New leak by Igor suggests RTX 3050 will get a new GA107 variant with 115W TDP
https://www.igorslab.de/en/the-two-...50-8gb-different-chips-and-different-thirsts/
There is no release date yet but this new RTX 3050 GA107 model will offer slightly better power efficiency, with TDP changing from 130W (GA106) to 115W (GA107).
GA106 and GA107 GPUs are pin-compatible, meaning no design changes needs to be made by board partners, they can simply use a different processor and compatible BIOS.
So I guess those numbers after the model are very important.
TPU lists 3050 as having GA106-150-KA-A1 whereas 3060 has GA106-300-A1.
So this binning must all be done before final packaging as deciding on 192-bit or 128-bit and PCIe x8 or x16 has to be done before final packaging.
Igor thinks Samsung's 8nm still has poor yields even on these 276mm² parts; with Nvidia's volume it is no wonder that the 628mm² GA-102 has to many variants. GA102's shaders range from 10,752 down to 6400 (about 60%), so they don't have to waste much.
In other enws, Mining software is now finding more ways around the enw LHR locks - cars now at 16 mhash and climbing
I wouldn't worry about that, as no
sane person would spend £300 to get a card which mining ETH before power gets around $0.65 per day and at $0.30 (probably below the UK average now) gets $0.22 (I have
assumed possible too optimistically that miners would be able to tune a 3050 to use 60W mining).
However as the thread "When do you think will come first to kill off Eth/GPU mining?" in the crypto sub forums shows,
sane and mining don't necessarily mix. I'm sure there were respondents (note the plural) who said they'd continue to mine even at a loss so they can speculate on the price going back up. Then why not just buy coins?!