They should just release a rtx 4090 2gb that runs on 32bits memory bandwith and has 1000 cuda cores. Why not scam the consumer base properly if you want to scam them anyways? One a sidenote all of this makes you appreciate even more why EVGA dropped their gpu lineup and broke ties with nvidia. They would be forced to participate in all this sh*tfest.
@@scoob892 Hope you're just being facetious and not serious here. I have issues with both AMD and Nvidia and love their products for different reasons but criticism where criticism is due, Nvidia would be more than likely to pull shit like that. RTX 4070 with GDDR6 vs the original GDDR6X retailing for the same MSRP for instance. It's not such a big deal and heavy impact as with this 3050 but it still paints a picture about them squeezing out money wherever they see fit.
Recent Computer Science graduate here. Please take any, "learn to code," services with a grain of salt. The job market is absolutely abysmal for us since tech has been laying off hundreds of thousands of people. If you want to learn to code for "funsies" or if it would supplement your current career, go for it. If you are thinking about finding full time employment once you learn to code, consider nursing instead. Sorry for this PSA. It just really bugs me with how many companies are still selling the programming shovels when you can still hear the screams of us trapped in the recently collapsed programming goldmine.
@@MADvocate7 Don't worry bro. You're learning python, right? You can still make some independent games to earn some cash while you look for a good job after graduation. Visual novels can easily be made by a single person. They don't need voice acting, you can use non copyrighted music, and visual novel fans will tolerate rough art if your story is decent. Ren'Py is free. You can make a few visual novels by your lonesome. Moneys not amazing. But its something. Between releasing indie games and selling plasma you'll be okay. The need for comp sci majors waxes and wains. People will start hiring again. You just have to stick with it. Release a few games. And keep a cool head.
What, you think the company that made a bullshit name for what is really a 4070 and called it a 4080, gimped the 970 3.5gb, lowered the quality of the RAM in their 4070, and released yet another false-name GPU is trying to learn?
Fun fact, newer gaming laptops with rtx 3050 actually also use this 6gb variant, and is much better than the pitiful 4gb version with 2048 cores. So moving to the same gpu laptops got a good upgrade while desktop diy suffered, but i guess its also the best no-external-power-cable needed gpu
I have a laptop with the 3050 4GB and it is terrible even at 1080p 144Hz on any game that is half demanding and always runs out of VRAM which tanks the fps
i knew it how dare he complain fresh yearly socks are great. i never went sock shopping for myself as somone that is in there 30's i always get socks for xmas its awesome. You should make him wear wool or kids decorated socks now
Yeah but with a 32 bit bus it will be as fast as the 3050 6gb and only use 30watt. Which would be impressive. As always.. the issue is the name and the price. not the hardware.
Or they actually release a value card that makes AMD cards not as much value. Nvidia could push back pretty hard by just releasing the same cards little better optimization more value and RAM. AMD would have a lot of trouble selling GPUs if prices even stayed the same with added RAM across models
Nvidia realized that 8GB GDDR was sufficient for a lower end graphics card and decided they can't have that... so they gimped it like the rest of their lineup that isn't a RTX4090.
@@kingiument4627 Huh? Then why is it marketed towards gamers? Because Scamvida likes preying on newbies that are new to PC market, and they buy that shit up like it's candy, on halloween.
@@strive2one Because everything other than their strictly professional use cards do they just copy and paste the same crap? Its not widely advertised either its not a common gpu to see nor has it ever been in any video or radio advertisements that I know of.
@@lewzealand4717 where im from its barely cheaper than a rx 6600 who is already far faster than a 8gb 3050...which makes a no power connector useless...you are paying barely less for like half of perf or even less.
@@lewzealand4717 As a replacement for the 1650 it should have been way better. I've got a 1650 and was looking forward to what the 3040 would be, but after nearly 5 years since the 1650 launch it's not even that much faster (and the memory bus went from 128 bit to 96bit...).
there is a two-slot low-profile version of this. Not single slot, sadly, but thermodynamics are a thing I guess. But It's literally the only reasonable niche use case for this GPU - for installing in old office PCs. Of course if you just case swap, you can use whatever you like. But this is for those who want to keep it real, I guess. In any event this is literally about the same performance level of a GTX 1060 6GB, RX 5500 XT, RX 580, GTX 980... which would pair very nicely with say, a Haswell i5/i7 or its Xeon equivalent. Just picked up a Lenovo M93p SFF and looking at the 3050 6GB LP (with a GTX 1050 LP 4GB in the slot already).
FYI, the rtx 2050 is also a GA 107. The 3050 8gb also has a 'speical binned' ga107 variant that was asked for by SI's. The 3050 6gb is pretty much just a reject part of THAT and does indeed have more in common with the dumpster fire of the 2050/3050 laptop cards... which yes.. are all GA107.. Oh and XESS crapped out because of Nvidia's poor drivers when it deals with memory handling.
It should be illegal to sell a product at a certain tier of memory or whatever have you then, relaunch the product in the shadows with far less memory without adjusting anything but a -# at the end of the skew. It's an intentional deception.
True but both companies have been doing it for decades with very few repercussions other than snarky comments from gamers who know better. I doubt it will change.
I'm in the EU. Please do some useful again. Ban import of deceptive products and also register CUDA as a monopoly. Because i'm also a professional user (engineer) and buying a Quadro has gotten so much worse. Every crap uses CUDA and this is very bad for the customer.
At half the power usage, it actually seems like a good low end/ small form factor card. However, the price needs to be well below 200€. And, of course, just call it a 3040. ffs Nvidia, just say you made a really efficient low end card and be proud of it. I'd personaly love such a low power RTX card in a media centre PC.
Yeah 1080p on a 1440p panel can look quite bad. For those that are wondering it's because the pixel scaling is funky, unlike 1080p on a 4k panel which is a nice even and square 4x pixel count. So 4 pixels turn into 1.
Depends on the distance and the media. It looks bad upclose on a monitor. I have tried 1080p resolution on a 65 inch native 4k TV and sitting at 8 feet away, it looks fine.
@@Intranetusa You misunderstand, I was saying 1080p can look bad/weird on a native 1440p panel and that 1080p on a native 4k panel looks fine because it's an even 4x pixel count, unlike 1440p which is an odd 1.77777777x pixel count.
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One big pro of CRT monitors was, this wasn't an issue as it didn't have a fixed pixel grid. Yeah, using a resolution anything other than native resolution makes image quality garbage.
They are just doing planned obsolescence no matter how much nvidia fanboys try to defend it. They have some products that are basically getting into false advertising though, they definitely need to get hit with a bunch of lawsuits.
@@manilove2pwn the whole point is missed by you the card is named 3050 but the card should be called a 3040 due to different die name and much worse specs and performance.
