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Rx 6600 is best value

Glad your channel popped up in recommendations. Helpful when buying a budget GPU.

This GPU could be perfect if it was called RTX 3030, starting at 119$

It doesn't look THAT bad But it should be $120 max

Bought the 3050 8gb when it released for 500$, learned a lot from this mistake.

I'd like to see a review of this card vs other 70 watt cards that don't require external power.

Thanks for the review 😃🙏🏻 What is the fan noise like? Is the gigabyte cooler good and is it really semi passive? 🤔

I was excited about the passive model from Palit, but dislike the new design of the heatsink. (in term of asthetics)

It will be a good home theater pc card that can do RTX video upscaling and will work on just about any psu.

I'm excited for the KalmX version of this.

If you look carefully the 6gb ver is actually a little optimized cuz the 6gb ver is using 70w while 8gb ver is using more than 120w for 20 extra fps

What a joke of a card, NVIDIA just released a GTX 1060 6 GB but the RTX edition. A GPU like this should not be more than $130. That's the max anyone would be willing to pay for 6 GB in 2024.

Im mostly curious how it compared to other none external power cards.

Gonna make a second PC with my spare rtx 3050 8gb. Solid card for eSport,indie,emulator,Sport games. Heck even old AAA ones. I'm not powering up a 4080 just to run prince of persia game. Edit: I only need os storage, and rams(perfect to replace my old ones) to build a second pc.

Honestly...I want one. I know statistically it's weaker than a lot of cards, but its low power draw and the fact it trounces the 1650 have me very excited to build an M-ATX/M-ITX Series S-style gaming rig

UK seller is offering £169, I want the Kalmx version myself, tempting anyway.

The good old RT 3030

Finally, Nvidia brings back the xx30 series again. It's the rtx 3030 😅

Would this be a good upgrade over my current GtX 1050ti?

cool review, thanks for the video, it was nice to watch :)

Not so bad if you depend on solar power and batteries (off the grid). Gaming laptops tend be expensive, noisy, and are actually less efficient in regards to performance per watt.

This one should be compared with the integrated gpus of ryzen 8000 series CPU 💀

Will this card work with a pci 3.0 slot ? Sounds like a great upgrade for a business class pc with 10th gen I7

We bought my son a HP computer with a Ryzen 3 4300g a couple years ago on black Friday for $350. He's outgrown the on-board graphics. I picked up a MSI rtx 3050 6g OC for $169 and now he's playing games 1080p at well over 100fps. This GPU is the perfect budget solution for us.

Would be interesting to see how this competes with the A2000.

Yes! Finally! A affordable RT gpu!!

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The 3050 wasn't cripped :/ The reduced boost clock and one less VRAM chip reduced the overral power draw, making this the best low profile option to date. The RX6400 and "sorta" the Intel A380 were the best options since the 1650 was scaled to hell. If anything this GPU would do completely fine for light weight games, or medium quality settings for more AAA titles.

great video, thank you. Yes, the 8gb version delivers 25% more in raw FPS, but it draws almost twice the power compared to the 6gb. I am actually quite excited about this release as it gets all its power from the board. I think this card will end up in plenty of discarded office systems, since the low profile RTX 4060 needs a PSU and is amost 300 euro here in Europe, the A2000 is also 250/300 euro (used) and the RX 6400 is PCIE 4 x 4, which still is the dumbest decision ever, as it's basically a budget GPU that cannot be used in budget systems - truly retarded product. TLDR, I like this card

Please compare gtx 1650 or super with this card even the rx 6500xt

Those naming is marketing issue. Throughout nvidia history those x40 and below card has always being seen as a bad card for gaming. Same reason when AMD refused to call further cut down chip of their card as xx30 before. Also this card use 70w only. This is true successor to 1650 non super that also use similar power. Personally i'm more interested to see performance improvement over 1650.

The only reason you should buy a 6gb 3050 is if you're planning on buying the low profile one for an ultra mini PC build. It's 180 on amazon rn.

This for elden ring at 1080p and 60fps

For those who don't know, the 1650 4gb Low Profile models sell for around $170-250 and is usually out of stock wherever you look because it's the only option to upgrade an old Dell/HP/Lenovo. The RX 6400 has no encoder and handles its 4gb VRAM much worse. This is a huge improvement on anything currently available. It will definitely sell because this + an old dell etc would be a solid gaming PC for around $300 - much cheaper than if you'd be looking to build a PC around an RX 6600 or similarly priced GPU.

thx for English edition

better than a 1050 ti?

70w 1060 6gb?

