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
I feel they should have shipped a2000s as rtx 3050, it will give 2060 level performance 6-12gbs of vram and and only uses 75 watts. The 3050 6gb is basically a 6gb gtx 1650 with rtx performance wise the 3050 8gb is on par with a 1660ti
@@josephdias3968 the rtx 3050 and 3060s along with the a2000 have the same graphics processor, the ga106. It's just that the a2000 has a better binned one than the other two. Nvidia can't make a whole lot of these.
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 think the sff market is perfect for the 6GB RTX 3050. That halved TDP is a selling point for me. And, yes, I already own and 8GB twin fan model by Asus.
@@sravans149 for sff? You'd be stuck with a 1030, 1050, 1650. I guess you could get one of those Tesla cards but getting the drivers can be annoying. Oh, quado is a option... But those can be stupidly priced too. Then AMD would be rx 460, 550,560, 6400 and OEM 6500 While I love the thought of Intel...their arc a380 is barely on par with the 1650. The cheapest 1650 low profile I can find is roughly $145 with tax. I'd rather get a new card for $170 that will still get driver support for a while. If I went for a full size build I'd definitely get a used GTX 1080 or rx 5700xt for sure! Hard to beat the value for $120-150.
I am watching your videos for a while now and I have to speak up and let you know that I enjoy seeing cards tested under a "Can it run games?" persoektive. Aka, you choose low presets or maybe DLSS to get the game running at 60fps and you don't just crank it to ultra and say "oh no only 10fps". Of course this makes comparrisons between cards hard, but that's, I think, valid. Not all Channels need to test the same way and as I said, I really enjoy a simple "can you game on it, and if so, what settings/Resolutions can I expect" view. Great work, keep it up.
Rx 6500 xt and 6400 can be had 150-200 usd brand new and they only come with 4gb of ram. This thing is around 180 dollars and perform better than those two. I dont understand the hate from this card at all. 6gb of vram is still fine for most games. Not everyone wants to play the newest and most expensive games out there.
I have the 8GB 3050. It is fine, although nobody seems to be able to get it at a good price, except me. The card on this video was probably meant for upgrading old office PCs as a very low budget gaming PC, and that could explain the low power consumption, as most office PCs have low wattage power supplies and will most certainly not like higher powered cards. Also, the specs are extremely close to the A2000, just without a 12GB variant and no ECC, to keep costs down. Additional edit: yes, there is a low profile variant, like the A2000 is, that you can plug in a SFF desktop computer.
@@shrishpotdar343 RTX 3050s in the UK are £190/230 Basically after currency conversion 300$ for a generation out of date bottom end GPU...I got my 1070ti New back in the day for £400. World economy is going down the gutter and making the rich richer. But we all know it. I refuse to buy a GPU until I can get a 6700XT or better card for £250. Even then its coming 2 generations out of date in 7 months with 5 Series.
@@shrishpotdar343 I paid €280 for it, which I don't consider cheap, but a 3060, which is just a better version of the 3050, was around 230-240 euros. the only time I have seen my card lag was while rendering in Blender yesterday and on 32 chunk 1080p Minecraft with heavy shaders and no performance mods such as nvidium a month ago. Otherwise, while not the card for most people, it plays along with the tasks I put on it, paired with a non-F i5 12400 and 16GBs of DDR4@3GHz (low latency XMP), while also keeping good temps (below 60°C at all times at a moderate room airflow).
I did the absolute dumbest thing and take a 2 hour walk to microcenter to get the 30508gb model for $250 and I could have got a rtx 3060 for $270 (this was before 40 series launched)
With RTX cards you can get better image quality using a combination of DLDSR and DLSS than with DLSS alone. This is especially important at 1080p, where even DLSS Quality mode can result in a blurry image. So, for example, instead of using DLSS Quality at 1080p (with a render resolution of 720p), it'd be better to use DLDSR 1.78x and DLSS Performance (also resulting in a 720p render resolution). The image will be crisper and more stable, sometimes even better than native 1080p. The FPS boost won't be as large as with DLSS alone, but the few lost frames are more than made up by the improvement in image quality.
