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PC Gamer just crowned 2026's 'best budget GPU' — and I think its 8GB of VRAM is a trap
The RTX 5050 is the cheap pick and the RX 9070 is the overall pick. Only one of them still makes sense a year from now.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 24 · 7 min
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The RTX 5050 is the cheap pick and the RX 9070 is the overall pick. Only one of them still makes sense a year from now.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 24 · 7 min
It launched at $249 promising a fresh budget option. A few months later, a used RTX 3070 for about the same money makes it a hard sell.
Ravi Malhotra · Aug 3 · 6 min