Figures. I kind of figured the $250 price point was too good to be true when the thing could hit 1070 speeds. I suppose it's better than it just being snapped up by scalpers. It occurs to me that all this online shopping sucks because it makes it so easy for scalpers to scalp
Here in Lithuania it was available two days ago, my local shop where friends work had 5 units of GIGABYTE 3050 Price was 492euros and it was sold instantly. Funny how something like GTX 980 TI from 2014 performs similarly but 3050 cost as much :) Nvidia's phrase "You buy more you get more" didn't age well....
I am using a R7 260X. I upgraded everything. bought a 1440p high refresh free-sync monitor, upgraded my CPU and RAM last week. but I refuse to pay a single buck over msrp for this already overpriced GPUs. thanks AMD and NVIDIA for making otherwise entry level
@@JaimeIsJaime I'm feeling this, part of me says to replace my ~15 year old monitor and the other half of me says VR at 45 fps and half-res isn't acceptable.
Yea, after that Nvidia has never made another budget card. I know that tons of people bought the 1050Ti scam card and have spent their lives playing at garbage frame rates rather than getting an AMD card.... Even the GTX 1650 offered lower performance than an RX570 in alot of scenarios.... Now the 6500XT is the first "budget" card in a long time and it still doesn't really exceed the RX580 for around the same money 5 years later.
Good old days, bought one to attempt to upgrade a prebuilt with a GT705, turns out it couldn't fit so now it's been sitting inside a cuoboard for like 6.5 years haha
Yeah performance wise it's almost a refresh of the GTX 1070. Only marginally better, and with roughly the same price as the 1070 almost 6!!!! years ago. Edit: 150-200 € would be a good price for it imho.
@@erikbritz8095 In my country it's out of stock but priced between the 1650 and the 2060 so right now it's the best value. I bought a 2070s for not much more two years ago though.
@@kyles8524 The 3300x was not an OEM only part. They had them in my local Microcenter. You may be thinking of the 5300g which was released recently and is OEM only.
There are two variants of 3050 The one that's released now is based on cut down 3060 dies (GA106) and will be probably one time only. The other variant is presumably coming later which should be efficient and have wider availability and cheaper (in theory) since it will be based on smaller die (GA107) with similar performance
This is basically what Moore's Law is dead already confirmed with retailers. This is a card that Nvidia is barely actually nothing and just cutting down some leftover die from another project instead
@Kzn Nzn jeez so much hate. I am a single guy and have 3 toilets in my house. Ever wish to use a restroom in an emergency... you're most welcome smartass(sarcasm obviously).
It's a pretty good card that can do ray tracing with DLSS. But good luck getting one for anything less than 75-100% over MSRP or w/o having to buy it in a "bundle" with another piece of gear that you don't really want. I'd really love to upgrade my 1060 3GB but I cannot stomach having to pay $450+ US for a 3050.
@Randy Names Yea, exactly. There are a few games that have a couple small RT effects and it should be fine in those games. However those games RT effects being small.... also have a small visual impact. So its not like you would miss them if you didn't use them.
screw ray tracing. no real pc people want to play at 30 fps. anything under 60 is heresy same with playing of effen low detail. you might as well just get a console at that point.
@@XX-121 So true, but some games have minimal effects and you can play with RT on without a problem. As I said above though those affects aren't so noticable either... Riftbreaker has real RT and I can notice it... But my 6800 can do 90FPS 4K high settings with RT on...
i was SUPER interested in their passively cooled 1050ti back when it dropped. glad i ultimately went with a 1060 6gb though, the lifespan of this card is unparalleled.
i'm surprised you actually managed to get this card edit: guys i know vendors send out stuff, this was supposed to be a joke on the current situation of acquiring a graphics card at time of release or at msrp
With almost half million sub sure just about any vendor would give him products to review. First time I have seen he do it. He he did cus its a budget card
im surprised you havent, its been 2 years. if you really wanted one youd get one. quit whinning that shit is so annoying. literally go on facebook marketplace, ebay, buy a prebuilt with a card for the same price, join those discoord servers that alert you when cards are in stock... yooou have so many options yet all you do is complain. smh.
@@BeatlessAnimations agree, I managed to get a 3070 no LHR used off someone because I kept talking with others who managed get many gpus for 700 then I further traded my 3070 back in august for a LHR 3080 msi gaming Z with 300 cash on top it’s not too hard all you need to is get up try.
I like your "fps targeting" approach. Maybe you can make another video about this GPU with a 100 or 120 fps target, including 540p to 1080p DLSS comparisons.
I really hope they start pumping these things out like crazy. It really should be a bit better for the price compared to the 2060 and 3060, but it still seems to get the job done and has DLSS which even with a 3070 and up, is a great feature to have. The 40 series needs to start off with a low teir card and a high teir card, not just the 4080 and 4090. A 4050 and a 4080 should be the first cards launched. IMO
I think they will milk these $500+ rtx 3050s till sept. Then drop the RTX 4050 cheaper at $250-$290 muchhh later this is so they make money first then keep people happy later.
When the market absorbs the high end cards Nvidia has no incentive to release entry level cards. They'd rather sell the large margin product. The fact the 3050 is out means crypto apocalypse's end is on sight.
looks very good for an "entry level" card. it smashed the amd rx 6500 xt at least. it's a pity I won't be able to buy it cause the price will skyrocket.
@@urlond9371 i own an rx570 4gb and also bought a 6500xt for $199 to put in my sons pc. The 6500xt is faster than an rx570 in some situations, but a little slower in situations where the graphics settings hit the vram hard. Both my pc use pcie 3.0. Using a newer system with pcie 4.0 the 6500xt is a little faster than rx570. Definitely not an “upgrade” for me but replaced the 2gb gtx950 in my sons pc and he couldn’t be happier with the massive jump in performance he got.
Honestly love this review. Instead of others always hitting high-ultra settings. Its nice to see which settings closely hit 60FPS. Really appreciate the video. As of March 20, writing this comment. This card here in BAHRAIN is currently 149.900 BHD which is about 398 US Dollars.
The card is basícally a 1660 Ti with rtx features, which is not amazing considering the 2060 is still around, but as an entry level gpu it's fine. Just hope people can find it for a reasonable price
You are pure legend , i hope you reach 500K subs soon . Best videos ive seen on whole youtube in this category , i mean benchmarks and pc stuff , unique way of edit and commentary makes you better then other benchmark channel for me .
