6500 xt 8gbs are 30% faster.

just get a 1080Ti at this point 🤦🏻‍♂️

i think the 3050 vs a rx5600 would be a good comparison

Next you should compare the Ryzen 4070 to the GTX 4090XT

I did have a rx 6500 xt and it is a really good low end budget card

One thing tho IDK why but games look crisper on AMD.
Like look at the difference at 9:08
SUS…

My 5700xt will serve my needs until it dies.

3050 6gb is the same price as a new rx6600 in my country tho😂

AMD bombed with the RX 6500 XT…so it’s the competition by default… 9 times out of 10…I would normally give AMD the advantage…NOT THIS TIME…

If you went with DDR6 the 6500 xt would only show 2GB at most… The problem was that it was a laptop GPU and not meant for any other usage…

I am looking to replace my Rx 6400 and the 3050 look perfect, low power, no extra power cables needed….plus i only have pci 3.0

should throw in the A580 too, i’d bet the A580 would be way better than both at this price class

Both cards should be avoided ! And for 3050 money you can get RX 6600 and have a decent gaming performance!

Which will i choose ?
Rx 6600 xt for 180$ used or
rtx 3050 6gb new for 225 $ ?

The 3050 is undoubtedly the better card. The only problem around it is the price point it’s been at for the longest time. If it can drop closer to the RX 6500 XT prices…..it would be better received. I have a laptop with the 3050 and it runs pretty well. Slightly better than the 1660S desktop. but nothing close to the RX 6600 and its XT and 6650XT variants.

Long story short… 3050 is a great card ONLY IF it were priced a bunch lower from launch.

Pls avoid bad brands like afox

3050 6GB is good GPU?! If you get the low profile card for SFF PC, cheaper than 4060 LP and A2000 for reasonable 1080p and 1440p DLSS Balanced gaming, and cuz AMD are the good guys you get access to FSR too, so the 3050 6GB is good card only in this specific situation, I build myself SFF PC with 4060LP (sold my 3060TI) and 12400F and is perfect for 1440p with DLSS and I’m probably going to build 3050LP and 12100F SFF PC for my girlfriend to enjoy Hogwards Legacy, Days Gone, Minecraft and doing Photoshop, so yea 3050LP plenty of GPU for those tasks

Seems like, in Radeon range, RX 6600 is only logical option… Shouldn’t RTX 3050 be rival of RX 6400 as budget card? Did AMD took the crown from GT x10 cards as top range display adapter?

Imagine getting similar performance for half the price in the used market. That tells how bad these cards are.

The RX6500XT is virtually the same price as the RX6600 new on Amazon – with that power connector, the 6500XT is AMD’s most pointless card. The RX6400 has no power connector but, based on the performance of the 6500XT, the 6400 would be even less of a performer. The RTX3050 6GB at least has a usage scenario for low-wattage systems – I’d like to see how it compares to the Arc A380 for example, especially as some, like the ASRock ITX version or their LP version, have no power connector. The A380 is really budget, though – new ones can be had for £120, though obviously it’s no good in older systems that don’t support PCIe Gen 4 or Resizable BAR in the motherboard BIOS.

Мy phone is heavier than stated in the instructions, it may also contain an explosive device?

Lower power usage, more VRAM, more versatile performance, crushes video editing, excellent media encoders, RTX broadcast, RTX HDR, RTX Video HDR, RTX VSR, DLSS infinitely better at 1080p.

I noticed that the RX 6500 XT has better color accuracy than the 3050, but I find that 6 GB of VRAM is laughable.

I got an Arc A770 16GB Bifrost for $150 😊

I bought a RTX 3050 8GB in 2022 for $350 i know the price is abit rough for the 3050 but the country i live in has very strict taxes you pay on Electronics in my Country very happy with my 3050 and have peace of mind knowing i have the more powerful card with more VRAM def helps alot if you wanna play games at Ultra settings

Im honestly Quite suprised by what thw RTX 3050 6GB can achieve its definitely a card if you’re tight on a Budget or just wanna slap it in a Office Pc. The 6GB VRAM could become a issue in the future coz i use over 6GB of VRAM in Cyberpunk witb the settings cranked everything to high and SSR to Ultra with DLSS Quality and achive 60+ mostly

