{"title":"Best value - Graphics Cards","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"asus-dual-geforce-rtx-3050-oc-edition-6gb-gddr6-graphics-card","title":"ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition 6GB GDDR6 Graphics Card","description":"\u003ch2\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmpere architecture and ray tracing in a compact two-slot card\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eQuick Specs\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 GPU with 2304 CUDA cores.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e6GB GDDR6 memory on a 96-bit interface at 14 Gbps.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOC mode boost clock of 1537 MHz out of the box.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTwo-slot, 201mm card that fits compact and mid-tower builds.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRuns from a 450W PSU with no supplementary power connector required.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eReal ray tracing without the flagship price\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe ASUS Dual GeForce RTX 3050 OC Edition is built for the player stepping up from integrated graphics or an ageing GTX card, and for the small-form-factor builder who cannot spare three slots or a 750W supply. It brings the NVIDIA Ampere architecture — second-generation RT cores and third-generation Tensor cores — into a card that asks very little of the rest of your system, which matters in South Africa where every rand of a build budget has to work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhere the performance comes from\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2304 CUDA cores running at a 1537 MHz boost clock in OC mode handle 1080p gaming at high settings across most current titles. The dedicated RT cores make hardware ray tracing genuinely usable at this tier rather than a checkbox, and the Tensor cores unlock NVIDIA DLSS, which reconstructs frames at higher resolution than the GPU natively renders them. On a card in this class, DLSS is often the difference between a playable 45 fps and a comfortable 70.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eMemory and display capability\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e6GB of GDDR6 running at 14 Gbps across a 96-bit bus gives the card enough frame buffer for 1080p texture settings that would choke a 4GB card. Display support covers three simultaneous outputs through native HDMI 2.1, DisplayPort 1.4a and DVI-D — the DVI-D port in particular keeps older monitors in service, which is a practical advantage over cards that have dropped it entirely. Maximum digital resolution is 7680 x 4320.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eCooling and build\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Dual shroud carries two axial-tech fans over a two-slot heatsink, a design ASUS has refined across several generations to move air through the fin stack rather than around it. At 201 x 120 x 37 mm the card clears the drive cages and front radiators that catch out longer designs. There is no external power connector at all — the card draws entirely from the PCIe 4.0 slot — so it drops into prebuilt and office systems that were never specified for a discrete GPU.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThe sensible entry point\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNot every build needs a flagship. For 1080p gaming, streaming, video editing and CUDA-accelerated creative work, the RTX 3050 covers the ground competently while leaving budget for the CPU, memory and storage that shape everyday responsiveness just as much. 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The 145W power draw is equally modest, so a 550W supply and one 8-pin connector cover it. Nothing about the specification is cut back to get there: full 3840 CUDA cores and 8GB of GDDR7 at 28 Gbps.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWhat you get from Blackwell\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDLSS 4 with Multi Frame Generation runs on fourth-generation Tensor cores and is where the real frame rate gains come from at this tier. Fourth-generation RT cores make ray tracing viable rather than theoretical. 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Modern titles with high textures and ray tracing regularly exceed 8GB, and a card that runs out of memory stutters rather than merely slowing. Paying for capacity at this tier buys years, not percentage points.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eThree fans on a mid-range card\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVENTUS 3X puts a triple TORX fan cooler over a 304mm heatsink — considerably more cooling than a 5060 Ti strictly needs, which translates into low fan speeds and a quiet card under sustained load. 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