EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Black Gaming 8G Review. What is geforce rtx

The EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Black Gaming 8G graphics card will share its power requirements with Nvidia’s reference specification at 130 watts, powered by a single eight-pin connector. People purchasing the more powerful RTX 3050 models with higher peak clock speeds or more fans used should expect higher wattage requirements.

EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Black Gaming 8G Review

The GeForce RTX 3050 is a strong junior in Nvidia’s unmatched line of Ampere-powered Nvidia RTX 30 GPUs, and this EVGA XC Black card is a 1080p gaming cap at a close-to-budget price.

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• Compact design with two fans
• A full range of video ports in our test sample
• Good price-performance ratio in its segment
• Good results in ray tracing benchmarks
• High ceiling for tweaking

• Not as far ahead of AMD’s Radeon RX 6500 XT in some tests as we would expect
• Relatively high power consumption for its class

EVGA GeForce RTX 3050 XC Black Gaming 8G Specs

Graphics processor	Nvidia Amper GA106
GPU Base Clock	1552 MHz
GPU boost clock	1777 MHz
Graphics memory type	GDDR6
The amount of graphics memory	8 GB
HDMI outputs	1
DisplayPort outputs	3
VirtualLink outputs	No
Number of fans	2
Card width	double
Card length	7.94 inches
Plate power or TDP	130 watts
Power connector (s	1 8-pin

“Budget graphics card” remains an oxymoronic term here in 2022, but it all depends on where you draw the budget line. At least at list price, Nvidia is trying: its GeForce RTX 3050 desktop graphics card, which premieres today, starts with cards at an alleged list price of $ 249, and it was the new processor that made the biggest impression on us in 2022 (remember, that, only two). We tested it with EVGA’s GeForce RTX 3050 XC Black Gaming 8G, one of the many RTX 3050 cards that will be launched today.

As a ray tracing engine, the card performs surprisingly well, keeping the pace of the price-performance ratio with the GeForce RTX 3060, and sometimes overcomes the 1440p / 60fps hurdle many gamers want to jump over. EVGA outperforms both the venerable GeForce GTX 1060 and the Nvidia GeForce GTX 1650 Super from the $ 159 list in near-universal testing, the latter card launched in November 2019. Its main competition, the $ 199 AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT, summer reviews, isn’t always as far behind it as it should be, but our testing shows the RTX 3050 is the new performance leader in its class. We cannot predict how many shares Nvidia card partners will be able to handle. But with the performance that won Editors’ Choice, we don’t expect the RTX 3050 card stock to last long.

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As we’ve seen so often, the 1440p data is even more brutal for the 6500 XT. Here the RTX 3050 was 54% faster or 85% faster when compared to PCIe 3.0 performance. The RTX 3050 also averaged 74fps, meaning it could often handle over 60fps in 1440p with decent quality settings across many titles.

Nvidia GeForce RTX 30 Founders Edition GPUs get price hikes, still cheaper than most

As VideoCardz has noted, Nvidia is pushing up the prices of its latest reference cards: the GeForce RTX 30 Founders Edition. In the UK, only the RTX 3070 Ti Founders Edition saw an increase from £ 529 to £ 549, but in the euro countries these graphics cards will earn buyers up to € 100 more than before. This is true for the RTX 3090 FE, which currently costs the widow € 1,649, while the rest of the range has gained a wallet weight of between € 20 and € 60.

I am a little concerned that we will see more of these price changes in the UK. While stocks are negligible, even by modern GPU standards, the Founders Edition models offer some of the best opportunities to actually buy a new graphics card at a retail price, either directly from Nvidia or from retail partners such as Scan. Knowing this, as well as being some of the best graphics cards on the market, will keep the barriers to entry disappointing.

That said, when it comes to gouging prices, the green team apparently has a lot to learn – what’s another £ 20 when other RTX 3070 Ti models are available on Amazon for £ 1,200 or more? Come on, Nvidia, you don’t even artificially double these prices. Honestly, an amateur hour. I think there is also a possibility that these Founders Edition increases will be used to justify that the other RTX 30 series models are getting even more expensive, but no one should lower the RRP on the graphics card at first. Even if it’s really tasty.

Indeed, even if a whole bunch of Founders Edition cards received the same UK raises as they did in the EU, they are likely to still remain among the best GPU options available. Sometimes available, anyway.

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Today we’re checking out Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3050, the new budget addition to the RTX 30 series. While this release adds a new low-end Ampere lineup, it builds on the same GA106 silicon used in the RTX 3060.

