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Effective Speed 
+539%
Real World Speed
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Best Bench: 14% Sapphire(174B E214) 1GB
Worst Bench: 9% Gigabyte(1458 2282) 2GB
Poor: 9% Great: 14%
SPEED RANK: 277th / 713
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Great bench: 78% Gigabyte(1458 40AA)
Poor bench: 68% Nvidia(10DE 2507) ≥ 4GB
Poor: 68% Great: 78%
SPEED RANK: 98th / 713
Effective 3D Speed
Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed 		11.6 % 74.4 % Hugely faster effective speed.
+539%
Average Score 
+465%
Lighting
Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 		14.5 fps 101 fps Hugely better lighting effects.
+597%
Reflection
Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 		17.4 fps 87.6 fps Hugely better reflection handling.
+403%
MRender
Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere) 		13.6 fps 82.9 fps Hugely faster multi rendering.
+510%
Gravity
Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy) 		16.1 fps 72.6 fps Hugely faster NBody calculation.
+351%
Overclocked Score 
+428%
Lighting
Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 		17.4 fps 107 fps Hugely better peak lighting effects.
+515%
Reflection
High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 		20.9 fps 117 fps Hugely better peak reflection handling.
+460%
MRender
Render target array GShader (Sphere) 		15.8 fps 86.5 fps Hugely faster peak multi rendering.
+447%
Gravity
NBody particle system (Galaxy) 		19.6 fps 76.2 fps Hugely faster peak NBody calculation.
+289%
Value & Sentiment 
+∞%
Market Share
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Market Share
Market Share (trailing 30 days) 		0 % 0.72 % Insanely higher market share.
+∞%
User Rating
UBM User Rating 		52 % 90 % Much more popular.
+73%
Nice To Haves 
+292%
Age
Newest 		126+ Months 33 Months Much more recent.
+74%
Parallax
Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 		26.1 fps 98.9 fps Hugely better peak texture detail.
+279%
Splatting
Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 		14.3 fps 68.3 fps Hugely faster peak complex splatting.
+378%
Parallax
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 		22.1 fps 89.9 fps Hugely better texture detail.
+307%
Splatting
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 		12.4 fps 65 fps Hugely faster complex splatting.
+424%
Conclusion 
Average Bench 11.6%
Average Bench 74.4%

It's hard to say what exactly I dislike about the card. It just gave be a bad vibe from day 1 when it arrived as a replacement for my DOA 7770. It's performance has always felt poor, sure it runs more modern games at higher framerates than the intel HD graphics I had to compare it to, but it never felt like it was working very efficiently. It leaves horizontal lines on the screen reminiscent of VHS fuzz just in the desktop and I've even experienced the occasional black screen when waking up from sleep mode. I suspect mine is a 1GB model and that the 2GB model is more reliable, but the fact that the two aren't easily distinguishable is yet another reason to avoid buying it IMO. Overall I would strongly recommend *not* buying this card even in a pinch. [Nov '19 AgentOranJ]

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The RTX 3050 is built on NVIDIA’s Ampere architecture. It marks the first time that ray-tracing has been available on an entry level (50-series) card. Second generation ray tracing cores can be switched on for more realistic light simulation, albeit at a hit to performance. The 3050 features 2560 CUDA cores, a boost clock frequency of 1.78 GHz, 8 GB of the latest GDDR6 memory and NVIDIA’s DLSS. DLSS technology uses the 3050’s tensor cores to scale up resolutions whilst maintaining high frame rates and without losing significant image quality. The 3050 also includes an encoder (NVENC) for sharper images and smoother capture whilst recording/streaming. The MRSP of entry models is $249 USD, however, street prices are closer to $600 USD. Early benchmarks show that the 3050 only headlines around 50% faster than AMD's 6500 XT whilst street prices for the 3050 are over 100% higher. Many experienced users simply have no interest in buying AMD cards, regardless of price. AMD’s neanderthal marketing tactics seem to have come back to haunt them. Their brazen domination of social media platforms including youtube and reddit resulted in millions of users purchasing sub standard products. Experienced gamers know all too well that high average fps are worthless when they are accompanied with stutters, random crashes, excessive noise and a limited feature set. [Jan '22 GPUPro]

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