This is the best home and garden channel on youtube you just have to put up with him showing you weird computer parts from time to time

I really hate how Nvidia keeps reusing model numbers for extremely different cards. If we didn't have so little law enforcement the ftc would be on them over this

RandomGaminginHD and OzTalksHW posting video about RTX 3050 at the same time, Nice !

It needs to be $100, making it an affordable and viable option for budget SFF builds

1. Shoulda been RT/RTX 3030 since its cut down 2. Price is too high (rx 590 performance) 3. 6gb in 2024 is a slap in the face

Considering its a slot powered GPU, its really great. But I wish it was cheaper, at the current price its not worth it, if you can upgrade your PSU.

Nice! Ive been thinking of getting the low profile one to turn into a emulation machine in a sff office pc, so its nice to see what it can do in some more demanding titles. Thanks for the great videos as always!

I am watching your videos for a while now and I have to speak up and let you know that I enjoy seeing cards tested under a "Can it run games?" persoektive. Aka, you choose low presets or maybe DLSS to get the game running at 60fps and you don't just crank it to ultra and say "oh no only 10fps". Of course this makes comparrisons between cards hard, but that's, I think, valid. Not all Channels need to test the same way and as I said, I really enjoy a simple "can you game on it, and if so, what settings/Resolutions can I expect" view. Great work, keep it up.

Good video. Thank you, my dude.

I know we’re supposed to dunk on this card and all, but we truly did need a new card in the low profile market that doesn’t require external power and this one handily fits the bill.

Love your videos Mr Random ✌️😁

The passively cooled RTX 3050 is great.

Hey! Thank you for video. If possible in your next videos add also "RPM Fan" it would be help a lot.

I have the 8GB 3050. It is fine, although nobody seems to be able to get it at a good price, except me. The card on this video was probably meant for upgrading old office PCs as a very low budget gaming PC, and that could explain the low power consumption, as most office PCs have low wattage power supplies and will most certainly not like higher powered cards. Also, the specs are extremely close to the A2000, just without a 12GB variant and no ECC, to keep costs down. Additional edit: yes, there is a low profile variant, like the A2000 is, that you can plug in a SFF desktop computer.

Great review indeed. A quick question though, can a 350PSU handle this card or not?

So the general consensus is: great care to upgrade old office PC, terrible price Btw, thanks for including Fallout 4 in the testing. There's going a next gen update soon so hopefully you'll test it again for all your videos

Was looking at this card due to it not requiring extra power. Perfect timing.

This should be the RTX 3030 Of course Nvidia wont do that because of the 1030s bad reputation (but to be honest it would be cool if they made a 1030 successor)

thnx for making this video

bravo sir! this is the best gpu for someone without pcie power cables.

Bro you have to start including Helldivers 2 in these benchmarks, its a pretty demanding game.

From this video, it seems that the 3050 runs fine even with only a 96-bit bus. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.

Seeing how the 6 and 8gb cards arent sumilar, they should have called this a 3040. Instead nvidia is preying on people that see and RTX tag and assume its gonna be amazing

With RTX cards you can get better image quality using a combination of DLDSR and DLSS than with DLSS alone. This is especially important at 1080p, where even DLSS Quality mode can result in a blurry image. So, for example, instead of using DLSS Quality at 1080p (with a render resolution of 720p), it'd be better to use DLDSR 1.78x and DLSS Performance (also resulting in a 720p render resolution). The image will be crisper and more stable, sometimes even better than native 1080p. The FPS boost won't be as large as with DLSS alone, but the few lost frames are more than made up by the improvement in image quality.

According to TPU benches the 6Gb version is ~25% slower than the 8Gb version. And in some games it is only 3-5% faster than the good old GTX 1060 6Gb :D And in Doom Eternal it managed to produce as much frames as the legendary RX 580. :DDD

The way you held the graphics card over the pond at the start made me wonder if you were going to see if pond cooling would improve performance, or if it would double as a pond heater. Or was it a reference to Nvidia plumbing the depths of a murky pool to release an other overprised GPU.

Been looking at low profile cards for a mate who was given an old SFF office machine with a proprietary power supply and no GPU power cables. A card like this would be a massive boost.

Idk how to think about this card. On one hand it’s priced egregiously for the performance. On the other hand, it’s the only PCIe-slot-powered card in the market that can play recent AAA titles decently. I guess it’s a good card to buy if you have an old office PC lying around.

The minecraft test is really interesting, I tried it myself and got around 55-60 fps with upscaling. I have the msi oc version

I almost got this but got the 4060 instead

This is the best low profile GPU and a huge upgrade after the GTX 1650 but I don't know why nVidia didn't go with the ADA architecture. The RTX 4060 only need 100-110W and and a little cut down version would be at least if not more power efficient than this card. Anyway, thank you for the overview.

The fact that it’s an 8x card gets on me. Most older systems that it be slotted into run PCIE 3.0, which means running at 3.0 8x bandwidth.