Ray tracing should be left off the cards altogether to make them cheaper. Like maybe a 3060 without ray tracing to keep them at £150

At its price 3050 6GB has no competition in the use cases that must do without a GPU power cable. Outside of that just get an RX 6600, even a used one.

it is real cut version 3050 6gt

rtx 3050 6gb is low profile graphic card $170, for a 70 watt with 6gb vram

Glad I got my hands on a rx 6600 for 115$ 😎

3050 6GB
Shader units 2304
TMUs 72
ROPs 32
Memory Size 6 GB
Memory Type GDDR6
Bus Width 96 bit

Cost 200 euro’s 99% of the time

6500 XT
Shader Units 1024
TMUs 64
ROPs 32
Memory Size 4 GB
Memory Type GDDR6
Bus Width 64 bit

price 170 euro’s 99% of the time

RX 6600
Shader Units 1792
TMUs 112
ROPs 64
Memory Size 8 GB
Memory Type GDDR6
Bus Width 128 bit

Price 200 to 209 euro’s Flucutation of 10 euros

A RX 6600 would have been interesting to me as these are only 10 euro’s different in most countries if not all of the EU region including ofc brexit land itself.

It’s a real shame Ngreedia never made a 4050 and released it for a good price. That would have been really nice to see. But with the prices currently it doesnt make sense as the 4060 really is a 4050 that’s been oc’d. The Shader / unit config is proof of that. Bizarre to see a Navi 2 card against a peer with half the units and getting close. 1000 shaders nearly catching one with double if not more with 2300 on the same generation. God the ALU’s on AMD are strong.

Both worthless. Either keep your RX580/570 and your money or buy AT LEAST a used RX 6600 / RTX 2060.

No real surprises there. Personally I’d go with the 3050 out of the two cars, performs better, has more VRAM, and doesn’t need an extra PCI-E power connector, no-brainer really…..

Neither is worth it for the money, save up 20 bucks more and get a 6600 (non XT).

The answer is used rx 6600

My little GTX 970 will do better

CEX are doing a RX 6600 8gb for £150 these days

Imagine how many users runs the brend computers with i7 6/7gen cpus wich are still capable to run some games but also the same pc is limited with non-standard 180-240w psu. In that case this rtx 3050 6gb with 60-70w power consumption is ideal choice for upgrade!

My only issue with Radeon is the way it deals with shader compilation – it is different from Nvidia and produce much more stutters, AMD must fix it.

You make a great dase for a used 6600/xt as an alternative.

5600xt is a better card i got one second hand for 80£ off ebay…

What is up with gamma / contrast. 3050 is washed out and 6500 has deeper blacks in multiple games..

I still play games on my laptop with an i5 6th gen, 6gb 1060, but my other laptop, i9 11th gen and a 3070 blows it out the water unsurprisingly!! I have a desktop with a 1050ti and another with a 1660 and both are still fine for modern gaming but you do sacrifice frame rate (obviously) when compared to 30 and 40 series cards. My Dell AIO can’t play Crysis though😁😁

The 3050, especially in its low profile form, is meant to be a step-up from the GTX 1650. It fits in an old SFF office PC and doesn’t need external power. An old office PC with a 10th gen i5 and RAM bump with a 3050 is a cheap and usable 1080p gaming rig (be aware that there’s effectively no upgrade path with these systems though).

The problem is that it’s only 6GB RAM and 96bit memory bus, not enough of a step up from the 5 year old 1650 with 4GB and…128bit bus (but if it had 8GB that would eat into the 4060, and there’s a low profile variant of that which unfortunately needs external power). It’s also not a whole lot faster than a top spec iGPU.

I had a quick look on Amazon for the prices.
3050 6GB goes for 185€ minimum.
6500XT goes for 160€ minimum.
Seems to reflect the performance difference pretty closely, so bang for buck they are about the same.

rtx 3050 6gb is by far the better one.

