Nvidia has been doing this for over a decade and they don't seem to plan on changing that unfortunately. The 1060 3GB, 1030 DDR4, and now the 3050 6GB are just the most recent examples
It could be seen as misleading and false advertising which would make it illegal, at least in civilized countries with good consumer laws. Not sure if anyone have tried to report them to consumer authorities in their country.
some moron whined about them using "another AMD box" for a CPU review (even though they said it in the video) was kinda ridiculous to whine about it but oh well...
How many more video cards are they going to release? I never thought I’d say this but there are far too many choices and I feel bad for the first time builders out there.
Imagine employees going through the effort to make safety data sheets, specifications, develop a production line, giving out design drawings of PCBs and making the silicon chip and send to cooler manufacturers, designing the coolers and actually producing a product with boxes foams manuals and shit, for a trash, shipping them worldwide to retailers. And nvidia had to include this card for every driver update😂 What the actual f
@@happybuggy1582 not a big deal actually. Everywhere they just search-and-replace 3060 to 3050. GPU chip is modular, nvidia can disable any number of the building blocks to downgrade as low as physically possible.
@@happybuggy1582To be fair, they already have the silicon, since the card is identical to their laptop 3050 refresh. They just needed to put it on a separate PCB.
@@nikhileshsingh8706There are no new RX480s for sale, haven't been for over 3 years. If you're factoring in inflation then you should factor in the fact you could have used a card for 7 years and saw basically no compelling reason to "upgrade" to a 3050 6GB other than power savings. And I say this having bought over 20 1030/1050s for friends and family. Pascal was their last attempt at selling anything below $400 with reasonable specs. I hate the company as a consumer, it's why I own their stock.
@@RFLCPTR A highly tuned, BIOS-modded 480/580 8GB is really going to be very close to the 3050 6GB and even outperform it in some situations, like VRAM-starved games. I mean, a regular 3050 8GB will score 18k in Fire Strike. My overclocked (1350core/2050mem), BIOS-modded RX 570 8GB scores 14.3k. It's really not a big difference and it's pretty ridiculous that both the 3050 8GB and 6GB have less memory bandwidth than an upper midrange Radeon from 2016.
Same here, this card probably meant to replace GTX 1060 and 1660. At least we get a 1650 Super on the graphs, 1660 Super still beats this 3050 6GB but at least for cheaper MSRP. I just don't understand why reviewers don't include the cards what meant to be replaced, like GTX 1060/1660 and RX 480, but include cards like RX 6400 and Intel A580. If you bought the last two card you already regret it and replaced it, but if you have a GTX 1060 or RX 480 you still not gonna replace it with 3050. Almost 8 years passed these two GPU manufacturer just refuse to deliver better price/performance/watt cards than the last generation. There are tons of used RX 6600 on the market, originally bought for mining but they only run 6-8 months, they pretty good deal and only cost 60% of a new card price.
@@DragonOfTheMortalKombatOh really?: Adrenalin 24.1.1 (WHQL Recommended) File Size 629 MB Release Date 1/23/2024 RX 580 is not even in the Legacy section.
@@Hardwareunboxed When you do =) , why not make a proper comparison with maybe only one card with external power (like that RX 6600) for comparison and ALL the other cards come with that same limitation?!? It's a niche but for some people it is relevant. With only 75 W available your simply limited to really "interesting" option like a usd GTX 1650 or 1050 Ti, the new ARC 380 without the extra plug, the ARC 310, the RX 6400 .. maybe the RTX A2000 (which kinda is the RTX 3050 6 GB). Some people are hungry for this "best solution in price/ performance" when the system is limited to "PCIE slot power only (75W)". Because it enables an upgrade to all those cheap office OEM PCs out there! Right up to pair it with an Ryzen 2200/ 2400 in an older office PC.
@@virtual-adam yeah what an amazing upgrade, these people are still rocking the 1650 because they're broke, it's not a new purchase, it's been in their rig for awhile
@@virtual-adamthe problem is the price , the standard 3050 was too expensive for its price and this 6gb version even if cheaper is also too expensive for its price . If you have a 1650 and you are looking for an upgrade, it's infinitely better to buy a used 2060 super or a new 6600 for 10$ more than the 3050 6gb
so they made a modern "GT 1030" but call it "GTX 1050TI" gotcha... should be illegal to call them the same when they are nowhere near the same... it should be called 3030... since it is basically just a new 1030...
