Palit Releases Fanless Version of NVIDIA’s New GeForce RTX 3050 6GB

NVIDIA presently is quietly launching a model new entry-level graphics card for the retail market, the GeForce RTX 3050 6GB. Based totally on a cut-down mannequin of their worth vary Ampere-architecture GA107 GPU, the model new card brings what was beforehand an OEM-only product to the retail market. Along with together with one different half to NVIDIA’s deep product stack, the launch of the RTX 3050 6GB moreover comes with one different perk: lower power consumption on account of this half specializing in system installs the place an exterior PCIe power connector wouldn’t be wished. NVIDIA’s companions, in flip, haven’t wasted any time in making the most of this, and presently Palit is releasing its first fanless KalmX board in years: the GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB.

The GeForce RTX 3050 6GB depends on the GA107 graphics processor with 2304 CUDA cores, which is paired with 6GB of GDDR6 related to a petite 96-bit memory bus (versus 128-bit for the overall RTX 3050 8GB). Coupled with a elevate clock rating of merely 1470 MHz, the RTX 3050 6GB delivers tangibly lower compute effectivity than the fully-fledged RTX 3050 — 6.77 FP32 TFLOPS vs 9.1 FP32 TFLOPS — nonetheless these compromises provide an indisputable profit: a 70W power purpose.

Palit is the first agency that takes advantage of this lowered power consumption of the GeForce RTX 3050 6 GB, as the company has launched a passively cooled graphics card primarily based totally on this half, the first in four years. The Palit GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB (NE63050018JE-1170H) makes use of a personalized printed circuit board (PCB) that not solely provides fashionable DisplayPort 1.4a and HDMI 2.1 outputs, nonetheless, as we nonetheless see in some entry-level taking part in playing cards, a dual-link DVI-D connector (a major for an Ampere-based graphics card).

The dual-slot passive cooling system with two heat pipes is definitely the precept selling degree of Palit’s GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB. The product is pretty large though — it measures 166.3×137×38.3 mm — and received’t match into tiny desktops. Nonetheless, given the reality that fanless strategies are sometimes not basically probably the most compact ones, this won’t be a significant limitation of the model new KalmX gadget.

One different advantage of Palit’s GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB notably and NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3050 6GB sometimes is that it might be powered solely by means of a PCIe slot, which eliminates the need for an auxiliary PCIe power connectors (which might be typically not present in low-cost strategies from giant OEMs).

Wccftech tales that NVIDIA’s GeForce RTX 3050 6GB graphics taking part in playing cards will carry a extremely helpful price tag of $169 and definitely these taking part in playing cards will be discovered for $170 – $180. This seems to be wish to be a reasonably aggressive value degree as a result of the product provides elevated compute effectivity than that of AMD’s Radeon RX 6400 ($125) and Radeon RX 6500 XT ($140). Within the meantime, it stays to be seen how rather a lot will Palit price for its uniquely positioned GeForce RTX 3050 KalmX 6GB.