Bit unfair comparison, RTX has 6gb vram and 96bit bus, with 2304 cores, 72 tmus and 32 rops, RX has 4gb vram and 64bit bus, with 1024 cores, 64 tmus and 32 rops, a better comparison would have been RTX 3050 6gb VS RX 5500 XT 4gb, 5500 XT would of stood a better chance with a higher 128bit bus, 1408 cores, 88 tmus and 32 rops, yes still only 4gb vram, and doesn’t have raytracing, but at that level of card, it bloody pointless turning it on, the 6500 XT is being crippled by it’s pcie 4.0 x 4 bus, where as the 5500 XT has pcie 4.0 x 8 same as RTX 3050 👍🏻😜😜

No such thing as a bad product only a bad price

the 3050 is 27% more expensive here though.

Man, at the beginning of 2020 you could get a brand new 1650 Super (DDR 6)for £130.
Inflation is bloody real!

Was Sam enabled for the 6500xt?

what CPU did you pair these cards with?

There is also the RX 6500XT from PowerColor, the fighter version.

It all depends on what you use the cards for. I mean what games do you play on your PC. I own a 6500xt because it was the only entry card I could get at the time. I play the new games on my Xbox and use the PC for older, less demanding games. For that the 6500xt is fine. Not good but fine… And I run it on PCI 3.0 because I have a cheap system. I wish it was much better than what I paid ( now I could get a 6600 for the same price!) . Am I happy with the card? NO!

3060 6gb better because no power pins.

Rdr 2 on the amd looks so choppy bcz of the inconsistent frame times

I honestly wouldn’t have thought that *anything* could be slower than a 3050. Man was I wrong!

Do Space Marine 2 benchmarks

Frame gen…

3050 6GB is good if you are limited by space, power and connectors. There isn’t much competition for people with that use case. However if you have the space and power you can probably find something much faster. At least here the Intel 750 and Radeon 6600 was just on sale for about 10% more and you get much more than 10% better performance.

RX 6500 XT 8GB would be the best way to go

Finally, a video for the people in the 3rd World countries who need to build a full setup with just $500.

i own a 8gb Palidn 6500xt.. they run better than 4gb on pcie 3.0 its ran e5 1650

the new lowspecgamer

I remember when you couldnt even get a use 750ti for $150… both cards are great… I have always been an NVIDIA guy until I got the asus ROG G15 advantage edition with the Ryzen 9 and rx 6800xt… it gives me less problems than my computer with a 4080 as far as compatability right out of the box.

buy a 5700xt or a 1080ti pre owned both are way better cards than those two scam cards.

The real answer is the RX 6600

Isn’t the 6600 more price equivalent?

Just in the process of upgrading my system from 8th gen to 12th gen Intel, but going with an RTX 3060 (About $450AUD at the moment) from a GTX 1660 Ti.

Nvidia is always a better decision 🎉🎉🎉

better to buy a used 2060, 1080, 1080 TI, 1070, 5600xt, 5700xt or various other used cards that are MUCH faster and similarly priced, or less expensive.

These cards really only have a use case for weird SFF or low power cases IMO

there is 8gb 6500 xt but all i’ve seen cost almost the same as 6600 (10$ diffrence), and at this point it makes no sense to buy it

As long it doesnt put pci-e 3.0 on these cards youre good to go but for price performance they are both bad.

That the rtx3050 6gb is the better card was clear.the problem is the price of those cards maximum should be around 100$ even less +-60$
The reality is around 140-160$
Thats the problem gaming perf. from 2016 shouldnt cost more than 80$ new
is this possibel yes why they didnt do this ask nvidia and amd
amd goes straight to apu in the following years. nvidia steps back from entry mid range level gpu market Last 60 class and 70 class will be rtx50 gen beyound that only high end will survive.

Just picked up a 6300 2GB today. Was kinda hoping it would be better than what it is, but it IS an upgrade from the rx 550 just not much of one.

You mean worse, right?

Thanks for the previous video…I went on steam and snatched that deal up real quick😂😂

Sick! I’ve been wanting to buy one of these just because (lmao). Thanks for this one.

Even the cut-down 6GB 3050 should comfortably see off the 6500XT.

