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these days entrylevel gpus launch for nearly the price of consoles partly

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because cheaper consoles are available but also because gpus are more expensive

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NVIDIA's new GeForce RTX 3050 obviously isn't going to change that but the hope

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is that it's going to be good enough I'll give it to you straight right now

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while you still have the chance this card is not bad if you need a GPU today

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and you don't mind 1080P and we'll have the link below when they're available

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stick around though and I'll tell you why if you have a card now you might

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below the RTX 3050 is not a surprise on

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paper you've got RT in tensor cores you've got a little more than 2/3 the

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Cuda cores of the RTX 3060 8 gigs of

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memory on a 128bit bus and you've got

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the anank encoder engine and more than two display outputs to boot compared to

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the Radeon RX 6500 XT AMD's mobile GPU

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cosplaying as a desktop card the extra $50 doesn't seem like a big price to pay

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for all of those benefits how much would you pay for a dedicated video en coding

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accelerator if your GPU didn't have one or extra display outs now that glowing

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endorsement for industry standard features aside we do have to test

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whether this is truly worth the extra spend and thankfully our test bench is

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still warm from our RX 6500 XT testing we'll be throwing that GPU in along with

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some Choice selections from both teams to see if more memory and an encoder is

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all the RTX 3050 brings to the table in F1 2021 at least so far so good it not

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only does it beat the RX 6500 XT but it

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also comes pretty close to matching the GTX 1660ti a GPU that launched for $30

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more and lacks rate tracing capabilities speaking of the rate tracing performance

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ain't bad either easily pulling double the frames the 6500 XT can drip out and

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coming surprisingly close to the RX 6600 in the tier above at the same settings

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Forza Horizon 4 brings more good news even pulling a win over the 1660 TI

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although AMD's Contender isn't far off here suggesting that this title isn't

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sensitive to memory bandwidth not at these settings anyway and AMD really did

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drop the ball with the RX 6500 xt's four-lane PCI Express connection and

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64-bit memory configuration Far Cry 6 without rate tracing displays similar

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results with the RX 6500 xt's performance close but not quite matching

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the RTX 3050 while getting absolutely creamed the instant we turn on ra racing

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thanks to both the GPU's extra video memory and the difference in

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optimization of NVIDIA's RT cores versus AMD's Ray accelerators Hitman 3 didn't

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stutter for the RTX 3050 either and we've once again got the highest results

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out of other cards in class including the 1660ti although it's worth pointing out

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that if you're playing it stealthy Hitman doesn't need Twitchy reaction

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times what does is csgo and it's here we see it fall behind the pack with the

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cheaper at MSRP GTX 1660 super pulling

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slightly ahead thanks to its wider 192-bit memory bus just like you can

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pull ahead with a desk pad from LTD store.com doesn't have be wider we've

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got all sizes and a new configurator to help you choose steepen got RGB if we

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include the r tracing results the RTX 30 50 works out to be roughly 92% faster

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than the RX 6500 XT but as we've said

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rate tracing isn't something you'll want to enable on this class of gpus without

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upscaling algorithms like NVIDIA's dlss which this card does support if we look

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Instead at the non-r trace performance it works out to be uh just about 23%

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lead which is in near lock step with the difference in price between the two

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cards it's almost like they planned it this way huh the performance is pretty

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much spot-on with the GTX 1660ti too and since it was a point of contention with

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the 6500 XT here's how the 3050 does on

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gen 3 it maintains within about 10% of normal performance on benchmarks that

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dripped up the 6500 XT most last time around which isn't too surprising since

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it's got those extra four lanes of PCI Express bandwidth to work with

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productivity is a little more cut and dry the RTX 350's ability to use RT

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cores for rendering and its inclusion of a media engine easily puts it at Double

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the performance of the 6500 XT and 33% more than the 1660ti while productivity

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needs vary from person to person this puts the overall average score at a 66%

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performance advantage over the 6500 XT if we exclude rate race gaming if you

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want to make it the fairest possible comparison and exclude blender it works

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out to roughly 30% I mean any way you look at it it wins a win as with the

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6500 XT first party Founders Edition style cards don't exist so thermals will

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vary from board to board our EVGA XC card hit a peak of 74° which puts it at

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a little under the RX 6500 xt's Peak

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though it's so wash on average the cooler is actually a little underbuilt

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compared to our same cooler on the RTX 3060 XC so keep that in mind as we move

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on to the power graphs it's here that we see the radon 6500 XT is significantly

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more efficient than NVIDIA's new card although the RTX 3050 impressively draws

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less power than the GTX 1660 super and not by a little bit either and while you

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might have a tough time finding it in the core clocks graph the line and

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therefore the clock stability is at as smooth as any other in the lineup here

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which shouldn't be too surprising considering the thermal results this

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card seems to have a bit of Headroom to play with if you wanted to push the

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power Target but your mileage will of course vary depending on the card now

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the problem many of you may have is yeah

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that's great and all but this is supposed to be a 50 Series card and it's

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priced between the GTX 1660 super and TI

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that's where it gets murky there are many reasons why graphics cards are

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getting more expensive these days and and the unfortunate reality is it's

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possible that AMD really did scrape the barrel on the RX 6500 XT to hit that

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$200 price point if so we've now seen

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the compromises that have to be made to hit that price point that we once

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considered affordable and there really is no going back that leaves me with

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conflicting opinions about the RTX 3050 on one hand it delivers performance-wise

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and is exactly what we expected a further cut down ampere GPU and for the

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first time in a 50 Series card we're getting RT and tensor cores it's the RTX

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2050 that we never got with no major drawbacks and because it's a down Bend

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GA 106 the same GPU that's in the RTX

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3060 these are probably reject chips that have been sitting idle this whole

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time it'll add some Supply relief at least until they sell through on the

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other hand it's the RTX 2050 we never

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got and they're calling it RTX 3050 with

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a 60 series price tag this RTX tag X

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began with the first RTX cards in 2018 and that was well before the current

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scale apocalypse I just I worry that there's no incentive to reverse this

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trend even if manufacturing costs were returned to normal like say GPU mining

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ended today the reality is that both Supply constraints stretching until 2024

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by some estimates and the sheer pent up demand from Gamers and Professionals for

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high performance gpus is just going to keep prices high it's not just one thing

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a lot of people will'll probably try to get an RTX 3050 at MSRP for new builds

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and if they do I think they'll be happy with them but the keyw there is try

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Intel can't enter the game soon enough and neither can AMD's expected desktop

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rdna 2 apus get subscribed by the way because we are totally going to be

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