So the general consensus is: great care to upgrade old office PC, terrible price Btw, thanks for including Fallout 4 in the testing. There's going a next gen update soon so hopefully you'll test it again for all your videos
That would be nice, but it's already hard to find a new, weaker 1650 75w TDP card right now that costs below 140$, so a new 3050 6gb being at 100$ would make little sense. But wel'll probably see it being more commonly available on a used market, hovering at around 100-150$ cost.
@allyart5904 Do you people understand that with old computer parts they can actually get more expensive for new stock as they get older because of scarcity. i looked up 1650 on ebay and i saw offers for sub $100 buy it now. Then people will sell 10 year old cpus for 200 dollars on newegg or amazon
@allyart5904 1650 LP are inflated on the used market because it's one of the actually *decent* budget LP cards. More people would actually care about this "New" 3050 if it was priced appropriately. LP ARC cards launched around the $100 range, so I don't see why this cant. Granted, this is Nvidia we are talking about, and those ARC cards were built around rebar/SAM, not making them the most well received.
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
Sure, but consider that this GPU gives you access to the nice new RTX features available to the 30-series, and it runs completely off of PCIe slot power. It's a good GPU that's just named dumb.
@@TheAmazingCowpig Ah yes, you definitely get all the Ray Tracing features that are definitely available and special. Like RTX itself, which I'm sure runs great with 6GB of VRAM. And DLSS, which looks similar to XESS now. And Frame Gen, because Nvidia definitely didn't lock that down to 40 series arbitrarily. Advertising this as RTX is a borderline scam.
considering that it has exactly the same number of cores (2304) as the RX 580, this means they're (except VRAM size) equivalent? Wow. People complain about how AMD cards suck but NVIDIA seems to have upped their suck game as of late. They made a card that can keep up with a 7 year old GPU, and are charging twice the price. Way to go.
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.
You're exactly right. I wish they would have done it in the current series though. It's just like the nonsense they pulled with the gtx 1630. They should stop reaching back in time to fill the low tdp budget section. I wish they could keep with the current gen
@@mtzkustom7818 if they made a non quadro version of that card it would only be half the price only reason it’s expensive is the quadro branding and would have made more sense to than the rtx 3050 as a 50 series card because the 3050 6gb performs like 1650s just with rtx features the 3050 8gb performs like a 1660ti so both 3050s barely surpassing low end from 3 generations ago
@@mtzkustom7818 They really should have done a 4060 cut down instead. That would have been ~1.5 times the performance of this maybe. But they do it, because they have left over gpus ofc to get rid off. Think if it like old stock, that didnt quite meet the targets of the full working transistor count of the 3050 8gb
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)
They could have called it the RTX 3040 since that isn't there neither. The 1030 with GDDR5 is a good card considering it's price and spec back then. It didn't even need a fan so for a HTPC sollution it was a good card.
I have gt 1030 and it is just fine for WOT (hehe) and for CIV 2. I dont play any other game. I have GTX 1650 in original box, just opened and I have no excuse to leave it there.
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.
price actually not that bad. the premium coming from it's "slot powered" feature. but if consumer expect any brand new card in this segment to be priced lower than $150 that is unrealistic.
@@RandomGaminginHD for me if i ended up getting a video card it would be the rx 5700 as it has 8gb and about 94$ dollars, that thing probably would be more than 100$ i think and only 6gb? really nvidia?
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.
nvidia simply milking the market. rather than coming out with Ada they just milk ampere a bit more. also even if nvidia want to use AD107 for RTX4050 there is no way they can sell it lower than $200. not right now.
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
@@Clutch4IceCream yeah but can this do RT stuff? If not it's 100% misleading people. 2 cards with the same name and not the same parts doesn't deserve being called the same thing imo, that's manipulation
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.
@@lewzealand4717 4.0 8x is not an issue. The issue is that if you slot this into a 3.0 system, then you will run at 3.0 8x. We already see issues of the RX 6400 vs GTX 1650 when considering PCIE 3.0 systems, I can assume the bottleneck to be worse with this more powerful card.
that's not an issue at all. RTX2080Ti was significantly faster card than this (comparable to RTX 3070). spec wise the card is only have PCIE 3.0 x16. techpowerup test the card with PCIE 3.0 x8 and at most 2080Ti only lose something like 2% of it's performance.