3040, it outperforms the 1650, it's more like a 1660 and it does have RT and DLSS. If it was $40 cheaper and called 3040, it would be a compelling card. Especially the low profile version, the fact it's so compact and runs on board power means it can be put in any office prebuilt and you can get reasonable performance. No bad cards, just bad names and bad prices.
@@user-ej9nl1ng9dhow do you do that? Just set the wattage and unplug the power cable and "it just works"? Thanks in advance, I have an RTX A2000 but I may try this! The A2000 sells for more than what a 4060 would cost me, so if I can do that you best believe I will. Edit: did an extensive search, people said that it would not work online. Haven't ever tried it, but I am not convinced it'll work until I see it. If it does though, that would really change things.
Wait you can't just unplug the power cable since graphics cards can actually detect the presence of 6 or 8 pin power cables, iirc I tried plugging a 3060 with just 1 of the 2 8 pin cables (yes it's a Colorful 3 fan model with 2x instead of the usual 1x 8 pin) and my PC just blanked. My old Zotac 1060 gave warnings when I forgot the power plug and the PC didn't boot.
@@user-ej9nl1ng9dThey have GPUs like that already. RTX A2000 uses the 3060 chip and runs at 75W, there's a new RTX A2000 Ada that came out recently, it shares the same name confusingly but it uses the Ada lovelace chip and is significantly more powerful, still running on just 75W. The A4000 also exists, and I believe that one got an Ada lovelace revision as well, and that ones perfotmance is mind boggling considering the 75W limitation. I have an RTXA2000 the 3060 version, it runs games exceedingly well, it's just expensive and has limited supply. I only have one bc I managed to find one locally for an exceptionally good deal: $200 and it was only ever used in a office PC. I put it in a cheap prebuilt I got for $100 that has an intel 10400, and for the price of a series S I have a surprisingly capable PC that can run just about any game on the market at 60 fps and decent settings/resolution. I'd love to get my hands on the other 75W GPUs, but they're hard to come by, or absurdly expensive. It's insanely impressive to measure the wattage/performance ratio on them.
Low profile and pcie slot powered is a good thing. I wish we had more options in this niche segment. It will fit in a 2u server chassis, and it can bring lots of prebuilt office pcs back to life.
Is it? Any GFX with a decent heatsink, can be modded to loose any fan noise. Just print a duct and use better fans. But coil whine, well, it remains the key source of noise in all my builds. All of them. Fan noise is solved by now. As long as you got the know how, and know how to print a simple piece of plastic. For reference, I got a single RTX3060 that does not whine. I've been through about 30 cards by now, every other card whines. I only got a single silent card. For all the others, vrm and coil whine, is the main source of noise, and it it quite irritating in nature. That being said, if the Palit one has no coil whine, it sure will be great to duct for silent and cool operation. No need for a chip cooker inside of my builds. It does require a fan, at that TDP. For reference the fan hardly need to spin, so you will not hear it. Chances are, that you will get a ton of coil whine, simply dwarfing any fan. Love to be proven wrong. Palit surly should send me one, as I would mod it in a day, and praise it into the sky, if it only does not whine. Which it probably do.
because Nvidia sells them GPU + ddr6 bundles for far more.AIB don't make much on GPU unless they go super premium which then don't sell.They are trapped by nvidia, that's why evga is no more. Evga wanted to be decent and they just couldn't, you have to play the scummy games with nvidia@@arenzricodexd4409
If I cannot buy a better card for more money, I buy nothing. I'm sure I can use that money for something better if I'm that poor. It is always a waste of money.
@@krizztykrab2297 96 bit bus with 3 gb memory modules aka 9gb vram is cheaper that 128bit memory bus with 2 gb of memory modules aka 8gb of vram... So because 96bit bus is cheaper... that is what we will get! 🤣
I think that the real marketing error that was done here is that for whatever reason NVIDIA did not mentioned the biggest advantage of this card (and only one ?) - it does not require additional power connector and it "can game". This makes this card a unique thing on the market. This is ideal for upgrading older PC (like office Dell Optiplex etc), or if you are making tiny ITX build, with this card you can get away with external pico laptop power adapter since GPU will not need additional power plug. Despite being slow & overpriced it still has a use case. I mean yeah, technically RTX A2000 & A4000 are faster and also do not use more power but those cards do cost as much as entire PC. Also, RTX 3050 6G - there is no reason to buy regular size card, only LP cards do matter here.
