These are strange (and very frustrating) times for anyone looking to buy a new video card, and it appears that Nvidia has decided to partially solve the problem by relaunching the GTX 1050 Ti – a Pascal-based video card that stopped selling two years ago behind.
Among supply problems due to the Covid-19 pandemic, TSMC, the semiconductor foundry that Nvidia uses for its GPUs, under increasing pressure from other customers, and cryptocurrencies once again on the rise – leading to many miners buying in mass the little stock of existing GPU is – it has become almost impossible to get the new graphics cards from the Ampere RTX 3000 series from Nvidia.
According to YouTuber TechYesCity, Nvidia is bringing the GTX 1050 Ti back to try to help things – at least in the lower end of the market.
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The new GTX 1050 Ti will apparently have the GP107 chip and will come with 4 GB of video memory. Obviously, it won’t help anyone looking for a high-end RTX 3080 or RTX 3090, but the idea is that it at least gives people looking for an affordable GPU something to go to – and it could mean that Nvidia can focus on get a cutting-edge product RTX 3000 GPUs in the hands of the players.
As the Videocardz website points out, Ethereum mining, one of the most popular cryptocurrencies, needs more than 4 GB of VRAM, which means that the GTX 1050 Ti must be left alone by the miners.
It looks like the GTX 1050 Ti cards are already reappearing on retailers’ websites and we may see more inventory soon.
Along with the news that Nvidia is bringing the RTX 2060 back, it looks like the company is trying to ease the pressure on its most affordable GPUs.
The company should launch Yet another RTX 3000 series GPU in a few weeks – the RTX 3060. When this GPU is released, we hope it will be quite difficult to achieve.