Gaming With The New 6GB RTX 3050

The RTX 3050 has recently seen a re-release, this time as a 6GB GPU. Today we're testing 16 games with this 70W card, which is one of the best slot-powered graphics cards you can buy right now.
0:00 Intro and Specs
1:02 Alan Wake 2
1:54 Apex Legends
2:17 Baldur's Gate 3
2:39 Call of Duty Warzone
3:02 Counter-Strike 2
3:17 Cyberpunk 2077
4:02 Elden Ring
4:18 Fallout 4
4:56 Fortnite
5:28 Forza Horizon 5
5:53 Grand Theft Auto V
6:19 Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered
6:45 Minecraft RTX - with Ray Tracing
7:18 Red Dead Redemption 2
7:39 Starfield
8:12 The Witcher 3
8:36 Final Thoughts
Thanks for watching :)

[@TheDriveByGuys]

This is the best home and garden channel on youtube you just have to put up with him showing you weird computer parts from time to time

[@RandomGaminginHD]

😂

[@mukkah]

lol was thinking "I miss the greenery" when the testing edits started lol

[@p3nf0ld69]

😂😂

[@hmello3250]

I miss the dog

[@tristanbuckner]

Monty Don about to show us some GPUs.

[@jeremygregorio7472]

I really hate how Nvidia keeps reusing model numbers for extremely different cards. If we didn't have so little law enforcement the ftc would be on them over this

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Should be a 3040 for sure. Or 3050t something like that. Some sort of letter anyway haha

[@Clutch4IceCream]

@@RandomGaminginHDyea we need an fx8350 4080 helldivers content.

[@lewzealand4717]

3040 Ti if we're being charitable. This is no 3050.

[@mtzkustom7818]

They should drop the X on the lower tiers like the GT 710, 1030 etc...

[@mtzkustom7818]

I'd say call it Rt 3030 lower the price a bit and it's a win

[@lagginswag]

1. Shoulda been RT/RTX 3030 since its cut down 2. Price is too high (rx 590 performance) 3. 6gb in 2024 is a slap in the face

[@arenzricodexd4409]

2. price actually reasonable. AIB can't sell it lower than $150.

[@arx117]

​@@arenzricodexd4409they can't sell that lower because Nvidia already charging them $100

[@josephdias3968]

They literally defective chips that didn’t make the cut to be a weak ass 3050 this definitely a rtx 3040 class card

[@Cyberchat35]

RandomGaminginHD and OzTalksHW posting video about RTX 3050 at the same time, Nice !

[@NukaOrQuantum...]

It needs to be $100, making it an affordable and viable option for budget SFF builds

[@Neulaw]

That would be nice, but it's already hard to find a new, weaker 1650 75w TDP card right now that costs below 140$, so a new 3050 6gb being at 100$ would make little sense. But wel'll probably see it being more commonly available on a used market, hovering at around 100-150$ cost.

[@thetechrealist]

As soon as AMD prices their shite cards that way…

[@Willow1w]

you're mental look up how much 1650 goes for

[@quisqueyanguy120]

This will never sell at a price below 1650 because 3050 LP is it's replacement

[@jebreggie4225]

@@Willow1w Do you people understand that with old computer parts they can actually get more expensive for new stock as they get older because of scarcity. i looked up 1650 on ebay and i saw offers for sub $100 buy it now. Then people will sell 10 year old cpus for 200 dollars on newegg or amazon

[@Taorakis]

I am watching your videos for a while now and I have to speak up and let you know that I enjoy seeing cards tested under a "Can it run games?" persoektive. Aka, you choose low presets or maybe DLSS to get the game running at 60fps and you don't just crank it to ultra and say "oh no only 10fps". Of course this makes comparrisons between cards hard, but that's, I think, valid. Not all Channels need to test the same way and as I said, I really enjoy a simple "can you game on it, and if so, what settings/Resolutions can I expect" view. Great work, keep it up.

