Nvidia RTX 3050 Review ft. Gigabyte and Palit

1. Introduction2. Gigabyte RTX 3050 Eagle3. Palit RTX 3050 StormX OC4. Testing Methodology5. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy6. Assassin's Creed Valhalla7. Cyberpunk 20778. Death Stranding9. Far Cry 610. Forza Horizon 511. Hitman 312. Horizon Zero Dawn13. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy14. Red Dead Redemption 215. Resident Evil Village16. Total War Saga: Troy17. Watch Dogs: Legion18. PCIe 4.0 vs PCIe 3.0 Investigation19. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)20. Ray Tracing21. The DLSS Difference22. Cost Per Frame Analysis23. Gigabyte Eagle Vs Palit StormX OC24. Clock Speed25. GPU Temperatures26. Acoustics27. Noise-Normalised Temperatures28. Power Draw: 1080p29. Power Draw: 1440p30. Performance per Watt: 1080p31. Performance per Watt: 1440p32. Total System Power Draw33. Overclocking34. Closing Thoughts35. View All Pages

For our manual overclocking tests, we used MSI Afterburner. Our best results are as below.

RTX 3050 Eagle:

RTX 3050 StormX OC:

Both cards were able to increase their operating clock speeds by over 150MHz, though we can note the Eagle clocked slightly higher as its power limit can be increased by 10%, whereas the StormX OC's remains locked at 130W.

Both cards saw performance increases of between 8-11%, which is not bad at all and shows there is some untapped headroom in the RTX 3050 – as demonstrated in Hitman 3, where we saw over a 10 FPS boost.

Power draw did increase by 13W for the Eagle, but as the StormX OC's power limit cannot be increased, there was no real difference shown.

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