If anybody is even remotely considering buying either of those GPUs should get their head examined. By far the worst value proposition. €80 RX580 8GB is as fast with more VRAM and easily available used cards like RTX2060/Super, RX5700XT or a new RX6600 eat them for breakfast with 70%+ more FPS for similar money. Even used GTX 1650 Super for the same price as RX580 (€80) is as fast. iGPUs like 780M offer somewhat comparable performance. Come on, why even consider those? Why?

Doggo <3

Before even watching the video, the 3050 is 70 Watts, the 6500 XT is 107 so the 3050 has already won.

Budget GPUs these days are pure ewaste outside of very specific use cases. 4GB RAM on a brand new card these days is just inexcusable. They’re one step away from display adapters with how good iGPUs have got.

3050 6gb doesn’t need a 8pin power connector, the rx 6500 xt needs one. 3050 6gb has use cases, to put in old office pc’s with proprietary power supply

i got a rx 6500xt 8bg fighter by powercolor

Rtx 4060

Both still <250 up here, and that is no budget.

more VRAM, NO EXTERNAL power required, DOUBLE the PCIE lanes. DLSS support, its RTX. why is this even a question bro

Here in Italy 6500 xt is like 150 euro, and 3050 6gb 175 ish. Both pretty terrible stuff when rx 6600 with much better performance and 8 gb of ram starts at around 190 euro

The RTX 3050 probably wins at ray tracing and DLSS performance and not much else.

In traditional rendering the Radeon RX 6500 most likely is better.

I found a Dell RTX 3050 8GB locally the other day…

Unlike the regular RTX 3050, it only takes a 6 pin PCI power cable

Does anyone have this and how does it come to the regular RTX 3050?

The 6500 xt should not be more than $100 with that kind of performance

Conclusion : get a RX 6600

I have a 3050 KalmX which I got used because it’s the most powerful passively cooled card you can get. I’d instantly switch to anything faster that I can get passively cooled out of the box. Maybe when the AMD 8500 XT or the nVidia RTX 5050 when they release (or whatever they’ll end up being called).

now do the a580 with this

Nice dog 👍

the fact the entire 3050 6gb board is using less power than the 6500XT gpu chip only is quite amazing for no pcie connector gpu’s

If you reimburse me for the card(8gb 6500xt), I’ll buy one and ship it to you.

Both are equally horrible considering one can get an 8 gig 6600 for the same price as either.

Anyone has a good link explaining (hopefully in technical terms too) the whole why the RTX 3050 performs better on PCIE 3.0 motherboards than the RX 6500 XT?

Haven’t been paying attention to pc hardware for the last 12 months or so….how on earth is the 6500xt still £150 here? Pretty sure it was the same price this time last year!

Maybe in 12 months time, we’ll hear “the PS5 Pro equivalent settings”…

got the lp 6gb 3050, good stuff

6650xt

They should never have been 6gb cards. They killed the longevity with that limited VRAM. We had 8 gb cards in 2014 so these should never have been gimped this way.

Am I hallucinating? Do the colors on the AMD side look better? I feel like the nvidia card capture has duller colors and overall looks like a smeared picture.

This is what I wanted to see

I have been noticing, it appears that Radeon GPUs produce a clearer image with sharper colors opposed to Nvidia having a rather “hazy” image. What is up with that?

Just get a 2060super for 150€ on second hand market

got a 6500 xt for testing for 56$ think i know witch is better 56 vs $175 love the vids!

They’re both terrible. 😫

This only validates how the 6500xt suck donkey butts. Maybe go a generation back to a 5600/5700xt and even that would fare better, I’m sure.

Just two display outputs on the Radeon! Unuseable crap regardless of the performance which would actually be enough for many people’s use cases.

I love you.

also DLSS

I normally buy the most high end card you can get from both sides I have a PC with a 4090 and another with 7900XTX

I recently built a new PC for my son and grabbed a RX7600 8GB and honestly it’s been a beast for our library it even runs msfs2020 on a mix of high and ultra presets and does better at that game over my wife’s 3080Ti. but in my experience AMD had better performance all around with flight simulator 2020. and I think that’s because of the Xboxes hardware and this game was tweaked to run better on the Xbox. but that’s just the theory

Here in Canada the 3050 is 250$ and RX 6600 only 15-20$ more expensive (6500xt is almost 50$ more expensive, weird).