@@MPdude237 make no mistake those issue were lack of VRAM issue not because the there is not enough bandwidth available for the card. the thing with RX6400 happen when the game start needing more VRAM than the card can provide. it is less an issue on 1650 that have full x16 connection but ideally you did not want the card to start "borrowing" more memory from system RAM to compensate the lack of VRAM. that's why people complain a lot about cards like 3070 8GB or 3080 10GB vs it's counter part that have 16GB. because the former still experience stutter despite the PCIE connector is full x16.
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
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.
I thought RTX3050 6G was trash till I got a DELL OEM PC from work. 3050 6G is the best upgrade for an OEM PC: There is no need for a power connector, and 3050 6G comes with the newest UEFI in 2024, which means you will have no issue with OEM mobo bios, HDMI 2.1 output (which is usually lacking in OEM PCs), plus AV1 decoding. It's enough for you to play some light games during office breaks. My MSI 3050 6G GAMING X even has two HDMI 2.1 outputs! I am so happy with this card for saving my DELL OEM working PC.
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.
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.
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.
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
The 3030 looks really great. Hopefully Nvidia prices it at sub $130 to make it worth buying and doesn't make the same mistake as they did with the 1630.
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 :)
Oh look, it's decently smooth when using literally under Playstation 3-tier resolution I know DLSS looks impressive and is useful, but not really from 1080p. Maybe it's decent for a 70w card, but not for this price.
This gpu is really good i first read bad comments about it it's because of its price really high compared to rx 6600 but trust me bro when you play games support dlss this rtx 3050 6gb 70wat gpu can surprise you remember it's only 70w i can play cyberpunk 2077 with 100fps dlss high medium settings i can't do this with my gtx 1660 ti !
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
I'm having the MSi RTX 3050 6GB version. Great to use in older SFF cases with bad power supplys, but otherwise i find it overpriced for what it is. :'D
It's the same speed as a 1660 so like 20% faster than a 1060,. Not worth upgrading from a 1060 as you have a PSU power cable, get a 6600 instead or a used 3060.
Honestly, if this GPU was a bit cheaper it'd be pretty good, thing is you're also (kind of) paying for the features Nvidia has, also yeah I'm not a Nvidia fanboy or anything, i have a AMD GPU
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.
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
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.
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.
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
No one sells brand new RTX 2060 graphics cards anymore. All I can find are either used or refurbished ones, which cost at least $160-200 in my country. In contrast, this other card is available for just $180, and sometimes even goes on sale for $160. Plus, it's brand new and comes with a 3-year warranty. Performance-wise, it's comparable to the GTX 1660 but with half the power consumption. It's extremely efficien, even more so than the GTX 1650 Super, which consumes more power but costs the same as it.
@@masterkamen371 How does that work in a Dell with no ReBAR and needing supplementary PCI power? And the A750 costs $35 more before adding the PSU, if it even fits. Different uses for the 2 cards.
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.
They should make a RTX 4050 (8 Gb?). I know a few people who game at 1080p and mostly play simple games yet they could benefit from frame gen whenever they want to do a playthrough of a new triple A title. It should be really power efficient considering how low the power consumption on 4060 is.
Finally a new card without power connector. But why its called a 3050? It is a highly stripped down version of the 3050. so technically a 3030.. I will buy one if the price is right. Performance look like an 1660 super, maybe a bit better. So its a win because the no power connector. Good card but the naming is questionable
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.
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 👍🏻
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.
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.
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.
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 bought this card because i don't really play demanding games and it doesn't eats the same power of my Xbox Series S. I could have bought a 6600,but i don't even max this card out. Maybe later change,but not in this woke era
This card is a replacement to 1650. But I think it is a shame they used the old chip instead of Ada which is more efficient. I thought about buying this if my old 1050 will stop working. I am limited by small PSU and weak CPU, basically anything faster than this would be bottlenecked.
