Im going to put aside the contraversy of the whole 3050 release and pricing.....as far as performance and cost goes the MSI version looks like its one of the best ones. Thanks Mike and Kath
I agree Bob. Very nice card. Will keep this one on my radar. Thank you MSI for Letting Mike review this. Great review as always from The Dynamic Duo. Cheers
Good to see you looking on form Mike.👍 Liked this review. Since the 'purge', with the chaos from the lack of parts et its a relief to see some more availability AND reasonable NOT spiked pricing. 👀Luckily I upgraded my systems in 2019 BEFORE hell opened its gates.. which also meant I had some surplus parts et I managed TWO builds that were well received by certain members of the family / friends et keeping more or less to the original pricing et. 😉It will be interesting, 'moving forward' with the fractious momentum caused by the hype and robbery re the energy companies as to how that will affect us builders.
I have only taken note of gpu pricing last couple years and as we all know pricing went bananas. Old news i know. That aside i love the attention yo detail, the quality in build and looks. Surprised by how well it performs too! As my systems are both pcie gen 3 the band width restrictions were my concern. Thanks for interesting review Mike and Kath👍
I`ve got the 8GB OC Ventus version but since I only game at 1080 I can`t complain. At the time I got a good deal on it and couldn`t find an RX 6600 here in the states.
I got the Ventus version of this card, it's a solid card but I kind of wished I would have got the RX 6600 now but at the time I found a decent deal for the RTX 3050 Ventus card so ended up with that.
right now theres a Discount Price for 300 Dollars for this Graphics Card, and the thing is, is that I Currently Had a AMD RT 580 Card in my Current PC, So I Am thinking about switching my Graphics Card Into this Newer one, Good or bad idea?
I had the asus phoenix single fan model for a while. It was a nice card quiet, didn't use much power and solid performance especially with dlss. It's problem is the price to performance sucks, especially if you're willing to go with AMD who at present offer soon really good price to performance cards.
Thanks for great review Mike 🥰👍😇. I was fortunate enough to purchase an RTX 3050 “Asus Phoenix” ITX version GPU for $255USD here in Australia 🇦🇺 and it runs sub 60c under a full load or gaming (RTX / DLSS running) so the 50-series chip is easy to cool imo. The RTX 3050 I feel should be a $200-220USD GPU … but recent world events of the past 2.5years ….. we all know them 😵💫🤔 has seen this price fit into the 60-series RTX series of old 😢😡. Nvidia did create a great chip and it’s much better value, imo, than the RRP of the 6500XT 🤦♀🤦🤦♂💀☠
Hi Mike! From where I live in, the rtx 3050 8g (the windforce OC version from gigabyte, to be accurate) is cheaper than a gtx 1660 super 6gb OC. I'm currently using a R7 5700g, which one should I buy? Thanks
This is the card i was looking at buying when i was looking at upgrading from a GTX1650, If they had actually made enough of these cards and priced them better I would have got one. in the end I brought the MSI Mech 2X RX 6600. cant fault it and in honesty im glad the 3050 was such a pig to get hold of and the price
they are in some cases similar to a GTX1080 level which is still a decent card and highly praised. I guess the RTX3050 was just the wrong card with the wrong price
the price of the 3050 is insane in NL. it goes for 350 euro still. concidering i got my 3060 for that. but yea its a nice midrange card if it was 200 dollar maybe
Yeah it's not a terrible card, it's just priced itself out of the market. If these had launched at £219.99 in the UK they'd have been an excellent budget option with the 8gb buffer and DLSS. As it is they're priced out of the market by used GTX1070 or even GTX1080 if you're spending less than £200, or RX6600 if you want to be new for sub £300. Ray tracing is a non-issue at this budget end so I don't even factor it in.
This is the best GPU on the Market in my opinion (not the 3050) the model of card i mean ! as you said its basically the cheap High end option my 1660ti is the same and my new 3070 in my basket is also the same card i swear by this GamingX line
Likes: *MSI adds that black support bar from PCI slot mount to PCB, doesn't appear any other manufacturer does this that I know of and makes sag a non issue. *The reviewer covered all the aspects of the card that are important to me. Good to know the backplate is indeed metal and thermal pads from the back of the GPU and PCB can help move heat too it. *RTX 3050 is a pretty cool running card with a 130w TDP rating, but MSI still didn't skimp on the heatsink. Also I believe this card has fan stop under 60 Celsius or whatever thermal threshold the BIOS on the card is dictating. Usually 60c. *Don't like only 8GB ram but this is the lower end. I owned a 1660Ti (6GB vram) and it performed great! This card outperforms that and adds "RTX" as in RT cores and Tensor cores for hardware level support of some cool features GTX cards are less efficient with. *Not a big fan of so many cards being drab gray and black, but this at least has some RGB to spruce it up and the backplate looks clean. Thanks for showing it Mike. I prefer the rounded looking shrouds on MSI's older Armor cards, but even with all the angles, MSI cards are pretty nice aesthetically. *Single 8pin, nice. DISLIKES: *That ugly dead grass blade side of the PCB could use a good SHARPIE! 🤡 Overall review of this review: 10/10 Mike FTW.
