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Title: Asus Launches Low-Profile GeForce RTX 3050 6GB: A Tiny Graphics Card
for All PCs

Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 09:00:00 EDT
Link: https://www.anandtech.com/show/21303/asus-lau...

Asus this week has become the latest PC video card manufacturer to announce a
sub-75W video card based on NVIDIA's recently-released low-power GeForce RTX
3050 6GB design. And going one step further for small form factor PC owners,
Asus has used NVIDIA's low-power GPU configuration to produce a half-height
video card that can fit into low-profile systems.

As Asus puts it, the GeForce RTX 3050 LP BRK 6GB GDDR6 is a 'big productivity
in a small package' and for a low-profile dual-slot graphics board, it indeed
is. The unit has three display outputs, including a DVI-D, HDMI 2.1, and
DisplayPort 1.4a with HDCP 2.3 support, which makes the graphics card s
viable option both for a a dual-display desktop and a home theater PC
(Nvidia's GA107 graphics processor supports all popular codecs except AV1).
Furthermore, a DVI-D output enables the card to drive outdated displays,
which even over half a decade after DVI-D was retired, still hang around as
spare parts. Meanwhile, because the card only consumes around 70W, it does
not require any auxiliary PCIe power connectors, which are at times not
available in cheap systems from big PC makers.

Underlying this card is the aforementioned GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB, which uses
the GA107 GPU with 2304 CUDA cores, and it comes with 6GB of GDDR6 memory
connected to a narrower 96-bit memory bus (down from 128-bits for the full
8GB version. With a lower boost clock of 1470 MHz (1500 MHz in OC mode), the
RTX 3050 6GB has reduced computing performance, delivering 6.77 FP32 TFLOPS
versus 9.1 FP32 TFLOPS of the full-fledged RTX 3050.

As a result, the low-profile GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB is very much an entry-
level card, though the low power requirements for such a card are also what
make it special. This should be plenty for low-end gaming - beating out
integrated GPUs - though suffice it to say, it's not going to compete with
high-end, power-hungry cards either.

With its diminutive size, the Asus GeForce RTX 3050 LP BRK 6 GB GDDR6 looks
to be a nice candidate for upgrading cheap systems from OEMs as well as
fixing outdated PCs. What remains to be seen is how price competitive it is
going to be. The graphics board already has one low-profile rival from MSI -
which costs $185 - so Asus is not the only vendor competing here.

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