G'day Dawid, I think you should call it the "RTX Thidy Thidy" 😂 PS down here in Australia to buy new the RTX3040 6GB is $279AUD vs RX6600 $285AUD, 🤔it would be interesting to see the performance difference between 3040DLSS vs 6600 no upscaling
Its like people forget that FSR exists, and is almost as good as DLSS, and old games do not have DLSS but using AMD drivers you can force it to use FrameGen despite it not actually supporting it natively. So it will perform better for games of past, present, and future (8gb vram vs 6gb and better raw performance)
@@12Rosen it is, and I say this as an RTX 3050 4GB laptop user. When using DLSS and FSR at balanced, at 1080P (so it upscale from something like 720P though I will have to check) I honestly can't tell too much of q difference, except that I get more FPS with FSR and FSR has very slightly more artifacting, though while playing spiderman miles Morales I honestly could not tell even in cutscenes
Bought the Inno3D version of this as the shop I went to didn't have AMD cards and my budget was real tight. As someone who upgraded from a laptop with Intel HD 4000, I guess it was an upgrade. Could have gone used but I didn't want to risk getting a bad one.
A 1660 Ti, 1080ti, or a 5700xt would be better than this so called "RTX 3050". An buying Used parts for PC is a bit risky. But the point is to do more Research of what youre buying in general. I got lucky with my 6700Xt when i bought it used on Ebay. The guy said he didn't even used the card that much so its practically still "new". Honestly, the "3050" wont even last that long depending on what games youre playing.
@@The_One_Eyed_Rouge I mostly play rather light games like BeamNG or Rocket League which my 3050 does quite a good job in. Though if I had just a little bit more budget I would have bought an actual 3050 or an RX6600 if I'm going new.
@@synergy4918 Old game and a Esports title. Of course it's going to run well playing Rocket league. But that card still won't last long for how much you paid for. Also the 3050s are a scam anyway. They cant even run raytracing. If you only wanted to play esports titles or light to mid games at 1080p 60fps, once again a 1660ti would be a better option for your choice in my opinion. But hey that's your money man at the end of the day man. I'm not shaming you or anything. Just sharing you my perspective on what the PC hardware Market truly is. 🫡😊👍
The only 3050 6GB's that have any right to exist are the low profile ones. Even then Nvidia should have just released a 75W power limited version of the 3050 8GB for low profile cards (3040 would be a good model number for such a product). Full size ones? why? 3050 8GB in full size is already cheap and entry level enough.
Because some people hate the sounds and fan curves those smaller low profile fans make. There are people with older systems that have a full sized case, but can’t upgrade the PSU or anything. Plus it’s good to have options
This is a fantastic option if you need to upgrade a system without supplemental power. I used this on an office PC with a 9th Gen i7 and it was a great little machine for around $325 US. If you’ve got access to a more robust power supply, used 6600-6650xts and 3060s provide a better value, but for the role This card is supposed to fill it’s pretty good. It was stupid to call the card a 3050 though. They really launched these cards in reverse, this 6Gb version should’ve released as the 3050 and the 8gb should’ve been a 3050 super or something
Exactly this. It's a good card. 60W in most modern games at 1080 with RT? Amazing. However, the price should be under 200€, and the name really should be 3040/4040.
@@diegomontoya172 So, what you're saying is you should spend the $20 more for 1.5x the performance. If $20 is that big of a deal for you for literally the most important part of raising your FPS, you probably shouldn't be buying a PC.
I did buy a low profile MSI 3050 6gb for my htpc. Really that’s the best use for this card. Even that is too expensive. I can’t think of much else that it is cost-effective. EDIT: It’s a far cry from the days of the 1050, which was a budget (and fairly good performance) standout.
I appreciate you calling the card 3040 for the most of the video. It really should become standard practice, the official name being the scam that it is. A lot shorter to say than 3050 6gb as well. And when you fix the name, it's actually a relatively OK product in the "no external power connector" -niche.
Lower TDP card might be good for a video transcoding server or a small home lab. How does this stack up to other low profile cards such as the Intel Arc, Older Quadro, etc.?
For that usecase I'd actually go Quicksync instead. Any 11th or 12th gen Intel CPU with iGPU. Overall cheaper, less power consumption, superior image quality (although barely noticeable). If encoding is your daily usecase, you'd want an i5-12500 minimum because those chips have the UHD 770 iGPU which has double encoders. So twice as fast with transcoding/encoding.
@@CaveyMoth The finest GDDR5 on the bar. Two gigabytes of it, because one isn't enough. And a quad shot of DDR4 when i'm feeling low (on budget, that is).
This card is basically a replacement for 1660 that is still being sold all over the world for the same price, so basically You are getting the upgrade for the same price. Sure it falls down on its face when compared with Radeon 6600 which is just a few $ more, but it doesn't require upgraded PSU and will work in basically any pre-built system.
Yes, that's fine and all. But, you don't get to make a completely architecturally different device and slap the same name on it. It would have been fine and wouldn't really be a video or news if it was labeled the 3040 or 3030.
It's the same problem Nvidia has had for a while - If they had named and priced the card correctly, this would have been lauded as a fantastic product within its tier. Like usual, however, Nvidia can't help but insert a stick into their own bicycle wheels.
The settings between the different upscalers do not have parity. Not even getting into the issue of some games having five settings of Ultra Quality through Ultra Performance for DLSS while only having three or four settings of FSR, Hardware Unboxed did a deep dive analysis of the various upscalers settings comparing how the make things look, FPS improvement, and VRAM usage. They found that DLSS consistently looks better than FSR at the same setting name, but used more VRAM, and DLSS Balanced provided FPS boosts comparable to FSR Performance.
Nvidia never changes. They did the same with the 1060 back in the day. There was the actual 1060, with 6gb of memory. Then they made the 3gb version which was slower. Then they made a 5gb version for some reason.
@@ridleyroid9060 YH now name a better graphics card that doesn't require external power. these reviewers are so use to getting given high end gpus for free.
What do you have currently? For the same price you could get a used 1080 Ti with double the VRAM and like 50% better performance. Or just a used 4060 if you don't trust an older card.
Still decent for NVENC jobs (Ampere architecture) and basic CAD jobs (Blender, zbrush, etc). I don't get how you didn't see a video encoder, I'm encoding with NVENC right now on a 3050 6GB build at work.
i'm sure, since when do i need an engineering degree to have a game on good settings? im used to have it at high, beeing disappointed with the fps and set it at medium afterwards because im poor. now i would have to fiddle around with words that tell me nothing for half an hour to come to the same conclusion?
not a fan of their BS either. However, ask 88% of the market if they really care enough to not buy NVIDIA and go with AMD (or Intel) for a GPU instead. Some people are just "used to" buying NVIDIA cards; they've gotten into a habit of it. I personally like to switch it up, my next purchase should be AMD. Too bad they don't really have anything I'd want. I'd like a low-profile RX 580 or RX 5500 XT, got one of those? No? Too bad. Just RX 6400? Crap. What about 7000 series? No? Okay, great. But hey, there's this here RTX 3050 (3040) 6GB... that performs like those cards.
It's written as NVIDIA, all caps. And NVIDIA was the one selling graphics cards to gamers during the mining craze, while AMD sold everything directly to miners.