[@claudiobizama5603]

Considering its a slot powered GPU, its really great. But I wish it was cheaper, at the current price its not worth it, if you can upgrade your PSU.

[@Lottsa_Luv]

Exactly, it's a great option for upgrading office PCs to be capable of some gaming, it should be £150 max tho, as a Fortnite player I'd recommend it for someone who wants a budget Fortnite PC, get a cheap used modern-ish i5 Optiplex & pop one of these in it & you'd have a decent little Fortnite box.

[@josephdias3968]

I feel they should have shipped a2000s as rtx 3050, it will give 2060 level performance 6-12gbs of vram and and only uses 75 watts. The 3050 6gb is basically a 6gb gtx 1650 with rtx performance wise the 3050 8gb is on par with a 1660ti

[@d.7303]

Nice! Ive been thinking of getting the low profile one to turn into a emulation machine in a sff office pc, so its nice to see what it can do in some more demanding titles. Thanks for the great videos as always!

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Thanks for watching. A low profile model would be a great choice

[@natejennings5884]

I think the sff market is perfect for the 6GB RTX 3050. That halved TDP is a selling point for me. And, yes, I already own and 8GB twin fan model by Asus.

[@user-zm7sx6pm3u]

POV me on rx570 RICH PEOPLE RICH PROBLEM

[@sravans149]

You don’t need this much Card for an emulator find cheaper 10 series cards

[@d.7303]

@@sravans149 for sff? You'd be stuck with a 1030, 1050, 1650. I guess you could get one of those Tesla cards but getting the drivers can be annoying. Oh, quado is a option... But those can be stupidly priced too. Then AMD would be rx 460, 550,560, 6400 and OEM 6500 While I love the thought of Intel...their arc a380 is barely on par with the 1650. The cheapest 1650 low profile I can find is roughly $145 with tax. I'd rather get a new card for $170 that will still get driver support for a while. If I went for a full size build I'd definitely get a used GTX 1080 or rx 5700xt for sure! Hard to beat the value for $120-150.

[@jordanr.4856]

I know we’re supposed to dunk on this card and all, but we truly did need a new card in the low profile market that doesn’t require external power and this one handily fits the bill.

[@mtzkustom7818]

You're exactly right. I wish they would have done it in the current series though. It's just like the nonsense they pulled with the gtx 1630. They should stop reaching back in time to fill the low tdp budget section. I wish they could keep with the current gen

[@josephdias3968]

A2000 12gb spanks it and it’s a quadro though they should have just make a 2060 low profile 75 watt gpu which is the a2000 essentially

[@mtzkustom7818]

​@@josephdias3968A2000 is way above this price point. I'm not sure how it's relative in this comparison

[@josephdias3968]

@@mtzkustom7818 if they made a non quadro version of that card it would only be half the price only reason it’s expensive is the quadro branding and would have made more sense to than the rtx 3050 as a 50 series card because the 3050 6gb performs like 1650s just with rtx features the 3050 8gb performs like a 1660ti so both 3050s barely surpassing low end from 3 generations ago

[@Kyle1444]

@@mtzkustom7818 They really should have done a 4060 cut down instead. That would have been ~1.5 times the performance of this maybe. But they do it, because they have left over gpus ofc to get rid off. Think if it like old stock, that didnt quite meet the targets of the full working transistor count of the 3050 8gb

[@davec7]

Love your videos Mr Random ✌️😁

[@david4portland]

Good video. Thank you, my dude.

[@3dhYT]

The passively cooled RTX 3050 is great.

[@tyler6602]

Thats cool, i didnt know they made one

[@konm08]

I have the 8GB 3050. It is fine, although nobody seems to be able to get it at a good price, except me. The card on this video was probably meant for upgrading old office PCs as a very low budget gaming PC, and that could explain the low power consumption, as most office PCs have low wattage power supplies and will most certainly not like higher powered cards. Also, the specs are extremely close to the A2000, just without a 12GB variant and no ECC, to keep costs down. Additional edit: yes, there is a low profile variant, like the A2000 is, that you can plug in a SFF desktop computer.