I was waiting for this video, I have a feeling for the comparison showing a gtx 1060 6gb too would put it in perspective for people who want a "budget" graphics card

My RTX A2000 is still going strong paired with an i5 10400. They sit in a little iTX rig under my TV for guests to use when they come over. All powered by a cheap 300W BeQuiet SFF PSU :)

Thanks for the video. It's such a niche card probably because the mainstream OEM builds have moved on from 3050 to 4060 now, but i like it since it's below what i find to be a reasonable maximum of power for a graphics card to use. Cut down or not, i have been waiting ages for something like this to drop from nvidia since the 1650

Can you compare it with Rtx 2060 as that is better than 6600 in productivity and almost equivalent in gaming, Lots of love from here ❤

An impressive product

really appreciate ur vids bro would u be able to check fortnite in performance mode for future videos please?

I have Fallout 4 just remembered, thanks

Good for old ITX builds

As a max 75w card and replacement for the 1650 this is a good card. Many a parents pc can now be upgraded.

If a certain German car company released a new model called the "752 V8" with claims of v8 power, but used a V6 turbo instead, consumers would be outraged. When Nvidia does it across multiple generations (ala the 1030), it's just business as usual. Only good news is that Nvidia is over-charging for their Bait and Switch entry into this market segment, so a lot of potential victims...I mean upgraders are going to give this a pass.

I have the laptop version of this card in the 80W (95W Boost) 2560 Core variant with a i5 13450HX CPU, it's a little faster than the desktop version but very capable for the 1080p 120Hz panel it's running. Dell G15 5530 is the model and was recently on sale for £549 over the Easter sales, the 4050 version was £749.

one setting i would turn on in GTA5 is MSAAx2. It enables you to use Nvidia TXAA which i think looks much better than FXAA by itself. I dont know how it would perform on this card though. Would like to hear back and see what you think on it.

I have to say the Apex gameplay is in deathmatch with shrunken map so the performance tends to be lighter than the BR maps.

If I overlook EVERYTHING else about, love the form factor and the power usage. Wish the 6500 XT has been a 6600 but clock and voltage limited to keep it under 75w.

Have you seen the passivly cooled model from palit, looks like a cool and quite unique card

if only this card was $100-120 and called rtx 3040 it would be perfect! nice review :D

I have been searching for it for a long time like this (one fan no power connector)

this with in a used prebuild with a i7 10700 would be a budget beast

Am gonna get this for my mas rig.

It was nice receiving the notification for this video. I have thought about upgrading my gtx 1650, i have a hp pre built, with only 350 W psu and i wonder if a rtx 4060 would run on it safely. Nice video 👍🏻

The amount of old PC's this GPU can revive is unimaginable...

Is it possible you add DCS world, squad or arma 3 to your testing? those are pretty demanding titles which are commonly not tested :(

my dell g15 gaming laptop has that exact gpu paired with a i5 13450hx 32gb ram and it runs amazingly

it looks like the 6 pin pcie cable connectors do exist at least the pcb is ready to it. It also has the mosfet, inductor and capacitor next to it. Would be fine to find anyone trying to mod this. Edit: it actually is the same pcb as the Zotac RTX 3050 ECO SOLO (ZT-A30500R-10L) so the extra energy supply must work if managed to connect

Looking forward to 6 vs 8GB. Also, would this be a logical upgrade for some of the older budget cards like 1060 3/6GB or 1650/1660?

One of the fastest slot powered GPUs but the sff 4000 ada generation sff gpu is almost RTX 3070 performance only using the 75w from the pcie slot

I have the 8GB version of this card, also a Zotac version, and the board looks like it might be from the 8GB variant of the card as you can see the space for the power connector.

I was hoping this would be the spiritual successor to putting a GT 1030 into an old Sandy/Ivy Bridge office PC, but alas this isn't the case. After buying an i7-8700 system with adequate RAM and storage the whole build will be pushing $500.

At the end of the day, if power usage is a big concern for you, this card is great. But if you only care about price, then just go for a used 2060 or an rx 5700 if you trust aliexpress sellers.

Picked up a dell oem 3050 8gb for 130. Decent upgrade from a 1060.

I'm thinking of building an emulation PC out of a used Dell or HP office PC which you can get really cheap used. A lot of them need low profile GPUs and for a while I was thinking a GTX 1060 would be the best bet. Something like this at a good price low profile might be a better bet. Especially for things like PS3 and Xbox 360 emulation.

God I'm glad i have the rx 6800 such a good card 6 is nothing anymore 16gbs vram is the least I'm rocking from now on and 4k even runs good @ medium high settings with the rx 6800.

Im rarely of gaming and this is perfect combination with i3 14100f curious how well they both went

Gonna be fun to see how Fallout 4 performs on the lower end cards after its update on the 25th...

Ever tried the fsr3 frame generation mod with cyberpunk? Might be interesting on a card like this.

Nice, but what about to make 1 slot card for ppl, who wants minimum in smol case?