It’s refreshing to have a review of a budget card where the reviewer isn’t whining about it’s performance at “Ultra settings with Uber high resolution texture packs!” This is relevant, especially after the same channels that panned budget cards ran a piece saying “it’s stupid to run max settings.”
Ya I hate that. I get that it's useful for pushing cards to their limit to chart their performance but it heavily skews the results. For example a GTX 1060 might get ~75 FPS @ Medium/High settings and barely 40 FPS at Ultra and yet there's only a slight increase in visual quality between the two, or perhaps you have to sacrifice something dumb like volumetric fog or not use things like TAA. Conversely, something like an RTX 3080 might get 157 FPS @ Medium/High settings and 110 FPS at Ultra (theoretically, same game as the GTX 1060) So it makes the GTX 1060 look way way worse than it actually is. Like I said, it skews the results and doesn't show good real-world examples, which makes people think they NEED those 80-class and 800-class cards to get an enjoyable experience.
The gpu was struggling at medium settings at 1080p in cp 2077, imagine future real current games, it is very realistic to test games to se how well it will fare, and this gpu was born underpowered.
I stayed up all night ready to buy a 3050, refreshed the page like 50 times, 3 minutes before "launch" it went from "coming soon" to "out of stock" after one refresh. It's a hard knock's life
Dont know why you kept texture resolution to medium and low in some cases. Isnt it impacts mostly the video memory and just a bit the overall performance.
Hate to rain on your parade, but... this is the weakest card in the generation, and the 980 Ti is outperformed by every other 30 series card, even the 3060 is about 20% faster.
@@erikbritz8095 It's a beast, literally matches 1070, 2060, 3050. Maybe by 4000 series it will finally be outdated. I only ever want to upgrade to a 3060 or higher as it's simply not worth upgrading to anything less!
Great look at a new card, nice to know what it's capable of even if the prices are pretty unknown. I had hoped the -50 cards wouldn't need more power than just the pcie slot but I suppose that low power of a card may not even be made into a full discrete GPU nowadays.
In general I don't bother with ray-tracing unless I can still stay at a steady 60 FPS. Cyberpunk looks very pretty with it on but I get huge drops below that even with DLSS so I don't bother.
@@GhettoPCbuilds I beg to differ. I played it on my 5600 XT on med high and ultra ray tracing on my cousin's 3070, it looks good at some angles but barren at most. Ghost of Tsushima had a better looking open world even if it was made flat.
When ray tracing first came out the 2060 was considered inadequate for implementation of it therefore I bought a 2070Super. Now they release the 3050 with ray tracing and I have to wonder if it wouldnt have been a better idea to have installed something else in place of the ray tracing cores ,say more cache memory or compute units? But its just a marketing gimmick anyway right
Raytracing is the gimmick, RT cores have a ton of useful, but situational features. Most importantly, DLSS helps with 1440p and even VR (if you can set it up correctly). There's also stuff like Nvidia broadcast if you do streaming. I own both a 1660s and 2070s and personally, I find these features very useful. If we were in an ideal world, this is definitely a buy vs the already very good value 1660s since they are priced very closely. But again, reality sucks.
I would have liked a comparison to similarily priced older used cards like 970/980, 1070 or 2060 at the end or in the conclusion as your viewers are on a more strict budget for the most cases. Thank you for your real life testing!
In the UK the MSRP is meant to be £250 and for an xx50 card that is pretty expensive. The cheapest I can find one is for £360.... Dififfcult times to build a PC
Yeah if you build a PC from scratch a 6500XT/6600/6600XT seem like the better options. If you really need Nvidia the low end models of 3050 cards or (maybe in some markets) even a 12GB 2060...
@@RS-nq8xk yea, its hard now to get anything Nvidia. If you don't need CUDA, its best to go with RDNA2 especially with the consoles being RDNA2. The new games coming out are much faster on RDNA2.
I've seen single fan palit go for as low as £289 on scan and novatech. even cheaper on ebay. I got dual fan for £300 from softcat. It's actually the only card that has seen decent stock levels with constants restocks all the time cause it's of no use to miners. you need to remember nvidia msrp doesn't include tax which is 20% in uk and since this gpu didn't have a founders edition manufacturers tend to sell a bit higher as they decide how much extra to charge for their build/fans/rgb on the card etc.
The only rtx 3050 sku that makes sense tbh. If available at msrp, this would be a really good buy. I have the 1660 super stormx and I would definitely get this instead if I could just for DLSS and nvdia broadcast features. (Very useful when working from home!)
While testing Fortnite you always must turn the settings down to low, since its eSports game literally almost nobody plays it over low preset, so high preset results are irrelevant if we don't get low settings results as well.
I was shocked when I realised that this low end GPU has 8 GB VRAM. Seeing the rapid change of tech makes me sad. Even 4-5 years ago you could play almost every game with a decent framerate only with a 2 GB GPU.
Yep, nowadays games like Cyberpunk and Resident Evil Village use upwards of 6+ GB for 1080p high settings, 8 GB really feels like it's the bare minimum now
@@RandomGaminginHD I just bought a 3060 laptop Ryzen 7, upgraded the ram for dual channel 32gb for $1100 Prebuilts and laptops are the best value right now just because they can actually get the chips at the correct price
@11:30 SiliconFix: *stares lovingly at the Zotac 1050ti LP he started his channel on two years ago, on the recommendation from RGHD. Thanks for that btw man. Really solid advice and I've been lurking the channel ever since, so wanna say I really appreciate the honest take you give us gamers cuz I really used your tips for stepping-stones into this weird world. lol Can't thank youtubers like you enough for that but lately I've really been trying to make a point to specifically let yall all know. Keep up the awesome work man
Well done - superb video as usual! For those lucky enough to get this today at RPP its a decent(ish) deal. For the people who bought it at £399....commiserations
Gets stomped by the RX 6600, but that's to be expected, given that the 6600 is meant to be a $329 card and the 3050 is meant to be a $249 card. Comparing different price points doesn't help.
Might have to pop this in a build for my sister. She only plays minecraft tbh so I think this would be nice for her since she might want to play other games. Thanks for the review.
