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RTX 3050 - starting at $249 (msrp)

Asus have to genuinely think their brand attracts morons.

You don't have to camp at the altar of Nvidia praying for a msrp FE card to get a better card than a 3050 for less than £500.

5 minutes ago ocuk were doing 6600s for 350.
 
Hotwired said:
Asus have to genuinely think their brand attracts morons.

You don't have to camp at the altar of Nvidia praying for a msrp FE card to get a better card than a 3050 for less than £500.

5 minutes ago ocuk were doing 6600s for 350.
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you can literally get an ASUS RX6600 XT ROG STRIX for that price here. So ASUS managed to obliterate their own price to performance. Its so magnificently stupid
 
I mean you can literally get an RTX 3060 on OCUK for the same money, or an RX 6600 XT for less. These cards are available. Why on earth would you go for an ASUS RTX 3050 in those circumstances?

Edit: I see we were thinking on similar lines. You posted that while I was typing...
StarShock said:
you can literally get an ASUS RX6600 XT ROG STRIX for that price here. So ASUS managed to obliterate their own price to performance. Its so magnificently stupid
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ROG Strix RGB OC GTX GTI XP blah blah blah cards have always had a certain level of muppet tax though. They’ve never been worth it on lower tier cars and debatable on the highest tier card.
 
Actually the stock situation on a lot of cards looks pretty healthy at the moment.

If I was in the market for a new card, I can see RTX 2060s, RX 6600s, RX 6600 XTs, RX3060s in stock at prices that, while still probably too high, don't cause me to wince in pain and stare in incredulity.
 
Yeah seems quite good at the moment compared to even a few weeks back.

Even the £330 RTX 3050 is still in stock here, definitely a good sign! Looking at the prices 3050s have sold for at auction is quite promising too actually, mostly for under £380 it seems. Seems like a downwards trend.

Current snapshot of the lowest priced variant actually available at ocuk:
3090: £2000
3080Ti: £1500
3080: £1100
3070Ti: £800
3070: £789
3060Ti: £700
3060: £500
3050: £330

2060 6GB: £420
1660 Super: £380
1660 Ti: £450
1660: £330
1650: £210
1050Ti: £180

6900XT: £1350
6800XT: £1050
6800: £900
6700XT: £690
6600XT: £450
6600: £400
6500XT: £200
 
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g67575 said:
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/pali...ddr6-pci-express-graphics-card-gx-06j-pl.html

£329.99

Not a bad price for a decent 1080p card.

Hopefully there will be some RTX 3050s for £300 soon, I think this is a reasonable price to pay.
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It really shouldn't be. This exact card was on sale for £240 2 weeks ago. For all of 5 mins.

The state of the market is really dreadful. £330 for the most expensive 3050 would be fine in my opinion, but not for the cheapest sku of the cheapest gpu in the line up :(

I hope that the fact that availability seems to be improving, and that we've started to see price drops on some cards is the start of a positive trend, and these will eventually go back down to that super special launch price
 
Still getting display driver crashes on this.

Didn't have one display error on my 1050ti, then have them almost every day since introducing this card. Sometimes it recovers, but occasionally just freezes the pc entirely. Has only happened when NOT in a game. Played games for hours at full pelt without a crash.


Assuming it's an idle clock/voltage issue....seems to me it isn't stable at low clocks or when downclocking.

Thinking I might need a replacement/RMA.
 
Jono8 said:
Still getting display driver crashes on this.

Didn't have one display error on my 1050ti, then have them almost every day since introducing this card. Sometimes it recovers, but occasionally just freezes the pc entirely. Has only happened when NOT in a game. Played games for hours at full pelt without a crash.


Assuming it's an idle clock/voltage issue....seems to me it isn't stable at low clocks or when downclocking.

Thinking I might need a replacement/RMA.
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Get a 6600 tbh
 
I'm also a little squeamish that the card I paid £240 for not so long ago is now £330.

IMO, 1080p mostly high to ultra settings cards need to be hanging around the £280 mark or lower to be in line with GPU pricing as it was before the market went insane. The RTX 3050 is just about the bare minimum for that category, RTX 2060 or RX 6600 are more comfortably that kind of performance level (exuding the more complex ray-traced titles). The market still needs some realigning to see us even close to that. And cards staying in stock for a bit longer is one of the first steps to getting us there.
 
Harlequin said:
3060 is the 1080p ultra or 1440p med card and they are a lot more
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Depends on the game really. Techpowerup do all their benchmarking on highest settings. There are not many the RTX 3050 can't manage, very few when you bring DLSS into play. But yes the RTX 2060 is more comfortably there. The RTX 3060 is very comfortably there. Mind you with all of them it's a different matter with more complex ray tracing - and then you really do need silly money for 1080p with everything dialled up cards.
 
The ideal card for 1080p in the toughest games like Red Redemption 2, is the RTX 3060 TI. Gets over 60 FPS minimum in this game.

But most games will be fine with a RTX 3050 8GB.
 
im still waiting for my 3050 gigabyte to arrive as i got the overstocked one but seeing that some of these 3050s have restocked hopefully i should get sent mine soon.
 
Haggisman said:
Can confirm that this is now working in a B450 board with a Ryzen 2700 :)

Sadly, I wouldn't risk it with a board that old unless you were willing to take the chance of having to upgrade it
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That is my setup, 2700 on a B450. I can't for the life of me get it to work. I keep getting a black screen. We have tried 3 computers today/tonight and the card worked on one only because it had integrated graphics so we could find the card, install the driver and then get the device manager to recognise that it was installed. But that's obviously not an option for the majority of Ryzen CPUs. Please help!
 
Have you updated the BIOS to the latest version?

Put the old card in and try using DDU to uninstall any old drivers before installing it.

If you have another PC, you could also try using rdp or something like teamviewer to remote into the PC and install the drivers that way

Do you get any display output at all? E.g. Can ypu get into the BIOS?
 
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