Pretty much; it's meant to replace the 1650 which came out what, 5-6 years ago? It's still not good enough as an upgrade though; 8/128 in a 75W window should have been possible by now (but that would have stepped on the toes of the 4060 8GB and Nvidia can't have that).
I have an unraid server and currently using a 1630 gtx (no power-pin version). This is a good replacement for me. It is a bit more expensive than what I expected though.
@@thetechrealist In the middle of the crypto boom, when people were having problems getting ANYTHING to attach a monitor to (remember, AMD didn't have integrated graphics at that time) AMD took their low-end laptop dedicated GPUs and stuck them on boards and called it a day. They are products that made sense in that specific context, but today have no place in the market.
@@thetechrealist the 6500/6400 family are by no means great, but even the 6500 xt 8gb still beats out the 3050 6gb while having more ram and lower prices, the 4gb has even lower prices, and the 6400 is just not even in the same bracket its more like a video adapter. but again, not great cards, nobody liked them. and even then they perform better at lower prices (6500 8gb) and everyone hated them, so why like the 3050?
Minor correction/contention/elaboration: most new RTX 3050 8GBs use GA107 silicon. The full GA107 chip has 2560 CUDA cores, 80 TMUs, and 32ROPs, which is the exact spec of the RTX 3050 8GB. Nvidia prioritises supply for their RTX 3050 refresh laptop GPUs, which also use the full GA107 chip, but surplus GA107s and those which don't meet laptop efficiency requirements but still have all cores working, are used for desktop RTX 3050 8GBs. GA106 was used for the first production run of RTX 3050 8GBs because GA107 wasn't available at the time, but over the next few months, most RTX 3050 8GB cards switched to using GA107 because it's cheaper to manufacture and usually a bit more efficient. Some new RTX 3050 8GBs still use cut-down GA106, because some GA106 chips still don't have enough working cores or don't meet the efficiency ratings necessary to be an RTX 3060 or RTX A2000, but this is relatively rare and only done when necessary, similar to how RTX 2060 "KO" GPUs used TU104 chips with a large number of defective cores instead of TU106.
@@zodwraith5745 Gigabyte LP version is 60 euros over msi's ventus x2 oc or gigabyte's own eagle OC where I am. But it's only 40 euros cheaper than rx 6400 lp
You're right about upgrading a "work station" type PC with non-powered cards. That's the only time I personally did it, with my first PC (AMD Sempron 3000/512mb ram). I don't remember what card I bought, but going from integrated gpu to a discrete gpu was night and day. I could play San Andreas and HL2 at a decent framerate with resolution better than 640x800 and I loved every moment of it. I'm sure some kid out there will get a lot of use out of this card.
Should’ve also included a GTX 1070 to show how slow that card really is. I think people upgrading from the 10 series would be able to better understand where they stack up to these modern budget gpus
I do have a couple of repurposed DELL PCs one has a 1050 ti, the other nothing, a couple of these are not a bad idea, I will get at least one for my Moms PC for sure, naming aside the specs are public and that is all that matters. Repurposed dell workstation can be purchased for 70 USD and they are fully functional is a great value.
This is interesting, I would like to see the performance of this card vs the RTX a2000. That card has 12GB VRAM and also runs exclusively off of PCie power. I feel like the a2000 would beat the 3050 6GB you are reviewing. I remember Dawid doing a video on it and the a2000 was able to go blow for blow with a 4060 that had the benefit of the power cord. Only mentioning because if someone was limited by the power draw being from the board then the a2000 should perform better than the card being reviewed here. The only issue is cost because an a2k is like $400+ USD used.
There is a part of me that is thinking that they only released this product so that they can compare to this 3050 on slides in the future instead of the real one.
You know what this video really makes me wish for? Some AIB or a Chinese manufacturer just BIOS modding the RX 6600(m), power limiting to 70W and selling it as its own thing, not requiring a PCIe connector. I feel like there's a market for it for sure.
@@deanchur They made a 75W workstation variant of the RX 7600 (Radeon Pro W7500) that's cut down so it runs off slot power but I guess it hasn't been worth make a non-professional cheap consumer version of it.