This card is great for those used dell/lenovo/hp office pc that's littered all over ebay.

I got this thing running in an old Optiplex with 180w PSU

I think for People who dont have a Extra Power connector and still use something like a 1050, its a good upgrade, specially if they wanna play newerish Games on High settings, tho i think that 6gb Vram is pretty low on 2024, even 8gig is on the lower end these Days, but i still think each Card has it uses and it will probably make some People happy, specially those who prefer E-Sports Titels.

I feel like this card would be perfect as a replacement for the P600 in my server for doing transcodes

Im hopeful that the new intel battlemage gpu will be cheaper and more powerful.. there 1st generation got pretty good at the price so now they have a bit of experience in the software side hopefully they will be a great option for sff builds and low power budget builds

Not sure what to make of the new 3050 6GB... I'd personally try and get an 8GB version if I wanted one of those, but I can see this coming in handy for PCs with dubious quality PSUs, or if just trying to keep the power requirements low in general. The SFF version of the card is potentially more promising as it allows certain prebuilts (for example, office PCs like Dell and HP SFF machines) to get discrete graphics. Yes, I remember when the general advice for gaming on a budget was to buy an old office PC and whack in a small form factor GPU. Though I don't like the 96 bit memory bus, as this could prove to be limiting in non PCIe 4.0 systems (particularly PCIe 2.0 and older). I also don't like having to use DLSS on a modern 30-series card, though I do think that lack of optimization on the developers side counts a lot here.

hey, I was just wondering ive got an i5 9600kf with a 4070 and it bottlenecks what cpu would you recommend that wont as much?

I think I'd be looking for a second hand RX 5600xt or 1660Ti . . . but, that is good performance given the super low power requirements.

I like my laptop with the 3050 6gb, but there are a load of better used gpus for the price on the desktop side, even on the laptop side the 4050 or 3060 is still a better buy imo

RTX 3050 6GB with an i3 12100f or even the would be a really nice combo. You should make a video on that.

Finally the successor to the 1650

Can you do a video where you overclock the 12600k and show gaming results?

Would be interested to see this side by side with a 1660 super (which can be had for far cheaper and are pretty much on par)

I got the 8 gb model. you should try the new ark game. it puts mine to the test.

8:52 I recently built a system for a customer and considered the 6GB version but for the same money I managed to get the ASUS ROG STRIX model of the 8GB RTX 3050 FROM CEX... I wonder how much of a detriment using a PCIE 3.0 slot would be... The 6GB version would make a pretty good upgrade over a 1050Ti or GTX 1650 though.

Idea for the next 3050 video with 6GB vs 8GB if you have some time you want to kill, maybe have a play with overclocking/undervolting the 6GB and see what it can do, I recently gave it a go on my 3050 laptop (60W) and was surprised how far it could push the frequencies up at lower voltages, so maybe with some tuning, the 6GB could catch up a bit to its bigger 8GB brother. That said, maybe I just got lucky with my silicon, no idea.

Interesting 🤔

I'm glad the 1650 Super is still getting work, It's been an Icon in the industry for years now. Very progressive move from Nvidia, casting it in a 30 series role.

When these are priced $70-$90 i think they’ll be a great sff or just a nice cheap but good gpu

Looks exactly like a Zotac 1650,which this is supposed to replace for PC with still no 6/8 pin cables or efficient builds. The Nvidia naming tho remain confusing,they could have called it RTX 3040 considering it's slower than the original 3050.

the new successor of my gtx 1650

I would like to see how the card fares in 30fps. I currently own a GTX970 and 30 fps is the only way to go. I'd rather go 30fps with better image quality and better GFX.

You might want to turn off vsync in mc rtx because its buggy and will half your frame rate. Based on the gpu usage in the video it wasn’t being maxed out and im guessing it will perform like a 2060 with rtx on

where can you find this kind of card it seems not available on shops here in our country? the power consumption is like 1050ti i want this!. :D

Is it 8x PCI 4.0 ? As someone looking to pair it with older cpu/mono will prob still have 3.0.

I really like the Palit Kalmx version, but at £170-180, I'm going ot have to say nope.

The 6GB RTX 3050 is the perfect card that you just pop in to the old i7 4790 Dell tower that has a 300w psu and has been sitting in your spare room. Hook it up to the spare old 1080p large screen tv that's in that same spare room and you've just created your private little gaming space. (That's what I've done with a rtx 2070 and ryzen 3600. I have a 5800x3d & rtx 4090 setup in my living room..that other people are always trying to use.)

I was using one up until yesterday it was fine for Minecraft but i just couldn't resist the urge to pull the trigger on the 7900 gre

In that minecraft rtx test card is not utilized well, are you sure game is running on P cores and not poopy E cores?

I guess I should be expecting a single fan mini 4050 in the near future next

I posted in community post that the 100 $ rx6500 xt price is real as a new one

The only use case for this would be old office computers but the price is problematic. If your system has a GPU power cables you'd be much better off with just about anything else for the price.