Can The Slowest RTX Graphics Card Even Ray Trace?

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I see if the slowest 'RTX' branded Nvidia graphics card can even do its branding.
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#dawid #rtx #rtx3050 #rtx2050 #nvidia #gaming

[@KimBoKastekniv47]

"Why not get the RX 6600 instead of the RTX 3050?" "I want ray tracing" ^ Actual forum discussion I saw.

[@cin2110]

Lol all that Nvidia rtx marketing is working then.

[@HunterTracks]

To be fair, a RTX 2050 is like if you took a 3050 and kneecapped it before breaking its back. A 85W RTX 3050 performs significantly better (though still not great).

[@jhwhthemerciful]

can you explain? dont know much about all this ict/hardware stuff. I guess the RX6600 can perfectly handle ray tracing but nvidia somehow got the illusion to the large crowds that their rtx cards where much better and optimized for that task?

[@adlibconstitution1609]

get a used rtx 3060ti for $250. It is tons faster than both at raytracing

[@olnnn]

@@jhwhthemercifulThey can both do ray tracing, though the RX 6600 performs way better on anything other than ray tracing for about the same price while the 3050 is very overpriced for what it is. The 3050 will be faster at pure ray tracing workloads like running cyberpunk with ray tracing on and other things at low settings or maybe or running quake RTX since nvidia cards have decidated ray tracing hardware but it's kinda pointless at this tier of graphics card since they're not nearly powerful enough to make use of it properly.

[@salmonsoup15]

It does ray trace, just one ray. One ray is traced

[@Juliemc]

Lol

[@thespecialkid1384]

If 1 ray was traced then the GPU would only have to compute 1 trigonometric function for the dot product. Which wouldn’t have decreased the fps.

[@phamxuankhoaa]

1 FPS is insane 💀💀

[@killkiss_son]

Calling this GPU RTX 2050 is like saying '' oh yeah my phone can record in 4K... at 13 fps ''

[@ABaumstumpf]

So like AMDs claims about having RT hardware.

[@galaxlordcz3933]

@@ABaumstumpfThe new 7000 series GPUs and specifically anything above 7800 tier isn't horrible.

[@kiyoponnn]

yeah hopefully intel or qualcomm can disrupt this monopoly/duopoly soon

[@FalseOracle617]

Raster is king pal@@ABaumstumpf

[@ABaumstumpf]

@@killkiss_son "The difference is that with an AMD GPU you can if you want, but with that RTX 2050 you can't." Sure - show it on a mobile Radeon card. "can't play any RT games at decent settings" Try it with a low end mobile Radeon card - have fun. And the funny thing its - it is still AMD cards that do not have dedicated raytracing hardware and those are the reasons why games hardly use any decent effects and are limited to GI and co: Cause as soon as you do anything different - like Minecraft with physical based rendering - the Radeon cards crap their pants and even current gen ones drop to sub 20-series performance.

[@bigsmokemelvinharris]

A Dawid video a day keeps the depression away

[@LitteralBeans]

Really? I been watching like 45 a day. It's not working, am I overdosing on dawid?

[@Kaillin]

i am still depressed but happy at hte same time

[@paulustrucenus]

I wish it did

[@Paulzpc]

Unless you have Linode tattooed on your forehead, he won't date you.

[@shourya8362]

fr bro

[@Boogie_the_cat]

RTX slide shows are fun. Instead of a game, its like you're watching someone's vacation pictures in Powerpoint. "Do you see?" "Do you see?" Lolz

[@shadowlord0162]

thats so true, i loved watching powerpoints on my old gpu

[@masterkamen371]

Minecraft RTX be like on non-Nvidia GPUs:

[@bpyr2je5]

Also can add slowmotion feature

[@Parappadarappa2]

The main problem with RTX on laptops is manufacturers are obsessed with making laptops thin if laptops were thick and bulky again we’d have more performance by now

[@macedonianlad]

i would like to see a laptop with modern hardware and the thickness of a thinkpad g41

[@floydlooney6837]

and non-gamer laptops would be the thin ones.