@@GewelRealThe expression is hotcakes. Hotcakes are pancakes. Hot cakes wouldn't sell because the frosting would melt. That's why you let them cool before frosting.
Why is the RX 6600 listed as $200? I bought mine for $170 from Newegg between Christmas and New Year’s. I keep seeing listings for between $175 to $210. Average is $185 not $200.
It's wild to me seeing the GTX 1650 4GB and RX 5500XT 8GB both so close to each other, and sometimes higher than newer cards. Am I crazy for thinking any 30 series card should be faster than any 10 series (or 16 series if you want) except for maybe the flagship (1080) vs the budget (3050) models? I DEFINITELY can't accept a 3050 6GB being on the same chart as a 1650 4GB, but when that 3050 is lower than another 50 class from 2 generations back and with 2/3rd the V-RAM you can't convince me that's okay.
@@arenzricodexd4409 Nobody gives a shit about the 75W TGP. Nothing about this GPU is even remotely good. It's beyond a joke and is probably even worse than the 4060 Ti 8 GB. I am sure that most gamers have had enough of Nvidia releasing laughably terrible GPUs for the entry level and midrange segments.
@@Gamer-q7vexcept there is sizeable market for this kind of GPU. it is the reason why nvidia willing to tweak 3050 8GB spec so it can fit within 75w. In some place used 1650 are being sold at $170 the same as brand new 3050 6GB. Joke as it is not everyone willing to build DIY PC. just get some used optilex and drop in one of this 75w gpu. Then they have something decent for themselves.
It's nice to see low/mid tier GPUs getting coverage. Some content creators get caught in the echo chamber of the very high end products and forget that most of us aren't buying that.
@@TheHeArTStRiKe What? Such a great card for my use case. I need a GPU for my second PC for video content with RTX features + 2x HDMI 2.1. It's just 200-220€ at my local store, so I might actually get it. VRAM is more than enough and warranty when buying a new product. Low power, low profile model, 2x HDMI, cheap + Tensor cores, yes please. Actually one of the best GPU releases for me who have 4080S for gaming, but only needs low power GPU for video content for 2x 4k TV.
@@Monsux RTX features? Good luck trying to play at 2 FPS with RT enabled. Tensor cores are irrelevant for this product, it doesn't have enough VRAM to use any decent AI model. SDXL uses 16GB at a minimum, SD uses 8GB+. You might be able to get away with really shitty low res renders. There are hundreds of better value low power options for watching video content.
@@giglioflex How to tell that you didn't even read my comment… I was commenting RTX video features that come with Tensor core's, like AI video upscaler/enhancer and AI HDR for SDR content. Great for streams, lower bitrate videos, and it also supports enhancing feature when using the same resolution as the display. I use it daily on my 4080 Super and 2070 Super on my server. Going to build a new tiny video server/home theater build for videos and needs 2 x HDMI 2.1. This is by far the cheapest GPU that can do all of that + more. Way better than my 2070 Super. You can easily play some esports and old gen games with this, but the main feature is the low power, slim, outputs, Tensor cores, and no need for extra power cables. You are so clueless what this cheap card can do. It actually saves me a lot of money + allows tiny build without extra cooling.
They want to maximize margins and the name allows OEMs to scam customers by selling them a "3050" but at a lower cost to the OEM. It's extremely scummy but Nviida have been doing this for awhile.
It might be a very niche topic, but I'd be heavily interested in a video about TDP-limiting various GPUs and how it affects their performance scaling. Nvidia sells some rather intriguing 70W-limited professional cards like the RTX 2000 Ada & 4000 SFF - but those cost an arm and a leg ofc. Using some 12GB+ cards and limiting their TDP in comparison to the prof. variants' pricing would make for a very interesting topic to explore imo.
Bound to happen with a newly released product. It's hilarious how many shady retailers still think they can scalp GPUs no matter how bad they are, as long as they're new.
It's crazy how reviewers underestimate the used OEM market, they are perfect option if you tight on budget, or just don't know what will be your next step, you wanna play games or not. Somehow kids and those who pirate games (often overlaps these groups) are never counted, they don't show up on statistics or I don't know whats the deal. When I started to use PC again after a long time of laptop usage I bought a used dell 7010, 3rd gen i5 system, popped in a new 1050Ti and started gaming. Slowly replaced all the components in the system, but I would never spend on the first place double or tripple the price of the original system. It taught me to trust better in the used market.
