3050 doesn't seem worth buying in both occasions...

Rtx 3050 6gb only makes sense in a low profile build. I agree this should be have been called a Rtx 3040 or even Rtx 3030.

my dad once told me "new doesn't mean better", now I get it

If you could get a 3050 6GB for 99-110 USD like the GTX 750 TI back in the day it would be the king of budget. These prices for what you get are horrible these days.

Should be named the RTX 3040.

this makes the a750 and Rx 6600 even more goated

NVIDIA: "They want budget? they'll get budget"

So that's the RTX 3040 toaster edition :D

We actually had a customer that requested our GT 740 4GB DDR5 back in the mid-2010s. They were running an old version of Flight Simulator and only needed the VRAM for whatever release they were flying on. This card reminds me of that, but with improper branding. 3040 definitely.

this proves the 6GB is much more efficient, however as you said, the price should be cheaper.

We love nvidia shady naming schemes to make a couple extra dollars

The rtx 3050 is a prime example of "too little, too late", I pay my respects for those newbies that thought buying one of these brand new for *that* price was the way to go

it's not a good time to be a budget gamer AND nvidia fan at the same time. rx 6600 costs around the same in my country and it's a much more powerful GPU.

Nice seeing gpu power in the overlay. Thank you so much! I hope u keep adding that to the next videos

They should've launched both of these as 3050 and 3050 Ti respectively.

The low profile version I can see having a use for tiny case builds and/those with weak power supplies, but apart from that... It's good the option is there, but for the full size one I'm glad I already have a 2060 which looks the much better option. Glad to see you covering it honestly & fairly though!

It’s almost like having more power gives you better performance, I am shocked, keep up the great work sir

With those power constraints they could have just made a much cheaper, more cut down 3030 or something with a higher clock that would have achieved the same performance. They must have had awful yields and this was the only way to slough off the trash. GA107-325 has the identical core configuration as the 8GB GA106-150 OEM model, but about half the TDP and 400Mhz lower clock speed.

I've just built my son a cheap gaming PC with a 4th gen i7 and a 1050Ti and he has a ton of fun gaming on it. Cheap build too at under £200...

I honestly didn't know they still made 30X0 series cards. I thought they'd be all 40X0 now.

Ever do any voltage tuning? I wonder if a good undervolt on the 8 GB card could make it as thrifty as the 6 GB card without a loss in frames per second. Might help somebody with a sketchy GPU power adapter setup.

around 50% less power consumption with less than 20% performance cost is not that bad imo

Please, could you compare to its actual competitors? All with no power cable needed. Like the RX6400, 1050TI etc please

I love this guys videos. Allways starts off outside really bright and colourful and interesting.

The most ridiculous part of these "budget" cards is that you can't even use them to spruce up your old desktops. The reduced lanes will cripple the card in an older PCIe slot.

Power limit the older card to 70 watts and see how they compare at the same power level?

You should test this vs a low tdp 1650 to show the performance bump for the folk this is actually useful for. Also maybe give an idea of what the baseline cpu would bevto pair with this.

The only time a 3050 is worth it is if it’s below $150. I scored a Gaming X 8GB version off the local market for $130, box and all, barely used, and it’s in my friend’s rig who uses a 1080p 75Hz monitor and does some light production work.

I need to examine the pricing. I'd need to see the prices to gauge the pro/con. There is a whole bunch of room for cheap mid range cards to fill if done right.

Good performance per watt, which also means less heat. Could see a 3050 6gb make a bit of sense in a 4 liter tiny sff case if you need things quiet. That said, I'm much more happy with my 4060 performance in one of those, and just use some headphones if I'm playing something where I am bothered by the moderate fan noise.

This might end up in a lot of OEM systems.

Would this be a worth while upgrade over my current GtX 1050ti?

Hey, really enjoying your Vidoes. I am using the RTX 3050 6G in a sleeper build for LAN-Parties. Just wondering, have you noticed that with the current AMD drivers 24.x.x you cant play Fallout NV anymore. Its strait crashing when you want to load or start a game. Would love the see a video about it. Much love.

Hey I think it would be interesting if you reviewed the palit silent 3050

I have both 3050's in ASUS dual fan guise. The 6gb I have paired with a Ryzen 5 1600 and it works very well. However, what I did notice is the sound coming from the card. It's louder than the 8gb, to the point that I've used MSI Afterburner to reduce the fan speed from 68% to 30-40%. Did you notice any differences in card noise?