[@Parappadarappa2]

@@floydlooney6837 yeah

[@pelehosmusic]

We still do have current gen thick and bulky gaming laptops that offer some of the best performance on the market, issue is that A: they are for most people often prohibitly expensive and B: not everyone wants a thick brick scolding jet engine on their lap or even on thier desk, but they still want to play games! hense why thin and slick gaming laptops are offered, picked up a Zephyrus G14 recently and its pretty powerful for how thin and small it is and absolutely love it

[@Carnyzzle]

@@pelehosmusic contrary to popular belief, you're probably not doing any sort of gaming on your laptop with it on your lap, even with a controller. Trust me, I've already tried

[@GAMERZ-5714c]

BRO for some people who can't afford a good laptop that hp victus is like a dream for us .

[@tacvek]

Although RTX performance has gotten better over the past couple years, even my desktop 3060 struggles on low ray-tracing. It's like saying you can be an Olympic track runner because you have legs.

[@ProjectFraz]

I mean yeah we all could be one but should we.

[@tacvek]

@@ProjectFraz exactly

[@drebodollaz3504]

You can get Ray tracing over 60 with higher tier/newer cards

[@tomaszzalewski4541]

​​@@drebodollaz3504no...you can't. (Unless you are talking about The highest oligarch tier). Got my hand on 4070, without dlss you can forget about ray tracing because often you won't even get that 60 fps

[@tomaszzalewski4541]

​@@drebodollaz3504If you have 4080 or higher- yes.

[@Carnyzzle]

Good to know that my ideapad laptop with a 2050 can do raytracing as long as I'm fine with it becoming a potential fire hazard lol

[@Boogie_the_cat]

Yes, but the ray tracing will make the fire have great looking real time shadows and light sourcing.

[@HunterTracks]

It can do RT the same way it can be used as a club -- it'll probably somewhat work a few times, but I wouldn't recommend making a habit of it.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

Ray tracing in such machines is not for games. It was designed for professional software and rendering of images with lots of reflective surfaces.

[@HunterTracks]

@@aleksazunjic9672 I don't think there's a lot of people that are gonna do professional 3D rendering on a $500 gaming laptop.

[@aleksazunjic9672]

@@HunterTracks It is not a gaming laptop for them, or at least not primarily gaming laptop. Also, people were doing professional work on far weaker machines in the past, everyone is not rich (for example students of graphical design) and finally why spend more money if you could do your job on something like this.

[@blar2112]

8:51 This is how the switch 2 will look, mark my words, Nontendo will abuse the hell out of DLSS.

[@ProjectFraz]

Probably. It'll still most likely be a 30 fps system also.

[@blar2112]

@@ProjectFraz totally agree

[@IronIsKing]

assuming they dont jump to amd like the ps5 and xbox

[@alexandrebelair4360]

Good, it's perfect for mobile devices.

[@blar2112]

@@alexandrebelair4360 Dude, it looks like absolute garbage

[@BReal-10EC]

I'd like to see how well a modern desktop GPU gimped to 40 watts would do ray tracing.

[@leohuangchunwang]

An RTX 3080 laptop basically has the same chip as a desktop 3070Ti (6144 core GA104), and when that is limited to 40W while on battery (I think, I don't remember exactly) the performance is pretty dismal... somebody should do a video on it.

[@Bolt451]

​@@leohuangchunwangthat why you plug it in

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

@@Bolt451 That why you get desktop for power. Laptop is not a good idea if you need some serious power, not with cooling of one.

[@Bolt451]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 some people need portability and power and its impressive that you can get something that stacks up to a desktop 4080 when plugged in is not only impressive but useful to certain people.

[@thegeforce6625]

⁠@@Bolt451agreed, if I really needed top teir performance, I would’ve just built a desktop, but after gaming on only desktops for years, I wanted something really fast that I can take with me, so i recently-ish bought a Thinkpad P1 Gen 6 with a (unfortunately 80w+20w) RTX 4090 for a decent deal. (Won a US eBay auction, US machine shipped to AU, even after the crazy shipping costs it was still a lot less than if I bought it from AU Lenovo directly. (Plus Lenovo voiding the machines standard 1 year warranty once i registered it in Australia, so I’m pretty much screwed if something happens to it) After owning it for a few months though, wasn’t really the best choice for me. The power limited RTX 4090 means performance is somewhat underwhelming compared to my much older desktops. (ie, FC5 from 2018 struggles to hit 60fps at 4K maxed out details due to the GPU’s power limit, I’d think it should easily hit 100+ in 4K but again that power limit) Might sell it and save up for a Legion 7 w/ a 175w RTX 4090, though the RTX 5000 series will be out by then so probably best I stick with it for now)

