The Nvidia RTX 3050 and AMD RX 6500 XT are two of the potentially most affordable entry-level graphics cards of their respective generations. If availability isn’t a problem (and it may well be), they should offer the most accessible pricing of any current-generation graphics cards for quite some time. But how do they measure up? Which offers the best bang for buck? The Nvidia RTX 3050 or the AMD RX 6500 XT? Specs Nvidia RTX 3050 AMD RX 6500 XT GPU GA106 (rumored) Navi 24 Process 8nm 6nm Interface PCIE x16 PCIE x4 Shader processors 2,560 CUDA Cores 1,024 Shading Units Ray tracing accelerators 20 RT cores (rumored) 16 ray accelerators Tensor cores 80 (rumored) NA Base block 1.55 GHz Unknown Game clock NA 2,610 MHz Boost clock 1.78 GHz 2,815 MHz Memory 8GB GDDR6 4GB GDDR6 + 16MB Infinity Cache Memory speed 14 Gbps (rumored) 18 Gbps Memory bus width 128-bit 64-bit Bandwidth Unknown 144GBps (Effective 305 GBps with Infinity Cache) TDP 130W 107W Pricing and availability Neither of these graphics cards are available just yet, but they’re coming down the pipe in short order. The Nvidia RTX 3050 is slated to release on January 27 with a recommended…