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Great bench: 78% Gigabyte(1458 40AA)
Poor bench: 68% Nvidia(10DE 2507) ≥ 4GB

Poor: 68% Great: 78%

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Best Bench: 73% Nvidia(10DE 2184) ≥ 4GB
Worst Bench: 62% Asus(1043 86BB)

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Effective 3D Speed Effective 3D Gaming GPU Speed		74.4 %	Slightly faster effective speed. +9%		68.3 %


Lighting Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	101 fps	Better lighting effects. +12%	90.3 fps
Reflection Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	87.6 fps		90.8 fps	+4%
MRender Avg. Render target array GShader (Sphere)	82.9 fps	Faster multi rendering. +29%	64.2 fps
Gravity Avg. NBody particle system (Galaxy)	72.6 fps		78.4 fps	Slightly faster NBody calculation. +8%


Lighting Locally-deformable PRT (Bat)	107 fps	Better peak lighting effects. +10%	97.1 fps
Reflection High dynamic range lighting (Teapot)	117 fps		121 fps	+3%
MRender Render target array GShader (Sphere)	86.5 fps	Faster peak multi rendering. +26%	68.5 fps
Gravity NBody particle system (Galaxy)	76.2 fps		82.7 fps	Slightly faster peak NBody calculation. +9%

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.85 %		1 %	Higher market share. +18%
Value Value For Money	72.3 %		77.5 %	Slightly better value. +7%
User Rating UBM User Rating	90 %	More popular. +18%	76 %
Price Price (score)	$244		$209	Cheaper. +14%


Age Newest	33 Months	Much more recent. +51%	68 Months
Parallax Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	98.9 fps	Better peak texture detail. +17%	84.8 fps
Splatting Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	68.3 fps		74.6 fps	Slightly faster peak complex splatting. +9%
Parallax Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones)	89.9 fps	Better texture detail. +19%	75.7 fps
Splatting Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm)	65 fps		70 fps	Slightly faster complex splatting. +8%

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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NVIDIA's GTX 1660 follows hot on the heels of last month's release of the GTX 1660 Ti. As the name would suggest, the 1660 is a slightly scaled back version of the 1660 Ti. Both feature NVIDIAs's new TU116 Turing based die, have 6GB of VRAM, are without RTX cores and have a power draw (TDP) of 120W. The main differences arise from the number of CUDA cores: the 1660 has 1408 whilst the 1660 Ti has 1536, and memory bandwidth: the 1660 can deliver 8 Gpbs using ubiquitous GDDR5 (as featured in the GTX 1060 3GB and 6GB) versus the 1660 Ti which can deliver 12 Gpbs using newer, faster and dearer GDDR6. The 1660 also features Turing NVENC which is far more efficient than CPU encoding and alleviates the need for casual streamers to use a dedicated stream PC. Early benchmarks show that the GTX 1660 has about a 20% lower effective speed than the 1660 Ti, but with an entry price of $219 USD, the 1660 is also about 20% cheaper. Further, the 1660 has a 12% effective speed advantage over the ~$230 USD 6GB 1060 and a similar real world effective speed to AMD's $265 USD RX 590. NVIDIAs strategy of offering great value Turing products at all price tiers can only be good for competition and consumers. ^{[Mar '19 GPUPro]}

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Intel Core i5-12600K $159	Nvidia RTX 4060 $280	WD Black SN850X M.2 2TB $135
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