Power Consumption

The GeForce RTX 3050 is very low powered, bringing the total system consumption to just 277 watts in our Doom test. Considering the performance that makes it significantly more efficient than the 6500 XT, but even if we take a more advantageous game like Death Stranding or Hitman 3, the RTX 3050 still stacks up well as it only increased the total system utilization compared to the 6500 XT by 15%.

PCIe 3.0 vs. 4.0

While we mentioned that the RTX 3050 provides the exact same level of performance when using PCIe 3.0 or PCIe 4.0, here’s a short sample of it. We tested all 12 games and found nothing beyond the margin of error, although most of the results were exactly the same as shown below in the Tomb Raider at 1440p.

While the 6500 XT cut performance by 13% with PCIe 3.0, we are seeing no change for the RTX 3050. So gamers limited to the PCIe 3.0 platform (which is probably the majority at the time of writing), the RTX 3050 will be significantly faster.

The 6500 XT hits one of the better values ​​in Far Cry 6, with the result that the 3050 was only 14% faster, although the problem for the 6500 XT is PCIe 3.0 and compared to this configuration, the 3050 was 37% faster.

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 Series Graphics Card Specifications

Graphics card name	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti 16 GB	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060 Ti	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3060	NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050
GPU name	GA102-350 Ampere?	GA102-300 amp	GA102-225 amp	GA102-220 Ampere?	GA102-200 Ampere	GA104-400 amp	GA104-400 amp	GA104-300 amp	GA104-200 Ampere	GA106-300 amp	GA106-150 amp
Process node	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm	Samsung 8nm
Matrix size	628.4 mm2	628.4 mm2	628.4 mm2	628.4 mm2	628.4 mm2	395.2 mm2	395.2 mm2	395.2 mm2	395.2 mm2	276mm2	276mm2
Transistors	28 billion	28 billion	28 billion	28 billion	28 billion	17.4 billion	17.4 billion	17.4 billion	17.4 billion	13.2 billion	13.2 billion
CUDA cores	10752	10496	10240	8960	8704	6144	6144	5888	4864	3584	2560
TMU / ROP	336/112	328/112	320/112	280/104	272/96	184/96	184/96	184/96	152/80	112/64	TBC
Tensor / RT cores	336/84	328/82	320/80	280/70	272/68	184/46	184/46	184/46	152/38	112/28	TBC
Base clock	1560 MHz	1400 MHz	1365 MHz	TBA	1440 MHz	TBA	1575 MHz	1500 MHz	1410 MHz	1320 MHz	1550 MHz
The boost timer	1860 MHz	1700 MHz	1665 MHz	TBA	1710 MHz	TBA	1770 MHz	1730 MHz	1665 MHz	1780 MHz	1780 MHz
FP32 calculations	40 TFLOPS	36 TFLOPS	34 TFLOPS	TBA	30 TFLOPS	TBA	22 TFLOPS	20 TFLOPs	16 TFLOPs	13 TFLOPs	9.1 TFLOP
RTFLOPs RT	74 RFLOPS	69 TFLOPS	67 TFLOPS	TBA	58 TFLOPS	TBA	44 TFLOPS	40 TFLOPS	32 TFLOPS	25 TFLOPs	18.2 TFLOPS
Tensor-TOP	TBA	285 TOPs	273 TOPS	TBA	238 TOPs	TBA	183 TOPS	163 TOPS	192 TOPS	101 peaks	72.8 TOP
Memory capacity	24 GB of GDDR6X memory	24 GB of GDDR6X memory	12 GB of GDDR6X memory	12 GB of GDDR6X memory	10 GB of GDDR6X memory	16 GB of GDDR6X memory	8 GB of GDDR6X memory	8 GB of GDDR6 memory	8 GB of GDDR6 memory	12 GB of GDDR6 memory	8 GB of GDDR6 memory
Memory bus	384-bit	384-bit	384-bit	384-bit	320-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	256-bit	192-bit	192-bit
Memory speed	21 Gb / s	19.5 Gb / s	19 Gb / s	19 Gb / s	19 Gb / s	21 Gb / s	19 Gb / s	14 Gb / s	14 Gb / s	16 Gb / s	14 Gb / s
Band	1008 GB / s	936 GB / s	912 Gb / s	912 Gb / s	760 GB / s	672 GB / s	608 GB / s	448 GB / s	448 GB / s	384 GB / s	224 GB / s
TGP	450W	350W	350W	350W	320W	~ 300W	290W	220W	175W	170W	130W
Price (manufacturer’s suggested price / FE)	TBD	$ 1,499	$ 1199	$ 999?	699 USD	$ 599?	$ 599	$ 499	$ 399	$ 329	$ 249
Run (availability)	january 27, 2022	september 24, 2020	june 3, 2021	january 11, 2022	september 17, 2020	Q1 2022?	june 10, 2021	october 29, 2020	2 December 2020	february 25, 2021	january 27, 2022

In most of the titles we tested, the card’s performance in 4K was below 30fps, so it’s not a 4K gaming card. In some series, it was close enough for AMD and RX 6600 to have a reason to check their rearview mirrors.