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
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lol was thinking "I miss the greenery" when the testing edits started lol
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Monty Don about to show us some GPUs.
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
Should be a 3040 for sure. Or 3050t something like that. Some sort of letter anyway haha
@@RandomGaminginHDyea we need an fx8350 4080 helldivers content.
3040 Ti if we're being charitable. This is no 3050.
They should drop the X on the lower tiers like the GT 710, 1030 etc...
I'd say call it Rt 3030 lower the price a bit and it's a win
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posting video about RTX 3050 at the same time, Nice !
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.
I feel they should have shipped a2000s as rtx 3050, it will give 2060 level performance 6-12gbs of vram and and only uses 75 watts. The 3050 6gb is basically a 6gb gtx 1650 with rtx performance wise the 3050 8gb is on par with a 1660ti
@@josephdias3968 the rtx 3050 and 3060s along with the a2000 have the same graphics processor, the ga106. It's just that the a2000 has a better binned one than the other two. Nvidia can't make a whole lot of these.
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!
Thanks for watching. A low profile model would be a great choice
I think the sff market is perfect for the 6GB RTX 3050. That halved TDP is a selling point for me. And, yes, I already own and 8GB twin fan model by Asus.
POV me on rx570
RICH PEOPLE
RICH PROBLEM
You don’t need this much Card for an emulator
find cheaper 10 series cards
@@sravans149 for sff? You'd be stuck with a 1030, 1050, 1650. I guess you could get one of those Tesla cards but getting the drivers can be annoying. Oh, quado is a option... But those can be stupidly priced too.
Then AMD would be rx 460, 550,560, 6400 and OEM 6500
While I love the thought of Intel...their arc a380 is barely on par with the 1650.
The cheapest 1650 low profile I can find is roughly $145 with tax.
I'd rather get a new card for $170 that will still get driver support for a while.
If I went for a full size build I'd definitely get a used GTX 1080 or rx 5700xt for sure! Hard to beat the value for $120-150.
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.
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
2. price actually reasonable. AIB can't sell it lower than $150.
@@arenzricodexd4409they can't sell that lower because Nvidia already charging them $100
They literally defective chips that didn’t make the cut to be a weak ass 3050 this definitely a rtx 3040 class card
If 6gb is a slap to a face
Then my 1GB card is a kick to the nuts
Rx 6500 xt and 6400 can be had 150-200 usd brand new and they only come with 4gb of ram. This thing is around 180 dollars and perform better than those two. I dont understand the hate from this card at all. 6gb of vram is still fine for most games. Not everyone wants to play the newest and most expensive games out there.
I have the 8GB 3050. It is fine, although nobody seems to be able to get it at a good price, except me. The card on this video was probably meant for upgrading old office PCs as a very low budget gaming PC, and that could explain the low power consumption, as most office PCs have low wattage power supplies and will most certainly not like higher powered cards. Also, the specs are extremely close to the A2000, just without a 12GB variant and no ECC, to keep costs down.
Additional edit: yes, there is a low profile variant, like the A2000 is, that you can plug in a SFF desktop computer.
costs...How economy has fallen.
How much did you pay for it?
It's almost 20 thousand rupees or approx 200 something dollars converted
@@shrishpotdar343 RTX 3050s in the UK are £190/230 Basically after currency conversion 300$ for a generation out of date bottom end GPU...I got my 1070ti New back in the day for £400. World economy is going down the gutter and making the rich richer. But we all know it.
I refuse to buy a GPU until I can get a 6700XT or better card for £250. Even then its coming 2 generations out of date in 7 months with 5 Series.
@@shrishpotdar343 I paid €280 for it, which I don't consider cheap, but a 3060, which is just a better version of the 3050, was around 230-240 euros. the only time I have seen my card lag was while rendering in Blender yesterday and on 32 chunk 1080p Minecraft with heavy shaders and no performance mods such as nvidium a month ago. Otherwise, while not the card for most people, it plays along with the tasks I put on it, paired with a non-F i5 12400 and 16GBs of DDR4@3GHz (low latency XMP), while also keeping good temps (below 60°C at all times at a moderate room airflow).
