Here within the fantastic world of Graphics Card Rumour Town, the native buzz tends to revolve round legendary merchandise that by no means really see the sunshine of day – like the present alleged specs for the so-called Nvidia Turing GTX 1180, the next-gen graphics card from Team Green that appears an terrible lot like somebody’s simply made a number of typos with the GTX 1080Ti’s specs and known as it ‘insider information’.
But the newest gossip on this hallowed land hasn’t obtained something to do with next-gen playing cards or something prefer it. For in keeping with Chinese web site Expreview (as translated by VideoCardz), apparently the following graphics card that shall be bolting from Nvidia’s steady is… a 3GB GTX 1050?
It’s an odd factor to be engaged on, to say the least. Admittedly, one of many key issues with the common Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 is its 2GB of GDDR5 reminiscence. If you need to play video games at 1080p, 2GB is a bit on the stingy aspect, and doesn’t precisely go away you well-equipped to take care of extra demanding video games sooner or later.
That’s largely why the 4GB Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050Ti has develop into the de facto best graphics card for 1080p gaming – though the truth that it’s additionally one of many solely present graphics playing cards you may at present purchase with out spending an unholy amount of cash (though that too is beginning to change with graphics card prices more and more getting less and less eye-wateringly costly) definitely helps.
A 3GB GTX 1050 does form of make a little bit of sense, then, providing a pleasant half-way home between the 2 playing cards. After all, the following card up within the sequence, the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060, is break up into 3GB and 6GB fashions, so it’s not fully remarkable for Nvidia to do such a factor.
I simply can’t consider anybody’s really going to purchase it, although. Admittedly, VideoCardz speculates that the 3GB GTX 1050 might find yourself being unique to China, as they’re additionally getting a particular 5GB model of the GTX 1060 as nicely. If it does find yourself getting a worldwide launch, although, the factor I can’t work out is how a lot it’s going to price.
Consider this. A GTX 1050Ti will nonetheless set you again someplace between £150 and £210 in right now’s cash, whereas the most cost effective GTX 1050 at present prices between £120 and £155. Is there actually any area between these two worth brackets for one other card? Surely the GTX 1050Ti goes to be the higher purchase in virtually each circumstance? I imply, it’s already a greater purchase than the GTX 1050, and I don’t see that altering even with the introduction of a brand new card in the marketplace – particularly because the hearsay mill additionally appears to be stating that there’s a risk of Nvidia downgrading the 3GB GTX 1050’s reminiscence bus width from 128-bit to 96-bit.
For now, I’m submitting this one beneath ‘Let’s wait and see’, as we’ll little question hear extra about it (if it does certainly exist) at this yr’s Computex bonanza in Taiwan, which is because of happen in early June.
