NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti ships with 10752 CUDA cores and 24GB GDDR6X
memory. It is NVIDIA's first model to feature 21 Gbps 16Gb modules,
which is part is the reason why this card has a higher TDP of 450W,
over 100W more than the RTX 3090 model. It is also the first GPU to
utilize a 16-pin power connector, which will hopefully become a
standard that will replace standard 8-pin power connectors. The new
flagship GPU has a boost clock of 1860 MHz unlocking nearly 40 TFLOPs
of single-precision compute power, a compute performance not available
to any NVIDIA Ampere GPU yet. NVIDIA was not ready to share the specs
of this new card just yet, but promises to reveal more details later
this month. NVIDIA is also launching its entry-level
RTX 3050 GPU with 9 TFLOPS of single-precision
compute power. This model is based on GA106-150 GPU with 2560 CUDA
cores. It is equipped with 8GB GDDR6 memory across a 128-bit memory
bus. NVIDIA announced that RTX 3050 will become available on January
27th with a suggested retail price of 249 USD. As with the previous
entry level NVIDIA RTX 30-series card, the RTX 3050 does not come with
a Founder's Edition model and will have to be purchased with one of
NVIDIA's partners instead.While the RTX 3050 is set to become available
for purchase on January 27th, high demand and the ongoing semiconductor
shortages, are likely to make it extremely difficult to obtain one of
these graphics cards. While NVIDIA is touting the RTX 3050 has an MSRP
of $249 USD, given the high demand it may very well be even more
difficult to obtain the RTX 3050 at those prices.
