Nvidia debuts the GeForce RTX 3050 and RTX 3090 Ti at CES 2022
Today at CES 2022, Nvidia unveiled the GeForce RTX 3050 GPU, expanding its line of Ampere architecture-based GPUs.
This entry-level GeForce RTX GPU is designed for 1080p gamers and comes with 8GB of GDDR6X memory and 2560 CUDA cores. The GPU also boasts 9 Shader cores, 18 RT cores and 73 Tensor cores.
This new GPU offers gamers the chance to play the latest AAA games such as Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy and Doom Eternal at 60fps, something that older GPUs such as the GTX 1650 and the GTX 1050 Ti would struggle to do.
Pricing starts at $249, though with the recent GPU shortages there’s a chance that it could retail for a little more than that. The GeForce RTX 3050 GPU will hit shelves in just a few weeks’ time, on 27 January 2022, a little over a week after AMD’s competingRX 6500 XT.
To get your hands on the GPU, head on over to theNvidia Partner websiteto find one local to you.
Alongside this, Nvidia also unveiled the highly-rumouredRTX 3090 TiBF GPU. This will come with 40 Shader cores, 78 RT cores, 320 Tensor cores and 24GB of 21GB/s G6X memory, the fastest ever seen from Nvidia.
The company will host another live stream next month dedicated entirely to the TX 3090 Ti BF GPU.
Nvidia also revealed a list of 10 new RTX games, with support for GPU-accelerated ray tracing and/or NVIDIA DLSS gaming technologies. These new features will provide more realistic graphics for gamers, immersing players even further.
Here’s what games now support these features:
Nvidia also announced the newRTX 3070 Ti & RTX 3080 Ti GPUsfor its range of laptops, and they weren’t the only company to announce new GPU news at CES. AMD also revealed the laptop-focusedRadeon RX 6000S and 6000M GPUs.
If you’d like to know more about what this hardware does, you can read up on ourGPU explainer.
Author: Hannah Cowton-Barnes, Entertainment Editor, Tech Advisor
As Tech Advisor’s Entertainment Editor, Hannah is the resident expert in all things streaming, film and TV. Before joining Tech Advisor in 2019, she studied Theatre and Performance at the University of Leeds and created a website dedicated to geek culture and lifestyle. She’s also reviewed a whole range of gadgets including flagship smartphones, wearables and styling tools. Outside of Foundry, she’s written freelance pieces for Polygon, Metro and Den of Geek, and is proud to be a Women Techmakers Ambassador for Google.