[@aku2dimensional]

When I was in the hospital I took my not-so-gamer Thinkpad with me to play Fallout 4 or New Vegas, one night I set up on an old wall-mount A/C unit and blasted 55F cold air on the bottom and got about 20C lower temps. I was worried that the temp difference could condensate inside so I didn't do it for very long, but surprised it worked for a laptop without a lot of ventilation.

[@alexturnbackthearmy1907]

Its not a problem, as long as it is above room temperature. And hospitals LOVE their room temps be low.

[@aku2dimensional]

@@alexturnbackthearmy1907 Oh yeah, I believe it. The section I was in at the time was delivery ward as a supervisor to the package courier in the room and temps were probably kept about 70-72F, that's why I kind of worried about it. Then again there was more important things to worry over.

[@thegeforce6625]

What Thinkpad is it? I got a RTX 4090 equipped US P1 Gen 6 brand new for a bit more than half price (off of an eBay* auction that I “accidentally” won) than if I had bought direct from Lenovo AU. *Don’t recommend, since I bought it off of eBay and shipped it to Australia, the machines 1 year standard warranty was immediately void and Lenovo have been dicking me around saying the machine never came with a warranty, and that eBay isn’t a “sanctioned” place to buy their laptops from

[@aku2dimensional]

@@thegeforce6625 It's an old Thinpad E560, has an i5-6200U, Intel HD 520 graphics, 16GB of DDR3 and a 2.5" Crucial MX500 1TB. I've upgraded it since I was in the hospital to what it is now, isn't bad for free corporate garbage. I just wish I had a more powerful Brickpad to build into a gaming laptop but haven't found such a thing, it's either too old or too expensive for old equipment.

[@thegeforce6625]

@@aku2dimensional nice nice, not a bad machine even today. And yeah I agree, I got a high end (but essentially perfect condition) W530 in late 2022 and that cost me about $500aud, and spend probably a extra $150-200 in upgrades such as the i7 3940XM (fastest 3rd gen core mobile CPU) and a 2TB hard drive (I picked a specific model because the manufacturer somehow crammed 3 platters into a standard 9.5mm tall enclosure)

[@domidomi9854]

1060 6gb is better then this 2050.....

[@mehdibendada5304]

U do realise that ur comparing a desktop gpu to a laptop gpu?

[@TheTanXS]

@@mehdibendada53041060 mobile is exact same specs as the desktop version, just about 100mhz slower in clock. So yes, rtx 2050 is slower than 1060 mobile in rasterization.

[@ConfederateBanshee]

That GPU isn't terrible. I dislike how people bash perfectly fine GPU's. I've ran into comment sections that have put down a literal 4060 Ti, to put that into perspective a 3060 Ti is a 2080 Super performance-wise, so imagine how much faster a 4060 Ti really is. Why can't PC gamers ever be satisfied with a phenomenally fast non-flagship GPU?

[@TheTanXS]

@@ConfederateBanshee because they’re slower than they supposed to be, only 10% performance increase and the price remains the same, really?

[@TheTanXS]

@@ConfederateBanshee FYI, 3060 ti is around 35% faster than 2060 super while remain the same exact msrp

[@matthenderson94]

I have a 4090, and I don't even bother with the psycho setting. Personally I can barely tell the difference between ultra and psycho, but psycho makes the GPU work significantly harder, but for minimal benefit.

[@captainpotatonly]

i can barely tell the difference between ray tracing on and off from a 3070 owner

[@NamTran-xc2ip]

Just use pathtracing

[@-Burb]

@@NamTran-xc2ipYeah I played through CP2077 on my 4070 Ti with path tracing because it looked so much better. Theres definitely a big difference between path tracing and the normal ray tracing modes, especially in GI.