Awesome video... And completely agree the 3040 at £99 would be acceptable

It'd be interesting to see how this compares to other cards which don't require supplemental power. The newer 3050 seems like a good pick for an office prebuilt with a dodgy power supply upgrade.

Nice to see how well it handles Fallout 4. What a difference in performance compared to Starfield. I haven’t seen the new show since I don’t have Prime but I’ve been a fan of Fallout since 3 and have Fallout posters on my wall in my gaming room.

I remember when the GTX 1050 and 1050 ti we're around still. Exceptional cards and for a pretty cheap price. Now a days you have so many cards with the largest range of pricing options available, it makes you wonder why bother with 50 cards anymore and go strictly 60 and up. Not saying there isn't a place for these cards but when you consider you can get the 3060 and 4060 for $300 or a little more it makes you wonder.

This GPU should be priced to replace the GT710 with a small price premium at around $99USD or similar imo. These should also be either ITX or low profile itx gpus as well.

Curious if an undervolt and rising the power limit from 70w to 75w would allow the 3050 6GB to reach higher speeds and close the gap a bit.

G'day Random, After seeing the first few comparisons with the Difference at least 15% to exceeding 20%, how confusing it is now as some retailers are not highlighting the 6GB in the title & will be on the 2nd Hand Market in the future for the same reason, I too was thinking as it is too late to change the 8GB to 3050Ti this should have been a RTX3040/3040Ti. Don't know why the nVIDIA Naming Team didn't go with 3050Ti for the Higher Cuda Count 8GB at launch as the 3050 OEM had the same Cuda count as this 6GB & they were launched on the same day.

I'm guessing this is more like what the 750ti(the later pci-e powered only version) was to the 1000 series than it is a to a (non pci-e powered) 1050ti? Is their a 1050ti equivalent in the 3000 or 4000 series? I can't think of a more powerful 3000 or 4000 only pci-e powered GPU 🤔

I owned gtx 1060 3GB from 2018 to late 2023, and it wasn't that bad compared to 1060 6GB at launch and till long time till games became vram hungry more and more, but was good enough for 230$ when crypto made all other gpus price hike back then, but today its bad overall in this same naming gpus (btw i still have 1060 3GB collecting dust, only keeping it for troubleshooting if something happens to my 6700 XT cause now my ryzen cpu doesn't have igpu)

They drop $50 of the price of the 8gb model and $65 off the gb model and the price/perf might be there for media center/email pc with light gaming abilities. But at these prices you can get an rx 6600 that's better than both (the 8gb model could be fairly close in RT, but is that really relevant at this power level?)

I'd be very interested in seeing a 6GB gpu comparison video. a 3050, 2060, and RX 5600XT. Optionally, a 1660Ti.

curious how far the 6Gb 3050 can pushed considering the clocks on it are way lower

I wonder what will happen if you lower the TDP of the 3050/8 to match the value of the 6-gig card? And perhaps also apply some undervolting. I suppose, the older model should still win though, due to higher core count and memory bandwidth

The 4050 mobile hangs out with the 3050 8gb but at only 50 watts. Slap that bad boy on a pcb and gimme that thing for budget builds!

They remind me of the 1060 6gb and the 1060 3gb. I lucked out and scored a gaming laptop from MC for $360 (actually snagged 2 as I knew my adult son would want it) and it has the 3050 8gb and i5 11400H with 16gb ram. For that money, it was a big score.

If the price was right, it would make sense as an upgrade for my old Dell workstation that doesn't have any GPU power connectors, currently using a GTX 1650. Budget AMD cards don't use all the PCI lanes so they're no good in older systems and Intel more or less requires resizeable bar so I can't use them either. My daughters just got into Minecraft so I can see 1080p with ray tracing and some DLSS working nicely there. I got my 1650 from CeX for around £80 so it's gonna be a while before the upgrade becomes worth it.

My local university surplus is selling Dell Optiplex with 8th and 9th i5s in them. The 3050 6gb would make for a perfect budget build with one of them.

It's aimed at the higher powered ex-business PCs and the Acer Aspire XC range of PCs. It'd be a reasonable upgrade from a GTX 1650 LP 4Gb, like the one I have in an XC 885. I can run Train Sim World 4 @1440p with ~40fps so it's not yet obsolete.

