Digital Foundry : In an ideal world, Nvidia's RTX 3050 should be equivalent to an RTX 2060 - but with two gigs of much needed extra memory. We get the 8GB of VRAM with the new card, but performance isn't quite as good as we think it should be.
This peripheral is ghostly good.
Xenomorph, a spiritual successor from the Atari Jaguar Alien vs Predator game has been announced from developer Athena Worlds.
AvP on the Jag was pretty ambitious for the time. I always wondered what a smoother (faster) frame rate would have done for that game. nice to see a spiritual sequel is in the works after all these years.
Today, popular control peripheral manufacturer Virpil made the CDT-Aeromax flight stick available for pre-order.
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.
Good luck getting it at an entry-level price.
Stuff like this just makes me happier about my lowly 3060.. i had borderline buyers remorse when I got it at it’s pretty inflated prices but since then things have just got worse.