Nvidia marketing is trying to disguise that it's a $300+ card, labeled to compete with cards that sold _new_ for around $99 USD. That's one gripe against it. That said, this would have been a great choice for handling the grunt of encoding for the PC I was arranging for that purpose. Problem is, I still needed something around a 3080 or better for my main PC, first.
Thanks for the video! Based on all the other reviews I have seen on this 3050, I might as well stick with my GTX1070. Exact same performance. Edit: Well, no DLSS though...
just wanted to say well done for getting on the media coverage list with PALIT hopefully you can now start adding other brands to your list for other items to showcase
Run Fortnite with DX12. Sometimes there's stutters. If so, restart the game. You get an insane performance uplift, and it utilises the GPU a lot better.
This Graphics Card is so small, it's almost looks great to build on sleeper PCs! I was going to build a Sleeper PC but I didn't knew this graphics card exist! Can you run Lost in Vivo on terrible GPUs on your next video? Thanks.
Been watching many reviews on the RTX 3050. From what I can see this card performs similarly to the older GTX 1070 (released June 2016) and the newer GTX 1660 Super (released late October 2019). Enabling ray tracing also seems to significantly reduce the performance of this card.
Yeah, and from what I have seen in Japan the pricing for these has made a non super 1660 for 20% lower prize and a 12GB 2060 for like 10% more seem like good value... haha
I got one of these to tie me over, managed to cop one from a decent retailer with next day free shipping for 230 quid. I know it's not great compared to what it used to be but it's certainly not bad in the current market at all. Google shopping works wonders sometimes...
its basically a rtx 2050 in terms of where it stands in the nvidia lineup. about 10 percent slower than a 2060. id compare it to a 1660 ti but has dlss and raytracing capabilities.
@@Khened that's the mobile version of the 2060 though. The mobile chips do not perform on the same level as their desktop counterpart due to TDP limitations.
Because it goes higher than 75w ? Even modern 300w PSUs can use a power cable. Unless you simply dont like it going higher than 75w regardless for some other reason. I wouldnt get this card though, because in a normalised market it would probably be similar to a 2070 when compared to the performance of other 3000 cards, and cheaper.
While its a gpu that loses out to 1070, for me this card looks like a future classic to the home theater crowd with its $250 entry point to AV1 encoding. This is like buying a 1050 or a cheap quadro for nvenc
Watched this again as I love these itx based gpus 🥰🥰👍 and after many months now of gaming on an itx version of this GPU in one of my builds I can say it’s an amazing GPU for gaming …. Both 1080p and 1440p gaming on new and older AAA titles and more. Great value (got mine at launch for $12USD above MSRP/ RRP) and being a single fan model doesn’t affect temps or fan noise!!!
I love these little Palit Gpus, I bought a 3060 palit storm X and it is an absolute gem. The price point of the palit cards is very competitive and they hang about on the shelf a little longer than the more blingy cards so are a good option for someone looking for a gpu
What I'd like to see is a break down of each individual acronym that these GPU companies use in their GPU settings and an explanation of what it does, ECT.
To test it using GOW its better to do a benchmark of it later in the game!!! 60fps here will be 40fps on open water and in the mountain!! Tip for anyone having problems with dips in these places, put Model Quality on Original setting!!!.
I'm glad you actually tested this GPU with a reasonable CPU like the 10400 and not something ridiculous like a 5950X or 12900K like everyone else did. Provides good theoretical data but piss poor applicable data.
They do it because they want to make sure the GPU is always fully utilized so you can see what the GPU is capable of. Now of course, an older CPU will work well too but in CPU bound titles it makes sense to use a CPU like that.
I bought the palit rtx3050 dual oc right at launch, and must say that i have been beyond impressed considering the price. I game at 1080 p 60fps, so this card is perfect in that segment, and reaches 60+fps on most modern titles with high/maxed settings. You also gain a lot more from dlss at this resolution, averaging aboout 20 frames extra without any noticeable drop in visual quality. No use buying a more expensive card or more powerful card, because then i have to dish out on a new tv or expensive monitor to enjoy the benefits. Nvidia really did 1080p gamers a solid with this
I'm actually very lucky because I got a fully working RX570 4gb for free. My friend has a.... Special touch when it comes to computers and was somehow making it overheat and crash constantly, from playing Wow and Hearthstone. Took the thing apart, didn't even replace the thermal paste or pads. Just cleaned and remounted everything and it works like a charm! Fully stress and game tested c:
@@dallesamllhals9161 Second hand market, or just wait. We people as a whole hold all the power. If most of us PC gamers banded together and boycotted the current GPU pricing by say, switching to a console for a certain period of time, we could force their hand. Making them drop the prices to MSRP or even lower.
@@janemba42 1100T and an AM3 board right now! Please let me just keep 'her'? and yup: OLD/legacy PCI slots here - it's for my X-Fi Elite Pro(with Daniel_K drivers) ;-D
In july 2024, my worker friend got palit brand rtx 3050 6GB for equivalent 160 USD (include delivery fee + aftertax) with Power Supply 450 watt. Great playing game for ea fc 24 & light game before 2016
Dude i so wish you would test NIS as it works in ALL your games and that is a true gift to budget gamers just like radeon super res will be next month when it comes out
This card would be great for a mini-ITX PC build. But it's not available in the U.S., so I'll have to be willing to pay a huge markup on eBay or Amazon UK (shipped to the US).
The rtx 3050 is 303 dollars where I live. This is after import fees and vat fees. The import fees in my country is 78 dollars on average so the rtx 3050 is 230-250 dollars when the retailer gets it brand new.
G'day Random, No listings where I shop in Sydney yet but PC Case Gear (Hardware Unboxed Sponsor) in Melbourne has listings, the ASUS ASUS RTX3050 Phoenix $429AUD (Australian RRP/MSRP) is listed 'Sold out' all other models like the Gigabyte Eagle OC Pre-Order starting at $609AUD up to ASUS ROG Strix RTX3050 OC $799AUD
I snagged a RTX 3050 for $249 today at Newegg. Out of curiosity I called the CS line and they said they had quite a bit left that they are going to use for more Newegg Shuffles coming up.
The trouble with the way things are now nothing released so far has been relevant to me upgrading my 8gb RX 580, anything at the low end costs more and has not enough of a performance/feature lift to justify it and anything higher up the chain is so bloody expensive it's literally not worth it, they still are not 3-4 times better for 5 times the real price, it's just scalpers and black marketeers jacking up prices because noone is stopping them. Nice to see a board partner sending you product tho mate, nice and about time.
