How is the 3050 8gb ?

[Bing Chilling]

is it worth upgrading to from a 10 series GPU?

[ᶻ𝗓𐰁]

I don't know how much they cost now but in the past they were not good value for money.

[Lord Flashheart]

Originally posted by ᶻ𝗓𐰁:

I don't know how much they cost now but in the past they were not good value for money.

What GPU is good value for money?

The problem is the 8GB VRAM

[Tonepoet]

It's an Ada Lovelace card that Nvidia was too embarrassed to give the 40 series moniker for fear of misrepresenting its position on the stack.

Looking at the Tom's Hardware charts,[www.tomshardware.com] a 3050 is only about as powerful as a 1070 ti at 1080p medium and ultra, and 1440p. I'm not sure what variant that is. We're probably saying no to 4k altogether so I didn't even check that.

I don't know which variant that is, but we know a 3060 is roughly 1080 ti level, and whichever 3050 they used ranks well below the 1080 ti. It's surprising how big the gap is between the 1080 ti and the 1080, in fact.

A 3060 6 gig. might be justified if you have to draw power from the slot, or if you have to fit it into a low profile case.

If you have a 1060 it's still good for most games up to late 2024, and one would wonder why you didn't just buy a 1070 ti and enjoy that perf. for the last 10 years if you were going to ride it out for as long as you did already.

It would've only cost you $100 more, rather than $180 more ($144 more if you want to buy a Zotac refurbished 6 gig variant card[www.zotacstore.com].

Only thing I can really think of is ray tracing, but I wouldn't try to ray trace on much less than a 4070 super. It's a pretty dang big perf. hit. If you're looking to spend around $200 on a brand new graphics card with 8 gigs of V.R.A.M.

If you're not boycotting Intel I'd say to maybe spend an extra $10 ($190 total) an Asrock Arc A750[www.amazon.com] performs about on par with a GTX 1080 and still gives you access to ray tracing and A.I. assisted upscaling. Granted, you need to be sure your system supports rebar if you're buying Intel.

Zotac also had refurb 3060s for $210 a little while back, which is pretty slick for a 12 gig card, but they're sold out now.

$190 is also less than the price difference between a 1060 and a 1080 ti at M.S.R.P.

But if you have anything better than a 1060 then I'd say wait for 60 class cards to be released this generation. Check the market again to see if prices dropped.

[ᶻ𝗓𐰁]

Just get a rx6600 it's the obvious value upgrade, or wait a while for to 90 series.

[Lixire]

What is your current card? 8gb 3050 is on par with the 1660 Super which isn’t bad but at it’s asking price then its simply bad value

the RX 6600 doesn’t cost much more or even about the same with far better performance pretty much hitting the 3060

[_I_]

3050 is not even entry level anymore
get a 3060 or better

3050 is not limited by its vram amount
its limited by its overall performance

[Zefar]

Any of the cards that are in the xx50 series are basically e-waste.
Most of the time if you spend a bit more you'll get something that will last you longer and be better.

[Dura_Ace]

I have a 3060 12gb.

The XX50 series in any of their tiers are not money well spent. Spend a little more and get the 3060. or AMD in the same range. So like a 7600 or 7700

I bought the 3060 12 GB in summer of 2023 for 330 just before the 4000 series dropped and they were dumping stock.

You are not likely to find a 4060 now and i hear they are not even that good either.

[Dura_Ace]

Originally posted by Lord Flashheart:

Originally posted by ᶻ𝗓𐰁:

I don't know how much they cost now but in the past they were not good value for money.

What GPU is good value for money?

The problem is the 8GB VRAM

Unless you are 1440p or higher, that 8 GB is enough for 1080p. My most demanding game at 1080 with everything turned up to max at 60 FPS is Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

And that only uses 6.5 to 7 GB of vram. Vsynch on so its locked to 60 fps. The 3060 i have is 12GB and 192 bit bit it sill only uses 7 GB of Vram for that game.

[_I_]

years ago the gts 250 to the gtx 650 were good value cards
but beyond that the x50 cards were not good value

gtx 750-950 were ok ish for 720p-900p gaming, but too weak for 1080p games at their time of release

[ᶻ𝗓𐰁]

I remember the 1050ti was a very popular budget card too which some people are only upgrading from now

[_I_]

the 1060 6g was around $250, no real point in going lower
1660 was also around $250

but the 2060 went up to around $350

[Min]

I’m gonna upgrade from rx 580 to rx 6600 , you should to , in that price range this gpu is goat

[🦊Λℚ𝓤ΛƑΛᗯҜᔕ🦊]

Originally posted by _I_:

3050 is not limited by its vram amount

You are wrong. 8GB video cards cards are completely worthless for trying to play today's computer games.

[DefinitelyNotMonk]

So many people who don't own an 8GB 3050 talking smack about it.

I actually have one, an msi ventus to be specific on my htpc, is it a power house?

No, but will it run any game I've thrown at it with atleast 60fps with some settings tweaking, also yes.

With dlss I can even run low level raytracing.

It's a great little card if you can pick it up at the right price, plus, you get all the nvidia extras, so, raytracing that works, far superior upscaling, all the streaming features and the big one for me, nvidias rtx video enhancement along with hdr which makes it the best htpc gpu you can buy (being the cheapest with said features).

The idea you cannot game on it is ridiculous, but, if it is worth upgrading to, does entirely depend where you are coming from, but I'd not give up the extras to go to AMD unless I was getting notably more rasterisation for the same price and I mean a lot extra, they just don't match nvidias feature set.