[@tysopiccaso8711]

​@@captainpotatonlyhow? Without rt reflections there's so many things with such inaccurate reflections or they don't even have any at all, and without rt lighting a lot of the scene just ends up looking rather flat

[@gmikay]

I leave RT on but limit fps at 60. This way I save 100-130 watts on power draw and around 400 rpm on fans

[@htdamm]

DLSS 3 doesn't mean frame generation, if that is what you were wondering on portal. DLSS 3 does include frame generation too on the newer cards, but it's the newest upscaling stuff over the board.

[@PFnove]

also he was looking at the wrong graphical settings and the visual glitches were most likely caused by modifying them that would explain everything going back to normal after restarting the game and using the right settings

[@alihosseini8797]

Frame generation has been released by amd for every amd card. But nvidia? No dont think so.They can but they wont. Money milking company

[@nihalplays8781]

Bro literally calling hp victus as potato pc 💀

[@Bannana-Smile]

The flipped upside down laptop position is brilliant! 😂👌

[@ClappOnUpp]

When you set cyberpunks ray tracing to Psycho, I think when it said 420 the counter switched from FPS to SPF 😂

[@HSK_EDITS]

What is spf

[@jonathanweeks5750]

@@HSK_EDITS a measurement used to quantify the strength of sunscreen

[@usernamequaalquerr]

​@@HSK_EDITSSender Policy Framework

[@HSK_EDITS]

@@usernamequaalquerr now i am confused which of you guys are correct

[@alexrevolution7793]

@@HSK_EDITS both are joking. the original commenter made a joke about it being 420 seconds-per-frame.

[@sense5151]

been waiting for this one, good job

[@N8-TH3-GR8]

Dawid is by far one of my favorite tech KZbinrs. The video quality is always great and i can see the hard work that goes into this channel

[@grumpywolfgaming]

Glad you put 32gb in, as someone who just did a review on a laptop with limited vram, I noticed going from 16gb to 32gb made a difference because once the card runs out of vram it starts pulling from the system ram which may be all used up then starts page filing off your ssd. You also need to check your GPUs wattage since there are probably 8 different variants of that card.

[@real_rsaNoob13]

Yeah the RTX 3050 in my laptop goes up to 90w but his seems like its 70w to me

[@jeffreybarker357]

“Hair on my eyeballs” was a new one for me.

[@timothywells8589]

Not related to this video but I wanted to say a BIG BIG THANK YOU Dawid! I didn't know about enabling XMP in the bios, I bought a used system which came with 3200MHz RAM but was running at 2333MHz thanks to your videos this is now fixed :)

[@mohammadnoorqorayte5381]

Turning the laptop upside down was the most genius thing I have ever seen. You are truly amazing 🙂

[@hananas2]

I guess they should've called it the RT 3030

[@zsideswapper6718]

The new 3050 6gigs should be called like that 💀

[@hananas2]

@@zsideswapper6718 that one can be the RT 3040

[@DigitalJedi]

@@zsideswapper6718 What's kinda funny is that the 3050 6GB on laptops can end up being slightly faster due to having a handful more cuda cores. The 3050 lineup itself is a truly strange existence if you include the 2050 with it as a weird cousin.

[@iitzfizz]

Dawid just wanna say that your videos inspired me to make my first PC build in over 10 years. I have been using a laptop and console since 2011 and not had a desktop in that time, I just finished my build...Gone from a 3050 Ti 'gaming laptop' to a PC with an RX 6750 XT! Keep up the good work man.

[@bekhouwe8888]

You made a great choice! Enjoy!

[@belol69]

nice job

[@zeberto1986]

Dawid: let’s make Cyberpunk unplayable Laptop: Why, what have I done to deserve such abuse?

[@iam4082]

that smearing in cyberpunk is due to ray reconstruction.

[@Derpsii]

something interesting - I have a version of the Victus with a 3050. But not the 4 GB 3050. NVIDIA actually released a refresh of the mobile 3050 but with 6 gbs of VRAM and an extra 500 CUDA cores. Might be an uncommon GPU you could take a look at.

[@CNC295]

Seriously you could have choked that RTX with a Vienna sausage

[@TheJunky228]

some laptops use the keyboard for airflow or to just help radiate heat. I wouldn't necessarily say that having it upside down and closed is best for thermals. probably more like sitting on the lid with the body raised in the air

[@yashvelhal4497]

Nice to see dawid test my laptop

[@xavvvvxd]

a ray tracing card that doesn't know how to trace rays

[@eziomorte3380]

Holy sh@t, that upside laptop for the airflow! My world was a lie until now! Thanks Dawid!