Honestly if it can draw its power from the m/b then this occupies a unique place. Consider it an upgrade from the low power 1650 and it looks a lot better. Dell optiplexs can be supercharged with this

Great Comparison

There are a few laptops that I was interested in. They have RTX 2050 or RTX 3050, both have less ram at 4Gb. Could you consider making a video where the ram usage is less than 4GB?

do you still have that rx 6400? i'm a sff optiplex enjoyer and it would be really cool to see the two compared. with and without upscaling if you don't mind do a longer video 🫡

I’d like to see a comparison with the rx 6400 because that card also doesn’t use any external PCIe supplemental power and just runs off the 75 watts from the motherboard slot.

I'm still thinking of buying a Radeon RX6600 non-xt... would be interesting to see how that GPU compares to these.

Congrats for one of the best gaming content on KZfaq, specially coming from a brazilian, which resides on a dreadful market. You always have the most realistic and best analysis on budget components, without spitting shit about cheaper parts, but bringing the best performance per money results. Really helpful!

Did you just keep the card on the edge near a pond?

It's wild that the OG 3050 and the 3070 Ti have the same amount of VRAM.

Can you compare these 2 3050’s vs the RTX 2060 in War Thunder at 1440p Maximum preset? I had an RTX 2070 laptop that was more akin to a Desktop 2060 in performance. When I was having no issues before the GPU died after 3 years of daily gaming at 95°C, I could easily run 1440p with frame rates between 80-120 FPS. I’d assume both 3050’s would run War Thunder at the same preset at 120+ FPS.

I guess it depends on your needs and the price you find it. If you are like me with a GTX860M (yes I know it's a laptop), even this GPU will run circles around it. Still, if you play older games and you find it no more than 150 euros, then it could work for you. Plus it would be a nice bump in other things than gaming, like video encoding etc.

It would be interesting to see the AMD equivalent vs one or both of these cards.

As Tom from @MooresLawIsDead says it: There are no bad products, just bad pricing.

I still see myself buying the 6gb over the 8gb for the lack of power connector alone. It's really the only upside but at least it can turn a i7 8700 office pc into a 1080p rig for kinda cheap I guess

Great video

I think this is probably one of those products that will have a massive price drop in the future. It's also very common to see this on the cheaper phones' market, they are always released at a really high price that doesn't really make that much sense, but it quickly drops to be in line with the price of the older models, but with some technological advancement that actually makes it worth it. I just don't understand why the performance gap between the two is so big even though they still share the same 3050 name. But I think the 6gb model consuming about half the power and running also 10°c colder is a really good thing.

how about an undervolt on both and see where that goes

I own 3050 8gb already I bought mine as 2nd hand form CeX at 130 quid a year ago. Only reason - Looking for cheap card with CUDA cores to increase speed of video editing software as my old AMD card has none of these. And 3050 also consume half of power... I not gaming on this card anyway. So, low power, 130 quid, video editing "accererator" is good deal.

Great card option if you have a system that doesn’t have a PCIe power cord. Perfect for the teenager using the family desktop

I've got weird feelings that I see object textures from Skyrim in Starfield ;D Especialy stone walls.

gtx 750, 750ti, 1050, 1050ti, 1650 were best seller considering you can add it in a grandma pc with a bad psu lol, not only for this reason ofc but buy a 60dollars, euros gtx 1050ti 4gb witch can run currently almost every games isn t a bad choice instead buy a 600 gaming pc. If u needn't 1080p 60fps to have fun lol. Maybe it ll be same here :) rx 6400 and arc a380 do nice the job but maybe this thing ll perform better :)

The big thing about this is that it smokes the previous reigning champion budget low profile graphics card the GTX 1650. It also smokes it's closest low profile competitor the RX 6400. It also trades blows with the previous full on full stop champ of low profile no aux power the A2000. And though the A4000 smokes it, the A4000 is also like $800. And the 4060 requires aux power and is more than twice the price. The niche is small but it is here for the 6gb 3050.

Is the 3050 card similar to the 4050 mobile?

I have been wanting this video for a long time, but for some reason I could never find a direct comparison. That's crazy because it was literally the main comparison I was interested in, like of course it makes sense to test it against something at a closer price point, but we already know the 6gb is going to be a massive disappointment anyways, so why not at least makethe comparison mildly entertaining. If you actually want a 3050 6gb you have an incredibly specific usefase in mind, and there's probably only two cards even worth thinking about for it, (This and the A380 meet some very specific "board powered, very limited implementation of modern technology" card niche) so there really isn't much point in comparing it on a price/performance level where it will lose to the vast majority of other cards.