[@julmdamaslefttoe3559]

costs...How economy has fallen.

[@shrishpotdar343]

How much did you pay for it? It's almost 20 thousand rupees or approx 200 something dollars converted

[@julmdamaslefttoe3559]

@@shrishpotdar343 RTX 3050s in the UK are £190/230 Basically after currency conversion 300$ for a generation out of date bottom end GPU...I got my 1070ti New back in the day for £400. World economy is going down the gutter and making the rich richer. But we all know it. I refuse to buy a GPU until I can get a 6700XT or better card for £250. Even then its coming 2 generations out of date in 7 months with 5 Series.

[@konm08]

@@shrishpotdar343 I paid €280 for it, which I don't consider cheap, but a 3060, which is just a better version of the 3050, was around 230-240 euros. the only time I have seen my card lag was while rendering in Blender yesterday and on 32 chunk 1080p Minecraft with heavy shaders and no performance mods such as nvidium a month ago. Otherwise, while not the card for most people, it plays along with the tasks I put on it, paired with a non-F i5 12400 and 16GBs of DDR4@3GHz (low latency XMP), while also keeping good temps (below 60°C at all times at a moderate room airflow).

[@freefallp885]

I did the absolute dumbest thing and take a 2 hour walk to microcenter to get the 30508gb model for $250 and I could have got a rtx 3060 for $270 (this was before 40 series launched)

[@jaded_titan8204]

Bro you have to start including Helldivers 2 in these benchmarks, its a pretty demanding game.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah keep meaning to actually! I’ll add it soon :)

[@inGameweTrusted]

Also The Finals Please

[@fajaradi1223]

For democracy!

[@Deadestest]

@@RandomGaminginHD please include multiplayer footage when you eventually do it, it's where the game tanks the most 🙏

[@rakku4004]

​@inGameweTrusted the finals gets like around 90-110 fps on the lowest with dlss

[@ulfricstormcloak7142]

So the general consensus is: great care to upgrade old office PC, terrible price Btw, thanks for including Fallout 4 in the testing. There's going a next gen update soon so hopefully you'll test it again for all your videos

[@GK_Squid]

Seeing how the 6 and 8gb cards arent sumilar, they should have called this a 3040. Instead nvidia is preying on people that see and RTX tag and assume its gonna be amazing

[@Clutch4IceCream]

It has nothing to do with that, Nvidia killed off their GTX line. RTX is all that exists moving forward.

[@GK_Squid]

@@Clutch4IceCream yeah but can this do RT stuff? If not it's 100% misleading people. 2 cards with the same name and not the same parts doesn't deserve being called the same thing imo, that's manipulation

[@lewzealand4717]

RTX is fine, it does RT even if it's functionally useless. But it should be a 3040, maybe 3040 Ti.

[@tyler6602]

​​@@GK_Squid my laptop with the 3050 6gb (has 2560 cores instead of 2304) can do 45fps on minecraft with rt lmao, and portal with rt was unplayable

[@mrman6035]

Yeah it can do ray tracing which for anyone in this price range will almost never use outside of screenshots

[@paulkendall6069]

The way you held the graphics card over the pond at the start made me wonder if you were going to see if pond cooling would improve performance, or if it would double as a pond heater. Or was it a reference to Nvidia plumbing the depths of a murky pool to release an other overprised GPU.

[@fattomandeibu]

Been looking at low profile cards for a mate who was given an old SFF office machine with a proprietary power supply and no GPU power cables. A card like this would be a massive boost.

[@PeterPauls]

This is the best low profile GPU and a huge upgrade after the GTX 1650 but I don't know why nVidia didn't go with the ADA architecture. The RTX 4060 only need 100-110W and and a little cut down version would be at least if not more power efficient than this card. Anyway, thank you for the overview.

