Nvidia reveals the entry-level RTX 3050 GPU

(Pocket-lint) - During Nvidia's peculiar address astatine CES 2022, the institution revealed a fig of antithetic things including teasing a caller flagship graphics paper successful the signifier of the RTX 3090 Ti. 

That caller high-end GPU is acceptable to connection an expected show boost of 10 per cent implicit and supra the existent RTX 3090. Thanks to 24GB of GDDR6X moving astatine 21Gbps and it's acceptable to connection 40 teraflops of GPU performance. Some sources person suggested that this caller flagship GPU could acceptable you backmost arsenic overmuch arsenic $2,000 though. 

If you're looking for thing much affordable, past you'll beryllium pleased to perceive that Nvidia besides released a caller fund graphics card. 

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The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 is simply a fund graphics paper designed to beryllium much affordable than the erstwhile entry-level - the RTX 3060. It includes second-generation RT cores arsenic good arsenic third-generation Tensor cores for DLSS and AI-enhanced graphics. Nvidia claims this is an affordable mode to get ray-traced games astatine implicit 60 FPS without breaking the bank. 

That's due to the fact that the RTX 3050 starts astatine conscionable $249/£239. Assuming you tin find 1 to acquisition of course. You'll beryllium capable to get 1 from Nvidia's partners starting from 27 January. 

Writing by Adrian Willings. Originally published connected 4 January 2022.