He used to before, years ago. Not sure why he stopped. Maybe just decided to stop getting review samples for some reason

Yeah years ago he was lended a mini 1070 from zotac I believe so he could use it in a video. This is nothing new but glad he's getting back to it.

He has done for like 4 years

Palit actually sent this card to Budget Builds so I think Palit is nicer now

For a while you could not get any with the god damned crypto miners and scalpers.

Figures. I kind of figured the $250 price point was too good to be true when the thing could hit 1070 speeds. I suppose it's better than it just being snapped up by scalpers. It occurs to me that all this online shopping sucks because it makes it so easy for scalpers to scalp

u are lucku, in Poland now chepest price is around $600, probobly becouse we earn less :)

in Euro you would by 500$

@@jeremygregorio7472 1070 with ray tracing support and more compact and power efficiency

Yeah I had a feeling that msrp wouldn’t be what was stated

Now is not the time to buy GPU's Wait 6 months

@@vubhuhjkbhubohjb 6 months from now it just gets worse

enjoy it before the russians invade

@@tHeWasTeDYouTh Hopefully they dont.

Yeah, prices just came out here in New Zealand. Cheapest model is NZD$660, or 390 euros.

I'm also still using it lol, and plan to replace it with 3050 if possible. I won't be leaving the 50s series sooner

I am using a R7 260X. I upgraded everything. bought a 1440p high refresh free-sync monitor, upgraded my CPU and RAM last week. but I refuse to pay a single buck over msrp for this already overpriced GPUs. thanks AMD and NVIDIA for making otherwise entry level

@@JaimeIsJaime I'm feeling this, part of me says to replace my ~15 year old monitor and the other half of me says VR at 45 fps and half-res isn't acceptable.

Yea, after that Nvidia has never made another budget card. I know that tons of people bought the 1050Ti scam card and have spent their lives playing at garbage frame rates rather than getting an AMD card.... Even the GTX 1650 offered lower performance than an RX570 in alot of scenarios.... Now the 6500XT is the first "budget" card in a long time and it still doesn't really exceed the RX580 for around the same money 5 years later.

Good old days, bought one to attempt to upgrade a prebuilt with a GT705, turns out it couldn't fit so now it's been sitting inside a cuoboard for like 6.5 years haha

Yeah performance wise it's almost a refresh of the GTX 1070. Only marginally better, and with roughly the same price as the 1070 almost 6!!!! years ago. Edit: 150-200 € would be a good price for it imho.

$150 wouldve made it insane yet $500+ will be the norm till 2027

​@@erikbritz8095 Looking at previous "50" cards, $150 seems about right if the market was normal right now.

@@gamerxt333 hey $200 still would be a good amount but not $500 or $650 as it is in my country now

@@erikbritz8095 In my country it's out of stock but priced between the 1650 and the 2060 so right now it's the best value. I bought a 2070s for not much more two years ago though.

well the 3300x was an OEM part only lol, they already have these cards from 4 AIB partners on benchmark videos

@@kyles8524 idk about your country but u could buy the 3300x for a while at PC stores outright in Australia.

@@kyles8524 The 3300x was not an OEM only part. They had them in my local Microcenter. You may be thinking of the 5300g which was released recently and is OEM only.

There are two variants of 3050 The one that's released now is based on cut down 3060 dies (GA106) and will be probably one time only. The other variant is presumably coming later which should be efficient and have wider availability and cheaper (in theory) since it will be based on smaller die (GA107) with similar performance

This is basically what Moore's Law is dead already confirmed with retailers. This is a card that Nvidia is barely actually nothing and just cutting down some leftover die from another project instead

Thanks :)

Ouch, that's too damn high...

Yeah its for 600-700 dollar mark in India. Crazy pricing.

@Kzn Nzn jeez so much hate. I am a single guy and have 3 toilets in my house. Ever wish to use a restroom in an emergency... you're most welcome smartass(sarcasm obviously).

@@dushypal469😂 what about the tickets? Who will pay for those

@@mindrover777 haha could turn ot into a business...thanks😂😂

I'am stick to Palit since GTX660 )

They're abundant here in Asia

i was SUPER interested in their passively cooled 1050ti back when it dropped. glad i ultimately went with a 1060 6gb though, the lifespan of this card is unparalleled.

nvidia removed the msrp, now they just sell to each vendor for the price they want

Yea... It makes no sense. Just get a RX6600. The more that people buy Nvidia the more they get away with scamming everyone.

