Coming from a 2060 Super, would this be a good upgrade? I dont really play newer high demand games, but i do enjoy my emulation. Currently on 2060 super and dont really have any issues with emulation.Ryzen 5 3600X / linux (of course :))
It'd likely be a side-grade, unless you care specifically for the exact features that were introduced with 30/40/50 series (such as increasingly elaborate upscaling, other AI-driven features.)
Although we don't know how 5050 will perform, 50 series have roughly ~same perf in render as models from 40 series at the same tier. 40 series in turn are only a mild bump over 30 at the same tier. And 30-series was a reasonable improvement over 20, but mostly in perf/$ measure and not raw perf. Extrapolating, 5050 is likely not going to give much of a boost if any, and spending money on a 8GB card in 2025 is just throwing money away at this point as software is now increasingly expecting to be able to work with >8GB of VRAM.
