NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 6GB to Get a Formal Release in February 2024

[Squared]

My belief is this card's primary reason for existence isn't budget gaming but for corporate use when driving 3+ displays is a requirement.

Which is why they are doing this on low-end Ampere rather than recent Ada Lovelace.

Good point. For all of those possible markets the price seems a little tall considering that many new APUs get the same performance. (And reviewers always seem to oo and aw over the latest iGPU but 10 years ago iGPUs were limited by dual-channel CPU memory, and today iGPUs are limited by dual-channel CPU memory, so I don't think they've improved at all beyond what silicon chips in general have. So why has the entry-level GPU market nearly gone extinct? It's not because iGPUs are good, it's because desktops have almost gone extinct outside of the gaming world.)

 

[AnotherReader]

Good point. For all of those possible markets the price seems a little tall considering that many new APUs get the same performance. (And reviewers always seem to oo and aw over the latest iGPU but 10 years ago iGPUs were limited by dual-channel CPU memory, and today iGPUs are limited by dual-channel CPU memory, so I don't think they've improved at all beyond what silicon chips in general have. So why has the entry-level GPU market nearly gone extinct? It's not because iGPUs are good, it's because desktops have almost gone extinct outside of the gaming world.)

Entry level GPU market has gone extinct because of good enough IGPs. Ten years ago, entry level IGPs were like the GT 640. Now, we don't see cards like that anymore because they wouldn't be any faster than the IGPs. The first harbinger of this trend was the Ryzen 2400G's IGP matching the GT 1030 in performance about six years ago.

 

[Denver]

ASUS Radeon RX 6500 XT TUF Gaming

The new AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT we review today is the world's first graphics card using a 6 nanometer GPU. With just 100 W during gaming, the RX 6500 XT is very gentle in its power requirements, but also held back by the 4 GB VRAM size and PCI-Express 4.0 x4 interface. Show full review

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MSRP 200 (so $20 more for a card that had even less memory) price at the time of review mid-bubble, 350. It was being actively defended "as a proper 5500 XT successor", "might be my go to card if it's ever at MSRP", "it's 2% faster than the 5500 XT and wasn't price hiked, it's not so bad!" are some of the first comments in that review's comment thread. Eventually faced with reality, they just started to call it a bad card all around instead of going on expressive tirades about how AMD is actually dastardly evil.

I'm just saying...

Easily explainable because at the time prices were inflated, and the only GPUs available with a similar price were RX560, GTX 1050 ti etc... conditions at the time made the 6500XT the only (new) GPU priced at US$ 200, regardless of bad choices of design.

 

[Dr. Dro]

Easily explainable because at the time prices were inflated, and the only GPUs available with a similar price were RX560, GTX 1050 ti etc... conditions at the time made the 6500XT the only (new) GPU priced at US$ 200, regardless of bad choices of design.

The MSRP was 200 and the prices that were going on were 350+?

 

[theouto]

The MSRP was 200 and the prices that were going on were 350+?

It was meant to be 200, but MSRP really did mean nothing during that period. That era in the market was horrible, and we are still suffering the effects of it to an extent

 

[Selaya]

meh.
doa bc the a2000 exists, and isnt really that much expensive either. wtb something slotting inbetween the a2000 and the ad4000 sff, bc $1,500 for a 70w version of the 3070 is well ... yeah ...
.

 

[sLowEnd]

The MSRP was 200 and the prices that were going on were 350+?

They were above MSRP for a while, but not by that ($350+) much. I bet stores wished they could sell such a flawed product for that much, but the historical pricing says they weren't able to.

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/dmvdnQ/asrock-radeon-rx-6500-xt-4-gb-phantom-gaming-d-oc-video-card-rx6500xt-pgd-4go?history_days=730

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Mc7G3C/sapphire-radeon-rx-6500-xt-4-gb-pulse-video-card-11314-01-20g?history_days=730

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/JNjBD3/gigabyte-radeon-rx-6500-xt-4-gb-eagle-video-card-gv-r65xteagle-4gd?history_days=730

https://pcpartpicker.com/product/Xh8bt6/msi-radeon-rx-6500-xt-4-gb-mech-2x-oc-video-card-radeon-rx-6500-xt-mech-2x-4g-oc?history_days=730

 

[Squared]

The stores often didn't have real pricing. Many of them stuck to a delusionally low price and were always sold out. If your product is always sold out, then for most people who want it, you're not really selling it.

 

[Ruru]

Nvidia is the master of releasing the most pointless low-end cards. First we had GT 1030 DDR4, then GTX 1630 and now this.

 

[Macro Device]

Nvidia is the master of releasing the most pointless low-end cards. First we had GT 1030 DDR4, then GTX 1630 and now this.

Ahem.

Double ahem.

Triple ahem.

 

[Ruru]

Ahem.
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Well yeah, those endless low-end cards from AMD years ago were truly pointless. 6500 XT was ok, but a little too pricey and needs a PCIe 4.0 platform to perform optimally. Those 6700/6700 XT rebrands aren't low-end though.

 

[Lew Zealand]

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Oh I dunno, low end Nv 700 series was a minefield of Kepler, Fermi, Maxwell, GDDR5, DDR3, 1, 2, 4GB, sometimes in the same model (GT 730). Today's relative clarity is refreshing.

 

[Macro Device]

a little too pricey

Being 3 times more expensive than it's reasonable for such a vomit of a GPU is not "a little too pricey," my dude.

Those 6700/6700 XT rebrands aren't low-end though.

Yet that was the most meaningless launch in ages.

Oh I dunno, low end Nv 700 series was a minefield of Kepler, Fermi, Maxwell, GDDR5, DDR3, 1, 2, 4GB, sometimes in the same model (GT 730). Today's relative clarity is refreshing.

I was just pointing out AMD ain't better than nVidia in that regard. Blaming nVidia only (as well as AMD only) is incomplete at best.

 

[Lew Zealand]

I was just pointing out AMD ain't better than nVidia in that regard. Blaming nVidia only (as well as AMD only) is incomplete at best.

Agreed. I have 2 older low end R5 and R7 GPUs that are identified differently depending on which version of 3DMark I've run thanks to the incessant rebranding at the time.