I bought both cards on launch to test and paid pandemic prices for them. I intended to sell them when i was done but kept both, the 3050 because it was ok, and the 6500xt because i couldnt of lived with myself passing such junk on to someone else

Just scored a 3060ti for 185 and a 3070 msi x trio for 220. Used is the way to go for sure

idk if im weird but i swapped my 1060 6gb for a 3060 Ti , and im not that much impressed by performance increase lol

So amd themselves make a 6500xt 8GB version not only as rok

G’day Random & Rupert,
The Ray Tracing Chapter is why I still think there is room for GTX GPUs,
3050 should have been a 1750 & could have been cheaper because you are not paying for Diespace you are not using, plus while the prefix wouldn’t change same for 6300/6400/6500.

AFMF2 blows away any need for an Nvidia GPU at this price point. Anyone buying a 4060/4060ti over a 6700xt and up is mad.

Cex 3050 130 quid, 6500xt 70 quid.

And the answer is that the A580 is better than both those cards and is available from £156.

How would these cards run Space Marine 2?

There’s an 8GB 6500XT on Newegg made by a company called Peladn for $200 USD, I’d love to see you compare that to the 3050 6GB.

I have 4GB 6500XT that I used in a Steam OS machine that I built, but when I upgraded the GPU to a 7600XT the Holo ISO didn’t have drivers and I couldn’t get it to install the drivers on it so I put win10 on it because I wanted to see how well the 5600X3D I had just bought performed. The 5600X3D barely breaks a sweat as the 7600XT is a huge limiting factor. As soon as I get around to it I’ll get a 7700XT and see if it’s a better match.

You have to put the 6500 XT in context … when it came out, it was around 300$ CAD and the RTX 3050 was over 400$ CAD during the GPUpocalypse. In terms of Frames per dollar, the 6500 XT at the time was way more economical. In terms of performance, 6500 XT is about the same as an RX 580 in PCIe 4.0. RX 570 in PCIe 3.0. Totally playable, just not great. I do find that the Frame Generation does help the card quite a bit.

There are no bad GPUs, just bad prices. If the 6500 XT was still being made ( I think production stopped, someone can correct me ) … it should be less than 150$ CAD. RTX 3050 is still a bit pricey for what it gives you as a generational replacement for the GTX 1650.

3050 6gb doing better on a pci-e 3.0 bus, but not because it has 8 lines (in this case at least) but because it has 6 gb of VRAM. And 6500 xt only got 4. When VRAM is not fully utilized it’s all well and good. But after VRAM is full, some of the textures will be placed in the system RAM. And to get to them a card needs to use pci-e bus and that’s where things become ugly/

Sapphire also has couple 8GB models of the 6500XT. ITX PURE 8GB and PULSE 8GB

It’s more about price range! 6600 xt is more priced to the 3050

“yeah, i play all games at maximum settings 1440p. it ROCKS!!”

said every 3050 user

If both of them cost about 99 dollars not bad

the heatsink in the gigabyte card would drive me bonkers… I would not buy just because of that.

Lower wattage on the 3050 + higher fps. Easy pick.

One dog, hurray!

The PCIe x4 really is a crippling bottleneck. You can’t even use the card to upgrade older machines. What was the point??

I bought a Asrock Phantom Gaming 6500xt off FB marketplace a couple of months ago for just 50 USD. A steal for the price and good as a backup gpu/display adapter.

The rx5500 would be a good competitor in this comparison.
You can even get an 8GB version. The 6500 didn’t really improve performance.

how does a full fledged 3050 8GB compare to an intel Arc A580 ???

eyy I’m rocking this gpu in my R5 5600g build

A very interesting benchmark video. RX 6500 XT turned out disappointing, the card is in a no-man’s land. It’s too slow for a gaming card, RTX 3050 is outright better, worth the premium between these 2 cards.

Does the 3050 lp have comparable performance than the regular 3050?
I want to put it in a dell optiplex sff 7050 with a i7 7700 that i got for free to get a dirty cheap, small, power efficient and capable rig.

