Last week we were able to attend an online event dedicated to the presentation of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 Mobile, and today we can finally share all the information with you. Both graphics cards position within what we can consider as the mid-range in the GeForce RTX 30 Mobile series, they are designed to offer good performance in games working with 1080p resolution, and they integrate seamlessly into the NVIDIA Studio ecosystem, which means They also offer very strong value in professional settings. You can also read about NVIDIA RTX 3060 in our previous article.
I think NVIDIA has played its cards very well in this regard. The arrival of the Studio Drivers, and the excellent support that the company has given to its GeForce RTX series 20 and series 30 in the main professional applications that exist today, and the use of its acceleration capabilities of ray tracing and technologies such as DLSS, has made them a very solid option for those users who want to unify work and leisure in a single team.
The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 Mobile are based on the Ampere architecture and are manufactured in Samsung’s 8nm process. This means that they maintain the specialized core division that NVIDIA adopted with Turing, and the qualitative and quantitative leap that marked the arrival of Ampere. Both have a GPU divided into three main sections: shaders, RT cores (ray tracing) and tensor cores ( second generation AI and DLSS ).
With the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 Mobile there is a huge leap in the mid-range
And not only in raw performance, but also in terms of efficiency and support of advanced technologies. Compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti and GTX 1050 Mobile, their direct predecessors, since NVIDIA did not launch a GeForce RTX 2050 series, the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 Mobile offer up to twice the performance, and have specialized hardware for acceleration of ray tracing and artificial intelligence, which represents significant added value.
With the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 Mobile, hardware-accelerated ray tracing reaches the budget mid-range . We can enjoy it in numerous games, such as Cyberpunk 2077, Control, Watch Dogs Legion, Resident Evil Viallge, among others, and we can activate second-generation DLSS technology to improve performance without having to give up excellent image quality.
These new graphics solutions incorporate, in addition to the acceleration of ray tracing and the support of second generation DLSS, all the keys with which Ampere has marked one of the largest generational leaps in the history of the graphics sector:
- Second generation RT cores , capable of offering up to twice the performance compared to the previous generation.
- Third generation tensioner cores , which multiply the performance of the previous generation by up to five.
- Dynamic Boost 2.0 : This technology uses artificial intelligence to analyze, frame by frame, the real needs of the computer at the level of CPU, GPU and graphics memory, and adjusts the working frequencies and the use of resources in the best possible way.
- WhisperMode 2.0: it is a technology that in custom algorithms for each laptop in particular that allow us to choose the acoustics we want, that is, the noise level that we are willing to accept. The system will monitor the workload and temperatures of the CPU and GPU, and intelligently manage the fan speeds to achieve the best possible performance while staying within that noise level that we have selected.
- Resizable BAR : allows the CPU to access all the graphics memory of the GPU, which means that all the stored data used for elements as important as textures, shaders and geometry will be at your fingertips, and that you will be able to complete duty cycles in a much more efficient way.
- Battery Boost : adjusts system performance so that games run at a stable 30 FPS, without “stuttering” or “tearing” problems, fine-tuning battery consumption. In this way, a more efficient battery consumption is achieved, and its duration is extended.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Ti Mobile Specifications
- Graphic core GA107 at 8 nm.
- 2,560 shaders at 1,035 MHz-1,695 MHz, normal and turbo mode.
- 80 texturing units.
- 48 raster units.
- 80 tensor cores.
- 20 RT cores.
- 128-bit bus.
- 4 GB of GDDR6 at 12 GHz.
- TDP from 35 to 80 watts.
GeForce RTX 3050 Mobile Specifications
- Graphic core GA107 at 8 nm.
- 2,048 shaders at 1,057 MHz-1,740 MHz, normal and turbo mode.
- 64 texturing units.
- 40 raster units.
- 64 tensor cores.
- 16 RT cores.
- 128-bit bus.
- 4 GB of GDDR6 at 12 GHz.
- TDP from 35 to 80 watts.
Final Notes: Ray Tracing for the Masses
NVIDIA has confirmed to us that the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 Mobile will be available in laptops with a starting price of $799, a fairly inexpensive figure considering the value offered by these new graphics solutions.
Although both are oriented to gaming in 1080p, I am clear that, thanks to DLSS 2.0, they will be able to move games in 1440p activating this technology without any problem, an important detail that we must keep in mind, since it gives them a very marked differential value.
With the GeForce RTX 3050 Ti and RTX 3050 Mobile NVIDIA has taken another step in the right direction, once again proving that specialized ray tracing and artificial intelligence hardware was a winning bet.
I am convinced that more than one of our readers will be wondering if we will see versions of both graphics cards for desktop computers, that is, for PC. It is not officially confirmed, but I think it most likely is, since we are facing two models that mark a very important renewal within one of the most popular ranges for players globally. At the moment we can only wait to see what happens, but we will keep you informed, as always.