To me the 3050 6G only makes sense in two scenarios: with the Palit KalmX version so you have a totally quiet card or with low-power PCs you can use the 6G model without additional PCIe power. I'd still have preferred a name like 3040. It wouldn't have been the first x40-class card. The 3050 6G is pretty impressive when it comes to efficiency though. You're losing about 20% of the performance but the power consumption is falling much more.

Wasn’t the 1660 Super $230 at release 5 years ago? Kind of wild that we basically haven’t gotten any improvement in this price tier this whole time from nvidia.

The only viable gaming use case for the 3050 6GB is in OEM PC with no 6 or 8 pin power available. Outside of that, it's a super hard pass IMO.

Why compare it to rtx3050 8gb? It’s suppose to replace gtx1650

Even though no pcie power for refurbished office Rigs is a good excuse for the card. The fact that %95 of the sales will be for buying the lowest RTX branded off the shelf only to get smacked with bad value card like this

I paired this card (6gb) with a r5 5500 and 16gb ddr4 for under $350 for my sister and it does great for everything she does!

I'd like to see some more videos around used hardware, because there is a distinct lack of it from UK KZfaqrs.

It’s a gtx 1660 6gb of gddr6 and DLSS.. for the same price as a 1650? Sounds like a good deal to me. Although this should’ve been a 4050.

I'd like to see how different the RTX 3050 6 GB performs in PCIe 3.0. Considering this newer model only comes with 8 lanes, it should be much worse.

Would like to see more videos on AMD cards, many of them are much better price to performance wise compared to their Nvidia counterparts. The 3050 is absolutely not worth it at all where i live cause you can find brand new 6650XT's for similar or lower price, and on the used market you can find 6800XT's for even lower.

the 3050 is just a worse 1660.

Massive props for making this video as a way of keeping folks informed. The original 3050 was laughably bad given the sort of prices being asked for them, even without considering the AMD competitors which aside from being cheaper would literally smoke the 3050. It's one thing to have a 1050 Ti in the same ballpark price of something like a RX570 despite the latter also outperforming the former but those GPUs coexisted in an age were GPU pricing wasn't as outrageous as we've currently seen. The original 3050 without being gimped and having the VRAM buffer cutdown was bad enough, imagine having a gimped version of an already meh product... If the original 3050 was a 180 dollar card it would actually have been decent, oddly enough. But Nvidia being Nvidia that was never going to happen.

Mine RTX 3050 is 1 times bigger than that how is that possible i don't get it?

This reminds me of the GTX 1060 with its 3GB and 6GB options, as well as the GTX 960 having 2GB and 4GB variants, also. I would only buy the 6GB variant if the PC needed a graphics card with no PSU connectors, otherwise it would be the 8GB 3050 all the time.

We want a comparison between the 3050 6G vs GTX 1660 ti.

It's surprisingly power efficient, the older card uses 50% more power in most cases for just 20% more performance.

Low power GPUs are luxury items, at least on what I see after all of these years of GPU releases. 1650 didn't have the best price for a low power GPU when it initially launched. 1050 Ti was the last best low power at launch and idk why they didn't follow up its success.

man if they would have just called this card a 3030 and priced it at $120-$140 this card could have actually been something of note

The 3050 6Gb always seemed to be around 200MHz slower that probably didnt help it at all

New dell optiplex with 13th gen intel cpu's have weaker psu's than older optiplexes with 6th gen intel. This makes the 3050 6gb ideal while the old method of 2x sata to 1x 8pin in new optiplex won't work anymore

if this card was about £100 it would be worth it

Half the power draw with around 20% less performance is an impressive achievement..

An old HP/Dell/Etc home office workstation with a puny power supply is the most logical use-case for the 6gb 3050. The systems are dirt cheap but upgrading power supplies can be a pain due to proprietary mobo connectors. - Maybe that's the best test for this card. An i7 6700 oem system with 8gb of ram in single channel and an HDD. Double up the ram, add an ssd boot drive, and then see what kind of gaming performance she can muster with the 3050 6gb dropped in. It wont be impressive in a vacuum but the frames per dollar will be pretty solid for those on a tight budget. - Finding those systems with an i5 is more common but 6th and 7th gen i5s lack hyperthreading which is very impactful on performance nowadays. So, i7 is kinda a must. But there's plenty of those systems collecting dust.