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

To illustrate the difference made by running the RTX 3050 on a PCIe 3.0 x8 interface, instead of PCIe 4.0 x8, below we can see a chart showing the RTX 3050's PCIe 3.0 performance, relative to its PCIe 4.0 performance.

Broadly speaking, PCIe 3.0 is not going to be a limitation for the RTX 3050. In all but three of the games we tested, we saw less than a 5% differential between PCIe 3.0 and PCIe 4.0. However, the likes of Forza Horizon 5, Far Cry 6 and particularly Total War Saga: Troy do see some benefit to using this card on a PCIe 4.0 platform. Even then, the results are clearly nowhere near as disastrous as using the RX 6500 XT on a PCIe 3.0 platform, but it is worth noting.

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