I did the absolute dumbest thing and take a 2 hour walk to microcenter to get the 30508gb model for $250 and I could have got a rtx 3060 for $270 (this was before 40 series launched)
The passively cooled RTX 3050 is great.
Thats cool, i didnt know they made one
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.
Upscaling will never look better than native, you can only say that it looks good enough for yourself…
It will because of antialiasing
@@thetechrealistwould you rather play 20 FPS native or 40 FPS with DLSS
those are your choices
@@TheAmazingCowpig I'd rather buy a better GPU tbh lol
@@TheAmazingCowpig That has nothing to do with my comment…
I was commenting about how upscaling looks, not if I like or disliked it
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
It needs to be $100, making it an affordable and viable option for budget SFF builds
That would be nice, but it's already hard to find a new, weaker 1650 75w TDP card right now that costs below 140$, so a new 3050 6gb being at 100$ would make little sense. But wel'll probably see it being more commonly available on a used market, hovering at around 100-150$ cost.
As soon as AMD prices their shite cards that way…
This will never sell at a price below 1650 because 3050 LP is it's replacement
@allyart5904 Do you people understand that with old computer parts they can actually get more expensive for new stock as they get older because of scarcity. i looked up 1650 on ebay and i saw offers for sub $100 buy it now. Then people will sell 10 year old cpus for 200 dollars on newegg or amazon
@allyart5904 1650 LP are inflated on the used market because it's one of the actually *decent* budget LP cards. More people would actually care about this "New" 3050 if it was priced appropriately. LP ARC cards launched around the $100 range, so I don't see why this cant. Granted, this is Nvidia we are talking about, and those ARC cards were built around rebar/SAM, not making them the most well received.
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
Sure, but consider that this GPU gives you access to the nice new RTX features available to the 30-series, and it runs completely off of PCIe slot power.
It's a good GPU that's just named dumb.
There's a reason why I called it RTX 1060
@@TheAmazingCowpig Ah yes, you definitely get all the Ray Tracing features that are definitely available and special.
Like RTX itself, which I'm sure runs great with 6GB of VRAM.
And DLSS, which looks similar to XESS now.
And Frame Gen, because Nvidia definitely didn't lock that down to 40 series arbitrarily.
Advertising this as RTX is a borderline scam.
@@TheAmazingCowpig what @joemarais7683 said. =)
considering that it has exactly the same number of cores (2304) as the RX 580, this means they're (except VRAM size) equivalent? Wow. People complain about how AMD cards suck but NVIDIA seems to have upped their suck game as of late. They made a card that can keep up with a 7 year old GPU, and are charging twice the price. Way to go.
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.
You're exactly right. I wish they would have done it in the current series though. It's just like the nonsense they pulled with the gtx 1630. They should stop reaching back in time to fill the low tdp budget section. I wish they could keep with the current gen
A2000 12gb spanks it and it’s a quadro though they should have just make a 2060 low profile 75 watt gpu which is the a2000 essentially
@@josephdias3968A2000 is way above this price point. I'm not sure how it's relative in this comparison
@@mtzkustom7818 if they made a non quadro version of that card it would only be half the price only reason it’s expensive is the quadro branding and would have made more sense to than the rtx 3050 as a 50 series card because the 3050 6gb performs like 1650s just with rtx features the 3050 8gb performs like a 1660ti so both 3050s barely surpassing low end from 3 generations ago
@@mtzkustom7818 They really should have done a 4060 cut down instead. That would have been ~1.5 times the performance of this maybe. But they do it, because they have left over gpus ofc to get rid off. Think if it like old stock, that didnt quite meet the targets of the full working transistor count of the 3050 8gb
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)
They could have called it the RTX 3040 since that isn't there neither. The 1030 with GDDR5 is a good card considering it's price and spec back then. It didn't even need a fan so for a HTPC sollution it was a good card.
They did. The 1630 exists.
GTX 3030 cause RT on that stump card is fckng unplayable joke
I have gt 1030 and it is just fine for WOT (hehe) and for CIV 2. I dont play any other game. I have GTX 1650 in original box, just opened and I have no excuse to leave it there.