@@sviktor4It's crazy how the OEM market advocates are ready to pay way too much for a GPU that costs next to nothing to manufacture. Funny also how that they forget to mention that the 8700G, 7840U and 8840U exist and fit the small form factor and low power usage market even better.
Have seen a few used A2000s for ~€170 and think I'll still go for that. Price/performance works out a little better and I don't have to give money to nVidia 🥳
@@kathleendelcourt8136 Those who buy OEM systems are uninformed and have some level of trust issues with the used market, they just wanna save some money. An average working guy who spends a little time on research, or a college suggest some config is good enough to buy a system. People use these systems in the office they know they can trust a 3-4 years old OEM PC, but it's has limitations so they buy a new LP graphics card, because they don't know and trust the used market, both the used OEM PC and the new GPU came with warrianty. In 2017 when I bought a PC after a long time of laptop usage I set a limit of 100.000 HUF. 60.000 HUF for a Dell 7010 system and 37.000 HUF for a brand knew 1050Ti LP. The next year or two I slowly replaced the whole system with stronger components, but I had to start my jouney somewhere. An other point to consider you can buy dirt cheap OEM PC from your company, so you have lot more money for "stupid" GPU. My friend sent me a list what's worth buying, and all thesystem were dirt cheap, just the CPU alone worth more then the whole system in the used market.
Of all the potential shortfalls of the card, one thing stood out to me. The card can't stand on its own. How are you supposed to display it on the shelf if it can't even do that?
They did this before with GTX 1630... This is the very bottom of their last gen stack, there's no universe where this shouldn't be a 10/20/30 class and cost at most $100... but yay price _and_ name inflation, screw nGreedia.
Nvidia literally going for a cash grab for people who know little about graphic cards and computer peripherals and trying to scam them by selling an inferior product that is BOTTOM OF THE BARREL with "more" memory. Quite an introduction these folks will have to Nvidia, shame as they have some good GPUs from the current generation that can be sold cheaper.
This card is much better than the RX 6400 if you're looking for a card that doesn't need external power. I guess once they come out with the SFF model that's what poor gamers like me will use in old business PCs. Budget business gaming FTW!
There is another niche use case for this card and it's that it can be passively cooled. There is a passively cooled version sold by Palit, following their 1650 and 1050 Ti passively cooled cards.
Better performing card for a lower price than I expected from Nvidia. Miles better than what you get from the 6400 and 6500xt overall all things considered (adding it to an sff system or an old probably pcie 3.0 prebuilt, where it makes most sense to me). Still, pity they didn't do a 4050 instead, that would likely be a notable step up given how the 4000 series is more efficient.
More for updating a business pc, or a home theater build; but it is NOT a gaming GPU. To determine its place in history, compare it to its actual predecessor: the 1650 (non-super) with the same power limit. That would show steady improvement from the 1050/1650/3050 over time. Comparing it by price to pandemic cards is sort of useless; and the Radeon card was limited by TDP of just 53 W. As your prior video demonstrated, vram matters; so constantly slamming the 6400 for not competing with a 75W card with half again the vram ? Just say they aren't equivalent and leave it. Even the 6500xt had twice the TDP of that card. Oh, and you get big bonus points for NOT including crap like the 1030 or 710 that seemed to be pandemic best sellers. You'd only buy one of the low power cards for a very small system, or to upgrade a system with just an IGP and worthless power supply. Any discussion of value, then, probably needs to include upgrading the power supply for anything more powerful, that fits in the case ----- which is almost your entire list of cards . I paid almost a hundred US to upgrade the pitiful 180w ps in a desktop HP was selling (it was, however, really really cheap, and a storm blew out my previous system -- and the TV, the microwave, some light bulbs. . . . I needed cheap!)
Steve gets riled up because he thinks "3050" is the name when "3050 GB" or GV-N3050EAGLE OC-6GD" is the actual name of the product. He did the same thing with the GT 1030 DDR4 and 5700 where he cried that the 5700 is a 5700G without the graphics (when the G designation is literally... graphics). Once he realizes he doesn't like the "name", he does whatever possible to make the product look as bad as possible. "Outrage drives clicks and clicks drive revenue."
@@tim3172he's right in that if you look at the listing on Amazon or Newegg, the sku or product number isn't what the non-savvy person will be aware of; but he also ought to be used to it by now. Somebodies' Grandma is going to get the wrong stocking stuffer. But expecting NVidia to care? Steve will give himself a stroke.
