Nvidia Geforce RTX 3050

PROS

• Great 1080p gaming with high visual settings. • 8GB of GDDR6 RAM.

• Cool and quiet.

CONS

• $100 more than last generation’s xx50-class card. • No frills on EVGA XC Black model tested.

BOTTOM LINE

Nvidia’s Geforce RTX 3050 delivers great 1080p gaming performance with modern features, including capable ray-tracing chops and DLSS. It has plenty of memory and doesn’t make any unusual technical compromises, unlike AMD’S rival Radeon RX 6500 XT, but that potentially makes it a target for GPU miners—which could mean bad things for price and availability.

$250