On January 15, 2022, in Japan, a batch of GeForce RTX 3050 was sold out in a few hours at a price of 50,138 yen (34 thousand rubles or $440) from the local manufacturer Galakuro from the Gaming series. It was the first sale of a new card in the world. Nvidia scheduled the start of global sales of the GeForce RTX 3050 on January 27 at a recommended price of $250 (24,900 rubles in Russia).
The seller posted an unknown number of video cards for sale on the Japanese platform Amazon. This sale page is currently unavailable.
For 34 thousand rubles, buyers were able to buy a standard version of the video card without overclocking or additional frills, with one fan, aluminum radiator and heat pipes - Galakuro Gaming GG-RTX3050-E8GB / SF with 8 GB of video memory. Judging by the photo, the card does not have a heat-distributing plate on the back side. The card has one 8-pin connector for connecting the power supply.
The dual-slot GeForce RTX 3050 graphics card is based on the GA106-150 video chip with 2560 CUDA cores. The adapter has 80 tensor cores and 20 RT cores on board. The operating frequency of the GPU in base and game mode is 1550 MHz and 1780 MHz, respectively. The width of the video memory bus is 128 bits. The GeForce RTX 3050 video card has four external ports - one HDMI (2.1) and 3 pcs. DisplayPort (1.4a). The power consumption of the video card is 130 watts.
On January 4 at CES 2022, Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 3050 budget gaming graphics card with 8GB of GDDR6 VRAM. The company explained that the new Ampere graphics adapter will be available on the market from January 27 at a suggested retail price in Russia of 24.9 thousand rubles.
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