[@lewzealand4717]

Nvidia waits a year or 2 to release the low/slot powered models. 70W 4050 in 2025. Maybe.

[@GrainGrown]

It's NVIDIA, not "nVidia"

[@quisqueyanguy120]

​@@thetechrealistit is 30% faster than 1650

[@thetechrealist]

@@quisqueyanguy120 Nah you're right, I didn't get enough sleep today...

[@arenzricodexd4409]

nvidia simply milking the market. rather than coming out with Ada they just milk ampere a bit more. also even if nvidia want to use AD107 for RTX4050 there is no way they can sell it lower than $200. not right now.

[@liamsgamingpcs7473]

This should be the RTX 3030 Of course Nvidia wont do that because of the 1030s bad reputation (but to be honest it would be cool if they made a 1030 successor)

[@erikkarsies4851]

They could have called it the RTX 3040 since that isn't there neither. The 1030 with GDDR5 is a good card considering it's price and spec back then. It didn't even need a fan so for a HTPC sollution it was a good card.

[@computerrepairguy]

They did. The 1630 exists.

[@MakeYourVision]

GTX 3030 cause RT on that stump card is fckng unplayable joke

[@darcosanti]

I have gt 1030 and it is just fine for WOT (hehe) and for CIV 2. I dont play any other game. I have GTX 1650 in original box, just opened and I have no excuse to leave it there.

[@s3mpls]

Hey! Thank you for video. If possible in your next videos add also "RPM Fan" it would be help a lot.

[@awesomika9024]

I am buying one , happy gaming and happy blending 😊

[@ameaciankid]

Was looking at this card due to it not requiring extra power. Perfect timing.

[@ComedyNightBingo993]

I almost got this but got the 4060 instead

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Nice :)

[@mirurururuvein]

Dodged a bullet

[@wlewargusowy1592]

enjoy your stutters

[@betag24cn]

because both costs the same? how you were buying one and ended with the other, sounds like a joke to me

[@Assestionss]

@@wlewargusowy1592 please look at benchmarks before you say stupid stuff (: 4060 will not be a stuttery experience

[@rickh8380]

From this video, it seems that the 3050 runs fine even with only a 96-bit bus. Thanks for sharing. Cheers.

[@ivanvladimir0435]

I was waiting for this video, I have a feeling for the comparison showing a gtx 1060 6gb too would put it in perspective for people who want a "budget" graphics card

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah good idea. See if it’s a decent upgrade path

[@halistinejenkins5289]

bravo sir! this is the best gpu for someone without pcie power cables.

[@wagnonforcolorado]

If a certain German car company released a new model called the "752 V8" with claims of v8 power, but used a V6 turbo instead, consumers would be outraged. When Nvidia does it across multiple generations (ala the 1030), it's just business as usual. Only good news is that Nvidia is over-charging for their Bait and Switch entry into this market segment, so a lot of potential victims...I mean upgraders are going to give this a pass.

[@1farin]

Just hope nvidia becomes better in the future

[@alltheotherhandlesaretaken]

Idk how to think about this card. On one hand it’s priced egregiously for the performance. On the other hand, it’s the only PCIe-slot-powered card in the market that can play recent AAA titles decently. I guess it’s a good card to buy if you have an old office PC lying around.

[@arenzricodexd4409]

price actually not that bad. the premium coming from it's "slot powered" feature. but if consumer expect any brand new card in this segment to be priced lower than $150 that is unrealistic.

[@alanturing3256]

With RTX cards you can get better image quality using a combination of DLDSR and DLSS than with DLSS alone. This is especially important at 1080p, where even DLSS Quality mode can result in a blurry image. So, for example, instead of using DLSS Quality at 1080p (with a render resolution of 720p), it'd be better to use DLDSR 1.78x and DLSS Performance (also resulting in a 720p render resolution). The image will be crisper and more stable, sometimes even better than native 1080p. The FPS boost won't be as large as with DLSS alone, but the few lost frames are more than made up by the improvement in image quality.