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 Review: An entry-level card that delivers DLSS to the masses

The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 is considered the company’s most affordable GPU ever, and is designed for gamers who are still rocking their aging GTX 1650 or GTX 1650 Ti graphics cards. Like the GeForce RTX 3060 before, it doesn’t have a Founders Edition model, and NVIDIA launched a card with loads of custom offerings right from the start. At a starting price of $ 249, the card sits below the RTX 3060 and is designed to deliver solid 1080p performance with the benefit of ray tracing as well as NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (or DLSS)

Here is an overview of its specs and comparison with the GeForce RTX 3060:

Specifications

NVIDA GeForce RTX 3050	NVIDA GeForce RTX 3060
GPU	GA106	GA106
Streaming Multiprocessors	twenty	28
CUDA cores	2450	3584
Tensor cores	80	112
RT cores	twenty	28
Texture units	72	112
RPO	40	48
Base / boost clock	1552 MHz / 1777 MHz	1320 MHz / 1777 MHz
Video memory	8 GB of GDDR6 memory	12 GB of GDDR6 memory
Memory bus width	128-bit	192-bit
Memory bandwidth	224 GB / s	360 GB / s
TDP	130W	170W
Price	$ 249	$ 329

First looks

As no Founders Edition card is available, NVIDIA sent us the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 3050 Eagle 8GB entry-level card for review. Unlike its more expensive Aorus siblings, this Gigabyte Eagle is a useless card that doesn’t even have its own RGB lighting to keep costs so close to NVIDIA recommended retail prices. It really doesn’t pretend to be anything more than a functional graphics card – it’s not even factory overclocked – and that’s actually a good thing about this review, as the card will give us a more accurate evaluation of the entry-level performance of the RTX 3050.

But that said, it uses the same technologies as other RTX 30 series GPUs like the RTX IO and NVIDIA Reflex. We’ve covered them in separate articles before, so I highly recommend reading them to find out how games like the recently released God of War for PC make use of these features.

Additionally, it has also been known to deliver great long-term performance at a reasonable price. What’s more, the Nvidia GeForce GTX series uses the shared Turing architecture in its cards, providing exceptional gaming performance.

Power draw, thermals, and noise

We test the power draw by looping the F1 2020 benchmark in 4K for about 20 minutes after we’ve compared everything else and noting the highest reading on our Watts Up Pro meter which measures the power consumption of our entire test system. The initial part of the race, where all the competing cars are on the screen simultaneously, seems to be the most challenging part.

This is not a worst case test; this is a GPU related game, running at GPU related resolution to judge performance when graphics card is sweating a lot. If you’re playing a game that also hits the CPU, you may notice a higher overall system power consumption. Be warned.

no complaints here. GeForce RTX 3050 just doesn’t need a lot of power to run. Nvidia’s Ampere architecture is not as efficient as AMD’s rival RDNA 2 design as a careful look at these results indicates, but it doesn’t matter that far in the GPU stack.

We test the thermals by leaving the GPU-Z open during the F1 2020 power consumption test, noting the highest maximum temperature at the end.

Again no complaints here. The EVGA XC Black cooler may be devoid of frills, but it certainly gets the job done and remains nice and quiet (though not entirely inaudible) while doing it.

Should you buy the GeForce RTX 3050?

If you can find the GeForce RTX 3050 for near $ 250 MSRP, absolutely. In today’s market, it would still be a relative steal from $ 300 to $ 350 (sigh), even though the GTX 1650 was launched for $ 150, and the 3050 is only a little faster than the GTX 1660 Ti, which was launched for $ 280 last generation (and is currently selling for $ 400 to $ 475 used on eBay, double sigh). However, GTX cards did not have ray tracing or DLSS.

However, we are no longer in 2019. The GeForce RTX 3050 is a great 1080p graphics card in these difficult times, capable of playing at over 60 frames per second or more at 1080p, even with all visual bells and whistles turned on. (You may need to lower some settings to High for particularly demanding games.) This absolutely smashes AMD’s rival, the Radeon RX 6500 XT at $ 199. This is doubled in ray tracing games where the AMD card has trouble reaching FPS without the aid of image upsampling. Gross. GeForce RTX 3050’s large 8GB memory buffer and support for killer Nvidia features such as Reflex, Broadcast and DLSS only sweeten the pool. GeForce RTX 3050 provides everything you expect from a modern 1080p graphics card,from high frame rates to fully loaded features.