1000 cards for the whole UK, good luck folks this is the GPU market and it will not change. I have a 3070 and enjoy it a lot but you have to pay the premium.
WOW I have ordered an MSI GeForce RTX 3050 GAMING X 8G, 8GB GDDR6 and will use it on my older and weaker PC from AMD FX 8350 which I will keep as a backup for playing older games and maybe even newer ones that do not need such high demands on full details. A year ago I tried to put an RTX 3070 there and the performance went pretty low. I achieved better performance with the weaker AMD RX 5700 XT but I don't have it here anymore. I put the RTX 3070 in the AMD Ryzen 5 3500X where it works very well
Getting cards from vendors now Steve, been here a while and so happy with what you've achieved! Your future is bright!
He used to before, years ago. Not sure why he stopped. Maybe just decided to stop getting review samples for some reason
Yeah years ago he was lended a mini 1070 from zotac I believe so he could use it in a video. This is nothing new but glad he's getting back to it.
He has done for like 4 years
Palit actually sent this card to Budget Builds so I think Palit is nicer now
For a while you could not get any with the god damned crypto miners and scalpers.
My local Microcenter had 3 models available this morning, with the cheapest being $380. This card was never meant to hit MSRP.
Figures. I kind of figured the $250 price point was too good to be true when the thing could hit 1070 speeds. I suppose it's better than it just being snapped up by scalpers. It occurs to me that all this online shopping sucks because it makes it so easy for scalpers to scalp
u are lucku, in Poland now chepest price is around $600, probobly becouse we earn less :)
in Euro you would by 500$
@@jeremygregorio7472 1070 with ray tracing support and more compact and power efficiency
Yeah I had a feeling that msrp wouldn’t be what was stated
Here in Lithuania it was available two days ago, my local shop where friends work had 5 units of GIGABYTE 3050 Price was 492euros and it was sold instantly. Funny how something like GTX 980 TI from 2014 performs similarly but 3050 cost as much :) Nvidia's phrase "You buy more you get more" didn't age well....
Now is not the time to buy GPU's
Wait 6 months
@@vubhuhjkbhubohjb 6 months from now it just gets worse
enjoy it before the russians invade
@@tHeWasTeDYouTh Hopefully they dont.
Yeah, prices just came out here in New Zealand. Cheapest model is NZD$660, or 390 euros.
Ah yes... The 750ti, those where the good old days... I wish I could relive them, oh wait I do
I'm also still using it lol, and plan to replace it with 3050 if possible. I won't be leaving the 50s series sooner
I am using a R7 260X. I upgraded everything. bought a 1440p high refresh free-sync monitor, upgraded my CPU and RAM last week. but I refuse to pay a single buck over msrp for this already overpriced GPUs. thanks AMD and NVIDIA for making otherwise entry level
@@JaimeIsJaime I'm feeling this, part of me says to replace my ~15 year old monitor and the other half of me says VR at 45 fps and half-res isn't acceptable.
Yea, after that Nvidia has never made another budget card. I know that tons of people bought the 1050Ti scam card and have spent their lives playing at garbage frame rates rather than getting an AMD card.... Even the GTX 1650 offered lower performance than an RX570 in alot of scenarios.... Now the 6500XT is the first "budget" card in a long time and it still doesn't really exceed the RX580 for around the same money 5 years later.
Good old days, bought one to attempt to upgrade a prebuilt with a GT705, turns out it couldn't fit so now it's been sitting inside a cuoboard for like 6.5 years haha
3050 would be a really good GPU in a normal market and at usual 50 series pricing.
Yeah performance wise it's almost a refresh of the GTX 1070. Only marginally better, and with roughly the same price as the 1070 almost 6!!!! years ago. Edit: 150-200 € would be a good price for it imho.
$150 wouldve made it insane yet $500+ will be the norm till 2027
@@erikbritz8095 Looking at previous "50" cards, $150 seems about right if the market was normal right now.
@@gamerxt333 hey $200 still would be a good amount but not $500 or $650 as it is in my country now
@@erikbritz8095 In my country it's out of stock but priced between the 1650 and the 2060 so right now it's the best value. I bought a 2070s for not much more two years ago though.
I would love to see more stock of these, but I have a feeling this product launch will be very Ryzen 3300x like.
well the 3300x was an OEM part only lol, they already have these cards from 4 AIB partners on benchmark videos
@@kyles8524 idk about your country but u could buy the 3300x for a while at PC stores outright in Australia.
@@kyles8524 The 3300x was not an OEM only part. They had them in my local Microcenter. You may be thinking of the 5300g which was released recently and is OEM only.
There are two variants of 3050
The one that's released now is based on cut down 3060 dies (GA106) and will be probably one time only.
The other variant is presumably coming later which should be efficient and have wider availability and cheaper (in theory) since it will be based on smaller die (GA107) with similar performance
This is basically what Moore's Law is dead already confirmed with retailers. This is a card that Nvidia is barely actually nothing and just cutting down some leftover die from another project instead
RTX 3050 is available in India just for $800 only! Great buy!
Ouch, that's too damn high...
Yeah its for 600-700 dollar mark in India. Crazy pricing.
@Kzn Nzn jeez so much hate. I am a single guy and have 3 toilets in my house. Ever wish to use a restroom in an emergency... you're most welcome smartass(sarcasm obviously).
@@dushypal469😂 what about the tickets? Who will pay for those
@@mindrover777 haha could turn ot into a business...thanks😂😂
It's a pretty good card that can do ray tracing with DLSS. But good luck getting one for anything less than 75-100% over MSRP or w/o having to buy it in a "bundle" with another piece of gear that you don't really want.
I'd really love to upgrade my 1060 3GB but I cannot stomach having to pay $450+ US for a 3050.
nvidia removed the msrp, now they just sell to each vendor for the price they want
Yea... It makes no sense. Just get a RX6600. The more that people buy Nvidia the more they get away with scamming everyone.
@Randy Names Yea, exactly. There are a few games that have a couple small RT effects and it should be fine in those games. However those games RT effects being small.... also have a small visual impact. So its not like you would miss them if you didn't use them.
screw ray tracing. no real pc people want to play at 30 fps. anything under 60 is heresy same with playing of effen low detail. you might as well just get a console at that point.
