Intel could definitely be a disruptor and I truly hope that they succeed in taking market share from nVidia because that will help all of us. You won't see me saying otherwise. I may hate Intel as a company but I do want the market to be balanced between as many players as possible.
The RTX 3050 is so weak as to be irrelevant. It gets beat by
many cards that
nobody would pay $250 for. Here's a list of video cards that are faster than the RTX 3050 (up to the RX 6600) according to TechPowerUp's GPU Database:
RX Vega 56
GTX 1070 Ti
RX 5600 XT
RX Vega 64
GTX 1080
RTX 2060
RX 5700
RX 6600
The RX 6600 is the most expensive in this list and it costs only
$200 right now. Their MSRPs are irrelevant because all that matters is what they cost NOW. Clearly, being faster than the RTX 3050 doesn't make a card worth more than $200 in the current market. If nVidia wants to charge $240 for that piece of garbage, that's their problem and the problem of the dumba$$es who buy them. It's not the problem of people with brains like us.
Yeah, I was reading the TPU list too quickly and I should've written "GTX 1070 Ti", not "Fury-X". I apologise for that mistake but it really doesn't change the fact that being faster than an RTX 3050 doesn't make a card worth over $200.