News Retail listing for Nvidia's RTX 3050 6GB details price, launch date, and has even fewer cores than expected

[Admin]

An Austrian retailer has listed Nvidia's rumored RTX 3050 6GB, and it seems like it spilled all the beans.

Retail listing for Nvidia's RTX 3050 6GB details price, launch date, and has even fewer cores than expected : Read more

 

[usertests]

This looks like it would be an upgrade vs. a GTX 970 I have, but not worth it at $179. At that price I would look at an RX 6600 (new) or the used market instead.

 

[Sluggotg]

It lands between a 980 and 980Ti. Kinda low end for a new card. A couple of my older machines have 980Tis in them. They play games great, (older). This new card seems out of place but I think it could be a decent option for and Upgrade to older machines. We will have to see how it performs.

 

[Udyr]

At least the price is low.

Is this supposed to be a joke?

 

[why_wolf]

It lands between a 980 and 980Ti. Kinda low end for a new card. A couple of my older machines have 980Tis in them. They play games great, (older). This new card seems out of place but I think it could be a decent option for and Upgrade to older machines. We will have to see how it performs.

The power draw is about 50% of the 980Ti (250w). A bit less than the 980 (165w).

Honestly would be more interested to see what they could squeeze out of a PCIe power only card.

 

[Notton]

The power draw is about 50% of the 980Ti (250w). A bit less than the 980 (165w).

Honestly would be more interested to see what they could squeeze out of a PCIe power only card.

That's what the RTX A2000 (3060 12GB) is.
There is also a more modern option, the RTX 4050 6GB mobile, but nvidia doesn't seem interested in releasing that as a 75W desktop card.

 

[Neilbob]

I'd ask that someone poke me awake when any of these companies provides an interesting GPU for a price that isn't outrageous, but I guess I'd be sleeping forever.

 

[Giroro]

$179 is close to twice what an acceptable price would be for this card. It's going to perform like an Arc A380, which has been stuck priced at $120 for a long time.

$179 would put this card against the A580, which will offer about 2x the performance.
If Nvidia won't price this card competitively, then why even bother making new cards using their obsolete last-gen chips?
I guess they want to price this card relative to the GT 1030, which is bizarrely still covid priced at $130. Or maybe they want to price it relative to a GTX 1650 G6 (Because it will perform like one), but prices on those are only so high because they stopped manufacturing them awhile ago.

Anybody who bought a GTX 1060 6+ years ago is going to laugh at the 3050 6GB, considering it is going to be offering basically same performance (and price) as a card that will soon be pushing a decade old.
Maybe Nvidia doesn't actually want to sell any of these cards. Maybe this is their line in the sand, telling gamers: "If you come to us, you will keep getting this exact level of performance at this exact price, forever. So go away and stop bothering us. We're an AI company now, whatever that means."

In a couple years we'll have to see if their RTX 50xx series is going to be exactly 2 cards: an RTX 5090 32GB AI behemoth that costs $3,000+ and eventually an RTX 5050 6GB a card that performs exactly the same as the RTX 3050 6GB for $200.

 

[hotaru251]

10/10 wouldnt buy.

Better off buying a used GPU that actually is worth ur $.

 

[_Shatta_AD_]

$179 for a last gen low end mediaplayer level card is definitely not ‘priced low’. This is Nvidia’s money grab for whatever C-stock bin they have left before hitting the landfill. At this price I’d go for an A380 or Meteor lake or AMD 8xxx series CPU instead and get better performance/video engine.