@@XX-121 So true, but some games have minimal effects and you can play with RT on without a problem. As I said above though those affects aren't so noticable either... Riftbreaker has real RT and I can notice it... But my 6800 can do 90FPS 4K high settings with RT on...
I really like the Palit cards simplicity. Shame I’ve never seen them in the US.
I'am stick to Palit since GTX660 )
They're abundant here in Asia
i was SUPER interested in their passively cooled 1050ti back when it dropped. glad i ultimately went with a 1060 6gb though, the lifespan of this card is unparalleled.
i'm surprised you actually managed to get this card
edit: guys i know vendors send out stuff, this was supposed to be a joke on the current situation of acquiring a graphics card at time of release or at msrp
He has contacts...
With almost half million sub sure just about any vendor would give him products to review. First time I have seen he do it. He he did cus its a budget card
im surprised you havent, its been 2 years. if you really wanted one youd get one. quit whinning that shit is so annoying. literally go on facebook marketplace, ebay, buy a prebuilt with a card for the same price, join those discoord servers that alert you when cards are in stock... yooou have so many options yet all you do is complain. smh.
@@BeatlessAnimations Yeah...in the USA or UK...
@@BeatlessAnimations agree, I managed to get a 3070 no LHR used off someone because I kept talking with others who managed get many gpus for 700 then I further traded my 3070 back in august for a LHR 3080 msi gaming Z with 300 cash on top it’s not too hard all you need to is get up try.
I like your "fps targeting" approach. Maybe you can make another video about this GPU with a 100 or 120 fps target, including 540p to 1080p DLSS comparisons.
I really hope they start pumping these things out like crazy. It really should be a bit better for the price compared to the 2060 and 3060, but it still seems to get the job done and has DLSS which even with a 3070 and up, is a great feature to have.
The 40 series needs to start off with a low teir card and a high teir card, not just the 4080 and 4090. A 4050 and a 4080 should be the first cards launched. IMO
I think they will milk these $500+ rtx 3050s till sept. Then drop the RTX 4050 cheaper at $250-$290 muchhh later this is so they make money first then keep people happy later.
a 4010 is my dream
@@erikbritz8095 First Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 GAMING OC 8G I see getting sold here in the Netherlands costs 549 Euro
When the market absorbs the high end cards Nvidia has no incentive to release entry level cards. They'd rather sell the large margin product. The fact the 3050 is out means crypto apocalypse's end is on sight.
@@kajurn791 I hope you're 👍
Nice to see you got your hands on it early from Palit!
looks very good for an "entry level" card. it smashed the amd rx 6500 xt at least. it's a pity I won't be able to buy it cause the price will skyrocket.
the 6500 XT is a laptop GPU cosplaying as a Desktop one :-P
@@kirisuma2186 I mean, it barely get over my 145 cad bought rx 570 4gb, that's just deceiving.
@@SirBojo4 My question is this, how does the 570 4gb handle over the 6500XT. I know there is a 4gb and 8gb model for the 570 and 580.
@@urlond9371 i own an rx570 4gb and also bought a 6500xt for $199 to put in my sons pc.
The 6500xt is faster than an rx570 in some situations, but a little slower in situations where the graphics settings hit the vram hard. Both my pc use pcie 3.0.
Using a newer system with pcie 4.0 the 6500xt is a little faster than rx570. Definitely not an “upgrade” for me but replaced the 2gb gtx950 in my sons pc and he couldn’t be happier with the massive jump in performance he got.
@@evers6214 bruh thats a pretty decent pricing, the 6500xt is literally priced at my whole month salary in my area
each of your videos make my day! keep up the good work
Thanks :)
Honestly love this review. Instead of others always hitting high-ultra settings. Its nice to see which settings closely hit 60FPS.
Really appreciate the video. As of March 20, writing this comment. This card here in BAHRAIN is currently 149.900 BHD which is about 398 US Dollars.
3:44 I was anxiously expecting a "Nice" after saying the average FPS
Yes , my disappointment was huge .. One does not simply see 69 and not say „nice“
It's basically an RTX enabled 1070 which isn't a bad thing if you can get it at MSRP.
@Kzn Nzn that's the problem
The card is basícally a 1660 Ti with rtx features, which is not amazing considering the 2060 is still around, but as an entry level gpu it's fine. Just hope people can find it for a reasonable price
You are pure legend , i hope you reach 500K subs soon . Best videos ive seen on whole youtube in this category , i mean benchmarks and pc stuff , unique way of edit and commentary makes you better then other benchmark channel for me .
It’s refreshing to have a review of a budget card where the reviewer isn’t whining about it’s performance at “Ultra settings with Uber high resolution texture packs!”
This is relevant, especially after the same channels that panned budget cards ran a piece saying “it’s stupid to run max settings.”
Ya I hate that. I get that it's useful for pushing cards to their limit to chart their performance but it heavily skews the results.
For example a GTX 1060 might get ~75 FPS @ Medium/High settings and barely 40 FPS at Ultra and yet there's only a slight increase in visual quality between the two, or perhaps you have to sacrifice something dumb like volumetric fog or not use things like TAA.
Conversely, something like an RTX 3080 might get 157 FPS @ Medium/High settings and 110 FPS at Ultra (theoretically, same game as the GTX 1060)
So it makes the GTX 1060 look way way worse than it actually is. Like I said, it skews the results and doesn't show good real-world examples, which makes people think they NEED those 80-class and 800-class cards to get an enjoyable experience.
The gpu was struggling at medium settings at 1080p in cp 2077, imagine future real current games, it is very realistic to test games to se how well it will fare, and this gpu was born underpowered.
I stayed up all night ready to buy a 3050, refreshed the page like 50 times, 3 minutes before "launch" it went from "coming soon" to "out of stock" after one refresh. It's a hard knock's life
Wow 😔
F.
Hope there'll be a version that works with just the PCIe slot power, these cards are usually nice to throw in a decent office computer.
1080p 200fps excel gaming
I had one in my cart at 250, but the thing clearly sold out before I could enter payment details. Shame!
Hopefully it’ll be back
Dont know why you kept texture resolution to medium and low in some cases. Isnt it impacts mostly the video memory and just a bit the overall performance.
I didn't get it too.