[@thetechrealist]

Upscaling will never look better than native, you can only say that it looks good enough for yourself…

[@darthpotwet2668]

It will because of antialiasing

[@TheAmazingCowpig]

@@thetechrealistwould you rather play 20 FPS native or 40 FPS with DLSS those are your choices

[@narwhal4304]

@@TheAmazingCowpig I'd rather buy a better GPU tbh lol

[@thetechrealist]

@@TheAmazingCowpig That has nothing to do with my comment… I was commenting about how upscaling looks, not if I like or disliked it

[@williamdodge7320]

Have you seen the passivly cooled model from palit, looks like a cool and quite unique card

[@Kyle1444]

Thanks for the video. It's such a niche card probably because the mainstream OEM builds have moved on from 3050 to 4060 now, but i like it since it's below what i find to be a reasonable maximum of power for a graphics card to use. Cut down or not, i have been waiting ages for something like this to drop from nvidia since the 1650

[@mrman6035]

Did you buy it?

[@sadkakashi5839]

thnx for making this video

[@MPdude237]

The fact that it’s an 8x card gets on me. Most older systems that it be slotted into run PCIE 3.0, which means running at 3.0 8x bandwidth.

[@thetechrealist]

Keep that same energy looking at AMD’s product stack or Intel

[@lewzealand4717]

Which doesn't restrict it. Consider that the 4070 and higher have 4x the bandwidth at 4.0x16 vs. 3.0x8 and are 4x as powerful.

[@MPdude237]

@@lewzealand4717 4.0 8x is not an issue. The issue is that if you slot this into a 3.0 system, then you will run at 3.0 8x. We already see issues of the RX 6400 vs GTX 1650 when considering PCIE 3.0 systems, I can assume the bottleneck to be worse with this more powerful card.

[@arenzricodexd4409]

that's not an issue at all. RTX2080Ti was significantly faster card than this (comparable to RTX 3070). spec wise the card is only have PCIE 3.0 x16. techpowerup test the card with PCIE 3.0 x8 and at most 2080Ti only lose something like 2% of it's performance.

[@arenzricodexd4409]

@@MPdude237 make no mistake those issue were lack of VRAM issue not because the there is not enough bandwidth available for the card. the thing with RX6400 happen when the game start needing more VRAM than the card can provide. it is less an issue on 1650 that have full x16 connection but ideally you did not want the card to start "borrowing" more memory from system RAM to compensate the lack of VRAM. that's why people complain a lot about cards like 3070 8GB or 3080 10GB vs it's counter part that have 16GB. because the former still experience stutter despite the PCIE connector is full x16.

[@FakeHumanBeans]

According to TPU benches the 6Gb version is ~25% slower than the 8Gb version. And in some games it is only 3-5% faster than the good old GTX 1060 6Gb :D And in Doom Eternal it managed to produce as much frames as the legendary RX 580. :DDD

[@TheAmazingCowpig]

Sure, but consider that this GPU gives you access to the nice new RTX features available to the 30-series, and it runs completely off of PCIe slot power. It's a good GPU that's just named dumb.

[@pauloazuela8488]

There's a reason why I called it RTX 1060

[@kishirisu1268]

Fun fact about FO4 fps cap - if you remove it loading time will be x times faster, because “smart” Bethesda glued loading process to FPS, same as physics. Insane code design..

[@joemarais7683]

@@TheAmazingCowpig Ah yes, you definitely get all the Ray Tracing features that are definitely available and special. Like RTX itself, which I'm sure runs great with 6GB of VRAM. And DLSS, which looks similar to XESS now. And Frame Gen, because Nvidia definitely didn't lock that down to 40 series arbitrarily. Advertising this as RTX is a borderline scam.