The cooling looks way over the top for such a low power gpu. The 3050 Gigabyte Eagle in my daughters PC stays well within spec with its much more modest cooling solution and plenty quiet. A decent enough card but far too expensive for what it is.
8gb with a bus speed of 128 running at 1080 is fine ,you can run high end games on 6gb or below that so it s a good card i am sure you can use vr with it basically using a 1070 card ps your frame rate on cyberpunk you had a screen stretch mark lol on the middle of the frame when you started walking .
A little constructive feedback. Try to make your videos around 10 minutes. even tho your vids are well detailed its too dragged out, most people wont sit through 20 minutes, ive seen numerous polls of this question being asked by channel owners. i think you should change your approach to this to help your channel get more popular. i myself dont watch 20 minutes unless its a very interesting topic that doesnt revolve around 1 product. Also instead of titling your video MSI 3050 Ti review , a much more catchy title would be "Is the RTX 3050 worth it in late 2022?" If that makes sense. followed with some gaming benchmarks
It's a real shame about the price on these cards, if they were 170-180 then it might make sense and given the fact new 2060's can be had around the 200 mark just makes the 3050s dead in the water. For by all that you can't go wrong with MSI's Gaming X series, been knocking it out the park for a long time now with their GPUs.
The 3050 is in a weird place now at around 250, cause the rx 6600 is a better choice at this price point 🙂 but for just 50 more you can get a 3060 with more performance and vram 🤔
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Im going to put aside the contraversy of the whole 3050 release and pricing.....as far as performance and cost goes the MSI version looks like its one of the best ones. Thanks Mike and Kath
I agree Bob. Very nice card. Will keep this one on my radar. Thank you MSI for Letting Mike review this. Great review as always from The Dynamic Duo. Cheers
@@lorderectus1849 6600 xt is better for the price
Good to see you looking on form Mike.👍 Liked this review. Since the 'purge', with the chaos from the lack of parts et its a relief to see some more availability AND reasonable NOT spiked pricing. 👀Luckily I upgraded my systems in 2019 BEFORE hell opened its gates.. which also meant I had some surplus parts et I managed TWO builds that were well received by certain members of the family / friends et keeping more or less to the original pricing et. 😉It will be interesting, 'moving forward' with the fractious momentum caused by the hype and robbery re the energy companies as to how that will affect us builders.
Great video thanks Mike.
Glad you enjoyed it
I have only taken note of gpu pricing last couple years and as we all know pricing went bananas. Old news i know. That aside i love the attention yo detail, the quality in build and looks. Surprised by how well it performs too! As my systems are both pcie gen 3 the band width restrictions were my concern. Thanks for interesting review Mike and Kath👍
yes the PCIe3 limitation is a concern but not a huge deal until you are trying to push 1440p or 4k then the bandwidth will reduce performance a little
cheers for the review Mike
I`ve got the 8GB OC Ventus version but since I only game at 1080 I can`t complain. At the time I got a good deal on it and couldn`t find an RX 6600 here in the states.
cheers again Mike .. just bought a pny Ge force rtx 3050 £275 and of the vid got some hints on setup cheers
nice one! and that is a pretty good price
Mike's reviews. Honest & true. As always. Cheers Mike. 🍻
Thanks 👍 trying to keep it real
Spot on Bob.
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Thank you for the solid review Mike.
I got the Ventus version of this card, it's a solid card but I kind of wished I would have got the RX 6600 now but at the time I found a decent deal for the RTX 3050 Ventus card so ended up with that.
Yeah the 6600/6600XT way better option imo
Looking at one at my local Best Buy for $229.99 USD, is this a good price?
not really the rx6600 smokes it in most games, if you need CUDA cores for premiere then that is a very different outcome
Thanks mike i bought one of these for $180 "brand new?". thanks for your review.
