Nvidia RTX 3050 Reviews

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digitaltrends said:
A 28% difference in price should translate into performance, but the RTX 3050 punches slightly above its weight class. There’s about a 23% difference between the two cards across the board, ignoring an oddly large gap in Fortnite. Here are our results at 1080p with the highest graphics preset:
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https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-rtx-3060-vs-rtx-3050/


Not bad, if you can get your grubby hands on one. This is from an old school gamer where 40fps+ on 1080p was "good enough." No doubt these will be unobtainium at MSRP.
 
In our country (not in the US and definitely not at MSRP), I can get an RX 6600 for about $50 more. I think at that level, the 6600 is the better value. :|

No experience at all with DLSS but does that technology move the needle at 1080p?
 
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mda said:
In our country (not in the US and definitely not at MSRP), I can get an RX 6600 for about $50 more. I think at that level, the 6600 is the better value. :|

No experience at all with DLSS but does that technology move the needle at 1080p?
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I mentioned this in another thread, but at Micro Center, they're selling the 6600 for $20 cheaper than the most expensive 3050.
 
mda said:
No experience at all with DLSS but does that technology move the needle at 1080p?
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DLSS is much more an interesting way to do the upscaling that would occur on your 4k tv or 1440p when you lack horsepower monitor than 1080p imo.

Outside being an optix user (in blender or other equivalent Abode side of Nvidia exclusive) If a 6600 get close to the price it become a non brainer, it is a complete different tier above class of card.

Not sure how useful DLSS at 1080p, maybe for running Cyberpunk type of game at very high and/or ray tracing, but with a 3050 it could still be a no go anyway.
 
1_rick said:
I mentioned this in another thread, but at Micro Center, they're selling the 6600 for $20 cheaper than the most expensive 3050.
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Crazy. Again at MSRP it makes sense. Not so much 2X above MSRP. Not even stock at my local Microcenter.
 
kirbyrj said:
It doesn't even make sense at current MSRP. This essentially performs like the previous generation $229 1660 Super for $20 more.
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But, but…..
They will be available at the MSRP. It’s a new ballpark guys!!!

/s
 
kirbyrj said:
It doesn't even make sense at current MSRP. This essentially performs like the previous generation $229 1660 Super for $20 more.
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The xx50 version being not has performant has the previous xx60 and not cheaper, show how bad the market is and also how expensive Turin was.

But it would certainly make a lot of sense at current MSRP in the current market, so much that if you would have the possibility to buy them I imagine you would (and would resale them for a lot more right after).

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Some people were paying over $290 for a 1660 super in 2019 early 2020 (instead of $220 for the Zotac version).

It would make a lot of sense for someone without a video card to buy a 3050 $250 right now.

It would make no sense if someone could buy a 1660 super for $160 on eBay, but that not the world.
 
This could be a fine card if would run games at such consistent frames in next two or three years as low end raytracing solution.
 
havoc lingers said:
This could be a fine card if would run games at such consistent frames in next two or three years as low end raytracing solution.
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Speculation, but would that ever be relevant ? DLSS for newer title/DLDSR for legacy title could be quite interesting to some, but at that performance range (under a 2060 non go/super) Ray tracing ?

Is there any title where Ray Tracing make a nice significant difference and could run well with it at 1080p on a 3050 ? Will there ever be one ?
 
LukeTbk said:
Speculation, but would that ever be relevant ? DLSS for newer title/DLDSR for legacy title could be quite interesting to some, but at that performance range (under a 2060 non go/super) Ray tracing ?

Is there any title where Ray Tracing make a nice significant difference and could run well with it at 1080p on a 3050 ? Will there ever be one ?
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Games like Control and God of war where raytracing features do improve visual quality with raytraced reflections and SSRTGI but I haven't seen the tests with 3050. More games will come with such features in the future that's for sure.
 
havoc lingers said:
Games like Control and God of war where raytracing features do improve visual quality with raytraced reflections and SSRTGI but I haven't seen the tests with 3050. More games will come with such features in the future that's for sure.
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Looking at it with DLSS on seem possible to play something like Control with RT on:

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If dlss (or an equivalent) get better and better and more common on hard to run title you could be right.
 
havoc lingers said:
Games like Control and God of war where raytracing features do improve visual quality with raytraced reflections and SSRTGI but I haven't seen the tests with 3050. More games will come with such features in the future that's for sure.
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God of War uses RT?
 
Well that didn't take long Dell sent me their latest product updates and basically, everything on the SKU list that had a 1650 now has a 3050 or 3050ti in its place. Pricing seems to have remained about the same too, so win?
 
next-Jin said:
It’s some Patreon add on, was hoping for built in to the game.
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Yeah, it is screen space, partially path traced global illumination and Ambient Occlusion. IMO, the Ambient Occlusion is the best part about it. The GI often doesn't look much better than a good bloom effect. But sometimes it does look really good.

It also has a screen space, path traced reflections mode. But, since its injected into the game, its not possible to make sure it only applies to surfaces which make sense. So its mostly a for fun feature. Or something to use for screenshots, when it does work out pretty well.
 

FPS Review: includes FSR/DLSS figures too​

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 vs AMD Radeon RX 6600 Gaming Performance​


the GeForce RTX 3050 is actually within the same price range as the Radeon RX 6600. This being the case we must compare the two video cards to each other in performance. There is potential for the Radeon RX 6600 to be the better value right now between the two. Therefore, in today’s performance comparison, we pit the GeForce RTX 3050 versus Radeon RX 6600 in several games and test DLSS, FSR, and Ray Tracing.
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https://www.thefpsreview.com/2022/0...050-vs-amd-radeon-rx-6600-gaming-performance/
 
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