[@FakeHumanBeans]

@@TheAmazingCowpig what @joemarais7683 said. =)

[@rakku4004]

The minecraft test is really interesting, I tried it myself and got around 55-60 fps with upscaling. I have the msi oc version

[@snakeplissken1754]

Ever tried the fsr3 frame generation mod with cyberpunk? Might be interesting on a card like this.

[@Mike_the_Enigma]

one setting i would turn on in GTA5 is MSAAx2. It enables you to use Nvidia TXAA which i think looks much better than FXAA by itself. I dont know how it would perform on this card though. Would like to hear back and see what you think on it.

[@rickyyoung]

My RTX A2000 is still going strong paired with an i5 10400. They sit in a little iTX rig under my TV for guests to use when they come over. All powered by a cheap 300W BeQuiet SFF PSU :)

[@skpepi]

Is it possible you add DCS world, squad or arma 3 to your testing? those are pretty demanding titles which are commonly not tested :(

[@samsonsunguti1935]

Great review indeed. A quick question though, can a 350PSU handle this card or not?

[@NickMaster500]

I saw a guy use this card with a 290w power supply so I think you should be fine

[@mxcascade]

really appreciate ur vids bro would u be able to check fortnite in performance mode for future videos please?

[@JanusDarke]

I have the laptop version of this card in the 80W (95W Boost) 2560 Core variant with a i5 13450HX CPU, it's a little faster than the desktop version but very capable for the 1080p 120Hz panel it's running. Dell G15 5530 is the model and was recently on sale for £549 over the Easter sales, the 4050 version was £749.

[@terminusaquo1980]

I have the 8GB version of this card, also a Zotac version, and the board looks like it might be from the 8GB variant of the card as you can see the space for the power connector.

[@Sky-nh3bi]

i dont know whats going on with youtube but i been having to resubscribe to a bunch of channels for some reason. so i gonna resub.

[@JayzBeerz]

same bro. it's been going on for over 2 weeks now.

[@victordehaciendas]

I have Fallout 4 just remembered, thanks

[@fracturedlife1393]

If I overlook EVERYTHING else about, love the form factor and the power usage. Wish the 6500 XT has been a 6600 but clock and voltage limited to keep it under 75w.

[@lewzealand4717]

This card has all the specs the 6500 XT lacked, when compared to the better-for-the-purpose 6400. 96bit bus/6GB VRAM, 8x PCIe, video encoders, 70W slot-power.

[@mrman6035]

For budget minded gamers this is a great card at 75w yeah and mildly decent performance at 1080p.

[@immortaljellyfish1051]

As a max 75w card and replacement for the 1650 this is a good card. Many a parents pc can now be upgraded.

[@darcosanti]

Wow, you survived first 2 enemy attacks in CS GO!!!

[@marstedt]

Looking forward to 6 vs 8GB. Also, would this be a logical upgrade for some of the older budget cards like 1060 3/6GB or 1650/1660?

[@RandomGaminginHD]

From a 1060 sure. Would make a decent choice. I’d still suggest the 8GB one or 6600 though

[@lewzealand4717]

It's the same speed as a 1660 so like 20% faster than a 1060,. Not worth upgrading from a 1060 as you have a PSU power cable, get a 6600 instead or a used 3060.

[@carter7894]

One of the fastest slot powered GPUs but the sff 4000 ada generation sff gpu is almost RTX 3070 performance only using the 75w from the pcie slot

[@dualpapayas]

I was hoping this would be the spiritual successor to putting a GT 1030 into an old Sandy/Ivy Bridge office PC, but alas this isn't the case. After buying an i7-8700 system with adequate RAM and storage the whole build will be pushing $500.

[@maksimfedoryak]

Nice, but what about to make 1 slot card for ppl, who wants minimum in smol case?

[@jamescrook99]

Is it 8x PCI 4.0 ? As someone looking to pair it with older cpu/mono will prob still have 3.0.