@@talibong9518 he said $220 Canadian wich is $244 USD he still purposely overpaid $80 watch the start of the video where he talks about the price (it even shows the u.s dollar amount on screen) he
Any new Nvidia card is always put above a tier it's actually in. Like this 3050 is actually a 3040, but if Nvidia called it a 3040 it would warrant a lower price.
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 meh.. only if you go SFF. For less money than a 3050 6gb you could get a 1660super for less than 100 bucks plus a 400-500w PSU to power it. You could even get a SATA to PCIe adapter if you wanna save on the PSU, it works but only if you are willing to undervolt it to no more than 130w total board power. Even the 1660 non-super outperforms the 3050 6gb. But I do agree that for SFF builds, the 3050 6gb is actually one of the most compelling options (just make sure it's a sff with room for a dual slot GPU, definitely do research)
3050 6gb is 7 months old news at this point. The newest and lowest end RTX card is now the RTX A400, isn't it? As far as the upscaling visuals, I think you'd see more difference from native visuals if you were actually playing in the monitor's native resolution, as if you DLSS upscale to 1080p and then you drivers or monitor upscales using their own interpolation to 1440p, that just makes everything more blurry regardless.
The whole pc was 500 euros and was small the card does much better than my old gtx960 ,it s just to play gta,eurotruck,and some cyberpunk, it works for me 😅
I got a 3060 openbox from Canada Computers (a store here). For like final cost of $460 Canadian dollars. I was trying to negoiate cheaper used 3060tis at the time but kind of broke down to the guarantee it would basically work as well as not blow my 650 watt supply. I have a Gigabyte Eagle 12GB. I don't really miss anything because I vary rarely either play games or do blender art.
If you don't have or want to spend a lot of money on a GPU, go AMD. The value and prefrormance per dollar is infinitely better. They stomp Nvidia in terms of the "value" or budget GPUs
While I agree that it probably shouldn't be called a 3050, this card does serve a very specific user base. Many pre-built gaming PCs from HP, dell, etc. do not have power supplies that can handle an externally powered card - and some don't even have additional PCI power connectors from the PSU. Regardless of your feelings about those pre-built systems, there are a lot of them out there, and a card like this does offer a limited upgrade path from lets say a 1650 or 1660 that may have come with one of those systems. For anyone without those restrictions, its a horrible value proposition, but there are a lot of folks that are thankful that it exists because they have few options to upgrade and may not be in a position to buy or build a new system.
I just had a look and you seem to be able to buy a 3050 8gb version with the GA107 chip and seemingly the specs are the same as for the GA106 3050's so that should mean it's the same performance or at least very close and the cheapest version of it is like 5 bucks more expensive than the cheapest 3050 6GB.
Fun fact: A GA107 variant of the RTX 3050 8gb does exist. It has 2560 cores just like the GA106 version and the same clock speeds, so performance should be identical. Some MSI models use this configuration. Also, an OEM version of the RTX 3050 8gb exists that only has 2304 sp, just like the 3050 6gb. This version is GA106 for some reason, don't ask me why.
If it was labelled right as a 3040 or even 3030, I honestly think it would have been well received as a budget card ideal for nippers first PC and for uses in situation like budget e-sports builds and home media servers
Fro some reason I can get a RTX 3050 6GB for the same price of a GTX 1650 4G GDDR6 and its 5W less but WAY MORE PERFORMANCE AND DLSS support and doing some slight overclock would be fun
A 2080Ti can be had for around the same on ebay and will blow that ewaste GPU out of the water. 20xx and 30xx have access to the same DLSS features and neither supports frame generation.
I own a Gigabyte oc low profile RTX 3050, running in a HP 290 SFF (warning: had to mod the cpu 4 pin power plug to get the gpu to fit in the case). Upgraded the cpu to an i5 9500. Good combination, I'm satisfied with the total performance. The case is very tight and the gpu temps aren't great. Afterburner settings are: Power Limit 80%, Temp Limit 90*, Link off, core clock +100, memory clock +600.
Dawid, I would say price wise the competitor to the RTX "3040" would be the RX 6600 as on Amazon and Newegg they sit at the same price point, and the RX 6600 kicks the "RTX 3040's" ass entirely. The downside being the RX 6600 does require a SINGLE 8 Pin power connector.
@@astroidexadam5976 The RX 6600 is probably the best bang for the buck budget GPU on the market, and the Gigabyte OC one is a triple fan design that keeps that card on ice, all for under $200!
I wish we could add ram like we could in the past , found an old video card which could do all the old modes, stock was 160k VRAM it had 4 megs. This should still be a thing.
You know, in my music studio i want a beefy computer on the CPU, RAM and drive speed side (Thunderbolt is also handy), but certainly i want a cheap graphics card that does the job and nothing else and with enough power to actually not bottleneck the CPU either (CPU power is everything in a music production rig) .... this one provides. Still, the price is hefty for a bottom of the line piece of gear ... crazy times
Behold, the coming of the RTX-enabled _basic display adapters..._ _...and despair._ (Could be viable for use with one of those Ivy Bridge/Haswell-era office PCs as a means to repurpose it as a "cheap gaming PC".)
Why is it desktop version of RTX 4050 is still not a thing? I have an HP gaming laptop with RTX 4050 6GB, it can run Cyberpunk, Space Marine 2, Once Human and other games on mid-high settings, obviously with DLSS enabled but still, it almost double of what Xbox Series S has to offer on 1440p display.
The 3050 6GB (Sorry, 3040) is meant to replace the GTX 1650 which came out early 2020 as Nvidia's sub 75W offering. I recall seeing in a comparison (maybe on GN) that the 3040 is only about 30% faster than the 1650...after nearly 5 years. Might be because despite the GTX 1650 only being a 4GB card compared to 6GB it has a 128-bit memory bus compared 96bit of the current card (how did Nvidia manage that one?).
If it smells like a scam, sounds like a scam and people are telling you it is a scam... it probably is a scam. Also it fucks up steam hardware survey. Have you seen the 4070 12 GB GDDR6X vs 4070 12 GB GDDR6?
2:30 GA107 dies match the spec for the 8GB card and are even used in many of them. The story is that the 3050 was launched before adequate GA107 had been moved from laptop to desktop, so cut down GA106 dies were used instead. apparently for whatever reason, GA106 continued being used in some 3050 8GBs while 107 was used in others. it makes sense that they would limit the 6GB model to GA107 tho, as it would be absurdly cut down from 106. I can't imagine they get many dies with half of the memory controller dead for example
The problem is, that the 3050 6gb is actually a good card, it's just named wrong. It's a good option to drop into an old office PC or workstation and have a nice little gaming machine for esports. Naming it 3050 just seems wrong.
I haven't been here is a little bit. Dont need tobupgrade my PC so your knowledge isn't needed at the moment. I am glad so many others do. I was an avid watcher when u had just over 100k subs. You are off rhe charts now. Congrats
I abandoned Nvidia a few months back for the 7800XT, not necessarily because AMD is better (because it's not) but it has better price for performance. I upgraded from a 3060ti and while some have said the performance difference would be negligible, I've seen almost 35% to 50% more fps on average. Nvidia has become a shell of what it used to be in terms of product lineup, but they are still performance kings. Just wish they'd bring prices down.