Enjoy it
right now theres a Discount Price for 300 Dollars for this Graphics Card,
and the thing is, is that I Currently Had a AMD RT 580 Card in my Current PC, So I Am thinking about switching my Graphics Card Into this Newer one,
Good or bad idea?
wow $300 off the price! how much was it before?
i think this RTX 3050 msi gaming X is the best silent and best cooler for RTX 3050S good review
Just found this card lightly used and bought for $150. How good of a deal was that everyone ?
awesome
I had the asus phoenix single fan model for a while. It was a nice card quiet, didn't use much power and solid performance especially with dlss. It's problem is the price to performance sucks, especially if you're willing to go with AMD who at present offer soon really good price to performance cards.
Thanks for great review Mike 🥰👍😇. I was fortunate enough to purchase an RTX 3050 “Asus Phoenix” ITX version GPU for $255USD here in Australia 🇦🇺 and it runs sub 60c under a full load or gaming (RTX / DLSS running) so the 50-series chip is easy to cool imo. The RTX 3050 I feel should be a $200-220USD GPU … but recent world events of the past 2.5years ….. we all know them 😵💫🤔 has seen this price fit into the 60-series RTX series of old 😢😡. Nvidia did create a great chip and it’s much better value, imo, than the RRP of the 6500XT 🤦♀🤦🤦♂💀☠
MSI cards are great !! nice video presentation on this model Mike, cheers.
I'd still save up some more and get a 3060ti
good advice
Nice to see Imhotep reviewing things
Sending beetles your way
I'm surprised NVIDIA hasn't been telling the numerous other brands that sell their cards to print DLAA as one of the listed features next to DLSS.
I paid to much for the 3050 ventus model new on release. 3050's should be £150-£199. I'm not buying a GPU for few years now
Hi Mike! From where I live in, the rtx 3050 8g (the windforce OC version from gigabyte, to be accurate) is cheaper than a gtx 1660 super 6gb OC. I'm currently using a R7 5700g, which one should I buy? Thanks
probably the 3050 i would say
Very nice graphics card ! Thanks for the review 👍
Thanks for watching!
This is the card i was looking at buying when i was looking at upgrading from a GTX1650, If they had actually made enough of these cards and priced them better I would have got one. in the end I brought the MSI Mech 2X RX 6600. cant fault it and in honesty im glad the 3050 was such a pig to get hold of and the price
I have heard that some RTX 3050 cards crash even when not gaming. Is this true?
ive not heard that but i guess it is possible
Nice review. The RTX 3050 is probably one of the most hated cards in recent times, but somehow it's working very well for me.
they are in some cases similar to a GTX1080 level which is still a decent card and highly praised. I guess the RTX3050 was just the wrong card with the wrong price
what's the difference in rtx 3050 gaming x vs ventus vs suprim x
it will be a few percent at the most so likely only 5-10 fps more
Here's what I would like to know: just of ghits and siggles Mike, did you run it on 1440P to see how it did?
did run it at 4k and it needed a large amount of DLSS and scaling to make it decent. 1440p should be pretty easy it isn't a huge jump
@@mikesunboxing thank you. Whatdaya figure, just north or south of 60 FPS on 1440?
This vs 4060 Ventus 2x, which one you think is better? Because they're around the same price.
4060 any day
@@mikesunboxing Thanks, do you know if Ventus 2x fans are silent or noisy?
the price of the 3050 is insane in NL. it goes for 350 euro still. concidering i got my 3060 for that. but yea its a nice midrange card if it was 200 dollar maybe
still very over priced in most places it seems except AUS
Currently have the MSI 3050, but im about to upgrade to MSI RTX 4070 Super
wow that will be a huge upgrade
I got this RTX 3050 8gb gaming x for $160 brand new. Was it a good deal?
canadian or USD? sounds okay either way to be honest
Yeah it's not a terrible card, it's just priced itself out of the market. If these had launched at £219.99 in the UK they'd have been an excellent budget option with the 8gb buffer and DLSS. As it is they're priced out of the market by used GTX1070 or even GTX1080 if you're spending less than £200, or RX6600 if you want to be new for sub £300. Ray tracing is a non-issue at this budget end so I don't even factor it in.
totally agree
This is the best GPU on the Market in my opinion (not the 3050) the model of card i mean ! as you said its basically the cheap High end option my 1660ti is the same and my new 3070 in my basket is also the same card i swear by this GamingX line
Likes:
*MSI adds that black support bar from PCI slot mount to PCB, doesn't appear any other manufacturer does this that I know of and makes sag a non issue.
