Nvidia RTX 3050 8GB and Intel Arc A380 GPUs have new leaked details
02/12/2021
By kenyan
New leaks released this week have brought more details on the Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 desktop GPUs and Intel Arc A380, entry-level gamer solutions from Nvidia and Intel. While the former may have been upgraded before launch to become more competitive, the latter had the supposed performance level boosted, as well as a possible final name revealed.
- Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 should ship with 8GB of RAM
The first information, released by leaker kopite7kimi, are related to the debut of Nvidia’s RTX 3050 on desktops. Apparently, the solution has been turbocharged to become more competitive in the face of advances by AMD and Intel itself in the entry-level segment. The first change would be in the chip used by the company.
Instead of the GA107 GPU, which equips the variant of the board for notebooks, the novelty would bring a new version of the GA106, present in the RTX 3060, more specifically the GA106-150-Kx-A1. Previous rumors already indicated that the component would bring 3,072 CUDA cores, a significant 20% increase over the 2,560 cores on the RTX 3050 Ti mobile, or a 15% reduction compared to the 3,584 cores on the RTX 3060, placing it exactly between the two.
Also new would be the VRAM capacity — the card would no longer have 6GB or 12GB variants in favor of a single 8GB GDDR6 memory model, setting up a notable gain compared to limited, previous generation Nvidia input GPUs to 4 GB. This aspect would also make the RTX 3050 more attractive and better prepared for the future, considering that modern games demand more and more memory.
- Intel Arc A380 can bring SUPER 1650 GTX performance
Parallel to this, the leaker TUM_APISAK released new details of Intel’s entry-level gamer card, including the possible final name. According to information, Intel Arc A380, as the GPU should be called, would reach clocks of 2.45 GHz, high for a basic solution, and would bring 6 GB of VRAM, a reasonable amount to guarantee good longevity today.
This combination should enable the A380 to deliver performance similar to the GeForce GTX 1650 SUPER, Nvidia’s current entry-level GPU on desktops. Although not thrilling at first, it’s important to remember that Intel’s component will benefit from having dedicated hardware for Ray Tracing and AI upscaling through Intel XeSS, a direct rival to DLSS.
It is also worth noting that this is not the first time that this performance range has been mentioned for the incoming Arc GPU — the channel Moore’s Law is Dead, which has shown accuracy in leaks, had already indicated this possibility, and pointed to the same clocks and memory capacity suggested by TUM_APISAK.
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