(Image: Nvidia) Sound player loading has generated the sound. Nvidia could announce new GPUs at CES, which we already know about, but according to a press release from Nvidia itself, the company plans to take the wraps off of many affordable mobile options, including the MX550, MX570 and the one that caught us by surprise, the RTX 2050. These GPUs are supposed to appear in laptops sometime in the spring of 2022 (Autumn 2022 for the southern hemisphere folks). We heard you asking an RTX 2050 rotary clock. No, this isn’t true. The RTX 2050 is no other, but a fully-functioning, aversion-based software. It’s the same GPU that will be slated to be available for the next two RTX 3050 cards. That chip hurts in the shape of a few bizarre products that wouldn’t otherwise get the light of the day. Normally, wed criticize Nvidia for renaming a three year old product and rereleasing it, but that’s not what Nvidia’s doing here. It’s basically doing the reverse, taking a newer generation Ampere GPU and slapping on the RTX 20 series branding. It’s quite oddly moving. Why Nvidia isn’t calling it the RTX 3040 is worrying. Playing PC: the best with the redesigned machine from the pros. Best games laptops: useful notebooks for mobile games. According to the anandtech specification, the RTX 2050 will feature 2048 cores and a boost clock up to 1477 MHz. The weak part is their memory configuration. A 4GB of 14 Gbps GDDR6 is definitely on the weak side of a 64-bit bus. This spec hints at the 2050 market based on a significantly cut-down version of the GA107 GPU. A given the fact that the 2050 trademarks RTX, users expect some kind of ray tracing performance, but even with DLSS, its ray tracing capability will likely be poor. At least the TDP is 30-45W. This implies that it won’t need an efficient cooling solution. When Spring rolls around, it can come with a future generation of integrated graphics which would be comparable to RTX 2050. Because of manufacturing agreements and the lack of marketing value of RTX branding, Intels 12th Gen mobile CPUs with Iris Xe graphics and AMDs Rembrandt APUs could turn up pretty average high-performing GPUs. Wait for the real world before judge to see how these products perform.