Card should have been 150 bucks max as it offers gtx 1060 performance, slightly better due to being more recent tech and can use dlss for slight future proofing. In europe, where i live, this card is going for around 215€ currently, at that price point i can get something much better... The 8gb model is around 235€ and it's also a bad purchase with that price tag, a 3060 costs 300€, or a rx 7600 which also goes for 300€. Seems like a no brainer honestly. If they made this under 150 bucks at all times, it would have been worth it for some people. A RX 6600 8gb costs 220€ currently which is the best performance:value offer i have for budget builds, and offers an increase of around 70% to performance. Sure the only good factor this 3050 has going is power usage. But that still is a poor excuse for the price it has. Also lets not forget that 8700g apu offers performance that at times trades blows with a gtx 1060 6gb (depends on specs, someone running a 1060 should be running older hardware, which means the 8700g will get better results, if the 1060 is paired with a more recent cpu, the 1060 wins easily, this is not even considering ram impact...). This apu makes this card irrelevant when it comes to power consumption, which means, the only relevant thing left would be DLSS. But then again FSR exists, so.... 8700g costs 370€ currently where i live. This is not the best performance for money invested but it means you spend less money on power consumption at the cost of of some small performance loss. If ryzen 9700g follows the same pattern, then we can expect another increase in performance, which would most likely leave both the gtx 1060 6gb and rtx 3050 6gb behind in the dust, outperforming both by a small margin, while consuming less power.

3:59 how do you get fps avg 69 medium set and no dlls? mine, ultra set and no dlss arround 80-86fps. my build 5500, 3050 8gb and 8gb ram

I think the new 3050 6gb is good for one thing, a SFF build with low power requirements. For that, it’s an amazing card for what we get.

As said in the video, not a bad card, just a bad name. We'll see what the true pricing ends up as.

Only time I would buy this is second hand when the price is down for an budget office machine build.

you know what, we didnt had 30power version for a while (since gt1030), just name it RTX 3030 :))) But what, guess what, if you want a low power system, combine this card with any i3- 8th gen or above, you will have a somewhat usable pc that doesnt use much electricity. (ofc if this card price would be ok that i dont know, i just checked, its starts from 169USD , it should be smt like 119USD) Imagine tho that RX580-8 is on the same performance level as this card, and you can literally able to get an RX580-8 for 50euro, even for 30-40if it has been mined something.

Aside from Vram it is more of a GTX 1650 Super, because the GTX 1660 matches the RTX 3050 8gb sometimes and 10percent slower on average.

You didn't even mention the main point of this gpu. It's POWER DRAW. Not to mention it's been powered by the PCI-E alone.

At this point, 50 series cards should just be for budget gaming laptops.

For the right price that new 3050 will surely keep a lot of optiplex ofice desktop alive

as I can see, this RTX 3050 6gb its for emergency upgrade for older GTX user such as 1050ti or 1050 or more I'm might buying these GPU for Emergency upgrade 💀 I'm still stuck at 1050Ti

You also have to consider that the 6GB is just 170 USD. Meanwhile, the 8GB is 249 USD. So, it's 20% less performance for 50% of the price. That's some good FPS per dollar right there.

They should make a single slot LP version and adjust the price vs the RX 6400 and the Arc 380. Otherwise, this card will die faster than the GTX 1630 and that's quite a low bar.

Same thing was with 1060 3gb \ 1060 6gb 6gb version had more poverful gpu, so its 1060 ti

When I saw the cuda cores and the clock speeds I was like I'm sure this will perform like an Rx 580 or 1650 super And yeah pretty much that

U should have compared it to gtx 1650 with the pricing

Its really sad hiw low end gpus are theres really no big improvments in the last 4 years we are stilll stuck in the same 1660 kind of performance and its even lower sometimes Even the 8gb 3050 is weaker then the 2060 its really a big joke.

This gpu is great for a budget builder like me only using a generic gpu with no power pin connector 😂

The 3050 is massively crippled, especially for the VRAM, keep in mind that the VRAM bandwidth of the 3050 6GB is about the same as the VRAM bandwidth of the AIB version of the old Nvidia GTX 660 (a 12 year old entry level gaming card), and from the reviews of the GTX 760, it benefited a good amount from a VRAM overclock. As crippled as the GPU of the RTX 3050 6GB is, the the VRAM bandwidth is likely significantly holding the card back. The lack of adequate VRAM is also a major issue, since Nvidia also crippled the PCIe interface of the card thus limiting how much shared memory it can use before it encounters major performance drops. In terms of VRAM spillover to system RAM, on a PCIe 4.0 card at x16 speeds, you can often actively use around 1-1.5GB of shared memory and only experience gradual performance drops, up to around a 15-20% performance drop, then as you go beyond around 1.5GB, performance drops become more rapid and you start to get massive frame time variations that ruin the gaming experience. With PCIe 3.0 at X16 speeds (same ad PCIe 4.0 X8), after around 500MB of shared memory use, and you get major performance hits. For example, the RTX 3070 suffers around a 20% performance hit on the pre-patch version of hogwarts legacy when the hame hits around 9-9.5GB of VRAM use, then at around 10-11GB, you getr major performance issues. They eventually patched the game to stop loading additional textures once the VRAM was filled, thus avoiding the performance issues, but if you have the launch version, it would become unplayable after a few minutes as more and more assets had to be loaded in. If the card were to be limited to PCIe 3.0 speeds (same as 4.0 X8), the performance would fall apart with as little as 500MB used. While ideally, you don't want a game actively using any shared memory, at the budget end where a compromised experience is expected, if they had kept a 4.0 x16 interface, then that 6GB card, would have been like having a 7.5GB card if you were okay with a 15-20% performance hit.