RandomDogsinHD

the 3050 when lowers price will be great, but tbh 6500 did great here, the ram limitation is a real error amd made here

I’m here waiting for the next gen announcement so I see a glitter of GPU lowering their prices 😂

I appreciate the information you’re giving me about.The 3.0 and 4.0 But just out of curiosity and it does make a big difference, the resizable bar, you never make a comment about that

Is it me or do the colors in RDR2 look more vibrant on Radeon?

That’s strange cards to compare. I’m looking at prices in Germany 160€ vs 195€. And even from price prospective these cards too different. 3050 6gb is most powerful desktop graphics card wo additional power cable (I know about RTX A series, but official price is somewhere in space). And 6500xt is very strange card with crazy power consumption for its performance and requires additional power cable. It was tuned a little with 8GB version.
So for me one league is 6400-A380-rtx30506gb. And another league – sub 250€ cards with additional power like 3050 8gb , 6600xt etc.

why do the colors look so much better on the 6500 xt?

9:47 “come on mate please dont do that to me”

I’m somewhat satisfied with my RTX 3050, about the most powerful card I could slot into my aging OEM-machine and it has been a substantial upgrade over GTX 1650. Of course the brand new 3DMark’s Steel Nomad was there to put me into my place, but at least older titles run pretty well now. I wouldn’t recommend the card to anyone not limited by their PSU(and no easy upgrade option in sight), but for my case it’s been good (and easy) enough.

i was wondering how these compare and couldn’t find any comparisons

a cooler demo would be the 8gb 3050 vs the 8gb rx 6500xt oem.

i kinda prefer the image quality of the 6500 xt in wukong. how is there such a difference?

I have a gtx 1660 super paired with an i5 8500 and 16gb of ram ddr4 at 2666mhz do you guys think that with this combo an rtx 3050 would be a good upgrade?

Those frame time graphs in the first RDR2 benchmark – yikes! That’s quite a difference!!

6 GB vs 4 GB could have told you without a video.

RX 6500 xt graphics look so much better

I’ve had people contantly tell me my 3060TI is “low end” so I reckon it’s all subjective, if you’ve spent as much on one part as I did buying my first car, then sure, it’s low end. 😠

Yeah there’s pretty much no-one testing the 8GB 6500 XT in any significant way. Please find one for science!

3050 6gb by miles

The 3050 6gb has it’s merrits, an entry level card with a nice and low powerdraw that can deliver a playable experience in a lot of games!
Only problem is that price, which is a big problem… at least in Denmark it’s the same price as an Intel Arc A580 which even beats the 3050 8gb in most games. But of course there are still some games and areas where the Intel Arc cards are a little broken so…

But the 3050 6gb is also very close in price to the RX 6600 which destroys it in every way imaginable… Also considering that the RX6600 only draws about 25 watts more power…

Now that you mentioned the GTX 1080, comparing these cards and other used options would be interesting to watch. I saw in the comments people recommending the 5700 XT, the 2060, and 2070 as better options

3050 6GB is on the price level of 6600 (much better card) , and 6500XT almost disappeared .

Would be interesting to see how much of a gain the 8GB variant of the 6500 XT has over the 4GB.

6500xt image looks more contrast

🙂 for cheaper poor man cards checkout R7 450 and RX 550

Dont buy these gpuz buy rx 5700xt or rx 6600 6600xt 6650xt if you like nvidia more than like 2060 super 3060 2070 super ❤

@RandomGamingHD What do u think will this rtx 3050 work in dell optiplex 3050 180w psu

ive never seen a compelling argument to get AMD over nvidia

hey Quick Question!
is RTX 3050 mobile (the 6gb version) equivalent to Desktop one??

AMD never misses a chance to miss a chance, if they made a decent 6500xt they’d have a lot more market share atleast in the budget, but here we are

With the Rx 6600 in the market for 200$ or less I don´t see the point to get these graphic cards, but if you can buy them for 100$ brandnew I think is not a bad choice.

9:50 what the dog thinks of either of these cards…🙁

😂

I think you should have included the 6600

should i upgrade my 1660ti to rx6600? would it be a worthy upgrade?

I’d like to see a comparison between the GTX 1660 Super and 3050 6GB

Why video on the left side of the screen is a bit hazy and right one has more contrast?
Thanks for the video!

