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 temperature testing, we measure the peak GPU core temperature under load. A reading under load comes from running Cyberpunk 2077 for 30 minutes.

Interestingly, thermal results are also very similar between these two models. Both saw a peak GPU temperature of 65C, but the StormX OC's hot spot temperature hit 76C, compared to 80C for the Eagle. I would have expected the Eagle to run cooler as it is a bigger card, with 2x 90mm fans instead of a single 100mm fan as well. We have to remember the StormX OC heatsink was designed for the RTX 3060 however, and actually has an extra two heatpipes than the Eagle, which can make a big difference.

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