3:00 And then there's the laptop one that besides having less memory has the same specs of the normal 3050 (same bus speed, cores and processing units, memory frequency) with 80w tdp. I wonder how did they end making the nerfed desktop one worse than the laptop. Oh right, they also made the 2050 mobile which is a gutted 3050 with an even smaller bus (64 bit) the nerfed cores of the 6gb 3050 desktop, and whopping 40w tdp, lmao...
impressive for the wattage at least! for the marginal increase in FPS of the 'real' 3050, it used almost twice the power! It really should be marketed differently tho, thats for sure.
idk considering i have a 1660 ti with 6gb of vram, this card doesnt seem to be a bad option for someone looking to get into pc gaming (im not going to buy one) its currently $166.69 on amazon for this exact card, $244.99 is way to expensive for this card but for around $150 its a beast and cant get you into pc gaming for the same price as a regular ps5
Another way to take it is that this is the fastest "no extra power" graphics card right now. I was looking at it as better than a kick in the butt. Might be more interesting to compare it to say a 1060 or a 1080 to see where we are.
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Wished Nvidia released a RTX 3030 just so I can call it the RTX Tiddy Tiddy
Luckily we still have the Audi TT RS
*Thiddy thiddy
the rtx 3010
RT 3030*
Hope it comes in 2 fan model so you can imagine it as the tiddy
The graphics card situation is crazy
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LMAO, Dawid should have called the video that to conform to the meta 🤣
The greatest graphic card situation of all time
Pyrocynical would be proud
Pyrocynical vs Penguinz0 video title situation is crazy
They should just release a rtx 4090 2gb that runs on 32bits memory bandwith and has 1000 cuda cores.
Why not scam the consumer base properly if you want to scam them anyways?
One a sidenote all of this makes you appreciate even more why EVGA dropped their gpu lineup and broke ties with nvidia. They would be forced to participate in all this sh*tfest.
HAHAHAHA, just wait, for you will get an offer letter from Nvidia soon.
omg Amd user alert
@@scoob892lol just because someone makes a statement based on nvidia’s corrupted history, that person suddenly becomes amd fanboy???
@@scoob892I use both and both companies do scummy things, you can call out bad things about a company that you kinda like.
@@scoob892 Hope you're just being facetious and not serious here. I have issues with both AMD and Nvidia and love their products for different reasons but criticism where criticism is due, Nvidia would be more than likely to pull shit like that. RTX 4070 with GDDR6 vs the original GDDR6X retailing for the same MSRP for instance. It's not such a big deal and heavy impact as with this 3050 but it still paints a picture about them squeezing out money wherever they see fit.
Recent Computer Science graduate here. Please take any, "learn to code," services with a grain of salt. The job market is absolutely abysmal for us since tech has been laying off hundreds of thousands of people. If you want to learn to code for "funsies" or if it would supplement your current career, go for it. If you are thinking about finding full time employment once you learn to code, consider nursing instead.
Sorry for this PSA. It just really bugs me with how many companies are still selling the programming shovels when you can still hear the screams of us trapped in the recently collapsed programming goldmine.
Add that recruiter ghosting and fake jobs offer, it's all a recruiting hell no matter the branch
@@Dizzykitty817 damn is it true? I am just in 3rd year. 😓
@@MADvocate7 Don't worry bro.
You're learning python, right?
You can still make some independent games to earn some cash while you look for a good job after graduation.
Visual novels can easily be made by a single person. They don't need voice acting, you can use non copyrighted music, and visual novel fans will tolerate rough art if your story is decent.
Ren'Py is free. You can make a few visual novels by your lonesome. Moneys not amazing. But its something. Between releasing indie games and selling plasma you'll be okay.
The need for comp sci majors waxes and wains. People will start hiring again. You just have to stick with it. Release a few games. And keep a cool head.
@@MADvocate7 I'm uploading a rant on RUclips about it. If there is enough interest I'll make a more official video explaining how bad and why.
@@Dizzykitty817explain please 🙏
I see Nvidia still hasn't learned from their "unlaunched" 4080 12GB that a completely different core count die should be a different name.
192bit went from 60 class to 80 class lmao. They really shot for the moon.
What, you think the company that made a bullshit name for what is really a 4070 and called it a 4080, gimped the 970 3.5gb, lowered the quality of the RAM in their 4070, and released yet another false-name GPU is trying to learn?
The 4070 with GDDR6 instead of 6X should have been called the '4060Ti 5888 12GB'
@@rustler08 Nvidia can get away with nearly anything and continue to sell well. Let's be real.
3080ti owner here and wish I wasn't... just buy amd...
They did the same thing with the 3060, crazy thing is they could’ve just called it a 3050 ti which they already have naming precedence for
There is already a 3050ti 4gb mobile version 😂
@@AboldGuy which, of course, isn’t named 3050ti mobile 🤭
@@alanaeichsteadt
No it is named 3050Ti and it's only mobile
It's a pretty crappy GPU even worse than the 3050 6gb mobile
Fun fact, newer gaming laptops with rtx 3050 actually also use this 6gb variant, and is much better than the pitiful 4gb version with 2048 cores. So moving to the same gpu laptops got a good upgrade while desktop diy suffered, but i guess its also the best no-external-power-cable needed gpu
I have a laptop with the 3050 4GB and it is terrible even at 1080p 144Hz on any game that is half demanding and always runs out of VRAM which tanks the fps
I think the best in that case would be the RTX A2000.
@@burrfoottopknotthe 2gb of vram helps it a lot, I've watched comparison videos and in certain games its a big improvement
@@LennethValkyrieify too bad the price of those arent
@@LennethValkyrieify Unfortunately that costs $500+ and this is $180.
For the record, Dawid gets fresh socks for Christmas every year and loves them :P
i knew it how dare he complain fresh yearly socks are great.
i never went sock shopping for myself as somone that is in there 30's i always get socks for xmas its awesome.
You should make him wear wool or kids decorated socks now
@@Wolfpackgamer As an adult, I now wish for socks and underwear on Christmas!
@@JoePNG. Right! Who doesn't like fresh socks and undies??
For the 50 series, you'll have to pay $500 for an RTX 5020 wirh 4GB of VRAM.
It’ll come with 6gb, but they’ll introduce subscription tiers. $x/month for 2gb, more for 4gb, and a super premium tier to get access to all 6gb.
Yeah but with a 32 bit bus it will be as fast as the 3050 6gb and only use 30watt. Which would be impressive. As always.. the issue is the name and the price. not the hardware.
@@CantankerousDaveNVIDIA pulling an Intel pentium move.
The 40 series will be my last Nvidia GPU.
Or they actually release a value card that makes AMD cards not as much value. Nvidia could push back pretty hard by just releasing the same cards little better optimization more value and RAM. AMD would have a lot of trouble selling GPUs if prices even stayed the same with added RAM across models
Nvidia realized that 8GB GDDR was sufficient for a lower end graphics card and decided they can't have that... so they gimped it like the rest of their lineup that isn't a RTX4090.
