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TL;DW:
Nvidia's RTX 5050 is a waste of your time, money, and trust as a tech consumer and PC gamer.

Please consider buying a used GPU on Ebay, Kijiji, or anywhere else you can as you will get a much better deal than this.

As a monopoly with 92% marketshare, Nvidia is actively choosing to deceive consumers to buy whatever they're selling.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

For mid range GPUs maybe. But CPUs and high end GPUs aboslutely had an improvement.

Ryzen 9000 series and Intels Core 200 series didn't really up performance too much, but they did reduce power consumption by a good bit. But the 9800x3d CPU is an absolute beast. https://gamersnexus.net/cpus/rip-intel-amd-ryzen-7-9800x3d-cpu-review-benchmarks-vs-7800x3d-285k-14900k-more

http://gamersnexus.net/gpus/nvidia-geforce-rtx-5080-founders-edition-review-benchmarks-vs-5090-7900-xtx-4080-more