It uses the same GP107 chip as the GTX 1050 Ti, but with only 640 instead of 768 shaders.

The Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 is an entry level graphics card for desktops based on the Pascal architecture. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 (Desktop) ► remove from comparison used by AMD and also for the professional GA100 Ampere chip). 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. 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). The performance is between the old 4GB RTX 3050 and the RTX 3050 Ti and therefore best suited for full HD gaming (1920 x 1080) in medium to high graphic settings.

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). The 6GB variant offers more CUDA cores (2,560, +25%) but a cut down memory bus to 96 Bit. The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 6GB Laptop GPU (mobile, GN20-P0-R, 2023 Refresh) is the refresh of the RTX 3050 4GB Laptop GPU (slowest RTX 3000 mobile card) and also based on the GA107 Ampere chip.

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