100%
Its not meant for gamers, its a cheap gpu with cuda acceleration and no external power cable, its a workstation card and an alternative to the A2000
Oh don’t worry, from the leaks. It’ll get worse…
@@kingiument4627 Huh? Then why is it marketed towards gamers? Because Scamvida likes preying on newbies that are new to PC market, and they buy that shit up like it's candy, on halloween.
@@strive2one Because everything other than their strictly professional use cards do they just copy and paste the same crap? Its not widely advertised either its not a common gpu to see nor has it ever been in any video or radio advertisements that I know of.
This is great as low-profile or single-slot cards that run off PCIe power alone, but the marketing is absolutely criminal.
100%, it's a great replacement for the 1650. But it's a 3040.
@@lewzealand4717 where im from its barely cheaper than a rx 6600 who is already far faster than a 8gb 3050...which makes a no power connector useless...you are paying barely less for like half of perf or even less.
@@lewzealand4717 Still better than trying to hunt down an A2000.
@@lewzealand4717 As a replacement for the 1650 it should have been way better.
I've got a 1650 and was looking forward to what the 3040 would be, but after nearly 5 years since the 1650 launch it's not even that much faster (and the memory bus went from 128 bit to 96bit...).
there is a two-slot low-profile version of this. Not single slot, sadly, but thermodynamics are a thing I guess. But It's literally the only reasonable niche use case for this GPU - for installing in old office PCs. Of course if you just case swap, you can use whatever you like. But this is for those who want to keep it real, I guess. In any event this is literally about the same performance level of a GTX 1060 6GB, RX 5500 XT, RX 580, GTX 980... which would pair very nicely with say, a Haswell i5/i7 or its Xeon equivalent. Just picked up a Lenovo M93p SFF and looking at the 3050 6GB LP (with a GTX 1050 LP 4GB in the slot already).
FYI, the rtx 2050 is also a GA 107. The 3050 8gb also has a 'speical binned' ga107 variant that was asked for by SI's. The 3050 6gb is pretty much just a reject part of THAT and does indeed have more in common with the dumpster fire of the 2050/3050 laptop cards... which yes.. are all GA107..
Oh and XESS crapped out because of Nvidia's poor drivers when it deals with memory handling.
Wow I didn't know that, kinda odd calling it a 2050 when it's an ampere gpu
@@tyler6602 100%. The 2050 naming scheme is even weirder than this "3040" card.
It should be illegal to sell a product at a certain tier of memory or whatever have you then, relaunch the product in the shadows with far less memory without adjusting anything but a -# at the end of the skew. It's an intentional deception.
True but both companies have been doing it for decades with very few repercussions other than snarky comments from gamers who know better. I doubt it will change.
Otherwise known as a scam or fraud.
I'm in the EU. Please do some useful again.
Ban import of deceptive products and also register CUDA as a monopoly. Because i'm also a professional user (engineer) and buying a Quadro has gotten so much worse.
Every crap uses CUDA and this is very bad for the customer.
It won't be illegal. Too much corruption. Remember net neutrality?
Vote with your wallet. Let them lose money
but i love socks at christmas D:
Polyester Temu socks that make your feet sweat.
Same here. Nothing nicer than some nice new socks to slip your feet into.
Yea. Nothing beats a good pair of Kashmir socks and boxers. Better than being gifted *starfield*
At half the power usage, it actually seems like a good low end/ small form factor card.
However, the price needs to be well below 200€.
And, of course, just call it a 3040. ffs Nvidia, just say you made a really efficient low end card and be proud of it.
I'd personaly love such a low power RTX card in a media centre PC.
Yeah 1080p on a 1440p panel can look quite bad. For those that are wondering it's because the pixel scaling is funky, unlike 1080p on a 4k panel which is a nice even and square 4x pixel count.
So 4 pixels turn into 1.
Nonetheless, it never looks the same as native 1080p (in the latter case).
As someone who plays the Switch on a 1440p panel, I've noticed.
Depends on the distance and the media. It looks bad upclose on a monitor. I have tried 1080p resolution on a 65 inch native 4k TV and sitting at 8 feet away, it looks fine.
@@Intranetusa You misunderstand, I was saying 1080p can look bad/weird on a native 1440p panel and that 1080p on a native 4k panel looks fine because it's an even 4x pixel count, unlike 1440p which is an odd 1.77777777x pixel count.
One big pro of CRT monitors was, this wasn't an issue as it didn't have a fixed pixel grid. Yeah, using a resolution anything other than native resolution makes image quality garbage.
NVIDIA needs to be sued for this nonsense, this is some criminal ish.
They are just doing planned obsolescence no matter how much nvidia fanboys try to defend it. They have some products that are basically getting into false advertising though, they definitely need to get hit with a bunch of lawsuits.
No one forces you to buy it.
It is good for 720p right? I have 720p display
@@anistan Don’t buy it.
@@brando3342 ok so I will use my gt 710 for more years and explore more hell
it should be illegal for a company to release a product, and then in the future release a worse product with the same name.
Thanks for having the backbone to call out Nvidia for this
Dawid has so much backbone he's practically a stegosaurus.
YH now name a better graphics card that doesn't require external power. these reviewers are so use to getting given high end gpus for free.
@@manilove2pwn AMD RX 6400
@@manilove2pwn the whole point is missed by you the card is named 3050 but the card should be called a 3040 due to different die name and much worse specs and performance.
I've built small form factor machines that needed a low powered video card without external cord so this card would work well in that situation.
G'day Dawid,
I think you should call it the "RTX Thidy Thidy" 😂
PS down here in Australia to buy new the RTX3040 6GB is $279AUD vs RX6600 $285AUD,
🤔it would be interesting to see the performance difference between 3040DLSS vs 6600 no upscaling
Came here for this exact comment!
Its like people forget that FSR exists, and is almost as good as DLSS, and old games do not have DLSS but using AMD drivers you can force it to use FrameGen despite it not actually supporting it natively. So it will perform better for games of past, present, and future (8gb vram vs 6gb and better raw performance)
@@ricksasmal9330calling FSR almost as good as DLSS is crazy
@@12Rosen it is, and I say this as an RTX 3050 4GB laptop user. When using DLSS and FSR at balanced, at 1080P (so it upscale from something like 720P though I will have to check) I honestly can't tell too much of q difference, except that I get more FPS with FSR and FSR has very slightly more artifacting, though while playing spiderman miles Morales I honestly could not tell even in cutscenes
@@12Rosen Performance wise I dont know, fidelity wise dlss is miles ahead but fsr is not unusable. Itll get the job done if you really need the frames
The reason why this is also called a 3050 is because the og 3050 is more of a 3050 Ti, 107 dies are normally associated with the 50 series cards.
