A couple of days after Nvidia officially announced the GTX 1050 with 3B video memory (2GB on the previous model), Gigabyte unveils its first graphics card based on this variant, the GTX 1050 OC 3GB.
In addition to all these hardware upgrades, this graphics card offers a reduction in memory bandwidth, sacrificing a quarter of the bus to provide users with the much desired 3GB of VRAM.
Nvidia has decided to use a denser GDDR5 memory with twice the capacity per chip than existing GTX 1050 graphics cards, which has forced them to reduce performance by capturing the memory bus to 96 bits, in this case, not to harm the GTX 1050 Ti.
Nvidia’s 2GB GTX 1050 is in a strange place in the graphics card market, offering consumers a lot of advantages while offering some notable drawbacks. We are entering an era where 2GB of VRAM is becoming too scarce even for low-end graphics cards in modern games, so the release of this new model with more memory doesn’t come as a surprise.
While this increase in the amount of video memory in the GTX 1050 OC 3GB is welcome, it also comes with a 25% reduction in bandwidth, which could harm it under certain scenarios.
For the time being, we do not know what its price and launch date will be.