why Nvidia has decided to launch this new version of the GeForce GTX 1050. Still, a 4GB version of the GTX 1050 would make a lot more sense, as this new model will add a lot of confusion to Nvidia's Pascal GPU line. Placing 4 GB of memory would also have avoided having to reduce the memory interface, so performance would have been better.

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