[@itshassnainrind]

Can you compare it with Rtx 2060 as that is better than 6600 in productivity and almost equivalent in gaming, Lots of love from here ❤

[@felixchen4640]

can you tell me your cpu cooler? very chill on temp

[@asamson23]

I feel like this card would be perfect as a replacement for the P600 in my server for doing transcodes

[@ricx58]

Actually pretty good for a extremely budget 30 series gpu since i was looking to buy something like this

[@Yash-_-777]

The amount of old PC's this GPU can revive is unimaginable...

[@ogrejd]

Gonna be fun to see how Fallout 4 performs on the lower end cards after its update on the 25th...

[@kahaneck]

Can you add Diablo 4 to the benchmark repertoire?

[@illusion27]

I have to say the Apex gameplay is in deathmatch with shrunken map so the performance tends to be lighter than the BR maps.

[@masterwayne9790]

Good for old ITX builds

[@MarcosCodas]

How is the minimum framerate higher than the 0.1% framerate in some graphs?

[@Danitheboi]

hey, I was just wondering ive got an i5 9600kf with a 4070 and it bottlenecks what cpu would you recommend that wont as much?

[@RaphaeIIsWatching]

In that minecraft rtx test card is not utilized well, are you sure game is running on P cores and not poopy E cores?

[@senor-unich]

Can you do a video where you overclock the 12600k and show gaming results?

[@A5med777]

I have been searching for it for a long time like this (one fan no power connector)

[@tatemushroom1002]

this with in a used prebuild with a i7 10700 would be a budget beast

[@AIt-Girl]

if only this card was $100-120 and called rtx 3040 it would be perfect! nice review :D

[@arenzricodexd4409]

you will not going to see new card launching with price lower than $150.

[@AIt-Girl]

yea i know, im saying it would be perfect if it was launched at that price like old gpus from back in the day

[@okkymahardika748]

Im rarely of gaming and this is perfect combination with i3 14100f curious how well they both went

[@ajadrianjosebala8590]

Can you review the xeon e3 1200 v5 series please

[@buggerlugz6753]

Would be interested to see this side by side with a 1660 super (which can be had for far cheaper and are pretty much on par)

[@riseabove3082]

A 1660 Super will wipe the floor over that 6GB 1650.

[@muratbasc8302]

An impressive product

[@geoffreystraw5268]

Isn't the 2060 faster and usually cheaper?

[@mrman6035]

Higher wattage too

[@famousfighter2310]

You might want to turn off vsync in mc rtx because its buggy and will half your frame rate. Based on the gpu usage in the video it wasn’t being maxed out and im guessing it will perform like a 2060 with rtx on

[@mr.mystery-X]

If SLI was made with it, I think it would probably be a beast.. can u try it maybe?

[@_r1r2]

where can you find this kind of card it seems not available on shops here in our country? the power consumption is like 1050ti i want this!. :D

[@RealEclipsed]

At the end of the day, if power usage is a big concern for you, this card is great. But if you only care about price, then just go for a used 2060 or an rx 5700 if you trust aliexpress sellers.

[@toni_capo]

it looks like the 6 pin pcie cable connectors do exist at least the pcb is ready to it. It also has the mosfet, inductor and capacitor next to it. Would be fine to find anyone trying to mod this. Edit: it actually is the same pcb as the Zotac RTX 3050 ECO SOLO (ZT-A30500R-10L) so the extra energy supply must work if managed to connect

[@michaellegg9381]

Im hopeful that the new intel battlemage gpu will be cheaper and more powerful.. there 1st generation got pretty good at the price so now they have a bit of experience in the software side hopefully they will be a great option for sff builds and low power budget builds

[@quisqueyanguy120]

I got this thing running in an old Optiplex with 180w PSU

[@nicolasaniceto3495]

It was nice receiving the notification for this video. I have thought about upgrading my gtx 1650, i have a hp pre built, with only 350 W psu and i wonder if a rtx 4060 would run on it safely. Nice video 👍🏻

[@pajarocarpintero570]

rtx 4060 is 115w

[@nicolasaniceto3495]

@@pajarocarpintero570 yeah , I read that it was 100-150 w , so I guess I don't have any other choice than upgrading to the 3050 6 gb

[@nicolasaniceto3495]

@@pajarocarpintero570 no sé para que respondo en inglés si tienes el nombre en español jajajajajajaja, me acabo de dar cuenta

[@omegastamps313]

@@nicolasaniceto3495hey wait, theres a 4060 low profile model from gigabyte for around the same price as the normal 4060, maybe look at that.

