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

DLSS is certainly a much bigger selling point for a GPU of this class. To illustrate that, we have re-tested three games at 1080p and 1440p, but this time with DLSS Quality mode enabled. Of course, actual image quality plays a huge part as to whether or not you would want to use DLSS and we have conducted numerous image quality analyses in the past, but these benchmarks show the performance gains on offer.

In Cyberpunk 2077, DLSS Quality mode provides a whopping 53% performance uplift over native resolution at 1080p, and it’s the difference between a pretty choppy 33 FPS on average versus a smooth 53 FPS average when we step up to 1440p.

The gains may not be as big in Horizon Zero Dawn, but an extra 28% performance at 1080p is not to be scoffed at all, plus that increases to a 42% frame rate boost at 1440p.

Lastly, in Watch Dogs: Legion, we see a 22% increase to frame rates at 1080p, taking the RTX 3050 above the RTX 2060’s native performance. Up at 1440p, with DLSS Quality the RTX 3050 can now hit over 60 FPS, with frame rates receiving a 32% boost.

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