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The GeForce RTX 3050 is a strong junior entry into Nvidia's peerless lineup of "Ampere"-powered RTX 30 Series GPUs, and this EVGA XC Black card is a corker for 1080p play at a near-budget price.
Gigabyte's take on AMD's Radeon RX 6500 XT budget GPU provides nearly rock-solid 1080p PC gaming performance in AAA and multiplayer titles, but it runs hot and packs unneeded ray-tracing cores.
AMD's midrange RDNA 2 does the job at 1080p—with newer games
SAM testing sees frame-rate gains in select titles Debut MSRP is $20 below that of Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3070 Cons Higher temperatures under stress than competing Nvidia cards Radeon reference design is underwhelming compared with Nvidia's RTX 30 Series Founders Editions Coil whine under load in our sample card The launch of AMD's new Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card ($479.99) is a bit of a rerun, but of a so-so mid-1970s cop show: a story we've seen before, in an episode we were hoping we wouldn't see again. To quote our earlier Radeon RX 6800 XT review: "This launch has been anything but smoo...
Runs quietly. Cons Could not achieve smooth frame rates consistently at 1080p and high settings on benchmarks. When the GeForce GTX 750 Ti, Nvidia's first video card based on its current "Maxwell" architecture, launched in early 2014, we were impressed more with its size and power efficiency than its performance. The tiny card was small enough to fit in many small-form-factor (SFF) cases, and its 60-watt thermal design power (TDP) rating meant that stock versions of the card wouldn't even need an external power connector, as the PCI Express slot can deliver up to 75 watts all on its own. Now...