My beast of a 980ti still outperforms the newest cards. Can't beat that!
980ti in 2022 video any time soon? Would love to see your thoughts.
Hate to rain on your parade, but... this is the weakest card in the generation, and the 980 Ti is outperformed by every other 30 series card, even the 3060 is about 20% faster.
Yes! Would love to see that video
@@maewemeetagain who cares 980ti should be long gone yet its still running strong.
OC 1500MHZ 980Ti is perfect for todays games even at 1440p
@@erikbritz8095 It's a beast, literally matches 1070, 2060, 3050. Maybe by 4000 series it will finally be outdated. I only ever want to upgrade to a 3060 or higher as it's simply not worth upgrading to anything less!
see every other major review channels dont show what it takes to get 60 fps with the new cards. this is so much more helpful.
Great look at a new card, nice to know what it's capable of even if the prices are pretty unknown. I had hoped the -50 cards wouldn't need more power than just the pcie slot but I suppose that low power of a card may not even be made into a full discrete GPU nowadays.
It's so weird my 9600GT didn't have one. I was so confused at first.
In general I don't bother with ray-tracing unless I can still stay at a steady 60 FPS. Cyberpunk looks very pretty with it on but I get huge drops below that even with DLSS so I don't bother.
I can get 70-80 with rtx on using a 3070ti and a r5 5600x at 1080p.
@Kzn Nzn Best looking open world first person. I think the performance is worth the trade off
@Kzn Nzn It does feel empty I agree
@@GhettoPCbuilds I beg to differ. I played it on my 5600 XT on med high and ultra ray tracing on my cousin's 3070, it looks good at some angles but barren at most. Ghost of Tsushima had a better looking open world even if it was made flat.
You can, but you need something else than the 3050.
When ray tracing first came out the 2060 was considered inadequate for implementation of it therefore I bought a 2070Super. Now they release the 3050 with ray tracing and I have to wonder if it wouldnt have been a better idea to have installed something else in place of the ray tracing cores ,say more cache memory or compute units? But its just a marketing gimmick anyway right
With Dlss it works great. Without dlss not so much
Compared to what a boon dlss is, ray tracing is still like nothing more then a resource hog gimmick
Raytracing is the gimmick, RT cores have a ton of useful, but situational features.
Most importantly, DLSS helps with 1440p and even VR (if you can set it up correctly).
There's also stuff like Nvidia broadcast if you do streaming.
I own both a 1660s and 2070s and personally, I find these features very useful.
If we were in an ideal world, this is definitely a buy vs the already very good value 1660s since they are priced very closely. But again, reality sucks.
minecraft is basically the only reason reason RAY TRACING is even relevant right now
Thats not how this works.
Its a cut down 3060 die they cant just make the rt cores dissappear
2:35 swear i thought i just got a notifcation
I would have liked a comparison to similarily priced older used cards like 970/980, 1070 or 2060 at the end or in the conclusion as your viewers are on a more strict budget for the most cases. Thank you for your real life testing!
In the UK the MSRP is meant to be £250 and for an xx50 card that is pretty expensive. The cheapest I can find one is for £360.... Dififfcult times to build a PC
RX6500XT... it plays games just fine in 1080p especially if you adjust textures of AAA games to not exceed the VRAM.
Yeah if you build a PC from scratch a 6500XT/6600/6600XT seem like the better options. If you really need Nvidia the low end models of 3050 cards or (maybe in some markets) even a 12GB 2060...
@@RS-nq8xk yea, its hard now to get anything Nvidia. If you don't need CUDA, its best to go with RDNA2 especially with the consoles being RDNA2. The new games coming out are much faster on RDNA2.
I've seen single fan palit go for as low as £289 on scan and novatech. even cheaper on ebay. I got dual fan for £300 from softcat.
It's actually the only card that has seen decent stock levels with constants restocks all the time cause it's of no use to miners. you need to remember nvidia msrp doesn't include tax which is 20% in uk and since this gpu didn't have a founders edition manufacturers tend to sell a bit higher as they decide how much extra to charge for their build/fans/rgb on the card etc.
The only rtx 3050 sku that makes sense tbh.
If available at msrp, this would be a really good buy.
I have the 1660 super stormx and I would definitely get this instead if I could just for DLSS and nvdia broadcast features. (Very useful when working from home!)
They won't hit msrp, they are all 330 and plus, so this is more like a rtx 2060 replacement ...
Thank's man, I have the same setup
Came out in the netherlands today. Chepeast one was 550 euros, most expensive 600. It's crazy
While testing Fortnite you always must turn the settings down to low, since its eSports game literally almost nobody plays it over low preset, so high preset results are irrelevant if we don't get low settings results as well.
Benchmark don't need the settings to be messed with. Just Max it and check the fps. Whats the point of running on low preset on benchmarks anyway?
I was shocked when I realised that this low end GPU has 8 GB VRAM. Seeing the rapid change of tech makes me sad. Even 4-5 years ago you could play almost every game with a decent framerate only with a 2 GB GPU.
Yep, nowadays games like Cyberpunk and Resident Evil Village use upwards of 6+ GB for 1080p high settings, 8 GB really feels like it's the bare minimum now
Yeah I made 2GB go a long way back in the day 😂
5 years ago the 1050 was released with only 2 GB VRAM...that's a huge jump.
@RO Almost only GPUs from older series are below this. It is the weakest RTX 3000 card. So this is low end.
@RO 1660 is the sbsolute low end nowadays for a decent experience. Suffering from 30-59 fps is not an option lol
I built a new PC last year just before the chip shortage
I paid $300 for a new gtx1660super
I think I was damned lucky with my timing
Yeah you definitely were :)
@@RandomGaminginHD I just bought a 3060 laptop Ryzen 7, upgraded the ram for dual channel 32gb for $1100
Prebuilts and laptops are the best value right now just because they can actually get the chips at the correct price
@11:30 SiliconFix:
*stares lovingly at the Zotac 1050ti LP he started his channel on two years ago, on the recommendation from RGHD.
Thanks for that btw man. Really solid advice and I've been lurking the channel ever since, so wanna say I really appreciate the honest take you give us gamers cuz I really used your tips for stepping-stones into this weird world. lol Can't thank youtubers like you enough for that but lately I've really been trying to make a point to specifically let yall all know. Keep up the awesome work man
Well done - superb video as usual! For those lucky enough to get this today at RPP its a decent(ish) deal. For the people who bought it at £399....commiserations
Former, not likely. Latter, indeed.
