

NVIDIA has paired 2,048 MB GDDR5 memory with the GeForce GTX 1050, which are connected using a 128-bit memory interface. It features 640 shading units, 40 texture mapping units, and 32 ROPs. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce GTX 1050 Ti, which uses the same GPU but has all 768 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce GTX 1050 to reach the product's target shader count. The GP107 graphics processor is an average sized chip with a die area of 132 mm² and 3,300 million transistors. This ensures that all modern games will run on GeForce GTX 1050. Built on the 14 nm process, and based on the GP107 graphics processor, in its GP107-300-A1 variant, the card supports DirectX 12. used by AMD and also for the professional GA100 Ampere chip).The GeForce GTX 1050 was a mid-range graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on October 25th, 2016. The GA107 chip is manufactured by Samsung in 8nm (8N), which is not quite able to keep up with the 7nm node at TSMC (e.g.

The Ampere chips also include an improved 5th generation video encoder (NVENC for H.264 and H.265) and a 7th generation decoder (for various formats now including AV1). The raytracing and tensor cores on the chip were also improved according to Nvidia. With Turing all shaders could still execute FP32 or INT32 instructions. The RTX 3050 however maybe won't use all ALUs on the chip. The GA107 chip offers 3,072 FP32 ALUs of which half can also execute INT32 instructions (i.e. The faster RTX 3050 Ti offers 25% more cores at similar clock speeds and TGP settings.

Beware, that the low TGP variants will offer a significantly lower performance. The performance is not sufficient to enable Raytracing in most games, but the Tensor cores can be used for DLSS in some games (and get performance boost with slight quality reduction).

Therefore, it is best suited for full HD gaming (1920 x 1080) with high detail settings in demanding games. The performance should be between the old GTX 1650 Ti and the 1660 Ti Max-Q depending on the used TGP variant. Preliminary clock rates TGP (Power Consumption) The memory bus is limited to 128 Bit and supports 4 GB of GDDR6 dedicated graphics memory.The clock speed depends on the TGP variant and can range from 713 - 1530 (base) and 1058 - 1740 (boost) for the TGP variants of 35 to 80 Watt (see table below). It offers 2048 CUDA, 16 Ray Tracing and 64 Tensor cores. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 Laptop GPU (mobile, NVIDIA_DEV.2583, GN20-P0) is the slowest RTX 3000 mobile card and based on the GA107 Ampere chip.
