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Nvidia’s lineup of RTX 30-series graphics cards continues to grow. At the top, we have the fire-breathing RTX 3090, while at the bottom are the RTX 3050 and RTX 3050 Ti. These low-price GPUs aim to bring the joys of ray tracing to more affordable machines, which makes sense as time passes and a ray-tracing-capable GPU becomes de rigueur.

The GA107 Ampere chip in the 3050 Ti GPU uses 2,560 CUDA, 20 Ray Tracing (RT) and 80 Tensor cores. For comparison, the RTX 3060 uses 3,584 CUDA, 28 RT and 112 Tensor

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