*The 3050 is a great card for office machines*

Old workstation (6 core minimum preferably) plus RTX 3050 would seem like the easiest and least fussiest way for a gaming PC. Replacing the GTX1650 probably.

On a different note, I was thinking about building a budget/mid range PC and choosing between RTX3060 and RX6650xt/RX6700xt (whichever is cheaper and available at the time). I know the AMD will be better value but the Nvidia’s DLSS might be a deciding factor…

RTX 3050 8Gb starts at 30 euro more expensive than RTX 3050 6Gb and 4Gb RX 6500 XT in our country now. I think a better choice? (If you do have a GPU power connector of course)

You mean which of those gimped cards is less bad right?

Unless you only buy new, or have a low-profile computer that lacks any external PSU connector, there’s almost no reason to go for a RTX 3050 when you can buy used RTX 2070/2080 which offers up to 100% increase in performance for around the same price or slightly higher for the Super models. Even the Rx6600 can be found new for around 40 eur. more and offers a similar 100% increase in performance. In general, there’s almost no reason to get a 3050 unless that is the only GPU available for your budget.

Edit: Adjusted % increase in performance from conservative values of 20% to 100%

Amazing to see both xx50/x500 series transforming from low-mid cards to budget tier. Quite capable of running games but considering pricing and power it’s crazy how both Ngreedia and AMD made it useless to buy GPUs lower than xx60/x600 series.

6600 is not much more and a lot more powerful and not exactly a powerhawk either

If you have the case space and the pcie cable son your PSU you can get an aliexpress rx 5700 xt that has a 70 percent performance uplift and more vram. Not every office PC especially with oem PSUs will allow this but Id say its worth it if you meet the requirements

i would buy an used rx 5700xt instead of a shitty 3050 or 6500xt

Don’t also forget the RX 5500.
Remember, you did a test previously with RX 5500 compared with RX 6500XT and in some cases, the 5500 won outright (compared to the 6500XT) and the 5500 always won in PCIe 3.0 mode. So for a PCIe 3.0 system also look for the RX 5500.

It just goes to show that the combination of only having 4 PCIe lanes, a 64-bit bus and only 4GB of VRAM is still an issue for the 6500 XT… even in a Gen4 slot. You can really see that in the 1% and .1% lows in some of the tests. They do have an 8GB version, but it costs as much as an RX 6600, so it’s entirely irrelevant and the 4GB model should just be forgotten as well.

if you want to only play games go with RX6500XT
if you are also a professional who’s need all the Codec Nvidia had, go with RTX 3050

Their different is like earth and sky for adobe premiere rendering honestly. Even RTX 3050 8GB beat RX6600 in 1080p 60fps with only 20 minutes rendering, compared to RX6600 with almost 50 minutes in the same heavy workload scenario.

With these low end cards it would have been nice to see 720p same settings and Maxed out for true budget gamers that want FPS at the low end. Thanks. Did you mention that the 6500XT is truly designed for mobile laptops and such low power applications thus the 4 pci-e lanes and not like the 3050 with 8 lanes.

can you please test 5600xt? its also a pretty good budget option in used market

Weird thing I’ve noticed, the AMD GPU gives a better image. More contrast, brighter colors, is it due to GPU settings in their software, recording options, or they just process image differently?

Instant e-waste. Just get a second hand card instead.

Black Myth Wukong should be tested for medium considering it only adds 2% hit to the performance and looks ten times better

3050 best option, the performance its powerfull consider the watts and it has NVENC and DLSS, also you can use Frame generation amd

If there wasn’t a shortage happening during the 6500xt’s release I think it would’ve been a huge flop.

Gotta love the dachshund with the ball chasing apettite for the end of the video

3:11 whats with the 6500 xt frametime?

Love these types of videos, thank you.

rtx 3050 6gb is a scam card, is at same price as A580 where i live.

Unless you need a 75W card if you want RT/DX12U functionality then I’d say a used 2060 and a tube of thermal paste is the best value around this price point. More performance and a full x16 connector.