THIS IS VERY GOOD GRAPHIC CARD
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.
price actually not that bad. the premium coming from it's "slot powered" feature. but if consumer expect any brand new card in this segment to be priced lower than $150 that is unrealistic.
I almost got this but got the 4060 instead
Nice :)
Dodged a bullet
enjoy your stutters
because both costs the same? how you were buying one and ended with the other, sounds like a joke to me
@@RandomGaminginHD for me if i ended up getting a video card it would be the rx 5700 as it has 8gb and about 94$ dollars, that thing probably would be more than 100$ i think and only 6gb? really nvidia?
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.
Nvidia waits a year or 2 to release the low/slot powered models. 70W 4050 in 2025. Maybe.
It's NVIDIA, not "nVidia"
@@thetechrealistit is 30% faster than 1650
@@quisqueyanguy120 Nah you're right, I didn't get enough sleep today...
nvidia simply milking the market. rather than coming out with Ada they just milk ampere a bit more. also even if nvidia want to use AD107 for RTX4050 there is no way they can sell it lower than $200. not right now.
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
It has nothing to do with that, Nvidia killed off their GTX line. RTX is all that exists moving forward.
@@Clutch4IceCream yeah but can this do RT stuff? If not it's 100% misleading people.
2 cards with the same name and not the same parts doesn't deserve being called the same thing imo, that's manipulation
RTX is fine, it does RT even if it's functionally useless. But it should be a 3040, maybe 3040 Ti.
@@GK_Squid my laptop with the 3050 6gb (has 2560 cores instead of 2304) can do 45fps on minecraft with rt lmao, and portal with rt was unplayable
Yeah it can do ray tracing which for anyone in this price range will almost never use outside of screenshots
Bro you have to start including Helldivers 2 in these benchmarks, its a pretty demanding game.
Yeah keep meaning to actually! I’ll add it soon :)
Also The Finals Please
For democracy!
@@RandomGaminginHD please include multiplayer footage when you eventually do it, it's where the game tanks the most 🙏
@inGameweTrusted the finals gets like around 90-110 fps on the lowest with dlss
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.
Just hope nvidia becomes better in the future
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.
Keep that same energy looking at AMD’s product stack or Intel
Which doesn't restrict it. Consider that the 4070 and higher have 4x the bandwidth at 4.0x16 vs. 3.0x8 and are 4x as powerful.
@@lewzealand4717 4.0 8x is not an issue. The issue is that if you slot this into a 3.0 system, then you will run at 3.0 8x. We already see issues of the RX 6400 vs GTX 1650 when considering PCIE 3.0 systems, I can assume the bottleneck to be worse with this more powerful card.
that's not an issue at all. RTX2080Ti was significantly faster card than this (comparable to RTX 3070). spec wise the card is only have PCIE 3.0 x16. techpowerup test the card with PCIE 3.0 x8 and at most 2080Ti only lose something like 2% of it's performance.
@@MPdude237 make no mistake those issue were lack of VRAM issue not because the there is not enough bandwidth available for the card. the thing with RX6400 happen when the game start needing more VRAM than the card can provide. it is less an issue on 1650 that have full x16 connection but ideally you did not want the card to start "borrowing" more memory from system RAM to compensate the lack of VRAM. that's why people complain a lot about cards like 3070 8GB or 3080 10GB vs it's counter part that have 16GB. because the former still experience stutter despite the PCIE connector is full x16.
Love your videos Mr Random ✌️😁
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
Yeah good idea. See if it’s a decent upgrade path
if only this card was $100-120 and called rtx 3040 it would be perfect! nice review :D
you will not going to see new card launching with price lower than $150.
yea i know, im saying it would be perfect if it was launched at that price like old gpus from back in the day
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.
I thought RTX3050 6G was trash till I got a DELL OEM PC from work. 3050 6G is the best upgrade for an OEM PC:
There is no need for a power connector, and 3050 6G comes with the newest UEFI in 2024, which means you will have no issue with OEM mobo bios, HDMI 2.1 output (which is usually lacking in OEM PCs), plus AV1 decoding. It's enough for you to play some light games during office breaks.
