A GeForce RTX 3050 could set you back as much as $489 according to new price chart

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 review Source: Harish Jonnalagadda / Windows Fundamental

What you need to know

The GeForce RTX 3050's diverse prices have been revealed via a review of the graphics carte.
YouTube channel Gamers Nexus spilled the beans, showing a table that displays each partner'due south pricing structure for their RTX 3050 releases.
According to the table, ASUS is willing to charge yous as much as $489 for a variant of the menu.

Which would you rather spend $500 on: An Xbox Series X or a GeForce RTX 350 graphics carte? The latter doesn't have the power to trounce out the best graphics cards, and yet somehow, it's manifestly going to be costing what those cards did in pre-pandemic times, before the mass hysteria of 2022 onward.

Every bit spotted past ever-watchful VideoCardz, an RTX 3050 review on YouTube posted past Gamers Nexus has revealed NVIDIA partners' pricing breakdowns for their diverse 3050 releases.

You can sentry the full review to see the tabular array fresh from the source and get thoughts on the RTX 3050, if yous're so inclined. Otherwise, just cheque out the still prototype below:

Rtx 3050 Msrp Source: Gamers Nexus

As that table reveals, we live in a earth where ASUS may be charging $489 for a variant of the RTX 3050. You'll find all the partners have one variant on offer at a far less contentious $249 tag, but from there, the sky'south the limit.

Why are we still here, in this skewed market? Just to suffer? Every night, we tin feel the echoes of retailer listings from 2022...

To give the situation some context, the years (shivers) of astronomical GPU cost hikes come as a result of the global chip shortage, which the U.S. authorities recently released a detailed written report on. It's worth noting some analysts predict GPU prices will stabilize by the end of 2022.

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