Huh, I didn't realize any of the 3050s would have 8gb of vram. How would this compete with a rx 6600?
its about 20-25% worse than a rx6600
gets stomped by the 6600. its alot better than the 6500 xt tho. about 5 percent better than a gtx 1070 also
Gets stomped by the RX 6600, but that's to be expected, given that the 6600 is meant to be a $329 card and the 3050 is meant to be a $249 card. Comparing different price points doesn't help.
Might have to pop this in a build for my sister. She only plays minecraft tbh so I think this would be nice for her since she might want to play other games. Thanks for the review.
8 tabs open, F5 refreshes galore, auto logins all sorted. I still failed to get one.
Looks like a good card, tbh. I like the styling and form factor too. Just a shame about how over-priced they all are...
Palit makes great cards ! I always look for this brand.
From 3:17 until 3:39.. I missed everything you were saying and rooting for you to get that damn door to close XD
"thundermaster"......... Sounds like the nickname for the kid in a summer camp who broke the loudest wind. Nice review!
Nvidia marketing is trying to disguise that it's a $300+ card, labeled to compete with cards that sold _new_ for around $99 USD. That's one gripe against it.
That said, this would have been a great choice for handling the grunt of encoding for the PC I was arranging for that purpose.
Problem is, I still needed something around a 3080 or better for my main PC, first.
Thanks for the video!
Based on all the other reviews I have seen on this 3050, I might as well stick with my GTX1070. Exact same performance.
Edit: Well, no DLSS though...
Or RT
Well yes, Nvidia's logic is that the 50 is the same as the 70 of 2 past generations.
950=670
1050=770
1650=970
3050=1070
@@takehirolol5962 Look at numerology go!
@@UncleMikeRetro Yep, Nvidia never fails at this!
@@takehirolol5962 love it!
just wanted to say well done for getting on the media coverage list with PALIT hopefully you can now start adding other brands to your list for other items to showcase
Nice for getting the card sent to you dude!!!
Run Fortnite with DX12. Sometimes there's stutters. If so, restart the game. You get an insane performance uplift, and it utilises the GPU a lot better.
Apparently if you disable fullscreen optimizations you get performance improvements in that game.
@@dagnisnierlins188 In Radeon Settings you mean?
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep no, it's a Windows setting, check on RUclips how to disable.
@@dagnisnierlins188 You mean in the application executable properties?
@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep yes, under compatibility settings. Some games run better some worse.
I think it's a wonderful 1660 Ti with 2 extra Gb's of VRAM. 1660 Ti was a helluva card! And with some DLSS, why not?
the 1660 ti didn't cost 400+ dollars though
@@ketrub yeah...but it does now, and it's the same kind of performance. Shouldn't even be a 30 series card truthfully.
3050 on release!?
Moving up in the world buddy it's great to see you getting stock from the source for reviews :)
Been here since sub 1k subscriber's!
I'm glad Plait sent you the card, they are of good quality, reliable! :D I too prefer to set the RGB to depend on the temperatures from cold to hot.
This Graphics Card is so small, it's almost looks great to build on sleeper PCs! I was going to build a Sleeper PC but I didn't knew this graphics card exist!
Can you run Lost in Vivo on terrible GPUs on your next video? Thanks.
Been watching many reviews on the RTX 3050. From what I can see this card performs similarly to the older GTX 1070 (released June 2016) and the newer GTX 1660 Super (released late October 2019). Enabling ray tracing also seems to significantly reduce the performance of this card.
Yeah, and from what I have seen in Japan the pricing for these has made a non super 1660 for 20% lower prize and a 12GB 2060 for like 10% more seem like good value... haha
Definitely i will get this card to create a mini ITX build.
I got one of these to tie me over, managed to cop one from a decent retailer with next day free shipping for 230 quid. I know it's not great compared to what it used to be but it's certainly not bad in the current market at all. Google shopping works wonders sometimes...
Can I ask which retailer you got it from?
its basically a rtx 2050 in terms of where it stands in the nvidia lineup. about 10 percent slower than a 2060. id compare it to a 1660 ti but has dlss and raytracing capabilities.
A laptop 2060 perform like 1660 ti too
@@Khened that's the mobile version of the 2060 though. The mobile chips do not perform on the same level as their desktop counterpart due to TDP limitations.
@@Punisher6791 ik but the joke is there
@@Khened not 10 percent. 2060 performs much higher, around 20 to 30 percent min.
If price ever gets under control for this card, it would be pretty good. It’s far far better than the mess that AMD shit out on to market.
Its also 100% more expensive right now.
scalped straight away , stores really need to implement some sort of proof/buying system that prevents it
A lot of stores have. It just doesn't work... because nothing works against these people.
That it isn't 75 watts really is a bummer. It can't be a replacement for the 1050 ti
Because it goes higher than 75w ? Even modern 300w PSUs can use a power cable. Unless you simply dont like it going higher than 75w regardless for some other reason.
I wouldnt get this card though, because in a normalised market it would probably be similar to a 2070 when compared to the performance of other 3000 cards, and cheaper.
While its a gpu that loses out to 1070, for me this card looks like a future classic to the home theater crowd with its $250 entry point to AV1 encoding. This is like buying a 1050 or a cheap quadro for nvenc
You should do the ultimate tiny gpu comparison between this one and the 1650super and the rx5500xt
Watched this again as I love these itx based gpus 🥰🥰👍 and after many months now of gaming on an itx version of this GPU in one of my builds I can say it’s an amazing GPU for gaming …. Both 1080p and 1440p gaming on new and older AAA titles and more. Great value (got mine at launch for $12USD above MSRP/ RRP) and being a single fan model doesn’t affect temps or fan noise!!!
this is why I switched my hobby to Motorcycle there is just no parts available unless your willing to pay twice as much
This is a solid card for 1080p+.
It sounds like it's currently overpriced, though.
Our boy is a day one hardware reviewer. Congratulations.
Dang man, a brand new GPU. You're a real youtuber now lmao
I love these little Palit Gpus, I bought a 3060 palit storm X and it is an absolute gem. The price point of the palit cards is very competitive and they hang about on the shelf a little longer than the more blingy cards so are a good option for someone looking for a gpu
What I'd like to see is a break down of each individual acronym that these GPU companies use in their GPU settings and an explanation of what it does, ECT.