[@PCIexplorer]

Had to use this on old laptops that overheat for a long time! It's so stupid but it works so well!

[@QWERTYCommander]

I love that even at maximum raytracing, Control still runs better on the 2050 than it did on last-gen consoles.

[@Ventrue533]

I can't get over the fact that the thermometer in the ad said 18,5 degrees and Dawid is sitting in a t-shirt

[@13bmitchell]

"It was performing at 1080p on low, which is wasn't doing on high. Anyway, let's make it unplayable". Dawid is the Let's Game It Out of the pc/tech space.

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

Portal RTX is VERY demanding. I only got a locked 30fps with a 3090. You need a 40 series card for it.

[@sudd3660]

i got a 4090, and is barely playable.

[@roarore8810]

Definitely demanding. Gigabyte 4070 Ti Super Windforce OC. No user overclock. In chamber 1 I got 30 FPS AVG. Max 40 FPS, Min 22 FPS. 23 FPS 1% Low, 22 FPS 0.1% Low. 2560x1440, Max settings in the normal video settings, Ultra settings in RTX menu, no DLSS, no motionblur. DLSS makes it very playable though, and looks great still.

[@GraveUypo]

i tested it on my old rx6900xt and it ran like cat barf. havent even bothered to test on my rtx 4080 because i frankly dont care.

[@Xenthio]

That doesn't sound right, something else is afoot

[@nishanthharikrishnan992]

Missed opportunity to use the Laptop Coorel

[@dbsterben3902]

Definitely one the oddest sponsors you've had Dawid. I need a Linode sponsorship again

[@MarbleSODA1]

Why does this rtx 2050 gpu feels like the new generation of MX branded gpu from nvidia

[@AsalaMaduRaya]

because it is

[@gardawg]

This year I bought Victus 15 with RTX 3050 on it cuz I'm tight on budget, gotta say though this thing handle pretty decent I only play Genshin on it, but the game itself also has global illumination update recently. Unfortunately no DLSS but FSR 2, but that update make Genshin quite heavy on PC My Victus 15 can handle the Ultra settings but has fps drop around 45fps, I crank it down to High-Medium custom setting FSR2 still on and I've got stable lock 60fps and the game still beautiful AF with ray tracing still on 👍

[@LitteralBeans]

I love some tay racing

[@System0Error0Message]

i noticed in most of your tests the vram was maxed out and a lot of system ram was used. I'd love to see how these laptops fare with productivity software like adobe or blender using CUDA acceleration, or even blackmagic for video editing.

[@I_am_ENSanity]

Ray Tracing = Does anyone actually use this gimmick?

[@synthwavesoundscape1893]

I do...

[@ABaumstumpf]

It did perform decently for being such a cut-down low-power mobile GPU. A comparison to the Rx 6600/7600 at the same settings would be nice. Portal, Minecraft and Quake are the best for testing as they do a fully raytraced rendering, where as most AAA titles only do the simplest of raytracing like simple global-illumination and flat reflections... cause RDNA can't do texture-lookups during raytracing.

[@MisterPikol]

an interesting video of what potentially a switch 2 could do

[@interlace84]

It would be awesome if you could take those same gpu's and do some DXVK performance comparisons. Especially those lowest-tiers might benefit from having async dx9/10/11 and even dx12-to-Vulkan wrapping.

[@plaguegaming3642]

we love you dawid

[@AFishNamedGoldie]

What I do for a laptop on a desk is to use a cookie cooling rack. Perfect to keep the fans from suffocating on a desk!

[@phamxuankhoaa]

Buying a graphic card just because of it's brand is absolutely insane 💀💀💀

[@cellgfx]

The thing I learned in today's video is that Dawid has a shiny new voiceover mic.

[@vulcan4d]

I wouldn't even ray trace with current gen mid range cards lol

[@wltdo6930]

DLSS was a significant feature of the RTX 20 series cards, so I wouldn’t say it’s unreasonable to say it can ray trace on portal

[@philtkaswahl2124]

Man, even just watching that movement from a camera beside David is making me feel slightly queasy.

