What do you do as a PC gamer who is looking for a good-value budget graphics card? In these times of ever spiking component pricing that's not an easy question to answer, especially when the current generation of GPUs haven't really moved the needle on in terms of performance at the bottom end of the market. But the RTX 5050 is probably the reluctant answer I would give to anyone aiming to buy the best budget graphics card right now.
Nvidia's RTX 5050 is the lowest-spec RTX Blackwell GPU in this generation, using a smaller GPU than the last-gen RTX 4060, but also higher clocks and more cache to make up the difference. It's nominally $50 cheaper than the older card launched at, and effectively performs at a similar level. Which I guess is progress of sorts.
But the reality is this remains a near $300 card right now, and if anyone out there was looking for an upgrade to their old RTX 4060 card, they're going to have to look a lot higher up the stac...
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