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Best Bench: 79% MSI(1462 C979)
Worst Bench: 69% Nvidia(10DE 2507) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 69% Great: 79%

SPEED RANK: 98^th / 714

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Best Bench: 209% Sapphire(1DA2 440E) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 177% Sapphire(1DA2 440E) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 177% Great: 209%

SPEED RANK: 14^th / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		74.8 %			195 %	Hugely faster effective speed. +161%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	102 fps	244 fps	Hugely better lighting effects. +139%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	86.9 fps	250 fps	Hugely better reflection handling. +188%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	83.3 fps	403 fps	Hugely faster multi rendering. +384%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	72.2 fps	212 fps	Hugely faster NBody calculation. +194%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	107 fps	270 fps	Hugely better peak lighting effects. +152%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	115 fps	265 fps	Hugely better peak reflection handling. +130%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	86.5 fps	429 fps	Hugely faster peak multi rendering. +396%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	75.7 fps	224 fps	Hugely faster peak NBody calculation. +196%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.63 %	Hugely higher market share. +385%	0.13 %
Value Value For Money	64.6 %	Much better value. +39%	46.3 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	90 %	Much more popular. +50%	60 %
Price Price (score)	$274	Much cheaper. +73%	$1,000


Age Newest	26 Months	Much more recent. +35%	40 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	98.6 fps		586 fps	Hugely better peak texture detail. +494%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	67.9 fps		354 fps	Hugely faster peak complex splatting. +421%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	89.2 fps		519 fps	Hugely better texture detail. +482%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	64.5 fps		333 fps	Hugely faster complex splatting. +416%

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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The RX 6900-XT assumes the flagship position in AMD’s latest RX 6000 series of GPUs which deliver a huge generational jump in performance. The $1,000 USD 6900-XT offers a small improvement (11% more compute units) over the already launched $650 USD RX 6800-XT. AMD have upgraded the single fan cooler to a more efficient triple fan solution, perhaps indicating a shift in focus from benchmark busting headlines to user experience. Following the widespread issues that users faced with the 5000 and Vega series, we are cautiously optimistic that AMD have taken steps to ensure driver and hardware stability. Given the value for money now offered by both Nvidia and AMD, with the 3070 and 6800-XT, it is difficult to recommend any thousand dollar graphics cards to most gamers. 16GB of VRAM is a key feature of the 6900-XT. At higher resolutions and detail settings, performance can bottleneck without sufficient GPU memory. AMD's marketers often cherry pick obscure games with high res/settings, the details of which are rarely disclosed, then compare the results with cards that have less memory. In that scenario, the cards with less memory look weaker than they would at 1080p. The 1080p results are sometimes omitted, or worse, partially omitted and frame drops are conveniently ignored. Most users will see little benefit in gaming at high resolutions. Without drastic price cuts (MSRP $1000 USD) and miraculous marketing via countless promo videos and sponsored reviews, the 6900 XT will struggle to compete, partly because it lacks RTX+DLSS which is required for the best gaming experience in class leading titles such as Cyberpunk 2077. Users should be wary of AMD’s army of social media accounts, they aim to dupe shoppers any way they can. ^{[Dec '20 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $124	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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