RTX 3050 – Inno3D Twin X2 OC & MSI Gaming X

1. Introduction2. Inno3D RTX 3050 Twin X2 OC3. MSI RTX 3050 Gaming X4. Testing Methodology5. 3DMark Fire Strike6. 3DMark DirectX Raytracing7. 1080p Game Benchmarks8. Clock Speed9. GPU Temperatures10. Acoustics11. Noise-Normalised Temperatures12. Power Consumption13. Overclocking14. Closing Thoughts15. View All Pages

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

Inno3D Twin X2 OC:

MSI Gaming X:

Interestingly, the Inno3D Twin X2 does not have an adjustable power limit, so it is locked at 130W. The MSI Gaming X can add another 7% to the power limit, allowing it to hit the highest clock speed of all four RTX 3050s we have tested. Even then, the Twin X2 OC is only just below the 2.1GHz figure, so it's still a decent result.

Overclocked performance is once more, very similar to the other two RTX 3050s we had already tested, in that we are looking at an extra few frames on average – though that does improve to over 10FPS in the case of Hitman 3. The Gaming X was able to extract an extra drop or two that the other models couldn't, but again, you're not going to be able to tell the difference in the real world.

Lastly, given the Inno3D Twin X2 does not have an adjustable power slider, power draw barely changed once that card was overclocked. The Gaming X drew an extra 7W though, which is a bit more than nothing but it's still hardly a significant result.

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