But what PC gamers really want is to be able to buy reasonably priced graphics cards. It hasn’t happened in over a year. The jury is persistent on whether Nvidia will be able to keep the RTX 3050 in better supply than its other graphics cards in the weeks and months ahead, but I’m less optimistic than with AMD’s Radeon RX 6500 XT.

The GeForce RTX 3050 goes round AMD’s lineup, but the major compromises AMD made in building the Radeon RX 6500 XT mean it has a chance to escape the attention of cryptocurrency miners, while its ultra-small GPU matrix allows AMD to pump up a lot of chips. The GeForce RTX 3050, on the other hand, sticks to the standard memory configuration that can be used to mine Ethereum and uses a truncated version of the large GA106 matrix found in the RTX 3060. Yes, cryptocurrency prices have plummeted in recent days, and Nvidia has equipped the RTX 3050 with anti-mining technology Lite Hash Rate but was defeated earlier. And the RTX 3050 graphics card is over 2.5 times larger than the Radeon’s bone, meaning AMD can squeeze many, many more chips out of the wafer.

We’ll see how it goes. If the RTX 3050 goes out of stores and goes on eBay for 1.5 to 2 times its MSRP, like any other modern GPU, it is far less attractive. But if you can get one for $ 250 to $ 300 in today’s wild market, grab it right away. There is nothing else in this price range – new or used – that could hang with it, especially the Radeon RX 6500 XT.

The game was playable with ray tracing and DLSS enabled, delivering ~ 60fps on average. Without DLSS, the frame rate has dropped to the low of the 1940s, which is about the same level of ray tracing performance as you’d expect from the RX 6600 in this title.

What is Nvidia GeForce RTX?

Likewise, Nvidia has developed one more line of graphics cards with a little transformation. With that note, the Nvidia GeForce RTX is the line of graphics cards that stands for Ray Tracing Texel eXtreme. RTX was introduced in 2018 to give laptops and desktops the power and performance for real-time ray tracing and artificial intelligence.

Moreover, Nvidia GeForce RTX renders great graphics in games, keeping the game stimulated as real-time cinematic quality and visually compelling game. Moreover, it is a next-generation card as it comes with ray tracing cores and a version of DLSS 2.0 based on artificial intelligence.

Moreover, Nvidia GeForce RTX supports COD, Fortnite, Battlefield, Control, Cyberpunk 2017, Minecraft and many other PC games.

Over time, Nvidia GeForce RTX has released many of the best performing cards on the market at a fairly attractive price, such as the RTX 2000, 3000, RX 6000 and many more. However, in addition to the amazing reflections and lighting effects, they really bring a real-time simulation of light particles into the game.

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Main Differences Between Nvidia GeForce GTX and RTX

1. The Nvidia GeForce GTX is a graphics processor for gaming purposes, while the Nvidia GeForce RTX is a GTX graphics card.
2. The Nvidia GeForce GTX was launched in 2008 under the 200 series, and has developed multiple CPUs later. On the other hand, RTX was launched in 2018 as Nvidia’s best performing graphics card, the GTX, brewed.
3. Nvidia GeForce GTX is suitable for games like League of Legends, Starcraft, PUBG, Fortnight and other esports games for the best graphics experience. Meanwhile, Nvidia GeForce RTX gives you the best performance in these COD games, Fortnite, Control, Cyberpunk Minecraft, and many other PC games.
4. Nvidia GeForce GTX is known for its ultra-fast GDDR6 memory that performs well in the long run. Although Nvidia GeForce RTX is famous for the most powerful graphics card, and also provides gamers with real-light simulation.
5. Nvidia GeForce GTX is the first generation of the 200 generation while; Nvidia GeForce RTX is a new generation card.

Both the Nvidia GeForce GTX and RTX are the best in terms of long-term performance, launched by the US multinational tech company Nvidia to generate the best graphics quality for gamers. The Nvidia GeForce GTX Series 200 was launched in 2008, offering ultra-fast GDDR6 memory for the best graphics experience. Moreover, the Nvidia GeForce GTX is great for games like PUBG, Fortnight, League of Legends, Starcraft, and other esports games.

For others; Nvidia GeForce RTX is a GTX graphics card, designed for better performance and power consumption. The Nvidia GeForce RTX was released in 2018 by Nvidia and has been the best performing card on the market ever since. Nvidia GeForce RTX gives gamers a real-time gaming experience that is only supported by a few games – Fortnite, Battlefield, COD, Control, Cyberpunk 2017, Minecraft and many other PC games.