NVIDIA's budget GTX 1050 3GB is for gamers, not crypto-miners

[Joystiq]

Despite the looming arrival of its next-gen graphics cards, NVIDIA quietly

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a new budget model, the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. It's positioned between the regular

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, with a faster base clock but lower memory bandwidth of 84 GB/second compared to 112 GB/s for the other two models. The 3GB of memory makes it suitable for modern games, but less desirable for crypto-mining, which (in the case of Ethereum) requires graphics cards with 3GB of VRAM at a minimum.

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