New Nvidia RTX 3050 variant based on Ada architecture spotted

Nvidia has quietly unveiled a new entry-level graphics card for laptops last month. Named RTX 3050 (A), this mobile GPU deviates from the Ampere architecture of the previous RTX 3050 GPUs in favour of the Ada architecture. Although Nvidia has not officially confirmed the GPU name, leaks have revealed what we can expect from this supposedly upcoming GPU.

As seen by the Geekbench entry found by VideoCardz, the RTX 3050 (A) on the HP Victus gaming laptop packs 14 CUs (1792 CUDA cores) along with 4GB of GDDR6 memory and a 64-bit bus.

The entry shows that the RTX 3050 A scored an impressive 57,138 points in the OpenCL test, almost 7K more than the Ampere-based RTX 3050 laptop GPUs. In fact, the RTX 3050 A's performance nearly matches that of the RTX 3050 Ti Laptop GPU, which scores 57,748 points on average.

Despite its score matching that of the RTX 3050 Ti, we're unsure if its gaming performance will be as good as this benchmark result suggests. Besides the architectural differences, the far inferior memory configuration of the RTX 3050 (A) will likely limit it in specific cases.

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KitGuru says: These new Ampere-based RTX 3050s seem destined for laptops, but we'll keep an eye out for any news on a desktop version. 

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