A brand new Nvidia GPU leak hints at there being a brand new model of the laptop computer RTX 3050 incoming that makes use of a brand new Ada Lovelace (RTX 40 sequence) GPU as an alternative of the older Ampere GPU within the present model. If true, it might imply a significant improve in efficiency and doubtlessly would mark the primary time a non-RTX 4000 branded Nvidia GPU will get entry to the most recent Nvidia options, equivalent to DLSS 3.
Complicating is that there’s a desktop model of the RTX 3050 and a laptop computer RTX 4050 however there isn’t but a desktop RTX 4050. Such a card would most likely battle to discover a place on our greatest graphics card information however it may make Nvidia‘s low-end graphics card stack a bit extra interesting.
The brand new leak, then, comes instantly from an Nvidia driver launch, with references being noticed within the driver information to an “RTX 3050 A”, which the PCI ID database claims refers to a brand new model of the RTX 3050. The positioning features a put up that claims merely “AD106M [GeForce RTX 3050 A Laptop GPU]… 3050 is not any typo.”
There are a couple of key particulars right here. The primary is the A on the finish of the RTX 3050 title in Nvidia’s driver (as pictured – picture courtesy Videocardz), which is believed to check with the Ada structure. This alone suggests there’s a brand new model of the RTX 3050 that makes use of an Ada structure GPU. In the meantime, the put up on PCI ID explicitly claims that new GPU is the AD106M, the place the M refers to it being a cell chip, quite than desktop.
What’s actually complicated right here is that the present RTX 3050 desktop card makes use of the GA106 GPU, which relies on the previous-gen Ampere structure and options 2,560 CUDA cores. In the meantime, the RTX 3050 laptop computer model makes use of the smaller GA107 GPU, although it nonetheless homes as much as 2,560 CUDA cores. Nevertheless, whereas there’s at present no desktop RTX 4050, there’s a cell RTX 4050 that makes use of the AD107 GPU that once more homes 2,560 CUDA cores.
All of which implies that we might naturally anticipate any RTX 3050 A to make use of at most the AD107 GPU with even perhaps fewer cores/options enabled than the RTX 4050. As a substitute, the leak suggests it’s going to use the bigger AD106 GPU that additionally powers the RTX 4060 desktop card (3,072 CUDA cores) and RTX 4070 cell chips (4,608 CUDA cores).
So, going by the chip title facet of this leak, it could counsel there’s a extra highly effective laptop computer graphics card within the works, however going by the RTX 3050 A graphics board title, it could make sense that the brand new chip is slower and fewer succesful than the RTX 4050.
Regardless of the case, it’s going to most likely be a while earlier than you possibly can decide up a laptop computer that includes this thriller new GPU, so within the meantime you may as properly have a gander at our present greatest gaming laptop computer suggestions as they’ll keep the very best for some time but.
