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- These days entry-level GPUs

launch for nearly the price of consoles.

Partly, because cheaper consoles are available,

but also because GPUs are more expensive.

Nvidia's new GeForce RTX 3050,

obviously isn't going to change that.

But the hope is that it's going to be good enough.

I'll give it to you straight right now

while you still have the chance.

This card is not bad if you need a GPU today

and you don't mind RGB.

And we'll have the link below when they're available.

Stick around though,

and I'll tell you why if you have a card now

you might not want to be so hasty.

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- The RTX 3050 is not a surprise on paper.

You've got RT and Tensor cores,

you've got a little more than two thirds of the CUDA Cores

of the RTX 3060,

eight gigs of memory on a 128 bit bus,

and you've got the NVENC encoder engine,

then more than two display outputs to boot.

Compared to the radio on RX 6500 XT,

AMDs mobile GPU cause playing as a desktop card,

the extra $50 doesn't seem like a big price to pay

for all of those benefits.

How much would you pay for a dedicated video

and coding accelerator if your GPU didn't have one

or extra display outs?

Now, that glowing endorsement

for industry standard features aside,

we do have to test whether this is truly worth

the extra spend.

And thankfully, our test bench is still warm

from our RX 6500 XT testing.

We'll be throwing that GPU in

along with some choice selections from both teams

to see if more memory

and then encoder is all the RTX 3050 brings to the table.

In F1 2021 at least, so far so good.

And not only does it beat the RX 6500 XT,

but it also comes pretty close to matching the GTX 1660 Ti.

A GPU that launched for $30 more

and lacks ray tracing capabilities.

Speaking of, the ray tracing performance ain't bad either.

Easily pulling double the frames the 6500 XT can drip out.

And coming surprisingly close to the RX 6600

in the tier above at the same settings.

Forza Horizon 4 brings more good news.

Even pulling a winner over the 1660 Ti.

Although AMDs contender isn't far off here.

Suggesting that this title

isn't sensitive to memory bandwidth.

Not at these settings anyway.

And AMD really did drop the ball

with the RX 6500 XT is four-lane PCI express connection

and 64 bit memory configuration.

Far cry six without ray tracing display similar results.

With the RX 6500 XT's performance close,

but not quite matching the RTX 3050.

While getting absolutely creamed

to the incident, we turn on ray tracing,

thanks to both the GPU's extra video memory

and the difference in optimization of Nvidia's RT cores

versus AMD's ray accelerators.

Hitman 3, he didn't stutter for the RTX 3050 either.

And we've once again, got the highest result out of

other cards in class, including the 1660 Ti.

Although it's worth pointing out that

if you're playing it's stealthy,

Hitman doesn't need twitchy reaction times.

What does is CS go

and it's here we see it fall behind the pack

with the cheaper at MSRP,

GTX 1660 super pulling slightly ahead,

thanks to its wider 192 bit memory bus.

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It doesn't have any wider,

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and a new configurator to help you choose. Steven got RGB.

If we include the ray tracing results,

the RTX 3050 works out to be roughly 92% faster

than the RX 6500 XT.

But as we've said, ray tracing,

isn't something you'll want to enable on this class of GPUs

without upscaling algorithms.

Like Nvidia's DLSS which this card does support.

If we look instead at the non-ray trace performance,

it works out to be just about 23% lead.

Which is in near lockstep with the difference in price

between the two cards.

It's almost like they planned it this way.

The performance is pretty much spot on with

the GTX 1660 Ti to.

And since it was a point of contention with the 6500 XT,

here's how the 3050 does on Gen 3.

It maintains within about 10% of normal performance

on benchmarks that dripped up the 6500 XT most

last time around.

Which isn't too surprising since it's got those

extra four lanes of PCI express bandwidth to work with.

Productivity is a little more cut and dry.

The RTX 3050 is ability to use RT cores for rendering

and its inclusion of a media engine

easily puts it at double the performance of the 6500 XT

and 33% more than the 1660 Ti.

While productivity needs vary from person to person,

this puts the overall average score

at a 66% performance advantage over the 6500 XT.

If we exclude ray trace gaming.

If you want to make it the fairest possible comparison

and exclude blender, it works out to roughly 30%.

Any way you look at it, wins a win.

Ends with the 6500 XT,

first party founder's edition style cards don't exist.

So thermals will vary from board to board.

Our EVGA XC card hit a peak of 74 degrees,

which puts it at a little under the RX 6500 XT peak.

Though it's a wash on average.

The cooler is actually a little underbuilt

compared to our same cooler on the RTX 3060 XC,

so keep that in mind as we move on to the power graphs.

It's here, that we see the radio on 6500 XT

is significantly more efficient than Nvidia's new card.

Although the RTX 3050 impressively draws less power

than the GTX 1660 super.

And not by a little bit either.

And while you might have a tough time finding it

in the core clocks graph,

the line and therefore the clock stability

is as smooth as any other in the lineup here.

Which shouldn't be too surprising

considering the thermal results.

This card seems to have a bit of headroom to play with

if you wanted to push the power target,

but your mileage will of course vary depending on the card.

Now the problem many of you may have is,

yeah, that's great and all,

but this is supposed to be a 50 series card.

And it's priced between the GTX 1660 super and Ti.

That's where it gets murky.

There are many reasons why graphics cards

are getting more expensive these days,

and the unfortunate reality is

it's possible that AMD really did scrape the barrel

on the RX 6500 XT to hit that $200 price point.

If so, we've now seen the compromises that have to be made

to hit that price point that we once considered affordable.

And there really is no going back.

That leaves me with conflicting opinions about the RTX 3050.

On one hand, it delivers performance wise

and is exactly what we expected.

A further cut down and peer GPU,

and the first time in the 50 series card,

we're getting RT and tensor cores.

It's the RTX 2050 that we never got with no major drawbacks.

And because it's a down bend GA 106,

the same GPU that's in the RTX 3060,

these are probably reject chips that have been sitting idle

this whole time.

It led some supply relief, at least until they sell through.

On the other hand, it's the RTX 2050, we never got.

And they're calling it RTX 3050. With a 60 series price tag.

This RTX tags began with the first RTX cards in 2018.

And that was well before the current scalp apocalypse.

I worry that there's no incentive to reverse this trend.

Even if manufacturing costs were returned to normal,

like say GPU mining ended today,

the reality is that both supply constraints

stretching until 2024 by some estimates

and the sheer pent up demand from gamers and professionals

for high performance GPU is just going to keep prices high.

It's not just one thing.

A lot of people will probably try to get an RTX 3050

at MSRP for new builds.

And if they do, I think they'll be happy with them.

But the keyword there is try.

Intel can't enter the game soon enough,

and neither can AMDs expected desktop already in a 2 APUs.

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because we are totally going to be reviewing

both of those things and both are going to be disruptive

in their own ways.

In the meantime,

maybe it's time to lean on one PC gaming's greatest

strengths.

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- Thanks for watching guys.

This got a little depressing at the end there,

so why not check out our video on splitting a GPU

between multiple virtual machines?

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