Remember how they had planned two 4080s? The only naming difference was the gigabytes even though everything was different. There was a huge backlash and they learned their lesson and changed the names. I cant believe they're doing it again. Unreal.
I want to see idle power consumption and encoding consumption. And the wattage of 2-4 monitors. This isnt a gamer card. This is a media card and should be treated as such.
It's too powerful to be a media card (compared to the horrible rx 6400 + it doesn't sell with a single slot version) Why don't you take a look at the intel arc a310 which is $100 & single slot?
@@thetechrealistrx6400 cant encode. 3050 basically has a full feature set and proven driver from nvidia. Sure you can go with intel, but I am sure not everyone can 100% calmly sleep with this driver support, at least I wouldnt want to now. In 3 generations? sure.
@@Skukkix23 Lol, Intel is too big to just give up on the graphics card market. But, if it's worth your piece of mind I guess the 3050 is better. Oh, & to halfway answer your question, the idle power draw should be around 10w or less. Given that the GTX 1050/ti idle power is 4w (source-techpowerup)
@@thetechrealistWhat's it with 3 monitors? During video playback? During encoding? Are multiple encoding streams a thing (unofficially anyways?) Can I remove the fans if I just use it as a displaycard on 4 monitors? Noone cares if this thing runs fortnite.
Would have been nice to see the Intel Arc A380 and A310 benchmarked in there. The RTX 3050 6GB might make sense as a 2nd GPU to give yourself AV1, but how much slack can it pickup if you dump another work load on it vs a A380 or A310 I wonder.
@@inGameweTrusted Less power consumption when it's idle, i guess RX 6500xt would be good for gaming and productivity. I thought Arc A580 would be good for futureproofing. Is RX 6500xt good?
When were the 50 class cards ever lower than 100 USD? I looked at the MSRPs for a bunch of them and the lowest I could find were the 650 and 1050 at $110. That's not even accounting for inflation either.
I'd be ok with them labeling this a 3030, particularly if it comes in slim version for those half-width old office PC's that are all over the refurbished market
So remembering the RTX 3060 8GB too, I'd name them like so. RTX 3050ti - (RTX 3060 8GB) RTX 3050 - (RTX 3050 8GB) RTX 3030 - (RTX 3050 6GB) The reason I'd pick 3030 instead of 3040, is there have been several XX30 class GPUs that have been small, basic, cheap GPUs, so we can all understand what Nvidia is actually selling, see 730, 1030, 1630. I don't know if a XX40 class has ever existed.
Not a bad product for a new board without external power requirements. Nice option to convert an office PC to a low end gamer using new part without resorting to funky DYI power setups that can easily damage Vid card/PC. I agree naming can be misleading, but at least it generally gives 60fps for current games.
I'd love to see a head to head comparison of GPUs that don't require additional PCIe power so for Nvidia cards still getting driver updates it would be the 3050 6GB, 1650 (non-super), 1050 Ti/1050, there's a 950 75W (GTX 950 Low Power) then 750 Ti/750, for AMD including OEM cards and cards with limited driver support to include Polaris there's the 6400 & 460/560/640 with the only Intel Arc option being the A310. For CPU to pair with them, perhaps a 10th gen Intel or AM4 Ryzen on a 400 series board (Z470 for Intel, B450/X470 for AMD) to be limited to PCIe 3.0.
Such a great card for my use case. I need GPU for my second PC for video content with RTX features + 2x HDMI 2.1. It's just 200€ at my local store, so I might actually get it. VRAM is more than enough and warranty when buying a new product. Low power, low profile model, 2x HDMI, cheap + Tensor cores, yes please.
It’s not meant for heavy gaming. You can run it on external power which is good for light games and someone dipping their toes into the space or needing it for other reasons.
Can you make a top 10 GPU list which don't need external power? That would be nice. How does the AMD W7500 compare to these cards?I'm asking bevause my plex server can fit low profile gpu's or a full height single slot GPU and I want to have it pretty power efficent.
The AMD Pro W7500 is 16-18% faster than the rtx 3050 6gb (source-techpowerup) I think the Intel Arc a310 is the most efficient brand new/ cheap gpu right now, it's only 40w max/ $100/ single slot, while the rx 6400 is 53w max/ single slot/ around $150