RTX 3050 is officially the replacement 1060 3GB.
ngl i'd actually searched the: "how much vram does rtx 2050 have bro?"
it's a 3050 mobile with 4GB over a 64 bit bus 💀
Bought the Inno3D version of this as the shop I went to didn't have AMD cards and my budget was real tight. As someone who upgraded from a laptop with Intel HD 4000, I guess it was an upgrade. Could have gone used but I didn't want to risk getting a bad one.
A 1660 Ti, 1080ti, or a 5700xt would be better than this so called "RTX 3050". An buying Used parts for PC is a bit risky. But the point is to do more Research of what youre buying in general. I got lucky with my 6700Xt when i bought it used on Ebay. The guy said he didn't even used the card that much so its practically still "new". Honestly, the "3050" wont even last that long depending on what games youre playing.
You can always buy used in websites that allow returns, y'know. You should consider it next time, it can be very good for savings.
@@The_One_Eyed_Rouge I mostly play rather light games like BeamNG or Rocket League which my 3050 does quite a good job in. Though if I had just a little bit more budget I would have bought an actual 3050 or an RX6600 if I'm going new.
@@synergy4918 Old game and a Esports title. Of course it's going to run well playing Rocket league. But that card still won't last long for how much you paid for. Also the 3050s are a scam anyway. They cant even run raytracing. If you only wanted to play esports titles or light to mid games at 1080p 60fps, once again a 1660ti would be a better option for your choice in my opinion.
But hey that's your money man at the end of the day man. I'm not shaming you or anything. Just sharing you my perspective on what the PC hardware Market truly is. 🫡😊👍
@@The_One_Eyed_Rouge Thanks for the advice. I'd probably consider upgrading to at least a 4060ti or a 6700xt to match my 5600g :)
The only 3050 6GB's that have any right to exist are the low profile ones. Even then Nvidia should have just released a 75W power limited version of the 3050 8GB for low profile cards (3040 would be a good model number for such a product).
Full size ones? why? 3050 8GB in full size is already cheap and entry level enough.
Hey look someone who understands how conceptually dumb the 3050 6gb is!
Because some people hate the sounds and fan curves those smaller low profile fans make.
There are people with older systems that have a full sized case, but can’t upgrade the PSU or anything. Plus it’s good to have options
@@Thewaterspirit57 well at 130W the 3050-8GB was already basically able to be made LP like the ""4060"".
If thats relevant to what you're saying
@@FreddyFazbear-ent a 130 watt GPU can't be low profile. Low profile means they don't need any PCIE power cables.
@@Thewaterspirit57 nvidia doesn't share that definition. Look at the 4060LP.
This is a fantastic option if you need to upgrade a system without supplemental power. I used this on an office PC with a 9th Gen i7 and it was a great little machine for around $325 US. If you’ve got access to a more robust power supply, used 6600-6650xts and 3060s provide a better value, but for the role This card is supposed to fill it’s pretty good. It was stupid to call the card a 3050 though. They really launched these cards in reverse, this 6Gb version should’ve released as the 3050 and the 8gb should’ve been a 3050 super or something
Exactly this. It's a good card. 60W in most modern games at 1080 with RT? Amazing. However, the price should be under 200€, and the name really should be 3040/4040.
@@lordwafflesthegreat oh man here in the states they’re $165-175. Would be hard to justify spending an extra 50 bucks.
@@_Dandy_S not too hard to justify if all the cards are an extra $50...
How does this "3040" compares to an A400 ?
@@bojinglebells sure I guess. If I reframe it to where everything shifts up it still makes sense. These overseas prices kill me though lol
the 6600 is 180 USD on newegg, should be 240 CAD ish, much better
Rtx 3050 is 160 on Amazon
@@diegomontoya172 for 20 dollars more you get twice the performance or so.
@@diegomontoya172 So, what you're saying is you should spend the $20 more for 1.5x the performance.
If $20 is that big of a deal for you for literally the most important part of raising your FPS, you probably shouldn't be buying a PC.
@@rustler08 ur mad over computer parts lil bro 😂😂😂😂🤓🤓🤓🤓
@@DanielFerreira-ez8qd but u get nvidia who wants amd
I did buy a low profile MSI 3050 6gb for my htpc. Really that’s the best use for this card. Even that is too expensive. I can’t think of much else that it is cost-effective. EDIT: It’s a far cry from the days of the 1050, which was a budget (and fairly good performance) standout.
06:02 Uuh, what?? You can get an RX 6600 for less...
tbh, the main use of this gpu would be in systems without any pci-e connectors i.e old office pc's, you should have tested it that way
I appreciate you calling the card 3040 for the most of the video. It really should become standard practice, the official name being the scam that it is. A lot shorter to say than 3050 6gb as well. And when you fix the name, it's actually a relatively OK product in the "no external power connector" -niche.
Lower TDP card might be good for a video transcoding server or a small home lab. How does this stack up to other low profile cards such as the Intel Arc, Older Quadro, etc.?
This one us better
For that usecase I'd actually go Quicksync instead. Any 11th or 12th gen Intel CPU with iGPU.
Overall cheaper, less power consumption, superior image quality (although barely noticeable).
If encoding is your daily usecase, you'd want an i5-12500 minimum because those chips have the UHD 770 iGPU which has double encoders.
So twice as fast with transcoding/encoding.
I'm still better, and by a long shot.
What kind of VRAM ya got?
@@CaveyMoth😂😂😂
🤓
@@CaveyMoth The finest GDDR5 on the bar. Two gigabytes of it, because one isn't enough. And a quad shot of DDR4 when i'm feeling low (on budget, that is).
I could run 3 of you in SLI to get a 3090.
That's why I had to search deep for a 3060 with 12g, when Google just kept sending me to sellers trying to short change me on the 6g versions.
This card is basically a replacement for 1660 that is still being sold all over the world for the same price, so basically You are getting the upgrade for the same price.
Sure it falls down on its face when compared with Radeon 6600 which is just a few $ more, but it doesn't require upgraded PSU and will work in basically any pre-built system.
Yes, that's fine and all. But, you don't get to make a completely architecturally different device and slap the same name on it. It would have been fine and wouldn't really be a video or news if it was labeled the 3040 or 3030.
It's the same problem Nvidia has had for a while - If they had named and priced the card correctly, this would have been lauded as a fantastic product within its tier. Like usual, however, Nvidia can't help but insert a stick into their own bicycle wheels.
The settings between the different upscalers do not have parity. Not even getting into the issue of some games having five settings of Ultra Quality through Ultra Performance for DLSS while only having three or four settings of FSR, Hardware Unboxed did a deep dive analysis of the various upscalers settings comparing how the make things look, FPS improvement, and VRAM usage. They found that DLSS consistently looks better than FSR at the same setting name, but used more VRAM, and DLSS Balanced provided FPS boosts comparable to FSR Performance.
Could have been the best budget graphics card if it was priced and named correctly.
Nvidia never changes. They did the same with the 1060 back in the day. There was the actual 1060, with 6gb of memory. Then they made the 3gb version which was slower. Then they made a 5gb version for some reason.
