NVIDIA announces RTX 3050 desktop GPU, RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti laptop GPUs at CES 2022

The GeForce RTX 3050 desktop GPU, which is currently the most cheap in the GeForce RTX 30-series, has been revealed by Nvidia. The business also previewed the impending flagship GeForce RTX 3090 Ti and unveiled new high-performance GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and GeForce RTX 3070 Ti GPUs for gaming laptops. Additional new titles have been added to the GeForce Now cloud gaming platform, which will be available on more platforms, including 5G-enabled mobile devices. Manufacturers will unveil new displays and mouse that support Nvidia's Reflex ecosystem, as well as a new category of 1440p monitors with refresh rates up to 360Hz aimed for esports fans.

The timing of these announcements coincides with the start of the CES 2022 trade exhibition. Graphics cards based on the GeForce RTX 3050 will be available worldwide beginning January 27 for a starting price $249 in the USA . Nvidia will not release its own Founders Edition card, instead relying on custom designs from firms like Asus, Zotac, Gigabyte, MSI, Palit, and Inno3D. Actual street pricing are unknown at this time, however given the status of the retail GPU market, they are likely to be significantly inflated. The GeForce RTX 3050 GPU has the same Ampere architecture as its larger brothers, and it supports both RTX ray tracing and DLSS picture upscaling. It's meant to take the position of the GeForce RTX 1650, and it has 2560 CUDA cores that run at up to 1.78GHz. On a 128-bit bus, all cards will have 8GB of GDDR6 memory.