Got zotac version at overclockers for £320 which I guess I'm happy enough about
To test it using GOW its better to do a benchmark of it later in the game!!! 60fps here will be 40fps on open water and in the mountain!! Tip for anyone having problems with dips in these places, put Model Quality on Original setting!!!.
Oh my god dude idk why but something about itx cards just makes me so excited lmaoo. I really want one
I'm glad you actually tested this GPU with a reasonable CPU like the 10400 and not something ridiculous like a 5950X or 12900K like everyone else did. Provides good theoretical data but piss poor applicable data.
They do it because they want to make sure the GPU is always fully utilized so you can see what the GPU is capable of. Now of course, an older CPU will work well too but in CPU bound titles it makes sense to use a CPU like that.
This GPU is the wake up call for those still with a 980 Ti: that GPU is below the modern minimum...
No lookup benchs it equals this card mate 😂 my RX570 8Gig matches it too i get 77fps in red dead 2 ultra for example this card got 83fps lol
@@erikbritz8095 Since the 3050 is the same or faster than the 1070 and the 1070 is faster than the 980 Ti...
Man if they reduced the power consumption by a bit, it could have been a banger LP card
I bought the palit rtx3050 dual oc right at launch, and must say that i have been beyond impressed considering the price. I game at 1080 p 60fps, so this card is perfect in that segment, and reaches 60+fps on most modern titles with high/maxed settings. You also gain a lot more from dlss at this resolution, averaging aboout 20 frames extra without any noticeable drop in visual quality. No use buying a more expensive card or more powerful card, because then i have to dish out on a new tv or expensive monitor to enjoy the benefits. Nvidia really did 1080p gamers a solid with this
I got a Single fan ASUS Phoenix for $250 from Newegg shuffle. Looking forward to playing around with it!
I'm actually very lucky because I got a fully working RX570 4gb for free. My friend has a.... Special touch when it comes to computers and was somehow making it overheat and crash constantly, from playing Wow and Hearthstone. Took the thing apart, didn't even replace the thermal paste or pads. Just cleaned and remounted everything and it works like a charm! Fully stress and game tested c:
WHAT to do - these days :-/ +1
@@dallesamllhals9161 Second hand market, or just wait. We people as a whole hold all the power. If most of us PC gamers banded together and boycotted the current GPU pricing by say, switching to a console for a certain period of time, we could force their hand. Making them drop the prices to MSRP or even lower.
@@janemba42 Naah! To OLD! As in 3dfx OLD!? :-O
I'm back at Retro: Socket 3 and 7 x86s, now! But Good Luck to you all ♥ (You need it)
@@dallesamllhals9161 Nah man, PCI slot Celerons are the way to go c;
@@janemba42 1100T and an AM3 board right now! Please let me just keep 'her'?
and yup: OLD/legacy PCI slots here - it's for my X-Fi Elite Pro(with Daniel_K drivers) ;-D
In july 2024, my worker friend got palit brand rtx 3050 6GB for equivalent 160 USD (include delivery fee + aftertax) with Power Supply 450 watt. Great playing game for ea fc 24 & light game before 2016
Dude i so wish you would test NIS as it works in ALL your games and that is a true gift to budget gamers just like radeon super res will be next month when it comes out
Yeah I plan to, started working on an NIS video the other day :)
@@RandomGaminginHD NICE!!!
always loved those small Palit cards
This card would be great for a mini-ITX PC build. But it's not available in the U.S., so I'll have to be willing to pay a huge markup on eBay or Amazon UK (shipped to the US).
I love the design.
Btw m8 I’ve been following you for a while and I love how your channel has developed. Thanks for the great content!
3050 single fans are the way to go if you can get one at a decent price
I always look forward to your videos bro
The rtx 3050 is 303 dollars where I live. This is after import fees and vat fees. The import fees in my country is 78 dollars on average so the rtx 3050 is 230-250 dollars when the retailer gets it brand new.
G'day Random,
No listings where I shop in Sydney yet but PC Case Gear (Hardware Unboxed Sponsor) in Melbourne has listings,
the ASUS ASUS RTX3050 Phoenix $429AUD (Australian RRP/MSRP) is listed 'Sold out'
all other models like the Gigabyte Eagle OC Pre-Order starting at $609AUD up to ASUS ROG Strix RTX3050 OC $799AUD
You should talk about FSR as well for games like Far Cry 6 and others that supports it would be nice
Unfortunately already the scalpers have bought most of them up and have reposted these cards marked up by as much as several hundred dollars more.
The retail price was absurd anyway. Nobody should be buying this garbage.
got my 3050 coming in the mail today, can't wait to OC the dirt off it and see what this entry card can do.
I snagged a RTX 3050 for $249 today at Newegg. Out of curiosity I called the CS line and they said they had quite a bit left that they are going to use for more Newegg Shuffles coming up.
Congrats, that was an extremely lucky find, you're probably within the 1% of people to buy a new GPU at MSRP in the last 2 year's
@@chillhour6155 you ain’t lying bud.
They go for 599 euros over here in NL, what a nice price for a entry level card from the current gen lol!
The trouble with the way things are now nothing released so far has been relevant to me upgrading my 8gb RX 580, anything at the low end costs more and has not enough of a performance/feature lift to justify it and anything higher up the chain is so bloody expensive it's literally not worth it, they still are not 3-4 times better for 5 times the real price, it's just scalpers and black marketeers jacking up prices because noone is stopping them.
Nice to see a board partner sending you product tho mate, nice and about time.
Your content is absolutely fantastic 😊😊
1000 cards for the whole UK, good luck folks this is the GPU market and it will not change. I have a 3070 and enjoy it a lot but you have to pay the premium.
WOW I have ordered an MSI GeForce RTX 3050 GAMING X 8G, 8GB GDDR6 and will use it on my older and weaker PC from AMD FX 8350 which I will keep as a backup for playing older games and maybe even newer ones that do not need such high demands on full details. A year ago I tried to put an RTX 3070 there and the performance went pretty low. I achieved better performance with the weaker AMD RX 5700 XT but I don't have it here anymore. I put the RTX 3070 in the AMD Ryzen 5 3500X where it works very well