News Asus GeForce RTX 3050 LP BRK 6GB graphics cards launched – low profile dimensions and DVI-D connectors set them apart

[Admin]

Asus has added GeForce RTX 3050 LP BRK 6GB reference and OC edition graphics cards to its stables. They offer low-profile dimensions, power-cable-less efficiency, and include a legacy DVI-D port.

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[Pierce2623]

And this right here is why it’s actually more attractive than a full 3050. Well and it gets 80% of the performance at half the power.

 

[Order 66]

And this right here is why it’s actually more attractive than a full 3050. Well and it gets 80% of the performance at half the power.

The 6GB of VRAM and especially the 96-bit bus will hold it back in modern games. Also, According to TPU, the 3050 8GB outperforms the 6GB model by 34%. Sure, it would be great for a basic display adapter, but at that point at GT 1030 would work fine. I just struggle to understand why anyone would buy this when the RX 6600 costs $10-20 more and outperforms it by 69%. I suppose maybe it would make sense as an upgrade to a prebuilt desktop with a low-wattage proprietary PSU, but at that point, it's kind of a dead end with the inability to easily upgrade the PSU.

 

[jlake3]

The 6GB of VRAM and especially the 96-bit bus will hold it back in modern games. Also, According to TPU, the 3050 8GB outperforms the 6GB model by 34%. Sure, it would be great for a basic display adapter, but at that point at GT 1030 would work fine. I just struggle to understand why anyone would buy this when the RX 6600 costs $10-20 more and outperforms it by 69%. I suppose maybe it would make sense as an upgrade to a prebuilt desktop with a low-wattage proprietary PSU, but at that point, it's kind of a dead end with the inability to easily upgrade the PSU.

As far as I can tell, upgrading prebuilt systems is pretty much the main market for these as far as DIY goes. You can get a Dell Optiplex in B/C-grade cosmetic condition with an 8th-gen i5 for around $150, stick one of these in for $170, and play games that are social and aimed at a wide audience in acceptable quality. Sure it's a dead end as far as parts go, but it's cheap and simple to do even for people who don't know computers that well and are just following a guide they found somewhere, so I think there's a sort of acceptance that that's the cost of an ultra-budget solution.

There's also a cottege industry of refurbishers who buy up off-lease office PCs in bulk, throw a wrap and an RGB strip on them, add a GPU, and market them towards teens or their parents who want a cheap gaming PC but don't want to DIY. They'll buy these by the pallet.