@Randy Names Yea, exactly. There are a few games that have a couple small RT effects and it should be fine in those games. However those games RT effects being small.... also have a small visual impact. So its not like you would miss them if you didn't use them.

screw ray tracing. no real pc people want to play at 30 fps. anything under 60 is heresy same with playing of effen low detail. you might as well just get a console at that point.

@@XX-121 So true, but some games have minimal effects and you can play with RT on without a problem. As I said above though those affects aren't so noticable either... Riftbreaker has real RT and I can notice it... But my 6800 can do 90FPS 4K high settings with RT on...

It's so weird my 9600GT didn't have one. I was so confused at first.

1080p 200fps excel gaming

He has contacts...

With almost half million sub sure just about any vendor would give him products to review. First time I have seen he do it. He he did cus its a budget card

im surprised you havent, its been 2 years. if you really wanted one youd get one. quit whinning that shit is so annoying. literally go on facebook marketplace, ebay, buy a prebuilt with a card for the same price, join those discoord servers that alert you when cards are in stock... yooou have so many options yet all you do is complain. smh.

@@BeatlessAnimations Yeah...in the USA or UK...

@@BeatlessAnimations agree, I managed to get a 3070 no LHR used off someone because I kept talking with others who managed get many gpus for 700 then I further traded my 3070 back in august for a LHR 3080 msi gaming Z with 300 cash on top it’s not too hard all you need to is get up try.

@Kzn Nzn that's the problem

I didn't get it too.

Hopefully it’ll be back

I think they will milk these $500+ rtx 3050s till sept. Then drop the RTX 4050 cheaper at $250-$290 muchhh later this is so they make money first then keep people happy later.

a 4010 is my dream

@@erikbritz8095 First Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 GAMING OC 8G I see getting sold here in the Netherlands costs 549 Euro

When the market absorbs the high end cards Nvidia has no incentive to release entry level cards. They'd rather sell the large margin product. The fact the 3050 is out means crypto apocalypse's end is on sight.

@@kajurn791 I hope you're 👍

Yes , my disappointment was huge .. One does not simply see 69 and not say „nice“

Hate to rain on your parade, but... this is the weakest card in the generation, and the 980 Ti is outperformed by every other 30 series card, even the 3060 is about 20% faster.

Yes! Would love to see that video

@@maewemeetagain who cares 980ti should be long gone yet its still running strong.

OC 1500MHZ 980Ti is perfect for todays games even at 1440p

@@erikbritz8095 It's a beast, literally matches 1070, 2060, 3050. Maybe by 4000 series it will finally be outdated. I only ever want to upgrade to a 3060 or higher as it's simply not worth upgrading to anything less!

the 6500 XT is a laptop GPU cosplaying as a Desktop one :-P

@@kirisuma2186 I mean, it barely get over my 145 cad bought rx 570 4gb, that's just deceiving.

@@SirBojo4 My question is this, how does the 570 4gb handle over the 6500XT. I know there is a 4gb and 8gb model for the 570 and 580.

@@urlond9371 i own an rx570 4gb and also bought a 6500xt for $199 to put in my sons pc. The 6500xt is faster than an rx570 in some situations, but a little slower in situations where the graphics settings hit the vram hard. Both my pc use pcie 3.0. Using a newer system with pcie 4.0 the 6500xt is a little faster than rx570. Definitely not an “upgrade” for me but replaced the 2gb gtx950 in my sons pc and he couldn’t be happier with the massive jump in performance he got.

@@evers6214 bruh thats a pretty decent pricing, the 6500xt is literally priced at my whole month salary in my area

RX6500XT... it plays games just fine in 1080p especially if you adjust textures of AAA games to not exceed the VRAM.

Yeah if you build a PC from scratch a 6500XT/6600/6600XT seem like the better options. If you really need Nvidia the low end models of 3050 cards or (maybe in some markets) even a 12GB 2060...

@@RS-nq8xk yea, its hard now to get anything Nvidia. If you don't need CUDA, its best to go with RDNA2 especially with the consoles being RDNA2. The new games coming out are much faster on RDNA2.

I've seen single fan palit go for as low as £289 on scan and novatech. even cheaper on ebay. I got dual fan for £300 from softcat. It's actually the only card that has seen decent stock levels with constants restocks all the time cause it's of no use to miners. you need to remember nvidia msrp doesn't include tax which is 20% in uk and since this gpu didn't have a founders edition manufacturers tend to sell a bit higher as they decide how much extra to charge for their build/fans/rgb on the card etc.

Wow 😔

F.

