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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: 106% AMD(1002 081E)
Worst Bench: 91% AMD(1002 081E)

Poor: 91% Great: 106%

SPEED RANK: 62^nd / 714


Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		74.8 %			101 %	Much faster effective speed. +35%


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	102 fps	131 fps	Better lighting effects. +28%
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	86.9 fps	112 fps	Better reflection handling. +29%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	83.3 fps	104 fps	Faster multi rendering. +25%
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	72.2 fps	153 fps	Hugely faster NBody calculation. +112%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	107 fps	140 fps	Much better peak lighting effects. +31%
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	115 fps	123 fps	Slightly better peak reflection handling. +7%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	86.5 fps	108 fps	Faster peak multi rendering. +25%
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	75.7 fps	161 fps	Hugely faster peak NBody calculation. +113%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.63 %	Insanely higher market share. +6,200%	0.01 %
Value Value For Money	64.6 %	Hugely better value. +128%	28.4 %
User Rating UBM User Rating	90 %	Much more popular. +53%	59 %
Price Price (score)	$274	Much cheaper. +67%	$841


Age Newest	26 Months	Much more recent. +58%	62 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	98.6 fps		230 fps	Hugely better peak texture detail. +133%
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	67.9 fps		85.6 fps	Faster peak complex splatting. +26%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	89.2 fps		209 fps	Hugely better texture detail. +134%
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	64.5 fps		84.1 fps	Much faster complex splatting. +30%

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 widely anticipated (albeit currently not widely available) prosumer AMD Radeon VII is finally available. It features a next generation Vega 20 GPU which is based on a 7nm manufacturing process, compared to 14nm in the first generation flagship: the RX Vega 64. The Radeon VII has a massive 16GB of expensive high-bandwidth memory (HBM2) which offers a decent degree of future proofing and also makes it a good choice for memory hungry applications, however most current games do not require more than the 8GB that comes with both NVIDIA's RTX 2080 and AMD’s RX Vega 64. The Radeon VII has fewer cores than the RX Vega 64 (3840 vs 4096) but clock speeds have been boosted up to 1800 MHz compared to 1546 MHz in the RX Vega 64, the net result is 13.8 TFLOPS single precision computations (versus 13.4 TFLOPS for the RX Vega 64). On the negative side, the Radeon VII is designed with three cooling fans which can get noisy and early software drivers are reported to be buggy. Whilst there is a modest 16% performance advantage over the RX Vega 64, initial benchmarks indicate that the Radeon VII has an effective speed which is 6% short of the similarly priced RTX 2080. ^{[Feb '19 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $300	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $177	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $45	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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