The problem with this GPU is the market and as a result the price. It’s not bad by any means, however, the market has killed off any chance of this being in the conversation of “the performance is decent, but the value is amazing”. Instead we have “this thing is okay at best thanks to RT and DLSS, but has nearly no value because of its price”.
It was never going to be a 2060 with more RAM, that would be a 3050 Ti. The performance clearly put it on par with the 1660s / 1660 ti / 1070 GPUs which by now should have become the new performance replacement tier for the $100 – $150 range of used GPUs (the like RX 570 / RX 580 / GTX 1060) were just a couple years ago. But the market is trash, the used market is trash, and as a result each GPU gets released at a ridiculous price that would have been laughed at two years ago.
In a healthy market this GPU would be around $159 which would make it an amazing value GPU. However, it has a MSRP of $249 which drastically hurts it’s value, but even more insane is that it’s not selling at retail, it’s selling at over $400 in many places, when the 3060 and 6600XT are also in the price range, making the 3050 a complete pass.