[@RANDOMNATION907]

I think I'd be looking for a second hand RX 5600xt or 1660Ti . . . but, that is good performance given the super low power requirements.

[@kgrayman]

Can you compare it to the arc380?

[@xbigbobsagetx]

Picked up a dell oem 3050 8gb for 130. Decent upgrade from a 1060.

[@BillyBoy444]

8:52 I recently built a system for a customer and considered the 6GB version but for the same money I managed to get the ASUS ROG STRIX model of the 8GB RTX 3050 FROM CEX... I wonder how much of a detriment using a PCIE 3.0 slot would be... The 6GB version would make a pretty good upgrade over a 1050Ti or GTX 1650 though.

[@astreakaito5625]

Oh look, it's decently smooth when using literally under Playstation 3-tier resolution I know DLSS looks impressive and is useful, but not really from 1080p. Maybe it's decent for a 70w card, but not for this price.

[@ThrashingHorror]

Am gonna get this for my mas rig.

[@jesuskuuun8044]

I guess I should be expecting a single fan mini 4050 in the near future next

[@lewzealand4717]

Not for a couple years though, probs after the 5000 series is out

[@tyler6602]

I like my laptop with the 3050 6gb, but there are a load of better used gpus for the price on the desktop side, even on the laptop side the 4050 or 3060 is still a better buy imo

[@yottadrive]

I would like to see a RT 4010 and how its performance would look like.

[@RandomGaminginHD]

Yeah same

[@victoresarey4036]

my dell g15 gaming laptop has that exact gpu paired with a i5 13450hx 32gb ram and it runs amazingly

[@salvo27]

Looks exactly like a Zotac 1650,which this is supposed to replace for PC with still no 6/8 pin cables or efficient builds. The Nvidia naming tho remain confusing,they could have called it RTX 3040 considering it's slower than the original 3050.

[@RevDrCCoonansr]

RTX 3050 6GB with an i3 12100f or even the would be a really nice combo. You should make a video on that.

[@FintanMoloney]

I'm thinking of building an emulation PC out of a used Dell or HP office PC which you can get really cheap used. A lot of them need low profile GPUs and for a while I was thinking a GTX 1060 would be the best bet. Something like this at a good price low profile might be a better bet. Especially for things like PS3 and Xbox 360 emulation.

[@XxGorillaGodxX]

The only use case for this would be old office computers but the price is problematic. If your system has a GPU power cables you'd be much better off with just about anything else for the price.

[@OneTwoWolf]

Idea for the next 3050 video with 6GB vs 8GB if you have some time you want to kill, maybe have a play with overclocking/undervolting the 6GB and see what it can do, I recently gave it a go on my 3050 laptop (60W) and was surprised how far it could push the frequencies up at lower voltages, so maybe with some tuning, the 6GB could catch up a bit to its bigger 8GB brother. That said, maybe I just got lucky with my silicon, no idea.

[@connors3356]

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[@DoctorFuzworth]

I got the 8 gb model. you should try the new ark game. it puts mine to the test.

[@RyuuMurasaki]

I think for People who dont have a Extra Power connector and still use something like a 1050, its a good upgrade, specially if they wanna play newerish Games on High settings, tho i think that 6gb Vram is pretty low on 2024, even 8gig is on the lower end these Days, but i still think each Card has it uses and it will probably make some People happy, specially those who prefer E-Sports Titels.