[@zombl337og]

the 50s series cards are literally for office / light gaming pcs or esports gaming pcs at 1080p

[@anno_nym]

11:18 "And for that, you get some remarkably shiny concrete!" It's only a matter oft time until rust shines too...

[@greenprotag]

Very enjoyable content. I think the upside to these low end RTX cards is the DLSS support. Proper DLSS implementation can make that difference between a 20-30 FPS game and a 40-60FPS game. I suppose if you are Nintendo, 24fps is fine.

[@LunaRosalie]

the 1 to 4 FPS 400% Gain made me laugh harder than it should

[@markdonalds7735]

The gaming aspect is a complementary feature..like the extra wipe on your windshield..

[@SirDragonClaw]

It's always interesting to watch videos of people talking about things they have zero idea on.

[@Audiosenses69]

Hello Dawid long time subscriber here. Here's a video suggestion Try FSR 3.0 with older RDNA 1 and 2 Cards and compare the differences to Rdna 3 cards results. Would be a great video if you are trying to save a buck on your gpu. For example you could buy a 5700xt used for 100$ instead of 6750xt for 450$. Love the videos and the intro always makes me have a good mood!

[@DigitalJedi]

There isn't much difference aside from the newer cards seeing a bigger uplift in some titles. I've run my own benchmarks with a 5700XT, 6700 10GB, and 7900XTX. RDNA2/3 APUs see about the same uplift as RDNA2 GPUs. I think a more interesting comparison might be XeSS on ARC vs non-arc cards, as there is a difference in the system used internally with ARC cards having special accelerators for it that are in a way "emulated" on other GPUs in DP4a mode.

[@duelgundam]

Just as a confirmation: you DID enable the Victus's "Performance mode" in the included "HP Omen" bloatware? Legitimately just asking.

[@kron4x]

mine didnt even have hp omen i had to install it myself

[@Werewolfmage]

i went for the gusto and just bought 4090 for my desktop and a 125 watt 4070 laptop. does quite good. the temp on the laptop is very good too. i also use a cooling pad with my laptop

[@nathanc6516]

Honestly, this could be a commercial for the 2050.

[@johnamparado6298]

I bought the HP Victus 15 with intel 13th i5-13420H and RTX 3050, 32 gb of ram(upgraded), and 1tb ssd all included didn't really need to upgrade the ram and the internal memory, and it costed about roughly 816 - 817 usd converted last winter (September - October 2023), I dont really game on it heavily with triple A games mostly RTS games such as C&C series and COH series, so far been loving it as I had a really old MacBook from 2015 and before that was a Lenovo laptop which I dont remember what model it was.

[@eien2183]

enjoy your gaming laptop

[@sniper4690]

Dawid, isn't Vulkan AMD card drivers or engine? For the portal RTX, idk if that will change the performance any though

[@greenman8]

Does RTX have an Impact, other than in gaming? Thinking Content creation apps. If so, do the low end RTX cards have limitations when working with something like Blender? (Just a random Content Creator Program I could think of, IDK if Ray Tracing even applies to 'Blender') In another words, is there any point to having Ray Tracing on my 2060, if I don't want to use it in games?

[@mathewhex7045]

20 fps is what i played half life 1 at on a pentium 166 thinkpad, it was rough and pixelated. You could play a game like that, helps to look at the floor as much as possible but with enough determination its doable. Quake 2 also! It worked pretty well on the software renderer, not dissimilar from what we see here save graphical fidelity.

[@GraveUypo]

thats how i played quake1 on a 486 dx4 100mhz with reduced window size. by the time hl rolled out i was lucky enough to be sporting a pentium mmx 233mhz with a voodoo2. nice and playable good frames rates @ full screen 640x480

[@scherge]

Half-Life 1 RT on the 2050 would have been interesting. The video is still nice though. Thank you!

[@AgentTex13]

Cyberpunk was looking VERY crunchy

[@gabrielcanlas5209]

No more Titan Army Monitor, Dawid? Waiting to see if it's worth the buy.

[@IIronyy]

Dude I didnt even KNOW they made a 2050. I know its mobile but how did I not know about this cards existence for this long lol.