In my country people are buying this 6gb 3050 for some reason. The Rx 6600 is just 10% more expensive
@@victorlima6113 iNvidia brainrot is strong. At this pricepoint you cant even use RT as a selling point nor dlss imo.
A lot of consumers just don't do their due diligence before buying products.
The reason being stupidity, when RX 6750 XT are 280 ..
There is a good use case scenario for this card. Turning an old office PC with a low power PSU into a basic gaming rig.
@@ridleyroid9060 YH now name a better graphics card that doesn't require external power. these reviewers are so use to getting given high end gpus for free.
Its going for $150 atm, might pick one up. All I play is Counter Strike in low settings.
What do you have currently? For the same price you could get a used 1080 Ti with double the VRAM and like 50% better performance. Or just a used 4060 if you don't trust an older card.
What's wrong with getting socks at chistmas? I'm happy to get anything at all.
i'm so happy they release the 3040 because I have the 3050 8gb and now i'm supreme to 3040 users 😁
Still decent for NVENC jobs (Ampere architecture) and basic CAD jobs (Blender, zbrush, etc). I don't get how you didn't see a video encoder, I'm encoding with NVENC right now on a 3050 6GB build at work.
Wouldn't have minded seeing it run Cyberpunk just so we can turn that graphics card into a toaster
Er, he does, and it runs it just fine.
The card runs cool as it only uses 70W.
All i can say is it runs better than a gtx960 4gb 😅
i'm sure, since when do i need an engineering degree to have a game on good settings?
im used to have it at high, beeing disappointed with the fps and set it at medium afterwards because im poor. now i would have to fiddle around with words that tell me nothing for half an hour to come to the same conclusion?
I can't stand Nvidia's business practices.
not a fan of their BS either. However, ask 88% of the market if they really care enough to not buy NVIDIA and go with AMD (or Intel) for a GPU instead. Some people are just "used to" buying NVIDIA cards; they've gotten into a habit of it. I personally like to switch it up, my next purchase should be AMD. Too bad they don't really have anything I'd want. I'd like a low-profile RX 580 or RX 5500 XT, got one of those? No? Too bad. Just RX 6400? Crap. What about 7000 series? No? Okay, great. But hey, there's this here RTX 3050 (3040) 6GB... that performs like those cards.
It's written as NVIDIA, all caps.
And NVIDIA was the one selling graphics cards to gamers during the mining craze, while AMD sold everything directly to miners.
2:11 you know it's e-waste toaster time when the VRAM bus is just double digit
I really don't care about the tech, It's Dawid's comedy delivery why i watch these videos - comedy gold!
This should be priced at $120 US.
He lives in Canada, Candian money is worth less than US money.
Why? The 1650 was a $160 card and this is it's direct replacement. $160 would be reasonable but we don't get that with Nvidia so it's $180
@@talibong9518 he said $220 Canadian wich is $244 USD he still purposely overpaid $80 watch the start of the video where he talks about the price (it even shows the u.s dollar amount on screen) he
@@Diggittydoright $220 CAD is $160 USD.
i honestly think it's a farily decent card to boost intel 6-7th gen oem prebuilts which have limited sata power cables and no pcie power connectors
the 3050 works exactly like it should, to help get timmy an affordable pc in his room for "school"
Better get a used RX6600. 50% faster than 3050 6GB
Affordable? 😂 Just get a 6600 or the 6600xt ffs...
I am surprised it performs well in a vacuum, I would have thought that would mess up the cooling.
Any new Nvidia card is always put above a tier it's actually in. Like this 3050 is actually a 3040, but if Nvidia called it a 3040 it would warrant a lower price.
Wrong, this 3050 doesn't need any 6pin or 8pin, which makes it a good optiplex gpu
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 so a niche use case makes it okay for Nvidia to uptier a card so that they can charge more money for it?
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 what kind of stupid opinion is this
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 meh.. only if you go SFF. For less money than a 3050 6gb you could get a 1660super for less than 100 bucks plus a 400-500w PSU to power it. You could even get a SATA to PCIe adapter if you wanna save on the PSU, it works but only if you are willing to undervolt it to no more than 130w total board power.
Even the 1660 non-super outperforms the 3050 6gb. But I do agree that for SFF builds, the 3050 6gb is actually one of the most compelling options (just make sure it's a sff with room for a dual slot GPU, definitely do research)
@@gejamugamlatsoomanam7716 yeah its good for optiplex, so what..its 3040 in performance, spin however you want its 3040...
3050 6gb is 7 months old news at this point. The newest and lowest end RTX card is now the RTX A400, isn't it?
As far as the upscaling visuals, I think you'd see more difference from native visuals if you were actually playing in the monitor's native resolution, as if you DLSS upscale to 1080p and then you drivers or monitor upscales using their own interpolation to 1440p, that just makes everything more blurry regardless.
I think thus card is meant to be placed into a low end pre built pc. Its unfair to compare it to gpus that use more than pci power.
The whole pc was 500 euros and was small the card does much better than my old gtx960 ,it s just to play gta,eurotruck,and some cyberpunk, it works for me 😅
I "think" you're missing the point. The point is that it shouldn't be named the 3050.
I got a 3060 openbox from Canada Computers (a store here). For like final cost of $460 Canadian dollars. I was trying to negoiate cheaper used 3060tis at the time but kind of broke down to the guarantee it would basically work as well as not blow my 650 watt supply. I have a Gigabyte Eagle 12GB. I don't really miss anything because I vary rarely either play games or do blender art.
If you don't have or want to spend a lot of money on a GPU, go AMD. The value and prefrormance per dollar is infinitely better. They stomp Nvidia in terms of the "value" or budget GPUs
I'm honestly shocked you didn't tested it against the 6600? It's cheaper and better than the 3050 8gb on most regions I think
Yep the rx 6600 stacks up well against the rtx 3060 8gb as well as that "3060" is significantly slower than the real 3060
2:29 Small correction: The 8GB variant may also come with the GA107, but has the full 2560 CUDA cores and 128 bit memory.
Another case of, it's not a bad card, it's just a bad name.
While I agree that it probably shouldn't be called a 3050, this card does serve a very specific user base. Many pre-built gaming PCs from HP, dell, etc. do not have power supplies that can handle an externally powered card - and some don't even have additional PCI power connectors from the PSU. Regardless of your feelings about those pre-built systems, there are a lot of them out there, and a card like this does offer a limited upgrade path from lets say a 1650 or 1660 that may have come with one of those systems. For anyone without those restrictions, its a horrible value proposition, but there are a lot of folks that are thankful that it exists because they have few options to upgrade and may not be in a position to buy or build a new system.
wow my gpu..... ):
You got bamboozled when you bought it.
@@yaldabaoth2 no i didn't i had no choice cuz of my prebuilt with a 310 watt psu so....
I just had a look and you seem to be able to buy a 3050 8gb version with the GA107 chip and seemingly the specs are the same as for the GA106 3050's so that should mean it's the same performance or at least very close and the cheapest version of it is like 5 bucks more expensive than the cheapest 3050 6GB.
Wow, nVidia is really acting like douchbags...