I will buy it. It has no power connector? 😅

The rtx 3050 6gb uses 85% less power than the RTX 3050 8GB but only has 25% less performance. If you look it at fps to power ratio. The rtx 3050 6GB is not so bad as you tought. RTX 3050 6 GB uses more or less to 125% less power that the rtx 3060 and yet only 75% slower. If you dont have a good psu or cant afford a good psu. You can get the RTX 3050 and use medium settings most games and get either 60fps avg or close to 60fps average and still have multiple upscaling options like DLSS, FSR and XESS. If they named the card the RTX 3040 rather than RTX 3050 it would sell better and would still be a good product for its use case.

Who buys this when the RX 6600 costs almost the same and according to techpowerup is 69% faster.

they can finally make a good sff card

If NVIDIA rereleased the old 3050 for the price of the new one not even changing anything just the price I guarantee they would get less hate for this card.

Congratulations Nvidia have now released a competitor to the arc A380

Why would anyone bother with a 6GB(!) version of the RTX 3050 when the 8GB version is now under $200?

The 1650, but with more vram. Jokes aside, this is what it may as well be

but it is too much expansive in my country 221.49$ (295,000₩)

SHOULD BE 3040 MODEL BY PARTS ALLONE ON BOARD

This card are fine but for 100$ price maybe

The main feature is lack of external power and the simple fact you can't get that performance out of any card for that price + no external power but yeah its really annoying how they keep trying to trick consumers.

nvidia really is dirty not just calling this a 3030 or 3040

Wait, are you really Artyom?

If it is under $ 170 then I think it better than GTX 1650 so yeah I would buy.

The 96-bit bus is a joke lmao

I thought this would've been like the mobile rtx 3050 6gb. That one has upto a 95w TDP and 2560 cores. Turns out this desktop variant has just 75w TDP and 2304 cores. Pretty lame. Mobile and desktop versions should've been the same. Even the 75w mobile 3050 6gb is roughly on par with the 3050ti 95w mobile (same specs as desktop 3050 but with half vram).

if it was released at 125$ it would be a nice GPU and with no power conector is nice for those who have crappy PSU, but at that price for a bit more you have a rx 6600 wich is clearly faster.

This card is okay but its price should be about 100-140$ and should be named 3040.

No, this is the GT 3030.

eversince the nvidia get into the 1xxx GTX eras, nvidia has been leaving behind the ~40 class GPU. this is why you barely ever heard of a GTX 1040. so, they technically CANT make a 3040. its not in their convention. they could have add some designation to the cutdown version of the 3050 thats true, such as for example RTX 3050 U or 3050 D like the cutdown version of those chinese 4090D. but basically to put simply, they cant release things under the name xx40. the lowest denominator in their cards line up goes only down to xx50.

Its hidden gtx 1060 6gb only

WTF?! i'm reading a lot of people saying "this cost the same and goes better". You all are completely ignoring a big segment of prebuilt and/or the power saving matter. 70W for a dGPU with this performance is really good. That said, naming could be better for sure, and price 139 max. TDP is the good thing of this card.

I will buy this card in 2029 for 29 dollars and pair it with my 2014 PC, it's new gtx 1060 3 gb.

at this point just buy a rx 580. I not even only 80 bucks used, but also same performance.

the 8gb rtx3050 is so close to the 8gb rtx3060

Well that's definitely an upgrade from a GTX 16 series card, that's for sure. At least the DLSS gives it the credit.

1650 Super

Mark my words, in my country (Brazil) it'll come for the same price of a RX6600

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3040

Yessss! I can finally play all the games I like at 30fps! 90-120 fps on my 3060ti was getting boring.

lol in canada 6600 costs 10 less than this 6gb 3050 (239 vs 250)

1060 6gb vs 3050 6gb who win?

This channel needs more recognizes

More Like rtx 2050

RTX 3050 6GB should be called the RTX 2050/3030/3040 RTX 3060 8GB should be called the RTX 3050 Ti NVIDIA is just shitting at product names

new cs2 gpu

The new successor of the Nvidia GeForce G 100. The GeForce R 3000. This thing.

its better than the A2000. making it the second best 75w card behind the RTX A4000 ada sff. it sounds like a good deal to me considering the a2000 is 3x more expensive

RT 3040

so its basically a gtx 1060 6GB but with better ray tracing and DLSS... this is very embarrassing from NVIDIA

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