My MSI 3050 6G GAMING X even has two HDMI 2.1 outputs! I am so happy with this card for saving my DELL OEM working PC.
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 ❤
bravo sir! this is the best gpu for someone without pcie power cables.
Good video. Thank you, my dude.
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.
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.
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.
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
The 3030 looks really great. Hopefully Nvidia prices it at sub $130 to make it worth buying and doesn't make the same mistake as they did with the 1630.
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 :)
Oh look, it's decently smooth when using literally under Playstation 3-tier resolution
I know DLSS looks impressive and is useful, but not really from 1080p.
Maybe it's decent for a 70w card, but not for this price.
Why was this card made?
🤑🤑🤑
Same reason why the 1630 was
Which is? Lol@@ivanlimzg
To give old OEM system with no feasible upgrade path a last hurrah, I guess.
Asian markets that can't easily get a 1080 on eBay
This gpu is really good i first read bad comments about it
it's because of its price really high compared to rx 6600
but trust me bro when you play games support dlss this rtx 3050 6gb 70wat gpu can surprise you
remember it's only 70w
i can play cyberpunk 2077 with 100fps dlss high medium settings
i can't do this with my gtx 1660 ti !
For entry casual build, this is actually solid. My eyes can’t believe these comments saying that it’s performing sht.
I have Fallout 4 just remembered, thanks
I have a question for Nvid- WHYYY????
this is really good for pcs that dont have good psu, no extra power connector...
@@lucaswyrm7323 It is, but the price has no sense, it is very close rx 6600 price
@@fabino8 but you cant put rx 6600 in a low power pc
@@hayk3r not on mine, i have an itx pc case with a 350w psu
Not worth it for the money they are asking for it. If this was 100 or under it would be great.
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
i dont know whats going on with youtube but i been having to resubscribe to a bunch of channels for some reason. so i gonna resub.
same bro. it's been going on for over 2 weeks now.
Wow, you survived first 2 enemy attacks in CS GO!!!
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)
A 1660 Super will wipe the floor over that 6GB 1650.
From this video, it seems that the 3050 runs fine even with only a 96-bit bus. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.
I really like the Palit Kalmx version, but at £170-180, I'm going ot have to say nope.
It's funny to see how absolutely tiny this card is compared to the more beefier modern cards with overengineered coolers.
1/4 the power means 1/4 the cooler?
Was looking at this card due to it not requiring extra power. Perfect timing.
I would like to see a RT 4010 and how its performance would look like.
Yeah same
I'm having the MSi RTX 3050 6GB version.
Great to use in older SFF cases with bad power supplys, but otherwise i find it overpriced for what it is. :'D
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?
From a 1060 sure. Would make a decent choice. I’d still suggest the 8GB one or 6600 though
It's the same speed as a 1660 so like 20% faster than a 1060,. Not worth upgrading from a 1060 as you have a PSU power cable, get a 6600 instead or a used 3060.
I am buying one , happy gaming and happy blending 😊
Honestly, if this GPU was a bit cheaper it'd be pretty good, thing is you're also (kind of) paying for the features Nvidia has, also yeah I'm not a Nvidia fanboy or anything, i have a AMD GPU
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.
I wonder how the RTX 3050 6GB handles against the 2050, seeing the cheapest desktop rtx vs the cheapest laptop rtx gpu would be a cool comparison
The amount of old PC's this GPU can revive is unimaginable...
I never thought I'd see square video cards.
Haha I quite like it
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
Did you buy it?
Hey! Thank you for video.
If possible in your next videos add also "RPM Fan" it would be help a lot.
The minecraft test is really interesting, I tried it myself and got around 55-60 fps with upscaling. I have the msi oc version
Nice i’m getting one of those because I need a pcie powered card because my power supply is only 180 W
I have to say the Apex gameplay is in deathmatch with shrunken map so the performance tends to be lighter than the BR maps.
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.
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.
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
Isn't the 2060 faster and usually cheaper?