*The reviewer covered all the aspects of the card that are important to me. Good to know the backplate is indeed metal and thermal pads from the back of the GPU and PCB can help move heat too it.
*RTX 3050 is a pretty cool running card with a 130w TDP rating, but MSI still didn't skimp on the heatsink. Also I believe this card has fan stop under 60 Celsius or whatever thermal threshold the BIOS on the card is dictating. Usually 60c.
*Don't like only 8GB ram but this is the lower end. I owned a 1660Ti (6GB vram) and it performed great! This card outperforms that and adds "RTX" as in RT cores and Tensor cores for hardware level support of some cool features GTX cards are less efficient with.
*Not a big fan of so many cards being drab gray and black, but this at least has some RGB to spruce it up and the backplate looks clean. Thanks for showing it Mike. I prefer the rounded looking shrouds on MSI's older Armor cards, but even with all the angles, MSI cards are pretty nice aesthetically.
*Single 8pin, nice.
DISLIKES:
*That ugly dead grass blade side of the PCB could use a good SHARPIE! 🤡
Overall review of this review: 10/10 Mike FTW.
@James Miscellaneous, MSI fanboy...
@@PapaMav Quit ridin' me JB!! 😆
@@jamesmiscellaneous LOL brother !
The cooling looks way over the top for such a low power gpu. The 3050 Gigabyte Eagle in my daughters PC stays well within spec with its much more modest cooling solution and plenty quiet. A decent enough card but far too expensive for what it is.
yes the cooler is totally overkill
8gb with a bus speed of 128 running at 1080 is fine ,you can run high end games on 6gb or below that so it s a good card i am sure you can use vr with it basically using a 1070 card
ps your frame rate on cyberpunk you had a screen stretch mark lol on the middle of the frame when you started walking .
A little constructive feedback. Try to make your videos around 10 minutes. even tho your vids are well detailed its too dragged out, most people wont sit through 20 minutes, ive seen numerous polls of this question being asked by channel owners. i think you should change your approach to this to help your channel get more popular. i myself dont watch 20 minutes unless its a very interesting topic that doesnt revolve around 1 product. Also instead of titling your video MSI 3050 Ti review , a much more catchy title would be "Is the RTX 3050 worth it in late 2022?" If that makes sense. followed with some gaming benchmarks
I see, much too important to give 20 mins of your time. I guess, say goodbye to da bad guy then...
@@PapaMav what a childish reply , grow up kid
@@jeremyniels watch your back, Tony.
It's a real shame about the price on these cards, if they were 170-180 then it might make sense and given the fact new 2060's can be had around the 200 mark just makes the 3050s dead in the water. For by all that you can't go wrong with MSI's Gaming X series, been knocking it out the park for a long time now with their GPUs.
yep great card, stupid pricing, but MSI are not alone in this
bro its 300 dollars you really cant complain about that when it can run basically every game at high settings with a good framerate
@@stormstudios1 Faster cards can be had cheaper so it's bad value and makes no sense at that price.
@@406mill name 1 faster card that is cheaper
@@stormstudios1 Dude you're too far gone I'm afraid and I could probably name half a dozen faster cards from the last few years never mind just one.
The 3050 is in a weird place now at around 250, cause the rx 6600 is a better choice at this price point 🙂 but for just 50 more you can get a 3060 with more performance and vram 🤔
Where are you finding a 3060 12gb for $300?
@@evers6214 you can find 3060s on offer here in UK for around 300 at various retailers 😀 3060ti is only 399 here too 😀
@@tech_jims in my country this rtx 3050 is 350 and the rtx 3060 eagle 12gb is 440
Good review - tempted -
Price Spy £319.99 (inc postage) at Novatech as of today (29th Aug)
getting better , slowly
MSI Geforce RTX 3050 8GB £364 when a founders 3060 Ti is £369 not good value for the 3050 ,,,,,,,cheers
yeah the pricing is completely fooked on the rtx 3050 range
Best RTX card... is the RTX CARD THAT U HAVE.
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Thanks for watching :-)
Simple answer NONE of them are any good. ALL of them are WAY overpriced and only fools are paying for them
I don't like Tilapia; taste like mud.
@@PapaMav I don't like rotting pork ,, so I buy pork that is fresh not rotting. Tilapia has a VERY clean taste unless grown in bad conditions that harbour certain bacteria ,, even then most of the off flavour can be removed by GOOD growers by 3 days unfed in fresh clean water
I got this for only $163.39 (brand new). I'm thankful for it because I'm on a really tight budget rn 🥲
nice price for that, nice one