https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caU0RG0mNHg
Gamers Nexus video breaking down the RTX 5050 announcement, specs and pricing, with some charts showing how the 5050 fits into this generation compared to the relative price and performance distributions of prior generations. The Gamers Nexus conclusion, if this is your budget consider buying a used card from an older generation.
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Pretty much the exact conclusion I came to. At $250, it should be for nobody. Not even people looking for the bare minimum.
It kind of keeps up with a 4060 (winner of numerous “worst of…” awards), at kind of the same power, at kind of the same price, with the same VRAM.
What’s the point? Just print up some “RTX 5050” stickers and slap them on some old 4060s. Not like anyone with half a brain bought any, there should be plenty of little 4060s falling out of Jen Tsun Huang’s leather pockets by now.
There’s still absolutely no reason to buy a 50 series card since in terms of raw power it’s basically the same as its 40 series counterpart WITHOUT MFG.
Its not a 5050 its a 5030
And yet gamers will still line up to buy it. Nvidia will sure learn their lesson when people still buy their stuff!
But it’s 6000% faster than the 1050.
Comparing against used is disingenuous. Of course used is cheaper… it’s used. “Why would anyone pay $35,000 for a 2025 Camry when you can get a 2005 one for $5000?” Not everyone wants used, and someone has to pay $35,000 for a 2025 Camry for us to get a $5000 2025 in 20 years…
The comparison is perfectly fine in its own standalone video but to make the comparison with every new card would just be beating a dead horse that ‘used cards are cheaper.’ If he doesn’t put it in every new card video, that’s just propaganda as he picks and chooses which new card to make look bad compared to used.
He’s not even good at it. A used GTX 1080 Ti just sold for $115 on hardwareswap 3 days ago.
He used that headline for intel 11 series, so it’s sad there are so many bad products that he’s recycling material
It’s messed up that this will be put into prebuilds and deceive some people into thinking it’s ‘latest gen’.
I paid $250 for my 6700 in 2023. What’s the point of this thing at that price?
I’d say there was more than a 50/50 chance that NVIDIA is is just having a good laugh at this point
It’s a repackaged RTX 4060. Call it what it is…
I bet the coolers slapped on em are worth more
Ah I do love technological stagnation I wonder if they’ll make the die size even bigger for the next generation or do you think they’ll actually realise they have to do something different if they don’t want to peddle the same card but bigger every year
I hope nvidia pulls up their head from the ass soon. This is getting ridiculous.
I look forward to their actual review.
It’s literally a 4050M with a little more vram
If they found a way to make this a sub 75W card I would’ve loved it for being a successor to the 3050 6G. But they didn’t. It’s trash.
He’s just never happy 🤓