Higher wattage too
No one sells brand new RTX 2060 graphics cards anymore. All I can find are either used or refurbished ones, which cost at least $160-200 in my country. In contrast, this other card is available for just $180, and sometimes even goes on sale for $160. Plus, it's brand new and comes with a 3-year warranty. Performance-wise, it's comparable to the GTX 1660 but with half the power consumption. It's extremely efficien, even more so than the GTX 1650 Super, which consumes more power but costs the same as it.
Gonna be fun to see how Fallout 4 performs on the lower end cards after its update on the 25th...
Is it possible you add DCS world, squad or arma 3 to your testing? those are pretty demanding titles which are commonly not tested :(
Finally the successor to the 1650
The RT 3030 💀
I might get one for an old Dell build for the Mrs!
youre not loving her. For the love of god wtf that fps/$ value is absolutely disgusting.
It's horrible for what it costs. My Arc A750 was about the same price and it literally gets double the performance. Sometimes even more.
@@masterkamen371 How does that work in a Dell with no ReBAR and needing supplementary PCI power? And the A750 costs $35 more before adding the PSU, if it even fits. Different uses for the 2 cards.
@@lewzealand4717 Arc A380 and RebarUEFI.
As a max 75w card and replacement for the 1650 this is a good card. Many a parents pc can now be upgraded.
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.
Nobody runs Shadow of the Tomb Raider anymore. 😢
fallout 4 aslo has new content comeing out on the 25th of april to anther resone people are playing again
Followed you for many years now. Nr1. Random gaming. Nr2. TimmyJoe. Nr3. YesTechCity
They should make a RTX 4050 (8 Gb?). I know a few people who game at 1080p and mostly play simple games yet they could benefit from frame gen whenever they want to do a playthrough of a new triple A title.
It should be really power efficient considering how low the power consumption on 4060 is.
1-2 years from now. Nvidia has been delaying the low power slot-powered models for a while.
You can install FSR3 mods or the DLSS to FSR3 mod
@@JoeHoeDoesSomething That mods is not free
If SLI was made with it, I think it would probably be a beast.. can u try it maybe?
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.
Finally a new card without power connector. But why its called a 3050? It is a highly stripped down version of the 3050. so technically a 3030.. I will buy one if the price is right. Performance look like an 1660 super, maybe a bit better. So its a win because the no power connector. Good card but the naming is questionable
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.
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
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 👍🏻
rtx 4060 is 115w
@@pajarocarpintero570 yeah , I read that it was 100-150 w , so I guess I don't have any other choice than upgrading to the 3050 6 gb
@@pajarocarpintero570 no sé para que respondo en inglés si tienes el nombre en español jajajajajajaja, me acabo de dar cuenta
@@nicolasaniceto3495hey wait, theres a 4060 low profile model from gigabyte for around the same price as the normal 4060, maybe look at that.
DLSS really saves this card's bacon.
Good for old ITX builds
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.
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.
Just the job for upgrading a prebuilt. Doubtless there are games that it cant handle, but for 99.9% it will cope on lower detail levels just fine.
Im rarely of gaming and this is perfect combination with i3 14100f curious how well they both went
LOL, i did not even know 6Gb version existed
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.
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Crazy to think a low-end GPU at £160ish is cheap after how crazy the prices went a few years ago.
I feel like this card would be perfect as a replacement for the P600 in my server for doing transcodes
"GAMING" with the new 3050... chokes on words and dies...
What are you on about? He did game on it didn't he
@@deedeecarlsberg1568 define game
Have you seen the passivly cooled model from palit, looks like a cool and quite unique card
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 bought this card because i don't really play demanding games and it doesn't eats the same power of my Xbox Series S. I could have bought a 6600,but i don't even max this card out. Maybe later change,but not in this woke era
RTX 3050 6GB with an i3 12100f or even the would be a really nice combo. You should make a video on that.
This card is a replacement to 1650. But I think it is a shame they used the old chip instead of Ada which is more efficient. I thought about buying this if my old 1050 will stop working. I am limited by small PSU and weak CPU, basically anything faster than this would be bottlenecked.