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Two-minute review The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 arrives at the perfect time – maybe even a little late – as the best graphics cards keep getting more and more expensive. And because GPUs keep selling out even the few that are reasonably priced haven’t exactly been worth the price tag – just look at the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT .  However, with the RTX 3050, you’re not getting much lower performance than the next up Nvidia’s lineup, the RTX 3060. The RTX 3050 has no problem hitting 60 fps in any 1080p game you throw at it, though it might start to struggle in the most demanding games of the generation – think Cyberpunk 2077. While that all sounds good, it’s hard to ignore how much prices have changed generation-on-generation. While a price tag of AED 1,129 might not seem high when you’re used to seeing graphics cards at AED 3,000 or more these days, it’s still significantly more expensive than xx50 cards of the past. For instance, the GTX 1050 Ti launched at $139, and the GTX 1650 ...

Two-minute review The Nvidia GeForce RTX 3050 arrives at the perfect time – maybe even a little late – as the best graphics cards keep getting more and more expensive. And because GPUs keep selling out even the few that are reasonably priced haven’t exactly been worth the price tag – just look at the AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT .  However, with the RTX 3050, you’re not getting much lower performance than the next up Nvidia’s lineup, the RTX 3060. The RTX 3050 has no problem hitting 60 fps in any 1080p game you throw at it, though it might start to struggle in the most demanding games of the generation – think Cyberpunk 2077. While that all sounds good, it’s hard to ignore how much prices have changed generation-on-generation. While a price tag of $249 (about £185, AU$350) might not seem high when you’re used to seeing graphics cards at $1,000 or more these days, it’s still significantly more expensive than xx50 cards of the past. For instance, the GTX 1050 Ti launched at $139 (£139...