I have had this specific card in my possession for a month now and I have already formed a clear opinion about this implementation of the 3050. Firstly, I should mention that I only use it for gaming with an i5-11400 and 2 modules of G.Skill RAM at 3600MHz. I have been very satisfied as even after hours of gaming (Forza Horizon 5) at high and extreme settings, while the card usage is at 100%, the temperatures do not exceed 65 degrees and the FPS is between 88-100. Overall, I am very satisfied; it is quiet even when the fans are running at 100%. For anyone considering the price, they could find another implementation of the 3050 from another company, but I would recommend this one because of the 3 fans it has. I bought it for 450 euros and would definitely buy it again, but I would also look at the 3060, which has better performance as it has 12GB of VRAM and is not much more expensive. In short, I highly recommend it.
Edit: I would like to inform miners that it has LHR from Nvidia. However, NiceHash claims to have bypassed LHR and I tried it and got around 23MH/s, which is quite low. I haven't figured out if I'm doing something wrong to bypass it, but I don't think it's worth it for mining. Unless in the future there are programs that can bypass it, but be careful because a while ago there was a program that turned out to be a virus. I hope I covered all gamers, miners, and editors.
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