OcUK RTX3050 review thread

[humbug]

Its getting some bad stick, quite a shame because in the current climate it is one hell of a good performing card for the money in todays climate, a few people who have got one seem happy, particular in gen4 setups the 1080P performance is fine.

Yeah, Its better than anything old enough to be out of warranty costing £50 more, if you're looking for something new that you can actually afford the 6500XT is it.

I'm sure AMD expected some backlash, because its not the perfect £200 - £250 card, but this is mad, absolutely nuts, they don't want this kind of press and probably regret trying.

We really are our own worst enemy.

 

[Harlequin]

Could probably use 8GB though tbh, for the pcie texture spamming ; if it can load more resources into vram, then pcie swapping wouldnt be needed

 

[StarShock]

...Its getting some bad stick, quite a shame because in the current climate it is one hell of a good performing card for the money in todays climate, a few people who have got one seem happy, particular in gen4 setups the 1080P performance is fine.

Little off topic, but I've been playing with my 6500xt in a pcie gen 2 system, old HTPC that had been collecting dust and will be used by my niece when she stays over. And its an interesting card. So long as you never go over the vram limit it actually performs pretty well. Was playing halo infinite 1080p low at about 70 FPS, and about 150 FPS in Doom 2016 medium settings... but you can literally flip one setting too high and all the frames just go away. So yeah. I don't think people should buy a 6500xt, specially not at over £200. but at £170 and if you're happy to fiddle with the settings to find the sweet spot its fine

 

[Uriel]

Just an observation, based purely on frame rates at identical settings but differing resolution in the Guru3D review: https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/palit_geforce_rtx_3050_dual_oc_review,1.html

The RTX 3050 at 1080p performs very closely to an RTX 3080 running at 4k on games with highest settings.

When we look at graphics card prices I'm beginning to find it useful to think of them being in 'tiers' according to resolution. As a 1080p monitor owner (well, close - 1920*1200), RTX 3060 would be enough to match the highest end cards at 4k. Then RTX 3060 ti and RTX 3070 are roughly the 1440p equivalent.

In a way, these extra tiers didn't exist in prior generations. As such the RRP bracket for 1080p cards hasn't increased that much. It's just that 1440p and 4k bracket cards have been added. Of course RRP is fairly meaningless at the moment. I guess I'm just trying to self-justify spending £239 on an xx50 level graphics card

 

[Jono8]

Just an observation, based purely on frame rates at identical settings but differing resolution in the Guru3D review: https://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/palit_geforce_rtx_3050_dual_oc_review,1.html

The RTX 3050 at 1080p performs very closely to an RTX 3080 running at 4k on games with highest settings.

When we look at graphics card prices I'm beginning to find it useful to think of them being in 'tiers' according to resolution. As a 1080p monitor owner (well, close - 1920*1200), RTX 3060 would be enough to match the highest end cards at 4k. Then RTX 3060 ti and RTX 3070 are roughly the 1440p equivalent.

In a way, these extra tiers didn't exist in prior generations. As such the RRP bracket for 1080p cards hasn't increased that much. It's just that 1440p and 4k bracket cards have been added. Of course RRP is fairly meaningless at the moment. I guess I'm just trying to self-justify spending £239 on an xx50 level graphics card

That is an optimistic way of looking at it!

However, from a more pessimistic point of view, it is only slightly lower than the 1660TI MSRP from Feb 2019 and only slightly quicker , and it is actually more than the 1660 super MSRP from later on that year.

So basically 3 years, and ZERO improvement in price/performance or even really performance/watt.

I guess you get 8gb ram and RT tensor cores for RT and DLSS, and DLSS is very good tech which makes it punch above its weight class.

Even so, it is a bit depressing to be honest.

This should be a ~£150 tier card like the XX50 series has been before.