For quite some time now, there has been talking about the arrival of a 3GB version of the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card, a model that is in a strange position in the GPU market.
In order to be able to include 3GB of VRAM memory capacity, Nvidia has had to reduce the memory bus of its GTX 1050 from 128-bit to 96-bit, which reduces the memory bandwidth of the graphics card by 25% compared to the standard GTX 1050. Strangely enough, this new variant of the GTX 1050 features a faster graphics core than the GTX 1050 Ti, with the same number of CUDA cores and higher clock frequencies.
GeForce GTX 1050 with 3GB is now official
These strange specifications make the GTX 1050 3G neither a GTX 1050 nor a GTX 1050 Ti since they have their own characteristics to create an extremely confusing product. It would have been interesting to use 8 Gbps GDDR5 memory to increase its memory bandwidth from 84 GB/s to 96 GB/s, which would still be less than the 112 GB/s offered by the standard GTX 1050, but would be a significant improvement.
Currently, 2GB of VRAM is too small even for low-end graphics cards, which is why Nvidia has decided to release this new version of the GeForce GTX 1050. Still, a 4GB version of the GTX 1050 would make much more sense, as this new model will add a lot of confusion to Nvidia’s Pascal GPU lineup. Placing 4 GB of memory would also have avoided having to reduce the memory interface, which would have improved performance.