DLSS 3 lets this entry-level mobile chip do what the Steam Deck cant.

Its also, Ill admit, overdue some consideration on RPS.

Or, at the very least, gently twinkle.

An RTX 4050-equipped MSI Thin GF63 gaming laptop, running Horizon Forbidden West.

Architecture which, again, unlocks DLSS 3 and its best-in-class frame generation tech.

That said, its not a total weakling without help.

Just so long as that slightly old-fashioned 6GB VRAM reserve doesnt get overwhelmed.

A bar chart showing how the RTX 4050-equipped MSI Thin GF63 gaming laptop performs in various 1080p gaming benchmarks.

In defence of the lower-end GPU, its much better at seeing off the rest of its competition.

While both might share the same pixel resolutions, the formers smaller sizes result in much higher pixeldensities.

For the time being, its still decent, albeit a harder sell.

A bar chart showing how the RTX 4050-equipped MSI Thin GF63 gaming laptop performs in various 1080p gaming benchmarks, with and without DLSS upscaling and DLSS 3 frame generation.

A close-up of the Nvidia GeForce RTX sticker on an RTX 4050-equipped gaming laptop.