[@ZedDevStuff]

The Nintendo switch 2 is rumoured to have a Tegra around that level of performance. Don't know if that's gonna be true but it would be great

[@rezz5570]

basically it's hell

[@zeronin4696]

Knowing nvidia we will probably get a 2040 in the next 2 years 😂

[@lucyc776]

See it's not gonna be called the 2040 see, it's gonne be a further watered down 3050 and they're gonna call it a 3050 again.

[@Daniel-ru8je]

​​@@lucyc776 rtx 3050 3gb for only 140$! Half the cores, 3gb of vram, performs worse than modern igpus... BUT, it has RAYTRACING!!!!

[@Seftube]

This is my EXACT laptop, I felt offended as soon as the video started

[@Latency_]

How is the laptop?

[@joeschmoe5009]

😂 i never thought of, or have seen a laptop oriented like that. Genius!

[@thrm0nuclear727]

I feel like I got deja vu with this title

[@ameenmuzawar]

@DawidDoesTechStuff How did you do that? Doesn't the laptop goes into sleep mode or shutdown when the lid is closed? Even I have tried taking display output to an external monitor and it after closing of the lid there is no output to the external display.

[@thenasiudk1337]

I owned a HP Victus too, except mine was using Ryzen 5600H and RTX 3050, tbh the performance was only slightly faster from my PC with i3-10105f and GTX 1650 lol

[@abdulrahmankashif5012]

Have msi gf63 thin since 10 months now. It has rtx 2050. Been pretty good to me. I don't use it for ray tracing but dlss surely helps squeezing out more frames.

[@ReallyNotTrixYT]

I fear the day Dawid discovers Lossless Scaling

[@Adamsgotgame]

Dawid gives me a bigger smile than my first time 😮😮

[@obtains]

You should compare a rtx 2050, 3050 and 4050 that would be interesting to see

[@AndersHass]

Ah RTX 2050 is mobile only, no wonder I didn’t know about it. Edit: Apparently it is actually part of the 3000 series, lol.

[@Evoking425]

Actually some manufacturer doesn't connect the HDMI to the GPU

[@i3l4ckskillzz79]

Are u using a 1440p monitor for that gpu? I am asking because it's definitely a 1080p card at max

[@AJsWorld]

I check the description to learn more about the video and whether I should watch it, except it's literally full of adverts. Guess I won't watch

[@badmoose01]

Rumors say that the graphics part of the next nintendo console soc will be the same performance as a 2050.

[@justinvanhorne9958]

excellent timing, when they nuke the GTX lineup or at least say its coming to an end. Till they need a 10030 with 3GB anyway... then it will be back.

[@HowlingCurve]

Is it the monitor you're using or is it the gpu's fault? (vertical screen door lines in all the games).

[@ELEC7RO]

That first visual bug happens to me sometimes with a DESKTOP rtx 2060 😭

[@Do_You_Like_Ham]

i was like what is an rtx 2050

[@juanca2807]

Probably someone mentioned it already, but the 2050 is not a bad choice if you take the card max power draw into consideration. A lot of entry laptops sport a 3050 that can only draw 35/40W max, those don't do better than a 70W 2050 at least in regular gaming.

[@imkyolet]

1:40 im assuming that's a typo on the Asus's specs, showing both having a 2050?

[@Bladeworkssystems]

I have the mobile RTX 2060, he 115W version. It can do RT on older ish games. DLSS combined with it helps immensely.

[@hitechredneck6366]

"...like a jackhammer to the face..." LOL

[@leonhardscholtyssek]

1:40 You wrote RTX 2050 for both laptops eventhough one has the RTX 3050

[@TheRagingSerpent]

Technically the GTX 1070 and GTX 1080 support raytracing.... in software, but most titles just crash if you try to enable raytracing and those that dont... well its pretty but a powerpoint presentation would have better frames.

[@DigitalJedi]

Yup. I've tried it on the Titan Xp (1090) and Titan V. The V can actually sometimes make it happen at 1080p, but the Xp is a total powerpoint machine. The Xp is still in my player 2 rig. Sadly I sold the V during the cryto craze for more than I bought it. I kinda with I'd done the reverse with those 2.

[@andrewmutavi590]

It's playabe at 1080p med,RT reflections high,local n sun shadows medium n dlls performance on