Nvidia works on a geforce gtx 1050 with 3 gb of memory

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 is a graphics card with a fairly powerful core, although it has the limitation of mounting only 2 GB of video memory, something that ends up weighing down its benefits. Reports indicate that Nvidia is working on a new version with 3GB of graphics memory.

Nvidia could launch a GeForce GTX 1050 with 3 GB of memory

Giving the GeForce GTX 1050 1GB of extra memory would be an oxygen balloon in games where the current 2GB is a bottleneck, even at 1080p resolution. The problem comes with the card's 128-bit memory interface, which only allows you to mount memory configurations that are a multiple of 2 GB.

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To solve this problem, Nvidia would cut the memory interface to 96 bits, something that would allow the number of memory chips needed to reach 3 GB of memory to be placed. This reduction in the interface means losing bandwidth, although it is something that could be solved by putting faster memories. Unfortunately, Nvidia is unlikely to make up for shrinking the interface with faster memory, as this could get its performance too close to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, hurting its sales.

One possibility is that the new card only reaches the Chinese market, something that we have already seen on more than one occasion, so it would not be so strange that it finally ends up being like this. Nvidia itself has already released a trimmed GeForce GTX 1060 with 5GB of memory in China. For now we can only wait to see what finally happens.

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