*NVIDIA, not "nVidia"...
Fun fact: A GA107 variant of the RTX 3050 8gb does exist. It has 2560 cores just like the GA106 version and the same clock speeds, so performance should be identical. Some MSI models use this configuration.
Also, an OEM version of the RTX 3050 8gb exists that only has 2304 sp, just like the 3050 6gb. This version is GA106 for some reason, don't ask me why.
If it was labelled right as a 3040 or even 3030, I honestly think it would have been well received as a budget card ideal for nippers first PC and for uses in situation like budget e-sports builds and home media servers
6:54 Welcome to modern graphics. Blurry and oversharpened.
Fro some reason I can get a RTX 3050 6GB for the same price of a GTX 1650 4G GDDR6 and its 5W less but WAY MORE PERFORMANCE AND DLSS support and doing some slight overclock would be fun
A 2080Ti can be had for around the same on ebay and will blow that ewaste GPU out of the water. 20xx and 30xx have access to the same DLSS features and neither supports frame generation.
10:52 is this a bug
I still remember my old ATI mach 64 with 1meg of memory expandable to 2mb, there was an open socket to slip more ram into, no idea why this went away
I own a Gigabyte oc low profile RTX 3050, running in a HP 290 SFF (warning: had to mod the cpu 4 pin power plug to get the gpu to fit in the case).
Upgraded the cpu to an i5 9500.
Good combination, I'm satisfied with the total performance.
The case is very tight and the gpu temps aren't great.
Afterburner settings are: Power Limit 80%, Temp Limit 90*, Link off, core clock +100, memory clock +600.
Dawid, I would say price wise the competitor to the RTX "3040" would be the RX 6600 as on Amazon and Newegg they sit at the same price point, and the RX 6600 kicks the "RTX 3040's" ass entirely. The downside being the RX 6600 does require a SINGLE 8 Pin power connector.
the RX 6600 also beats the 8GB 3050
@@astroidexadam5976 The RX 6600 is probably the best bang for the buck budget GPU on the market, and the Gigabyte OC one is a triple fan design that keeps that card on ice, all for under $200!
Its crazy that 30 series prices hasn’t really gone down, since 40 series has been out a while
Linus said "RT 3050" and that's a good way to put it
Your benchmarks are like pure science. Love your channel, you are the 😎
I wish we could add ram like we could in the past , found an old video card which could do all the old modes, stock was 160k VRAM it had 4 megs. This should still be a thing.
You know, in my music studio i want a beefy computer on the CPU, RAM and drive speed side (Thunderbolt is also handy), but certainly i want a cheap graphics card that does the job and nothing else and with enough power to actually not bottleneck the CPU either (CPU power is everything in a music production rig) .... this one provides. Still, the price is hefty for a bottom of the line piece of gear ... crazy times
Behold, the coming of the RTX-enabled _basic display adapters..._
_...and despair._ (Could be viable for use with one of those Ivy Bridge/Haswell-era office PCs as a means to repurpose it as a "cheap gaming PC".)
Why is it desktop version of RTX 4050 is still not a thing? I have an HP gaming laptop with RTX 4050 6GB, it can run Cyberpunk, Space Marine 2, Once Human and other games on mid-high settings, obviously with DLSS enabled but still, it almost double of what Xbox Series S has to offer on 1440p display.
The 3050 6GB (Sorry, 3040) is meant to replace the GTX 1650 which came out early 2020 as Nvidia's sub 75W offering. I recall seeing in a comparison (maybe on GN) that the 3040 is only about 30% faster than the 1650...after nearly 5 years. Might be because despite the GTX 1650 only being a 4GB card compared to 6GB it has a 128-bit memory bus compared 96bit of the current card (how did Nvidia manage that one?).
my old 3060 looked the dead exact same as that msi one. but now i’ve got a 7900xtx
If it smells like a scam, sounds like a scam and people are telling you it is a scam... it probably is a scam.
Also it fucks up steam hardware survey.
Have you seen the 4070 12 GB GDDR6X vs 4070 12 GB GDDR6?
2:30 GA107 dies match the spec for the 8GB card and are even used in many of them. The story is that the 3050 was launched before adequate GA107 had been moved from laptop to desktop, so cut down GA106 dies were used instead. apparently for whatever reason, GA106 continued being used in some 3050 8GBs while 107 was used in others. it makes sense that they would limit the 6GB model to GA107 tho, as it would be absurdly cut down from 106. I can't imagine they get many dies with half of the memory controller dead for example
The problem is, that the 3050 6gb is actually a good card, it's just named wrong. It's a good option to drop into an old office PC or workstation and have a nice little gaming machine for esports. Naming it 3050 just seems wrong.
I haven't been here is a little bit. Dont need tobupgrade my PC so your knowledge isn't needed at the moment. I am glad so many others do. I was an avid watcher when u had just over 100k subs. You are off rhe charts now. Congrats
I abandoned Nvidia a few months back for the 7800XT, not necessarily because AMD is better (because it's not) but it has better price for performance. I upgraded from a 3060ti and while some have said the performance difference would be negligible, I've seen almost 35% to 50% more fps on average. Nvidia has become a shell of what it used to be in terms of product lineup, but they are still performance kings. Just wish they'd bring prices down.
By the way the 3050-8GB is normally GA-107 but it uses the full die and isn't cut down like the 3050-6garbage edition.
The only reason to buy one of these is the lack of additional power. That's it. It bothers me that the naming scheme is so bad.
Great video dude, what’s the program you use to see frame rates and temps , and do you have a link please?
3:00 And then there's the laptop one that besides having less memory has the same specs of the normal 3050 (same bus speed, cores and processing units, memory frequency) with 80w tdp. I wonder how did they end making the nerfed desktop one worse than the laptop.
Oh right, they also made the 2050 mobile which is a gutted 3050 with an even smaller bus (64 bit) the nerfed cores of the 6gb 3050 desktop, and whopping 40w tdp, lmao...
impressive for the wattage at least! for the marginal increase in FPS of the 'real' 3050, it used almost twice the power!
It really should be marketed differently tho, thats for sure.
10:52 does 3050 have frame gen???
I guess upscaling youtube would be a breeze. Might be of some value with RTX access.
idk considering i have a 1660 ti with 6gb of vram, this card doesnt seem to be a bad option for someone looking to get into pc gaming (im not going to buy one) its currently $166.69 on amazon for this exact card, $244.99 is way to expensive for this card but for around $150 its a beast and cant get you into pc gaming for the same price as a regular ps5
Another way to take it is that this is the fastest "no extra power" graphics card right now. I was looking at it as better than a kick in the butt. Might be more interesting to compare it to say a 1060 or a 1080 to see where we are.
It is between a 1060 and 1660 super in terms of performance. Look it up.
@@RaffyART1995that us in theory. Rtx makes a difference
I´ve really got to hand it to nvidia, whenever i think their mid and low tier products cant get worse - they just keep surprising me.
Dawid, the sound is a bit off, isn't it normally a mono down mix?
Next time test CS2 on maps with water sources, like Ancient