I want to build a "budget" gaming PC. Should I get a GTX 1650 4 GB, the new 6 GB version of the RTX 3050, an RX 6500 XT 4GB?

[gihyens]

I want to build a "budget" gaming PC. Should I get a GTX 1650 4 GB, the new 6 GB version of the RTX 3050, an RX 6500 XT 4GB, or am I just getting scammed at this price point?

[podkall]

New or used?

[WereCat]

Buy used card in that budget, you will get much more performance.

6500 XT requires PCIe 4.0 or it will perform significantly worse as it only has 4-lanes.

GTX 1650 has only 4GB VRAM which will not be enough for modern games.

RTX 3050 6GB is just slightly better than GTX 1650 and costs way more.

 

RX 6600 is significantly better than any of these and if you're looking at used cards even something like RX 5600 XT will be much better than the ones you've mentioned for cheaper.

[podkall]

Do you have other parts already or are you still buying the whole PC?

[gihyens]

4 minutes ago, podkall said:

Do you have other parts already or are you still buying the whole PC?

I will be buying the parts next week

[podkall]

Just now, gihyens said:

I will be buying the parts next week

We have a whole sub-forum for New Builds called New Builds and Planning, though if your PC is set on some second-hand deals and not brand new, there's not really much need doing that.

[jaslion]

I recommend you makw a whole build planning list because none of those gpu's are worth their money and you're better off going used

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, gihyens said:

I want to build a "budget" gaming PC. Should I get a GTX 1650 4 GB, the new 6 GB version of the RTX 3050, an RX 6500 XT 4GB, or am I just getting scammed at this price point?

Budget ? And which games ?

Really all of those are pretty bad, you could also look at Intel, at least they're cheap...

[gihyens]

2 hours ago, jaslion said:

I recommend you makw a whole build planning list because none of those gpu's are worth their money and you're better off going used

around the prices of those gpus, do you have a good recommendation for a used gpu?

[jaslion]

2 minutes ago, gihyens said:

around the prices of those gpus, do you have a good recommendation for a used gpu?

Well quite simply a rx480/580 8gb is a better option than the 1650 and a rx5700xt is a better card than a rtx 3050

[podkall]

2 hours ago, gihyens said:

around the prices of those gpus, do you have a good recommendation for a used gpu?

what's the whole system or budget -GPU?