Nvidia is reportedly readying a new version of an RTX 30-series graphics card, and the chip inside it is quite unexpected.
This is certainly unexpected. Hints of an upcoming Nvidia graphics card showed up in the PCI-ID database, and it’s definitely not what you think. Instead of working on the RTX 50-series or refreshing a 40-series GPU, Nvidia is bringing back the slowest RTX 30-series card — the RTX 3050 — but with an Ada Lovelace chip. In theory, that could make this the first RTX 30-series GPU to have access to Deep Learning Super Sampling 3 .
Recommended Videos We’re most likely dealing with a cut-down version of the AD106 GPU, which has a maximum of 4,608 CUDA cores. It’s not odd for Nvidia to be using cut-down versions of this chip for another GPU, but seeing it show up in the RTX 3050 is pretty strange. The RTX 3050 appears in several versions, but the mobile card has a mere 2,048 CUDA cores. That’s quite a leap.
DLSS 3 provides a significant improvement over DLSS 2, so it’s no wonder that Nvidia locked it to the RTX 40-series. For many, DLSS 3 provided an incentive to upgrade, and it was much-needed, as some RTX 40-series cards barely moved the needle when compared to their predecessors. It’s not just a fancy on Nvidia’s part, though.
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