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EVGA GeForce RTX 3050

the relative travesty of the RX 6500 XT launch (see review on page 80), the RTX 3050 feels like another great option from Team Green. Nvidia’s RTX cards previously bottomed out at $300 with the later RTX 2060 models and the minimum price for the entry-level 3000-series has now dropped to just $250—in theory. The problem is that the base MSRP only applies to GPUs using Nvidia’s reference clocks. If a graphics

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