The 2gb extra VRAM on the 3050 makes it win by default if you WANT to play anything recently released…

RT isn’t really a fair comparison since the 3050 does have 2 more GBs than the 6500xt, and RT is VRAM intensive, with that being said it would be interesting to see how a 6500xt 8GB variant does against the 3050

Over here 6500 is half the price of 3050, so…

This is actually a really good way to see the effects 1 and .1% lows on smoothness of gameplay. Even though both cards were getting around 60FPS in RDR2, the 6500XT’s gameplay looked stuttery and awful.

3050 6GB is 200€ in my country. Whi8le the 6500xt and RX6600 are also both at 200€ …

neither… you should get the rx 6600 or 6600xt for the same amount

i think you should also consider the AFMF 2 tech on rx 6500xt too …. even on being driver level based frame gen AFMF 2 in many is very good and fps and latency is overall much better and feels like real fps …. it will be nice addition to benchmarks when using AMD gpus and it will be nice too know performance on different AMD gpu using AFMF 2.

3050 any day. Why? DLSS. I am using an RTX 3060 12GB for 3 years, and with native 4K (with a 55″ 4K TV), all thanks to DLSS, Performance mode DLSS is almost as good as native 4K. Almost all AAA games have DLSS and and if a game doesn’t have, chances are it’s not demanding and/or it’s 5+ years old.

Throw the flippin ball! hahaha Good Job as always 🙂

Sadly but neither card is good budget gpu 🙁 for same money RTX 2080 super can be found used.

Wild the jump between a 3050 6gb to a 3060 12gb but lack of jump from a 3060 12gb to a 3070 8gb

Nvidia you need to fix your marketing, slicing Bus size on RTX 4 series made a lot of 60 series buyers ignore the 4060

Brand new, they’re both not much bang for you buck, much cheaper on the second hand market though. I got lucky and found a 3050 6GB Kalmx for £115, RX 6500’s can be got for even cheaper as well, 3050 6GB is 75W unlike the 107W RX 6500 though, I wouldn’t compare the two in that sense.

I tried a 3050 for a few months, it’s pretty amazing how well the “low end” performs these days.

i Love my 3050 6gb i have an i7 8700 with 32 gb ddr4 and i play most cs2

I got a 6500Xt from Asus for 50€ from my town. Im Very surprised for 50€

RandomGaminginHD, This is sick!

I’d rather use an older GTX 1070 8GB than that ‘castrated’ RRTX 3050 6GB… 😅 Yeah, II know, ‘d lose a RTX support and newer drivers…

Had a 3050 from a pre built and sold it and got a 6650 xt

Stretch a little more and get a used 6600

The 6500XT is an abomination of a product. Never should have been released and it’s funny how AMD is wondering why they’re not gaining marketshare when they continue to try and scam people with these PCIEX 4x speed cards on the low end. Laughable.

I can imagine Steve doing a retro review of amiga 500 vs Atari ST and Megadrive vs Snes would be fun 😉 It would need to be all filmed on a 90s camcorder pointed at the 15″ bedroom CRT screen that most of us would have been using.

I remember when the 750, 950, and 1050 were actual great value 50 series cards. Idk what drugs Nvidia is on to make them way worse as their GPU architecture got better.

3050 even the 6gb version is a much better card than the RX 6500xt

But with the same price or even lower you can get second hand RX 6600 that have performance equal to RTX 2060

Which is definitely above 3050 even the 8gb version

the 6500 is worse, cuz it lacks encoding

But my Rx6500XT was the only card available during the shortage 😭😭😭

I had a 6500 xt but I recently upgraded to a 6750 xt

I think this is where the usage case of 3050 6GB really shines. The biggest fumble with the 6500XT is not only those lanes but the requirement of the 6-pin. Slapping the 3050 6GB into a semi-modern office PC (10th Gen and below) is a no brainer. You even get more VRAM.

Neither are great, but they performed better than expected. Just don’t cripple the 6500XT with gen 3

Used GTX 1080 solos

I had no idea the 6500xt existed somehow 😂

The best content made for people without a multi thousand dollar budget

3050 6 GB is a misunderstood card. It is the most powerful card in the world that doesn’t require external power and the closest other option is around $400.

6500xt is a really weak card tbh

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