Benchmark don't need the settings to be messed with. Just Max it and check the fps. Whats the point of running on low preset on benchmarks anyway?

its about 20-25% worse than a rx6600

gets stomped by the 6600. its alot better than the 6500 xt tho. about 5 percent better than a gtx 1070 also

Gets stomped by the RX 6600, but that's to be expected, given that the 6600 is meant to be a $329 card and the 3050 is meant to be a $249 card. Comparing different price points doesn't help.

They won't hit msrp, they are all 330 and plus, so this is more like a rtx 2060 replacement ...

I can get 70-80 with rtx on using a 3070ti and a r5 5600x at 1080p.

@Kzn Nzn Best looking open world first person. I think the performance is worth the trade off

@Kzn Nzn It does feel empty I agree

@@GhettoPCbuilds I beg to differ. I played it on my 5600 XT on med high and ultra ray tracing on my cousin's 3070, it looks good at some angles but barren at most. Ghost of Tsushima had a better looking open world even if it was made flat.

You can, but you need something else than the 3050.

Former, not likely. Latter, indeed.

With Dlss it works great. Without dlss not so much

Compared to what a boon dlss is, ray tracing is still like nothing more then a resource hog gimmick

Raytracing is the gimmick, RT cores have a ton of useful, but situational features. Most importantly, DLSS helps with 1440p and even VR (if you can set it up correctly). There's also stuff like Nvidia broadcast if you do streaming. I own both a 1660s and 2070s and personally, I find these features very useful. If we were in an ideal world, this is definitely a buy vs the already very good value 1660s since they are priced very closely. But again, reality sucks.

minecraft is basically the only reason reason RAY TRACING is even relevant right now

Thats not how this works. Its a cut down 3060 die they cant just make the rt cores dissappear

the 1660 ti didn't cost 400+ dollars though

@@ketrub yeah...but it does now, and it's the same kind of performance. Shouldn't even be a 30 series card truthfully.

Apparently if you disable fullscreen optimizations you get performance improvements in that game.

@@dagnisnierlins188 In Radeon Settings you mean?

@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep no, it's a Windows setting, check on KZfaq how to disable.

@@dagnisnierlins188 You mean in the application executable properties?

@@BonJoviBeatlesLedZep yes, under compatibility settings. Some games run better some worse.

Or RT

Well yes, Nvidia's logic is that the 50 is the same as the 70 of 2 past generations. 950=670 1050=770 1650=970 3050=1070

@@takehirolol5962 Look at numerology go!

@@UncleMikeRetro Yep, Nvidia never fails at this!

@@takehirolol5962 love it!

Yep, nowadays games like Cyberpunk and Resident Evil Village use upwards of 6+ GB for 1080p high settings, 8 GB really feels like it's the bare minimum now

Yeah I made 2GB go a long way back in the day 😂

5 years ago the 1050 was released with only 2 GB VRAM...that's a huge jump.

@RO Almost only GPUs from older series are below this. It is the weakest RTX 3000 card. So this is low end.

@RO 1660 is the sbsolute low end nowadays for a decent experience. Suffering from 30-59 fps is not an option lol

Ya I hate that. I get that it's useful for pushing cards to their limit to chart their performance but it heavily skews the results. For example a GTX 1060 might get ~75 FPS @ Medium/High settings and barely 40 FPS at Ultra and yet there's only a slight increase in visual quality between the two, or perhaps you have to sacrifice something dumb like volumetric fog or not use things like TAA. Conversely, something like an RTX 3080 might get 157 FPS @ Medium/High settings and 110 FPS at Ultra (theoretically, same game as the GTX 1060) So it makes the GTX 1060 look way way worse than it actually is. Like I said, it skews the results and doesn't show good real-world examples, which makes people think they NEED those 80-class and 800-class cards to get an enjoyable experience.

The gpu was struggling at medium settings at 1080p in cp 2077, imagine future real current games, it is very realistic to test games to se how well it will fare, and this gpu was born underpowered.

A laptop 2060 perform like 1660 ti too

@@Khened that's the mobile version of the 2060 though. The mobile chips do not perform on the same level as their desktop counterpart due to TDP limitations.

@@Punisher6791 ik but the joke is there

@@Khened not 10 percent. 2060 performs much higher, around 20 to 30 percent min.

Its also 100% more expensive right now.

Yeah, and from what I have seen in Japan the pricing for these has made a non super 1660 for 20% lower prize and a 12GB 2060 for like 10% more seem like good value... haha

for full hd i think 3050 will be bottlnecked by cpu. if you have 1440p screen, then you should be ok.